"Doodle "is likely also the origin of the word “dude” so if you ever want to call the dudes by their full name you could say “sup yankee doodles”

Here to second the Trails series and Sky in particular. Estelle is the best.

This is completely unrelated to the meme at hand, but the title just reminded me that for a while, Merriam-Webster mistakenly included the word “Dord” to mean density - because an editor misread the entry for “D or d” as an abbreviation of density.

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And the bird is a chipping sparrow!

Cardinals molt their feathers and look really goofy about once a year iirc. Totally normal, nothing to worry about really.