Comments on: It’s A Sin To Kill A Spark Bird

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:50:13 +0000

Where, oh, where has that little Stu gone? Oh where, oh where can he BE?

By: Gunnar Engblom

Gunnar Engblom — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:59:05 +0000

What happened to Stuart and Poor Birding World http://stuartpoorbirding.blogspot.com/

Searching but can’t find it.

By: Most Tweeted Articles by Birding Experts

Most Tweeted Articles by Birding Experts — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:19:34 +0000

[...] yellow cardinal 7 Likes Twitpic – Share photos on Twitter 6 Likes It’s A Sin To Kill A Spark Bird | Birds, Words, & Websites 6 Likes A Decade of Bird Memories 6 Likes River and snow on Flickr [...]

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:08:37 +0000

Thank you very much! You write very well Laura – I don’t, and that is why I resort to “humour”.

By: Gunnar Engblom

Gunnar Engblom — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:10:19 +0000

Thanks for introducing us to Stuart’s blog. Very funny!

By: Eric B

Eric B — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:47:46 +0000

Damn this brings back a bad memory that I’m hesitant to share. Stuart’s post reminded me of the day my friends and I were “hunting” with someone’s BB gun. No idea why I did this, but I shot a Yellow-rumped Warbler flitting about high above us. Down it fluttered, I was crushed as I held it in my hands and watched it’s life ebb away. My friends went home and I remember sitting and studying the bird, parting it’s feathers, marveling at it’s coloration. I had a little ceremony, said I was sorry, and buried it. I can still picture that bird in my hands. Sigh….

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:05:47 +0000

@Cheryl: killing your own raccoon is quite a misdeed. But I think you’ve paid that debt over and over with your long list of volunteer accomplishments.

@June (From http://mendonfoodie.blogspot.com/: I’ll make you a deal, my friend. I’ll start posting recipes if you start blogging about your grassland birds. If you’re into cooking, peeps, check out June’s blog.

Nice to meet you, @Stuart. Poor Turdus. I’ve sent a few peeps over to Stuart’s Poor Birding World blog. http://stuartpoorbirding.blogspot.com/.
Your profile description is too funny: “Too experienced to be a dude, too crap to be a birder, too poor (financially) to be a twitcher, too embarrassing to be taken birding. This is my world of dipping humiliation.”

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:52:15 +0000

I shot a Blackbird (Turdus merula) with an air rifle. My youthful triumph turned quickly to nausea and then guilt as the fatally injured bird tumbled desperately down through the tree it had been sitting in, hitting branches on the way down.
I’m just trying to be a better person – my name is Stuart.

By: June

June — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:56:01 +0000

OK, so I added you to my Google Reader feed. Just try to write about something other than birds, ok?

By: Cheryl Harner

Cheryl Harner — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:10:32 +0000

From one Breck girl to another… I felt your pain! Unlike you, it was not my spark bird, but I did road kill my own pet raccoon. It was a sad, sad day.

Perhaps choosing to become environmentalists is the way we pay back Karma.