This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

In 1964, the Birds, piloted by Hank Bauer in his first year of managing the ballclub, were involved in a tight pennant race against the Yankees and White Sox.

He continued to investigate natural history and in 1823, the last year of his life, he presented his Observations on the Migration of Birds to the Royal Society.

Birds that call this area home for at least part of the year include: vultures, marabou storks, secretary birds, hornbills, crowned cranes, ostriches, long-crested Eagles, African pygmy-falcons and the lilac-breasted roller, which is the national bird of Kenya.

Birds that visit the reserve during the winter include cranes, goldeneyes, shovelers and teals, while bitterns, marsh harriers, pochards, water rails and Cetti ’ s warblers stay for most of the year.

In the following year, The Monkees included sounds intended to mimic a 78-rpm record on the song " Magnolia Simms ," contained in their album The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees ; later that same year a portion of The Beatles ' song " Honey Pie " included similar mimicry.

The Snake River Birds of Prey Festival is held every year in mid-May.

Houghton Lake is also a popular retirement location, with many retired residents known as " Snow Birds " who stay in Houghton Lake each year until winter.

Birds reach adult size by their first year.

Birds are able to breed after their second year.

Birds in this family live in flocks of 6 to 12 for a large part of the year.

Honey Bear's imminent arrival was announced in early 2000 in The Birds, the Bees, and the Berenstain Bears, along with a reader contest to name the new bear ; her birth was featured later that year in The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five.

Birds in their first year are often duller or a different color altogether.

Within a year she made her film debut ( minus dialogue ) as a Petty Girl model in The Petty Girl ( 1950 ) musical comedy, although in interviews she refers to The Birds ( 1963 ) as her first film.

When The Birds was performed in 414 BC, Athenians were still optimistic about the future of the Sicilian Expedition, which had set out the year before under the joint command of Alcibiades, who had promoted it enthusiastically, and Athens ' most experienced general, Nicias, who had opposed the venture.

NANOG meetings are held three times each year, and include presentations, tutorials, and BOFs ( Birds of a Feather meetings ).

Birds in their first year of life weigh less than adults, and are especially light in the first two months after reaching independence.

Birds may not breed for another year or two, and are often vagrants (" floaters ") until they establish their own territories.

The other four books, " Birds ", " Landscapes " and " Portraits " were released the same year, but Kertész thought the photograph reproductions in the books were terrible and for the first time, refused to autograph books.

Birds in their second year moult into a second immature phase, some males of which may resemble adult males, while others retain a more immature brown plumage.

Birds generally produce one batch of eggs per year, but they will produce another if the first is taken away.

Review of Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia, a book by Louisa Waugh, who spent a year there

He spent one year at the University of North Carolina because Thomas Wolfe went there.

The two older boys, Hans and Anders, his junior by a year, therefore went daily to the home of a warm and friendly wigmaker nearby for instruction in German ; ;

Under Miss Upton, the work of the year 1909-10 went forward without interruption.

Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

At the end of 1709, Alexei went to Dresden for one year.

In 1873 Johnson contracted cholera during an epidemic but recovered ; that year he lost about half his assets, when the First National Bank went under.

From Cyprus they went to the port of Antioch in Syria, and thence traveled for a year to the Khan's court, going ten leagues ( 55. 56 kilometers ) per day.

After the death of her parents within a year of each other, Maria went to help her aunt teaching at the school.

The initiative went beyond leasing notebook computers to students during the academic year, and included training, user support and the use of course-specific applications at Acadia that arguably revolutionized learning at the Wolfville, N. S.

Also that year Endurance Specialty, a Bermuda-based underwriting operation that Aon helped to establish in November 2001 along with other investors, went public.

" Early in the year 343, Athanasius went to Gaul, whither he had gone to consult the saintly Hosius of Corduba, the great champion of orthodoxy in the West.

The Brewers went to the 1982 World Series and won seven organization of the year awards during his tenure.

That year, they went on their first South American tour.

The Indians improved significantly over the prior year and went into the All-Star break in second place.

Pitcher Darryl Kile ( who died in 2002 ) signed as a free agent in the offseason, struggled in Colorado, going 13 – 17 with a 5. 20 ERA — a far cry from his numbers the prior year as a member of the Houston Astros, when he went 19 – 7 with a 2. 57 ERA.

First published in 1863, it went through three editions that year, with a fourth and final edition appearing in 1873.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

He went to Hollywood the next year to appear in the show's movie version at RKO, which starred Lucille Ball.

The Red Wings went on to sweep both of their opponents that year en route to a Stanley Cup championship.

During the same year, 7. 6 % of health spending went to the 20 % of the poor, while 20 % of the rich population received 38. 1 % of this expenditure.

More importantly, however, he went on to maintain the same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to top the ton since Richmond's Jack Titus in 1940.

In the same year, Hoxha went to the People's Republic of China, then enduring the Sino-Soviet Split, and met with Mao Zedong.