First Friday deadline coming up

Would you like to turn your mind to crafting a short story about birds, birders and/or birding? Can you incorporate a setting, a character or characters, a conflict and a resolution within 500 words? The only other rule: The birds cannot be anthropomorphized.

The first contender arrived last week. It set a good standard, and I look forward to reading more entries.

Please send your feather fiction before or on Wed., July 5. I'll post the winner on Friday the 7th, and the winner can choose a book from the review copies in my office.

Bring on the fiction, fellow wordsmiths!