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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the daily Bird Toon blog here at Mickaboo!

A third installment of Diamond Lil's "Springtime for Stupid" from the day we began posting, to mark the occasion:

An old Bizarro from Valentine's Day, 2009.

(The original cartoon was uploaded in black and white, and was replaced when a colorized version became available December 13, 2017.)

A wonderful old Peanuts Sunday strip (without color, sorry) from March 11, 1973.  The last panel is priceless.

This strip was reposted in color on March 11, 2017.

Today marks toon #200 since we started this blog.  So today I'm giving you my favorite Calvin and Hobbes bird-related strip (original publication date is June 18, 1989).

A little Calvin and Hobbes today.  Since virtually all the strips in my archive are from the reruns at GoComics and are often retagged with the repeat date, I use an online database to find out the original publication date (I do the same thing with Peanuts, for the same reason).  This strip originally appeared on February 16, 1987:

We move along in my limited archive of Peanuts strips into the 1960s ... Snoopy has now taken on the more familiar appearance, but birds still do things that exasperate him.  From August 22, 1964:

This Bizarro, from way back on May 7, 1998, has been identified by Dan Piraro as one of his personal all-time favorites.  I like it as well, and hope you will too.

Note: Dan redid this panel, in color, on January 31, 2017. I'm including it here.

The last of my 1950s archived Peanuts strips (July 4, 1954) again pits Snoopy against the bird, with predictable results.

The bird tests Snoopy's stamina in this Peanuts Sunday 'toon from October 4, 1953:

As with so many early Peanuts strips, this one was originally uploaded to the blog in black-and-white, then replaced when the color version became available in January 2018.

Snoopy has the tables turned on him by a wild bird in this early Peanuts strip from September 1, 1953.

(This strip was originally uploaded in black and white, but a colorized version became available in late 2017 and I replaced it here.)