My younger daughter (20) is afraid of birds. She will run away if one lands near her or flies too close. It can be a weird and amusing phobia, especially now that birds are my new passion. But when I sent her this photo of a tufted titmouse at my birdfeeder in the North Country, she said, "This is not a terribly offensive bird. It has some whimsy and joy." I saw my first red-breasted nuthatches on this trip north. I wonder why you only see them in the winter?
Most of my Christmas and birthday gifts this year were ornithological: bird books, a bird jigsaw puzzle, and of course this popular little gadget, "BirdBuddy," the voyeuristic birdfeeder that takes photos of visiting birds, and which you can even livestream to your phone. I may never get any work done again. This is a birdfeeder that you have to charge like a cellphone. Who ever would have believed that we would see a day when you have to plug in your book (Kindles), your cigarettes (Vapes), and your birdfeeder...and when an unhinged lunatic in the White House is willing to go to war over Greenland and because he didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize?
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