LGBs and LYBs
The upper edge of the oak tree shown
over here is up to the right, off of the picture. That's where we park our cars.
The outer edges of the oak trees on that side look like a thirty-foot high wall of live oak leaves.
Every once in a while, when I go out to the car in the morning, that wall of oak leaves is in motion.
This morning, a flock of some 40 Little Gray Birds (LGBs)
were flitting from twig to twig, making the trees' edges come alive. I think these were some
kind of wren or chickadee — only 3 to 3 1/2 inches from head to tail.
Three or four times in the twenty years I've been here, I've seen similar flocks of
Little Yellow Birds (LYBs) — some kind of finch,
I figure.
I've read that birders use the term LBBs (Little Brown Birds)
for any kind of, well, little brown bird that flits by so fast that they can't be identified.
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