I have some Dale Sisik in my stash - bought last year for eventual transformation into the Snow Forest Aran (or whatever it's called - the one in Melanie Fallick's Holiday Knitting book. I have a habit of giving sweaters unintentional idiosyncratic renames).

I commented there was a bird on the label. Wasn't sure what kind. I contemplated taking one of the labels in to the departmental ornithologist to show him, but decided that
(a) it was too weird for even me to do
and
(b) he's a single and apparently unattached male and I'm a single and unattached female and people might read something weirder into the already weird action of me bringing in a bird-label to show him.

But now, I see, it's not a pine siskin at all on the label (as I had assumed), it's a redpoll.

well, I was close. And when I do start this sweater, I may just bring in one of the labels anyway, and leave it in his mailbox, with a note saying, "Birds used in commerce" or something like that. Unless it seems too weird. I don't know. I like it when students bring me cartoons that have statistics/probability themes.

(Sigh. Now I want to start THAT sweater, too. I can tell fall is coming. It's kind of like squirrels gathering nuts - I look at my stash and decide I need a bunch of new sweaters. Even though I know that at the rate I knit, I really need to start them in the spring to have them done by the fall. No Wendy am I.)