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By Troutnut on March 27th, 2012

I had an unexpected photo opportunity while walking around campus today, and snapped this raven with my phone's camera. I wrote it a little verse for it in the caption. Not a haiku, mind you. I live by the forum rules, too.

Photos by Troutnut from Miscellaneous Alaska in Alaska

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High upon a signpost rearing, down upon pedestrians jeering,
Squawking rather nasty things not heard from any bird before;
Parking regulations broken, yet the bird paid not a token,
And the bird was so outspoken, taunting watchers at its fore,
Taunting that it need not pay the fee that we abhor.
This it laughed, and then it soared.

StateAlaska

LocationUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks

Date TakenMar 27, 2012

Date AddedMar 28, 2012

AuthorTroutnut

CameraiPhone 4

Closeup insects by Bnewell from the Touchet River in Washington

Female Perlinodes aurea (Springfly) Stonefly Adult

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Collected March 27, 2012 from the Touchet River in Washington
Added to Troutnut.com by Bnewell on March 27, 2012

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Entoman	March 30th, 2012, 5:34 pm
Northern CA & ID Posts: 2604	Ah, very good. That bird is a great subject. That photo was from your phone? Amazing!
	"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman

Troutnut	March 30th, 2012, 5:06 pm
Administrator Bellevue, WA Posts: 2737	They're both site updates from the same day. That's how the automatic posts from the front page of the site are organized into the forum. I coded it that way thinking usually there would only be one contributor per day (so it would join all the photos & specimens from a particular fishing trip or something). It does get to looking a bit funny when people add two very different things though.
	Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D. Troutnut and salmonid ecologist

Entoman	March 30th, 2012, 2:17 am
Northern CA & ID Posts: 2604	What's going on with this thread? How did these two get hooked up? Anyway, loved the great photo of the raven and the fun limerick!
	"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman

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