The Internet is fantastic if for no other reason the ability to communicate with friends from all over the planet. I love the people that I know from all over. Today was a great example. At about 4:30pm, I got call from my friend Clay Taylor because his flight back home to Rhode Island got [ Read More ]
Yo, Non Birding Bill, I’ll need you to record something for me this Sunday, February 18th on PBS when I’m out of town! The show Nature on PBS is presenting Raptor Force, showcasing bird of prey flight ability. Looks pretty darned sweet. Raptor Resource Project (go Neil!) was heavily involved in the making the program. [ Read More ]
At first glance this looks like a story for the Weekly World News, but it’s on the BBC website, so it’s got to have some validity. Meet N’Kisi, an African gray parrot with a vocabulary of over 950 words. The BBC reports: One N’kisi-ism was “flied” for “flew”, and another “pretty smell medicine” to describe [ Read More ]
Ever wanted a Disapproving Rabbit of your very own? Here are some candidates looking for homes. “I don’t approve of you not scratching my nose. It’s gray and wiggly for cryin’ out loud, get to work loving my nose!” According to the House Rabbit Society February is Adopt A Rabbit Month. Yesterday the Golden Valley [ Read More ]
Saturday morning Non Birding Bill and I were two ships passing in the night. Friday night, he went to his show opening. He mentioned that there would probably be some sort of cast party. I told him that since I needed to be up at 5am and I would decline the invitation. I went to [ Read More ]
BirderBlog reports that the comments for the Walda Cameron essay on why she illegally shot a cardinal have disappeared. Is this because there were so many it over loaded the comments page? If you look at the other My Turn essays the comments are very low from 2 comments to 5 comments to 15 to [ Read More ]
“Hey, you two on the couch, stop that! I don’t approve of what you’re doing.” Oh, bunny disapproval! Today was a GREAT day, Non Birding Bill took the day off from his job and we had a work day together–he’s been instrumental in helping compile all the photos for the Disapproving Rabbits book. We ran [ Read More ]
My side of the bed has the window at the head of it–I like it that way. But every night this week, my pillow gets frozen stuck to it. Non Birding Bill is in tech rehearsals for Cyrano de Bergerac. I love that he acts, I love that I get to watch him on stage–tech [ Read More ]
Thanks to Veronica B. for showing me this link to some cool great horned owl video stream. For fun, watch the fast motion video of the female creating the nesting scrape and incubating. This is a nice view since the Valmont Owl Cam is just teasing us right now.
