tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5357044.post112233550986513948..comments2023-07-07T10:20:47.692-04:00Comments on A Portrait of the Dumbass as an Old Man: Chris Heinzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00045972508852914723noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5357044.post-807019002978840122019-01-20T14:39:55.973-05:002019-01-20T14:39:55.973-05:00Since I started birding, I have several times seen...Since I started birding, I have several times seen the loggerheaded shrike. It is a beautiful bird, colored like a mockingbird but less slim, and with a black mask and a raptors beak. It is known as "the butcherbird" from its habit of catching small lizards and large insects and skewering them on thorns or barbed wire to save them for later. So Simmons did not invent The Shrike from nothing.Chris Heinzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045972508852914723noreply@blogger.com