Roadside Banquet

by John Hamilton Farr on October 6, 2009 · 2 comments

in Birds

When we pulled up, there were four or five ravens digging in the trash, one with a plastic bag over its head!

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Gillian October 6, 2009 at 12:40 pm: So is there a rubbish fairy out in the desert who miraculously comes along and cleans up after the morons who left this mess?
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JHF October 6, 2009 at 1:18 pm: Would that there were… Someone must have dropped their household garbage next to the can, and the birds got into that. If we’re very lucky, the undermanned and underfuned NM Highway Dept. will get around to picking this up before the wind blows it all over creation. I kinda doubt it, though.
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