In response to Patrick’s demand that I prove that I made my first bird identification at age 19 months, here is the article. It is from September or October 1982. The weekly article entitled The Birder’s Corner was published in the Chatham Courier in Chatham, New York, Columbia County. My bit is the last paragraph and I have crudely marked the important information. Just goes to show that bird watching starts young…
I don’t know…does pointing and yelling bird count as ID’ing it?
Hey at least it was a bird… Shall we examine all the other objects you try to turn into birds? Pelican’s anyone?
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Sweet story and it’s so nice you have a clipping to prove it. My son’s first word, while pointing to a loud crow outside a Target store, was “Caw”!
Not really a word, but it was cute!
Cool! Thanks for posting this.