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Girl Birds

August 31, 2019
For the past week or so, two male blackbirds have been fighting in my mother’s garden. It’s almost springtime in New Zealand.
They’re probably fighting over a female, I suggested. ‘Have you seen any girl birds?’
‘Not yet,’ Mum replied. ‘At the rate they’re going, they’ll be too exhausted to do anything by the time one turns up.’