[Ads-l] Ducks get galore Brown=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=Beach

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Wed Jan 11 16:06:26 UTC 2023


The headline to a post to a local group of harmless crackpots who watch
birds.

If any of you folks feel an impulse to see n bunch of galore ducks, here
are the directions:
Brown’s Beach at the Southeast part of Saratoga Lake has 1,200-1,500 ducks
of 11 species. Also 10 Bald Eagles of different ages. 6 Canvasbacks, 1
Redhead. Light is beautiful on Duck heads.

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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