Actually, Janet, . . .
You don't have much future as a writer for soap operas.
My guess is that "she" would sweetly encourage him
to hustle right along so she could meet her own sweetie
a hundred miles or so in the other direction in Mexico.
Reminds me of a talk, many years ago for an Anne
Arundel Club meeting wherein a researcher on purple
martins reported that DNA testing of a female's
2 (or 3) broods a year showed there were something
like 9 fathers for 12 eggs.
They are a sociable lot, those martins.
Leo Weigant
On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Janet Millenson wrote:
> "Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding
> season
> during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in
> temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South
> America.... it turns out that they squeeze in a second breeding season
> during a stopover in western Mexico on their southward migration..."
>
> Read the news article at:
>
> http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/10/26/
> first.evidence.a.second.breeding.season.among.migratory.songbirds
>
> "[R]esearchers found individuals from five species... that were
> breeding
> rather than molting."
>
> One imagines the following scenario: An oriole tells its mate,
> "Oops, look
> at the calendar! Time for me to wing it south for a few months and
> freshen
> up the ol' plumage. See you in the usual place next spring,
> darling." The
> mate responds, "Don't give me that story -- I know you're really
> planning to
> meet your sweetie in Mexico for some hanky-panky on the way!" We await
> further research on avian pair bonding in these five species.
>
> Janet Millenson
> Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
>
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