This has come up a few times before, so in case you don't know

it is trivially easy to bypass most paywalls. Seriously, coders aren't exactly bringing their a-game when it comes to designing those.

I, personally, use Bypass Paywalls in my browser and that works pretty well and now I pretty much never think about paywalls ever. However, if it doesn't work, or if I'm using some other computer for some reason, I find that 99% of the time or more a paywall can be bypassed by doing one of two things: hitting esc the second the text loads or using the archive.today link. If those don't work, I still can probably bypass the paywall by turning off javascript, opening the page in a different browser or in a private window, or - if I'm really determined to see this article and they actually have a functioning paywall - paying the ransom. (I mean, I assume that last thing works, I've never actually tried it myself.)

Paywalls are a joke, just not a very good one.

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I saw a new to me bird today!

I looked out the window and said "Well, who the hell are you?" - it looked like two birds smushed together! Sparrow in the back, with a very long tail, white striped head. And, though I'm not sure this is relevant, when it flew away with all the other birds, it didn't perch on the standing weeds but hid on the ground in them. I only saw this twice, so I don't know.

I'm tentatively marking this down as a white-crowned sparrow, maybe. I'm a bit more sure of that than I am of that russetty sparrow I see around from time to time, which might be a song sparrow or a fox sparrow or a chipping sparrow or a tree sparrow or an I don't know or even not a sparrow at all. All I know is it's definitely not a house sparrow!