What is the most beautiful bird in the world? The Chinese Golden Pheasant is always on the top ten lists. Hard to argue that.
There are several "bird day" holidays scattered through the year, but today was created to call attention to the plight of captive birds. Including the lowly domestic chicken, which we take for granted. Until we don't.
Not a single egg carton on the shelves at Safeway yesterday. They were telling customers perhaps a shipment "later in the week." This due to the avian flu which has decimated the flocks and driven up prices. Almost 60 million birds have been affected.
Amanda is concerned about their backyard pet hens. So far they've been lucky, but in the winter the wild birds flock to the chicken feed, which is how the disease spreads.
An old photo of me and my sister in about 1953, with some avian friends on the farm.
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