March 12, 2026
Horned Grebe at the Celery Farm
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September 9, 2009
Once-in-a-lifetime Bad Joke
What did the German parrot say when asked
if he knew what today’s date was?
Nein! Nein!
Nein!
Note: Parrot reference included to make it "sort of relevant" for a birding-oriented blog.
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Now we’ll have to wait until next October for an English-speaking parrot to announce a bunch of perfect scores: “ten, ten, ten.”
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Good thing this is once in a lifetime.
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Tom Burr
Now we’ll have to wait until next October for an English-speaking parrot to announce a bunch of perfect scores: “ten, ten, ten.”
Diane
Good thing this is once in a lifetime.