Robins at the White House

By Corey • May 8, 2009 • 1 comment

Now that the Obama administration is firmly ensconced in Washington DC, American Robins are nesting just outside the White House briefing room. Apparently, this is the first record of robins nesting on White House grounds since ex-Vice President Dick Cheney allegedly started ordering robin-egg omelets for breakfast, that is, when he couldn’t get his preferred souls of small children to devour.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

One Response to “Robins at the White House”

Wren May 9th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
So what if I spit coffee all over my computer … again.

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A team of researchers has found that the populations of common birds around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan has plummeted. Most disturbingly, the populations of species that the area has in common with Chernobyl has fallen more in Fukushima than they did in the site of worst nuclear disaster in world history.