27 December 06
Dark
I write this by candlelight and a failing laptop battery, owing to a strong north wind… we did get to go out today and see the northern shrike, however:

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Numenius is a geographer by training and temperament. He is a Bay Area native, and grew up roaming the East Bay hills. Pica takes her cue from Pica nuttalli, the endemic magpie of central California, chatty and alighting on gleaming things. Pica has another blog, Bird by Bird, in which she records her sketches of birds.
I write this by candlelight and a failing laptop battery, owing to a strong north wind… we did get to go out today and see the northern shrike, however:

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Good to hear from you! It sounds cosy at your place – hard to imagine what it is like to have a cool Christmas seaon.
Half our street was “powerless” too. Not our half, this time…. Some winds!