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"RESOLUTION
REGRETS"
By Alfio
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1 Pierre's
playground
5 Corday's
victim
10 Robin Hood's
friend Allan —
15 Blind as —
19 Place with a
Minor part
20 Spry
21 Syllogist's
forte
22 Milan moolah
23 Start of a
timely verse
27 Pioneer
group
28 Concerning
29 Schubert string
opus
30 Rossini's "La
Scala di —"
31 Amours
33 Utopian
concepts
34 Nursery-rhyme
eloper
37 Bell sound
38 Latvian
port
40 Second line of
the verse
48 Staff symbol
49 Transports
50 Ta -ta, in Tours
51 Manitoba
Indian
53 Barbie's
buddy
54 Jurist Roger
Brooke
55 Quartz variety
56 Members of
the brass
57 Deep ravine
58 Not brightly
59 Tasteful sense
60 Loving
63 Esteem
64 Collection of
weapons
65 Coteries
66 Faced the
target
67 Jimmy of
"L.A. Law"
68 Final words
69 — ease
70 Sweetheart
71 Become jelly-
like
74 Wampum
75 Track
shapes
76 Winged
77 Party
treat
78 Third line of the
verse
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2 King Arthur of
32 Blame
57 Football's great
80 A Ford
or stat
the courts?
33 Icicle built
"Red"
81 Overshirt
83 — irae
3 Melee
for two?
58 Rich cloth
85 Tower of —
84 Dark
4 Sheds
34 Underthe
59 Elementary
86 Extract
85 Caviar source
5 Artist Edouard
weather
textbook
87 Bolt
89 Black -ink item
6 Old Greek mall
35 Ashen
60 "— by night... ":
88 Brownish
91 Start of a
7 Barbecue treat
36 Augury
Goldsmith
89 Light
Caesar quote
8 The works
37 A crowd,
61 "American
helmet
93 "There is
9 Links elevator?
usually
Buffalo"
90 Bird fare
nothin' like —"
10 Coeur d' —,
38 Weather
dramatist
91 Gentleman's
94 Ranee's
Idaho
forecast
62 Voodoo
gentleman
garment
11 Tonic portions
39 "— a Song
63 Riviera
92 Corundum
96 Brief negligee
12 Stravinsky
Go Out"
sight
94 Ginger
100 End of the
ballet score
41 Failed flier
64 Fine fiddle
cookie
verse
13 Spirited tune
42 Zesty flavors
66 Texas shrine
95 Blue
104 "— homo"
14 Old French
43 Body of
67 Slovaks
Mosque
105 Took a risk
coin
Jewish law
69 Musical star
locale
106 Circus figure
15 Shade of blue
44 "Swan Lake"
Novello
96 .001 It. lira
107 Of an historic
16 Flora and fauna
personage
70 Armada
97 "— perfumed
time
17 Synthetic fiber
45 Eleves' milieux
71 British stir
sea ": Poe
108 Comic Lew
18 Lab
46 Firth of Clyde
72 Needlecase
98 Sprat's
109 One -time
procedures
island
73 For fear that
choice
anklewear
24 Actress
47 Oscar de la —
75 Greek
99 Agatha's
110 Like a dirty
Verdugo
52 DOsseldorf
theaters
colleague
chimney
25 "Bolero"
donkey
76 Jaques'
101 Dog tags,
111 Jutlander
composer
54 Implements
girlfriend
briefly
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26 Popular
55 Net lace
77 Penalized
102 "— a girl!"
DOWN
TV show
56 Waste
79 German
103 The way, in
1 Butter units
31 Overbearing
maker
rifleman
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Focus on Nature
Pairs of Exotic Off - season Visitors
By Paul Stoutenburgh
Someone called me recently about a
pair of black swans in one of our neigh-
boring creeks, bringing back memories
of the time my wife and I went camp-
ing in New Zealand and Australia. We
came across a body of water that was
sprinkled with over a thousand of these
handsome jet black red -billed birds.
Like our own mute swans, black
swans are strictly vegetarians, gather-
ing their greenery from the water sur-
face and below. When the water gets
around three or four feet deep they
upend and stretch their long necks to the
bottom where they feed. Occasionally
you'll see their feet treading water in
this upside down position for that little
extra push to collect the tender green
plants on the bottom. Our own white
mute swans in his upended position look
like pointed chunks of snowy ice.
Occasionally swans will come up on
land to graze or just to sit and preen
themselves. Like geese, they can be
messy visitors and often become a pro-
blem in that respect.
How these two black swans ever found
our neck of the woods I'll never know.
Most likely they were part of someone's
private collection of birds and somehow
they escaped. Surely they didn't fly in
from Australia or New Zealand. We of-
ten get exotics in our area and we have
to hope they'll only be a cursory point
of interest and then be gone.
On viewing one of the black swans
through my binoculars, I could plainly
see the white tip on its red bill and
toward its back end the white primar-
ies of the wings that are most visible
These two rare black swans were spotted recently in a local creek. —Paul Stoutenburgh
when in flight. Again like our all-white
mute swan, these birds have difficulty
in getting airborne. They require a long
takeoff area and even with that they
need the additional lift and speed their
paddling feet will give them as they run
across the surface of the water. I guess
what charms most people is the grace
and maiesty of these birds when seen on
the still water. They seem to move with-
out any visible signs of motion from
their huge webbed feet.
Another recent call was from a lady
who was all excited about seeing two
bald eagles. Well, one is enough to stir
me out in the most inclement weather
but two eagles? Well, Barbara and I
rushed out of the house with our coats
half on. Within 10 minutes we were at
the designated spot where a small
crowd had already gathered. It was
good our friend had spotted the birds fly-
ing for when we got out and scanned the
sky we could see nothing.
Then word was passed that one had
settled in the now leafless trees across
a pond. My eyes scanned back and forth
for some time —I knew it was there but
I couldn't pick it out. One reason was
that the eagle was a young bird and still
had its dark mottled plumage that
blended with the woods perfectly. With
a little help as to where to look, I finally
focused in on the big bird hunched down
testing in the trees. We never did see the
other bird, but our patience was re-
warded when the bird in the tree took
off and flew around.
For those who haven't seen an eagle
flying, it is truly one of the great sights.
With a wing span almost twice that of
an osprey, the eagle dwarfs gulls and
crows.
I'm always surprised to see what's
around us and doubly surprised to see
how observant and interested many peo-
ple are in the natural world.
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