Random Bird-Related Wanderings Late at Night...
Hi,
Occasionally, it's fun to just amble through the bird pictures. (You can do that at our Flickr site.)
The following shot of a blue jay was taken back on May 8th, 2007. Kinda fun...
But a person can get tired of looking at pictures... What else? Think I'll take a virtual stroll through Amazon.com "mall", and see what kind of bird stuff they have aside from
the obvious. Care to join me?...
(A query on the word "bird" in Amazon yields hits in 26 out of the 41 "Product Categories"... Onward...)
Well, that should do for tonight. See you by the feeders tomorrow,
CapeCodAlan
Occasionally, it's fun to just amble through the bird pictures. (You can do that at our Flickr site.)
The following shot of a blue jay was taken back on May 8th, 2007. Kinda fun...
(A query on the word "bird" in Amazon yields hits in 26 out of the 41 "Product Categories"... Onward...)
- Enter the movie "Bird". This one was about the bebop jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker, and was directed by Clint Eastwood. Parker led a bittersweet life of musical genius, almost unimaginable technical virtuosity with the sax, and final self destruction. He died in his 30s.
- It's only natural that there are a bunch of bird books. No great surprise. My guess is that that market will start to dwindle - so much is going online now.
- And across the way we've got a stuffed "Big Bird" doll. (Hear the joke about the gigantic, fake, yellow bird with orange feet that detectives found murdered? They concluded that an equally jumbo shotgun was used, based on the "Big Bird" shot at the scene of the crime.)
"Do you want to hit the food court? No? Cool... All they ever serve is pie anyways... Let's keep exploring."
- How about the Hitchcock movie, "The Birds"? Too creepy.
- Hmmm... A Boston Celtics Larry Bird t-shirt... Oh, those were the days!
- Looks like you can buy bird jewelry... Nice.
- "Tweety Bird" stuff including an animated phone and a "Tweety Bird" watch! Neat!
- All kinds of birding optics.
- Did you know that the McDonnell Douglas's experimental "Bird of Prey" was named after the Star Trek Klingon "Bird of Prey"? Yup, Amazon has got the Star Trek model too.
- Then there are bird-related paperweights, cards, mouse pads, calendars, sun catchers, license plates, magazines, clocks, games, etc., etc., etc.
Well, that should do for tonight. See you by the feeders tomorrow,
CapeCodAlan
