[You're killing me!  Just do it! 

did it. he's still around, still spending the day in Montrose Harbor, surrounded by ducks and grebes and gulls, rotating that hemisphere of a head. I saw Jerry Goldner (do check out Donna's link two posts down) there, he's just raking in shots of this guy.

there were apparently two at montrose beach this morning. I am going to try one of these days.
Here is a gallery of Montrose Beach snowies - some great shots!
http://www.profilesofnature.com/snowyowlinvasion2011.html
and the site of the photographer, Jerry Goldner, worth a look
http://www.profilesofnature.com/

Nothing is mentioned about needing to make a pit stop. They don't even use bad words.

or maybe the topic should be, "they did WHAT?"

A stranger appears, they grab it, pull some tail feathers out, this and that . . . you call that hospitality?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-hummingbird-mystery-1218-20111217,0,2530580.story

Ouch - very best wishes for a speedy recovery, Bobbie!!

that's not at all far from me. I ought to try to see that bird.

Unity doesn't even have a roof to leak.

build her an outhouse, then, willya?

I can send a complete copy of my falcon raps from those couple of years when I was writing them. There are a bunch of them and some of them go into quite a bit of detail about some recent M-K-offspring event. I need to compile it into one file, with dates. Where do I send it when it's done? dale

wow. there are 15 pages of them, from 2005-2009. I had no idea. I'm sending them, Ei.

I can send a complete copy of my falcon raps from those couple of years when I was writing them. There are a bunch of them and some of them go into quite a bit of detail about some recent M-K-offspring event. I need to compile it into one file, with dates. Where do I send it when it's done? dale

I especially loved the food chain chart showing utter indeterminacy and cluelessness.
Serious laughing out loud. Interesting choice - osprey.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/osprey-devours-lion-in-massive-foodchain-shakeup,26773/

sure. ouch. geezer.

http://tinyurl.com/6r4ev4q

picture: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/485454-Descubren-un-delfin-albino-en-Brasil

that was terrific, INCREDIBLE, even better once I turned off the silly music.
Thanks!

Well there went a quick hour...

and another; there's a follow-up article on the author's observations of the octopus that succeeded Athena:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/newsfrom187/entry/6591/

She has also written a book about the New Zealand Kakapo, titled, "Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot"