Recently I was reading an autobiographical story that my grandmother had written about growing up in Cape Elizabeth, Maine (just south of Portland). She talked about one of her brothers who liked to go out to the islands to shoot coot to eat. I thought it was a typo and it was supposed to be "coon" as in racoon. Though that didn't sound to edible. I was pretty sure that she wasn't implying that her brother was a cannibal - shooting grumpy old people. But then I looked up "coot" in the dictionary and discovered that a coot was a water bird. I had no idea that there were coots. And I definitely didn't have any idea that there were coots in Boston!
So, thanks. I'll have to keep my eye out for them next time I'm near some water...
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Date: 2006-02-20 10:00 pm (UTC)Recently I was reading an autobiographical story that my grandmother had written about growing up in Cape Elizabeth, Maine (just south of Portland). She talked about one of her brothers who liked to go out to the islands to shoot coot to eat. I thought it was a typo and it was supposed to be "coon" as in racoon. Though that didn't sound to edible. I was pretty sure that she wasn't implying that her brother was a cannibal - shooting grumpy old people. But then I looked up "coot" in the dictionary and discovered that a coot was a water bird. I had no idea that there were coots. And I definitely didn't have any idea that there were coots in Boston!
So, thanks. I'll have to keep my eye out for them next time I'm near some water...