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Crow’s eggs mysteriously replaced with golf balls

On listening to the radio this
morming during breakfast, we
learned of a sad lady who is
suffering from S.A.D.

Yup, her condition has been
diagnosed as SEASONALLY
AFFECTED DISORDER, a mal-
ady which results from excessively
limited exposure to light, usually
caused by lengthy periods of rain
and grey skies.

Sad thing, this S.A.D.! Disor-
ients you, just to think about it.
But it does serve to elucidate some
Strange behavioral pattems which
were, heretofore, only grey inex-
plicable mysteries.

Take, for instance, the northwest
crow who kept dive-bombing me
whenever I went near our tall

Cypress hedge last spring about

this time. I finally set up the ladder
and climbed to the top of the
hedge to have a look-see.

Sure enough, the black rascal
had a twiggy nest there. But not
with the usual complement of
bluish-green eggs inscribed with
darker markings.

Clustered with two eggs were a

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pair of white, badly scarred polka-
dotted golfballs!

S:A.D.? I’m not sure. Maybe the
black blighter was a true-blue
entrepreneur with designs of hat-
ching out young golf balls with a
view to rearing them and selling
them to Frank, my neighbour, who
keeps losing *em.

But I’m still wondering how the
black tycoon’s genes managed to
override those of his live-in girl-
friend in such a way that golfballs
were expressed. and produced,
rather than crow’s eggs!

Does this explain Hussein’s
condition? Bill’s? Mulroney’ s?
Wilson’s? Real sad, isn’t it. Did
they catch it, too?

In Beacon Hill Park, Mary and I
saw a superb, green-headed mal-
lard aggressively wooing a white
duck with a warm, come-hither
sparkle in her eye.

What will they call the kids?
Avian mules? Is S.A.D. what the
federal officials were afflicted
with back in the 1940’s when they
leased a 50,000 hectare logging

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in our front yard haven’t caught it
yet. Nor has the pair of bald eagles
which pitch their woo on the
topmost branch of our tall Douglas
fir.

The dark song sparrows are
already in full, normal, spring
song in the willow, ocean spray

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and flowering current in our front
yard.

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cleanup requirements.

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And access to 98 per cent of all
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That’s sad.

How will the much threatened
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the hundreds of thousands of resi-
dent and migratory birds?

Fortunately, the finches courting

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