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Home My WebLink AboutJanuary 06, 1994 - Pairs of Exotic Off-Season Visitors18 RESOLUTION REGRETS" By Alfio Micci ACROSS 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 Weekly Crossword Puzzle Edited by James C. Boldt and Joyce Nichols Lewis 82 Before sol 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 O I 26 Popular 55 Net lace 77 Penalized 102 "— a girl!" 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SC A N C O P E ON I IT 111 IS 0 L I N S A U T E A D L A I M 0 R i M O N T E L B U W G K E A S E P E A U N C I N E S N A fl E Y E T A T T N S E E R E S S E R A S E LEECH 2870 Hempstead Tpke. — Our Newest Office — E S R E T R O S N I S K A 0 A T E E L F S E W E R HIE I L T E M P O R I 0 3 0 E T A T S N A K E 0 A L I t E 0 N A 0 0 0 0& c 1 x N r R E L E N D U R E F I J I E L A K A Y B E S TWATO F 0 0 T F 0EIR R W AEI R 0NA PHO 0 0 A P E S E D A N SARAN S N A F U H A L F S O D A S T I G E R A L M A A L L A H AMP S N A fl E 5 M E L X I E 0 MEETS N o L E S% S I E fl R A S S C O L D N D E N T Ufl E AMEN S N A I N E fl T A D O N I S D A L E N A X 0 M E D 0 W. NR'E D DGA D isGEAGESEOOIEGLA TEO,.S REI GN E L,SA 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. Norton the Cat Casts Big Shadow Continued from Page 16) The bad news for fans is that Mr. where, will they find a feline up to the ind in an enviable, uninhibited way. Gethers insists that there will not be an- role? Which is probably why the books ap- peal not only to the built -in, sure -fire, cat-erazed constituency that the editor who suggested the idea no doubt had in mind, but to a broader audience as well. If cat - haters might have a hard time swallowing a two-volume valentine to a cat, others with less defined feelings may well be seduced by the oddball op- tic Mr. Gethers brings to another cur- rently popular nonfiction theme (a year in Provence), or by his hip view of life on the celebrity circuit. Which, as it turns out, is not that dif- ferent for a cat than it is for Madonna. Though unlike Madonna, Norton never disappoints; when there are complaints, they are invariably directed at Mr. Gethers.) Mr. Gethers devotes almost as many pages of A Cat Abroad to his domestic tour of the TV talk -show circuit with Norton as he does to the menage a trots Mr. Gethers, his girlfriend Janis, and Norton) in the tiny unspoiled Provencal village of Goult. This is not surprising when you consider that the adaptable Norton spent 99 percent of his time abroad catching rays on the roof over- looking the Luberon Valley. Now, as a writer, Mr. Gethers is nothing if not re- sourceful, able to fill no fewer than three pages with information on the range of cat foods available in France. 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