Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 18, 2015

There are always the Brown Thrashers, the Dickcissel (a rice-eating bird), the Southern Screamers (from South America), Oxpeckers, Shags, Wagtails, and the various Boobies (Blue-footed, for example).

As well as the Latin name for the American Robin – “Turdus migratorious”.

Oh no you dint…..

I have bird feeders, I judge the catch by the number of syllables in the name….Robin…Only 2….. Boring…Yellow Bellied Sapsucker. That’s 7 syllables!….Good catch….BTW, it’s a Tufted Titmouse…That’s 4….

Great artwork today….Very pretty….

He should swim in Lake Titicaca….

Get your mind out of the gutter….it’s crowded in here already.

I’m from Saginaw, and they have the Tittabawassee River there…. There is also a road named after it….When my mom would give directions, she would say something like, “Well, go out Bay Road, turn left at Titty, and go to Mackinaw, then head north…”

Actually, Caufield, it is helpful…..It gives you perspective…..

That reminds me. I have to take my annual drive through Valley Forge Park to see the redbuds overarching the road. The flowers blossom directly from the bark, causing the vibrant color to emphasize the shape of the dark branches. I hope they haven’t peaked. The effect is lost when the leaves start to bud. (A tough winter here. A local show of daffodil fanciers had to be cancelled for lack of flowers.)

in the UK we have great tits….they really are pretty!

I know I hafta grow old; nobody ever convinced me I hadta grow up!

UH, UH, UH! You said tit.

Uranus!

Can anyone name a township in New Jersey and a method for ridding yourself of a howling tom cat?

So help me, IBM used to have a mainframe scheduling package called Time Initiated Transactions. You go from there.

richardelguru: Is that the same or different from the blue tit (Airfix had a full scale model kit of a pair).

The bird does not look like a titmouse to me. More like a jay of some kind.

Lots of Bushtits come to my feeders on the Left Coast.

Titmouse in Old English meant little mouse.

And every time the traffic report mentions the delay at the “Peace Arch Border Crossing” I immediately think “Peach Ar$e!”

I’ve heard many people refer to Carlin’s “7 Words”, but I’ve never heard anyone say that one of those words is the name of a bird and therefore acceptable for TV. As a matter of fact, it was used in an episode of “Northern Exposure”, when Holling and Ruthann (sp?) were going birdwatching.

Cockatiel!