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wait for them looking like that and you'll scare them off!
I dunno, Zed, that look works pretty well for dove shoots.
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An observation that I forgot to report last month.
I think I saw a Carolina wren. Carolina wrens are said to be indicators of harsh winters, but since there are so many different types of wrens that visit Alabama, distinguishing them can be confusing.
Here is a description of a Carolina wren...
Carolina Wrens are small, big noise birds often seen near human habitation. Midway in size between the larger tufted titmouse and the smaller Caroloina chickadee, stocky Carolina wrens display a rich, rusty brown head, back, and tail; a white chin and a warm buffy wash to the breast and belly. The tail is often held cocked, and frequently "flitered". In perticular note the bright white stripe over the eye and the decurved bill.
Carolina wrens are entergetic singers and fill the air with their loud JEPETER-JEPETER-JEPETER (or TEAKETTLE-TEAKETTLE-TEAKETTLE) calls.
After mild winters these wrens can be seen almost everywhere but after harsh winters their numbers can drop by as much as 60 percent. It is not the cold that kills the wrens, it is their inability to aquire sufficient food to maintain their bodyheat. Carolina wrens eat insects, and specialize in spiders, which are vulnerable to a hard winter freeze.
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Today I ridgewalked in Shelby County in search of a cave that I had found twenty years ago. Ack! Ack! No luck! So I guess I will go to my grave not taking the location of my secret cave with me. Ack! Ack! But as I walked the backbone of the ridge I noticed a large white array of bird dropings. Being smart I looked up and saw (and counted) twenty large stick nests in the tops of three eighty-foot-tall pine trees. This was strange. Most big birds in Alabama are not that congenial. But then I saw them circling in flight...they were white ibises. White ibises are not particularly common this far North but they were unmistakable. Strangly they were nesting about two hundred miles from the coast, and that is the most convincing evidence of "global warming" that I have yet to see. But big deal. I think I'll go back and shoot a couple of ibises just to verify that they are worthy of the designation of being "endangered". 
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Ah, hell yes, Steve, but the reality is more than the presumption. Let's ride! 
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Oops! Sorry, Father Steve, I must have been in my cups when I wrote "let's ride" and all that stuff. Remember, I'm to be in Seattle for a week this summer and I still have hope that you'll buy me a cheap drink at a cheap Seattle bar.
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