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Here’s an amusing spoof of a 1970s birds documentary, taken from the “Look Around You” series, a parody of the old British school science programs.

(Thanks to the Birdchick blog for pointing this one out.)

This has been a good week for new birds at our feeders. This morning, I saw another new visitor, a Gray Catbird. A year-round resident, it’s the first time this bird has been seen in our yard.

The Gray Catbird is mostly slate gray with a small black cap on its head and a black undertail. It also has rufous (reddish) undertail coverts (base of the tail). No other eastern bird has this distinctive gray color.

It’s called a catbird because of its common call sounds like cat’s meeow.

Randye gets a big rousing golf clap for sighting and identifying a new bird visitor to our backyard feeders, an Eastern Towhee.

A male bird (see picture below) started visiting in the mornings about two days ago, and has been somewhat regular to our backyard since. He mostly forages on the ground  for seed and bugs, and according to our handy Sibley’s guide, the Eastern Towhee is a summer visitor to these parts.

Compared to Europeans and European TV, Americans always lean to the conservative side. Often, our sensibilities are downright stodgy. Check out these two fabulous Schick women’s razor commercials, first the American version, then the European version.