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[vetosoup]

RIP Edgar. :\

*on the lighter side -- Captain is doing swimmingly with a professional & Easy Mac the three-legged box turtle is happily digging in my boxed-in compost heap.

**on the dark side -- don't you think Edgar looked like the Star Wars AT-ST Walker?

Comments

[tusenoch]

i am sorry for your loss...

[vetosoup]

it was expected, i suppose. killdeer are supposed to eat by themselves & he wasn't.

[tusenoch]

sweet little thing...

[enragedfetus]

I had never heard of or seen a killdeer before. Why are they called that? And I thought he looked walkerish, too, or like some kind of cute jumping dinosaur.

When I was eleven or so I hatched from an egg a tiny, soft little quail who I named Calvin, after my (then) favorite literary figure. Calvin lived for two days. I fed Calvin and gave him a tiny cap full of water and a pickel jar lid full of mashed up bird meal, but he never ate, and he died while I was asleep. My mom still made me go to school that day.

[vetosoup]

theyre called killdeer cos that what people say their call sounds like: "kiiill deer!"

quail are so cute. makes me feel bad about eating them. but they taste soooo goooood.