A MATTER OF CONVENIENCE

Top photo: A Daasanach girl in Kenya, armed with a homemade slingshot and mud balls, guards her family's sorghum crop from hungry birds*
Bottom photo: Half a world away, birds in our yard couldn't care less about stray sorghum growing next to our bird bath - there's plenty to be found in the nearby feeder and on the ground below it.
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Brownbird - August 17th
*National Geographic, August 2015