At 08:31 AM 6/20/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:
>> Maybe the same publisher that put out FLATTENED FAUNA: A Field Guide 
>> to
>> Common Animals of Roads, Streets, and Highways, by Roger M. Knutson. 
>
>You know, I thumbed through that once.
>What was saddest of all? I recognized the critters without the captions.
>Too many years on country roads, I suppose....

Heeheehee.  Too true.

>Have you seen the one with smashed fairies? Taking that theme to an ever
>grosser extreme....

No, haven't seen that one.  There is another hilarious field guide, with
wonderful illustrations:  A FIELD GUIDE TO LITTLE-KNOWN AND SELDOM-SEEN
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA, by Ben, Cathryn, and John Sill.  Published by
Peachtree Publishers.

Then for social commentary, there's THE FIELD GUIDE TO WHITE PEOPLE, by
Stephan Dweck and Monteria Ivey.  I don't know whether the promised sequel,
THE FIELD GUIDE TO BLACK PEOPLE, is out yet.

>though you wonder some times -- a SEAgull?????? tygress

I hear ya.  We see 'em in Orange Park, which is about 45-50 miles inland.
They hang around in the K-Mart parking lot and across the street at Orange
Park high school.  Of course, Marti and Elizabeth tell us of all the evil
things high schoolers thought up to do to sea gulls.  

But the funniest thing we've seen regarding sea gulls occurs every evening
around sunset at Jacksonville Naval Air Station.  There is a hangar where
the P-3 aircraft (very large propeller-driven airplanes) are serviced.
It's very large, enough to accommodate 5 or 6 P-3s at once, and it's also
very tall.  You know, one of those buildings large enough and tall enough
to have its own micro-meterological phenomena inside.  Well, every evening,
sea gulls from all over Duval County and from at least Clay County if not
several other surrounding jurisdictions converge on this hanger at NAS Jax.
 Hundreds if not thousands of them congregate on top of this building.  

I wouldn't want to be the junior swabbie just assigned to that hanger --
you know, the poor schmuck they send up topside to clean the roof off!

Veloci--yuck--raptor


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