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Sometime over the last year, something clicked in my brain, and I've become quite enamored with birds. There'd always been something there, some joy sparked whenever I saw a woodpecker or a cardinal land in the tree by my apartment window, but my knowledge of birds was pretty limited to the everyday ones. Now, though, I've gotten hooked onto the Merlin app, and have found so much joy in spotting birds that had been existing just outside my field of awareness: northern flickers (a chubby little woodpecker that eats on the ground) and eastern kingbirds (white-bellied chirpers, who have made a nest right on my path to work!). It makes games of Wingspan that much more exciting!
I fully recognize that Canada geese remain a menace, though.
The Centre is *for*, is in favour of, Canadian crosswords. It is a creative space where the default assumption is Canadian, from the references to the spelling.