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… your 10,000th AWAD post.




Glad you're keeping track.

And you're just so cute and chidable, you big ol' Christmas turkey, you.

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I'm not keeping track, faldage, I'm watching with intent.

Your 10,000th post is a milestone event. Your thoughts have improved the lives of many of us here who have taken the time to listen to your learned pronouncements.

You sir, are a polymath, as was and is your predecessor, namely, "Bill Hunt".

You sir, are in good company, and so is Bill Hunt.

Salute!

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I like stats, too.



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I like stats, too.




Good, etaoin, because you are one today, and one day in the future you will, God willing, be another one.

Which brings me back to birds. (See next post)

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Insights into Understanding Collective Flight
and Feeding Behavior of Black Birds in Winter


Abstract: While flying to feeding grounds and when engaged in maneuvers related to selecting sites for feeding, flocking blackbirds utilize certain aspects of pre-adaptive behavior, and apply certain principals of probability theory in order to maximize the chances of a successful feed.

Observations
With first light groups of blackbirds emerge from the cover of large leafed evergreen trees and fly to resting places on wires or barren trees to warm their feathers in the morning sun. A small time later, after other birds who have nested elsewhere join up with them, they lope off, flying towards the morning sun.

Sometimes it takes a while to catch up with them and usually they are on the ground feeding when the observer (me) locates the feeding flock.

Edit: (to be concluded this week.)

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. . . a lot of smoke and hokum signifying nothing.

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. . . a lot of smoke and hokum signifying nothing.



And where there's smoke, there's mirrors.

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And where there are mirrors there are vanities
And where there are vanities, there are girls
And where there are girls, there is no explanation

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