While Eddie’s been horsing around back in Illinois (kidding!), I’ve found a hotspot of birds right outside my window in Ohio. Work’s been keeping me from any major birding lately, so it is nice to do a little birding from home. This past May, I was delighted to see both Gray Catbird and Brown Thrasher
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Bird Cliches – What the Heck is the Catbird Seat?
The Catbird Seat is used to describe an upper-handed position. Someone in the catbird seat is often “sitting pretty”. But is this really the position of one of our favorite birds, the Gray Catbird? This term is credited with coming from the southern U.S. and in the 1940s sportscaster Red Barber used it for “a
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31 Cool Bird Facts #29 – Gray Catbird
Gray Catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis) are our area’s cool, common mimics that we found have their own idiom. We found this cool fact from BirdNote, a radio series that consists of short two-minute snippets of interesting bird information. Sitting in the catbird seat Longtime baseball announcer Red Barber often described a player in a winning situation
