Jeff Hoppes

I honestly flinch for a moment every time I see that abbreviation. ("It can't be, SCT was only three days ago!")

Chance of Evening Grosbeak has been upgraded from 'bird watch' to 'bird warning'!

Yes, from the 1569 Union of Lublin until the second partition of Poland in 1793.

Every day is a good bird day.

South of Lawrence that trail rapidly trends in the direction of "you are likely to encounter a Northern Waterthrush."

(The bridge at Bryn Mawr has been a tremendous improvement for how I tend to use this system...)

Sweeping years-long epic (the years are "49th Division's arctic warfare training in Iceland, 1940-1942").

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That should, in general, be ok! (Full text of our practices for resolving this sort of thing can be read here: www.naqt.com/buzzword/jud...)

Thanks for letting us know, Josh- our protest committee will take a look at this case.

Turkey Hill peanut butter ripple ice cream

The obviously superior option is right there (for certain central Pennsylvania values of "there")

Chicago transit signs, like lists of royalist grandees, often contain the names "Montrose" and "Clarendon"

Today's transit birding is brought to you by: the royalist cause

Tim Wakefield #49

How about "lacustrine"?

WE WANT EIGHT AND WE WON'T WAIT (cat treats)

"The Anna's Hummingbird was a regicide." Discuss.

The plan for the Crater had real potential, but the execution was very badly botched. (Compare, at a much larger scale, the attack on Messines Ridge in summer 1917.)

#OTD in 1943, Italy. These pigeons saw a lot of action. They took part in exchange of information when one of the brigades was cut off from the main body of the British 8 Army two weeks earlier and were also used during commando raids around Messina in Sicily. #WW2 #HISTORY

(Seriously, I think it would fascinating to write a set of Chicago Open-difficulty lightning rounds for some low-stress summer side event.)

Ooh, sorry, what I have written here is five instances of "ex-Confederate Northern Mockingbird"

All these years later and I'm still a bit disappointed my high school career ended without a chance at the "State Birds" lightning round.

Bald eagle glares out from the frontispiece of Roger Tory Peterson's "Birds Over America" (1948)

signed: "With my best regards, Roger Tory Peterson"

receipt for four dollars

Exciting find at Goodwill this week! #birds