This is bird note. I'm Jay Drew Lanham, an ornithologist, naturalist and writer.

I'm often asked, what's your favorite bird. My standard response is the one with

feathers. Birds deserve more than the disappearing by billions and reducing

them to just names on a list.

But here's the recent taxonomy of my obsessions,

selected birds of the moment, annotated by why. White crowned sparrow.

Envying the brown ignored thing.

All sparrows and Bi-Poc are top of the list.

Loggerhead Shrike

Stuck on a raptorial passerin.

This bad boy is a songbird that hunts.

Bobo Link, aka rice bird.

Black birds are My Birds. History lesson. Rice Bird ancestors shared the terror and toil and low country rice fields with enslaved black people.

They were persecuted for eating the rice that made the planter class filthy rich, so they could enslave even more black people and grow more rice.

See the cycle? There you have it. three fave birds and why. This list is subject to change and right soon.

Stay tuned. I'm Jay Drew Lanham.