Dear Bird Log,

Recently, we've taken up pretend bird watching. It has amazed us how many different birds we have already been able to log in our birdie logs. We'd like to share with you our latest sighting, or "shooting" (as brittany likes to say, because then it implies that we kill the birds, but in reality they are the ones shooting us - with their beauty! haha). We saw this little gift of god in a tall tree. What a rare sighting! We heard its song ( "chirp-chirp-squaaaaaaaw" ) and thought to ourselves "NO! It can't be! Not this time of year!" And sure enough, there it was.

A Yellow Bellied Carolina Left Wing Greybrow.

We knew for certain we had spotted this rarity when we located the small likeness of Hitler on its hind-plumage, which is an unfortunate tradmark specific to this species. I believe my words were "Extraordinary!" followed by my fellow watcher's exclaimation of "How very extraordinary!" For those of you not familiar to the glorious world of fake bird watching - to see a Y.B.C.L.W.G. at this time of the year is, indeed, extraordinary. One usually finds them in this region around May.

233. Yellow Bellied Carolina Left Wing Greybrow **

[Attention readers: double asterisks docments birds brittany has been able to pet]

(As a side note - many of you will scarcely forget how these birds were the target of mass murder during WWII. The biggest tragedy to strike the bird world since Thanksgiving, 1621. I would like to remind you that birds are unable to hold any sort of political view, much less an anti-semitic one.)