A perfect description, thanks Isis ;)
Patti
Moretown
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Isis Erb <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just had to share something I read on the NY list serv. This is courtesy of
> Larry Trachtenberg:
>
> *I'm reading this funny, intelligent somewhat irreverent novel called “the
> wallcreeper” by Nell Zink -- about birding, (in)fidelity, eco”terrorism”,
> love and which takes place mostly in Europe -- Bern(e),
> Berlin, the Steckby-Lödderitzer Forest, Albania, with a brief stop in
> Tukwila, Washington **State--- anyway there's a wonderful passage about
> gulls I thought perfectly summed them up: "the many eerie transformations
> they undergo on their way from being indistinguishable to being basically
> identical."*
>
> I hope some of you enjoyed that description of gulls as much as I did.
>
> Happy Birding,
>
> Isis Erb
> Burlington, VT
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