Wood Peewee(eastern)   (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

Cool Facts

    * In a forest where several flycatcher species are found, the Eastern Wood-Pewee forages higher in the trees than the Least and Acadian flycatchers, but lower down than the Great Crested Flycatcher.
    * One potential cause of the decline of Eastern Wood-Pewee populations is the overpopulation of white-tailed deer in the Eastern forests. In areas with high deer density, the intermediate canopy is disturbed by browsing, affecting the foraging space of the flycatcher.
    * The Eastern and Western wood-pewees are very difficult to tell apart visually. Their breeding ranges overlap only in a very narrow zone in the Great Plains. Despite their similarity, no evidence has ever been found that the two species interbreed in that area.

Beauty on Mercury

I didn't see Beauty on Mercury until 8:06. MAK saw her earlier than that.

Beauty showed up around 7:40.

WOW!  Love this one!  Was visiting family in Michigan a few years back, taking a shower, no glasses on so vision not great!  Hear this splashing, look around curtain and see something dark brown MOVING around in potty!  Am scared to death of snakes and German Shepherds (sorry Dawn!) and started screaming and knocking on the wall so someone would hear me!!  Hubby rushed in and there was a little squirrel in there!  Poor baby, but poor me almost had a heart attack!  We laugh about that to this day!

Very funny indeed - but poor you, Annie! It was actually in the potty?? Little thing!

(Who else wants to join me in inventing a pair of eye-glasses that one can wear in the shower??)

(Awwww re the German Shepherd! We have a Belgian Shepherd and she is a honey... VERY excellent to have her run to the gate when This Old Bag is by herself in the country!)

 

That is one sad lookin' chicken!

That's pretty cool! They are giant squirrel baffles!

 

Haha re Hump Day, Donna! Should have known you would have an appropriate illustration.

That Miss Donna finds a smiley for everything!!!

"Aha! Good one. Never heard that before."

Bobbie must be you've been in Ireland too long huh!

 

   Good for you Ei!   

   Fingers crossed for this girl!   

Yup and they're all watching us! 

   That was a riot!  Thank ye!

 

That was cute!