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2025-10-31.md

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 ## 2025-10-31 18:26 --- Friday Evening
 
+#topic/hobbies/birding 
+
 This morning as I was leaving for work I saw a massive congregation
 of all the walky water birds I love so much. A hundred and more, milling about
 in-the early sunrise. The banks were covered in ibises picking at the grass
@@ -29,15 +31,17 @@ and pointing a gun instead of my phone's camera; but I also saw a beautiful
 great blue heron (_Ardea herodias_)---which, despite the wide berth I gave it,
 fled like its little cousin at my interest---and a common gallinule
 (_Gallinula galeata_), the latter I positively identified for the first time
-today. They have absurdly large feet, moorso the juveniles.\*
+today. They have absurdly large feet, moorso[^1] the juveniles.
 
-\*The common gallinule was formerly known as the common moorhen, only split from
-the Old World species (_Gallinula chloropus_) in July 2011. It may still be more
-widely known as "moorhen" , thus the pun.
+[^1]: The common gallinule was formerly known as the common moorhen, only split from
+    the Old World species (_Gallinula chloropus_) in July 2011. It may still be more
+    widely known as "moorhen", thus the pun.
 
 Today was a good day---I've been at this for a while, one second...
 
 ## 2025-10-31 19:48 --- Late Friday Evening, Halloween btw
 
+#topic/hobbies/birding 
+
 Today was a good day. If I could see so many gorgeous creatures every day
 as I have this one I might never shed another tear. I love birds.