City Fence Inspector ....

Norton Spanner is a city fence inspector.

When building a fence, the hired contractor must always use a level to ensure that all fence posts are the same height.

If the City Fence Inspector detects even one fence post as being higher than another, the owner of the fence will be fined AND the fence must be rebuilt to proper regulation cut off heights.


Norton Spanner is known as the BEST City Fence Inspector in the business.  His keen hawk eye catches every detail and his ability to 'fly in' to fence locations allows him to monitor hundreds of fence building projects each day.


The readers of the City Pages have consistently voted Norton Spanner as the "Best of the Best" in it's 'Best Government Employee' category, 15 years in a row.

Birds Marvel at Human behavior to help others!

Every year in Minneapolis, humans raise money for a great cause by literally ‘plunging into the frozen waters of Lake Calhoun’!

Borialeous Feblecron, a yellow finch who lived in Minneapolis, sat atop the frozen waters of a bird bath for twenty days straight.

No matter how hard he tried, he just could not make himself ‘plunge’ into the icy cold waters below him.

Borialeous felt an enormous amount of respect and admiration for the humans who 'plunge' to help others!

Where the critters go for breakfast - The I Hop Skurry & Run Inn

"Hey!!! What time do you guys open? I'm starving out here!"

"Today I'm going to order pecan pancakes with extra almonds on the side... a peanut croissant and an order of fried cashews... and for dessert...chocolate covered walnuts!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!... 


DO NOT TELL ME YOU ARE CLOSED TODAY!"

Up the ante ... bird style

Eddie Motsowitz liked to play games.

Eddie was a betting bird and usually liked to raise the stakes.  He would bet everything he had until he was down to his last wax worm.

  Eddie often had several different games going at once.

You aren't fooling anyone ...

 According to the bird military dictionary.. 

 The definition of camouflage is

 ...The method or result of concealing MILITARY bird personnel from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings.

Reflections of what life used to be ...

Tango and Turner were former bird basketball stars.

In their prime, they could literally fly through basketball hoops scoring point after point.

Now in retirement, the two often talk basketball while enjoying a meal.

Sometimes you feel like a nut

Myrtle McKenzie often saw the ad on television for 'Wonderful Pistachios' and would find herself having a craving...

Is this from a reputable bird food store?

One thing birds cannot abide 

… is a handout of cheap bird seed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxP4ivI2Gg

Bird Fashion ...

(Actual photo above)

(Creative news article above)

Be firm in knowing what you want ...