October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
This is another item taken from the Wood Duck Box at Blue Heron Pond before the new wood chips were installed.
The item appears to be the remains of a Robin left by a Screech Owl who once used the box.
Who killed this dessicated robin?
It was I, said the Screecher.
I ate the feathered creature.
I’m olde enough to know the answer to your question: From the Olde English poem/rhyme.
“Who Killed Cock Robin?
“I said the sparrow with my bow and arrow,
“It ’twas I oh, Lady Oh.”
*laugh* I needed that this morning.
(no! really! a robin looks *just like* a coot!)
2 comments
John
I’m olde enough to know the answer to your question: From the Olde English poem/rhyme.
“Who Killed Cock Robin?
“I said the sparrow with my bow and arrow,
“It ’twas I oh, Lady Oh.”
julie mccall
*laugh* I needed that this morning.
(no! really! a robin looks *just like* a coot!)