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Help! I’m being oppressed by birds!

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Don’t get me wrong. I love New Zealand’s birds. That’s why I have a calendar full of them.

But, I’m sorry, this is too much. The third month in a row of judgey birds! Who do they think they are?

It started in May with this one. Eyeing me the whole month, wanting to know whether I’ve been saved.

species of albatross, a mollymawk, floating in the ocean with a real glare in its eye
“Have you been saved?”

Then June broke with dignified disdain:

North Island saddleback, which has small wattles at the corners of its beak that give it a disapproving expression
“Have you balanced your checkbook? Really? Then why is there a fudge factor on line 86?”

And then, when I turn to July, hoping for relief at long last, this horrified critter shows up.

Morpork, a common native New Zealand owl, with its eyes very wide open
“What ARE you doing?”

Trying to balance my checkbook, if you must know.