Since the 1880s we’ve referred to dopey people as birdbrains. I contend it’s a misnomer. Birds are actually pretty smart – think about how far they migrate without any access to maps or GPS! I think the people who like birds are pretty smart too.
Exhibit A of my argument would be what the Sarasota Audubon Society has accomplished in defending a bird sanctuary called the Celery Fields. A piece of property next door was targeted for development by the nation’s largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton, but the Audubon folks didn’t chicken out. They took them on and won.
“Sarasota County again rejects D.R. Horton development near Celery Fields,” the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported last week…