An American Sparrow
Posted by jen December 30th, 2003 in Jeneral.We were leaving Target today, and there was a bunch of sparrows darting in and out of the row of carts.
Sparrows have always been one of my favorite birds, and I told Mr Man a news story from years ago I saw on TV.
They don’t know how it got there, but an American Sparrow found it’s way to England. The news video showed a hundred old men in tweed and flat caps with binoculars spying this little brown and tan american bird. Brits are big bird watchers and this little bird was celebrity.
I told him at the time I thought that would have been a great kid’s book, like “An American Sparrow in London” or something, about a little sparrow’s valiant flight to England and his sights along the way. (Probably would be 22 pages of descriptions of a cargo plane, but you get the idea…
“No,” he says “It’d be a better movie.” He proceeds to start rolling off possible film titles, and I present them only some of them here because I was laughing so hard that I was gagging for air so I forget most of them now.
American Sparrow Beyond Thunderdome
American Sparrow versus Rodan
American Sparrow and the Temple of Doom
Interview with An American Sparrow
American Sparrow in Fly Hard
American Sparrow Bloodsport
Driving American Sparrow
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Ah yes, “gagging for air” - always a good deterent to clear memories I find. Quite a good title for a movie about feathered critters, for that matter…
One of the coolest things I saw in France was in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. If you cupped your hands full of anything small enough for a bird to eat - you’d have a hoarde of tiny birds swarming around you and literally eating out of your hands!
well, if they were indeed the “North American Sparrows”, then great… maybe soon Robyns will go to England as well… Start a whole Robyn hood near Barnsdale and Sherwood…
Here is an interesting article:
http://www.sewanee.edu/biology/courses/bio201/Introduced.html
(I looked for it, because I was not even aware that there was such a thing as a North American Sparrow, I simply assumed that all of the sparrows in North America were related to the ones set out in Central Park around 1850 by Eugene Schieffelin as part of the program to introduce all birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare to the States…