Got to make the morning last
Dec 04, 2021
4 minutes
By Pete Dunne
NO DOUBT, YOU have heard of the birding institution known as the Big Sit (aka Big Stay), where observers indenture themselves for a 24-hour period, counting only the birds seen while seated within a 17-foot circle. The birds can be anywhere, but the observer must remain within the circle. Why 17 feet? I dunno. But this diameter may have been fixed by the same Roman bureaucrat who established the width of railroad tracks long before the invention of the steam engine.
Anyway, I do a mini-Big Sit every morning. It lasts only as long as it takes to consume
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