Welcome to Litsy!

Tama is a magpie, adopted by a couple who turn him into a social media hype. Because Tama can talk, which means repeating things he‘s heard and remembers. The things he says are so funny (you recognize them from earlier conversations and they come up at the most awkward moments) and in combination with the sadness of the couple‘s daily life, it makes a book unlike any other. Brilliant.

#ReadTheWorls2025 book 21 #NewZealand

The talking magpie narrator explaining the ways of birds and people is an appealing hook that frequently had me laughing out loud and is also an effective counterpoint to the harshness of conditions of the human characters. What could have been very bleak became much more palatable, but no less powerful. I loved it. A definite contender for my book of the year so far. #NZfiction
Have you read this one @Centique ?

Burger flights… so yummy!!

#haikuhive #haikuaday

One night when it was raining, these Black Bellied Whistling Ducks visited our backyard. We have bird feeders and a bird bath in our backyard. They were eating the bird seed that my birds dropped on the ground. They haven‘t visited again since then so I wanted to write a haiku about them.

Black Bellied Whistling Ducks
Will they fly over here and visit us again?
We liked seeing them

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#Eagle 🦅 ❤️🇺🇸🤍🇺🇸💙 🦅

#JulyJazz

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Mourning dove update:

This is a still from our makeshift nestcam. The one on the gate is one of the babies, who flew down to perch and was joined by a parent briefly before parent flew to the nest. Then the other baby flew down to the gate but kept landing on its sibling, so they both flew up to the parent in the nest for second breakfast.

Quite exciting times at our gate! I think this means they're more teens than babies, though.

I didn't get to snap a pic, so the picture is from the web.
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