This is going to date me a bit, but does anyone else remember the Great Couch-Sofa-Davenport Debate?

Many years ago, not long after I joined the list, there was a series of hysterical (to me, anyway) posts involving a couch. Some bird, I don't even remember what species, was being seen near a place where someone had dumped a bunch of trash, including a couch. Reports would always include the couch as a reference point. After a while, the couch became the focus of the posts: Was it in fact a couch or a sofa?  Perhaps the southern species, a davenport. Suggestions of Love Seat, the lesser couch, were rejected. 

It was a wonderfully funny time, and it was what encouraged me to come out of the shadows, stop lurking, and start posting. I miss that spirit. 

Returning you to waterfowl and woodcocks,

Kathi Hutton
Clermont County

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