Finally!  Clear shot of her band, 71/H...Unity! 

Yo!! Gotcha!

Good news! Yaaaaay! Bless the re-habbers.

578! Ahead!!!

"An egg collector from London has been banned from travelling to Scotland during the nesting season for ten years."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17160830

Donna, this one is NOT for you! Mirta, however, will like it... (Spoiler Alert: Spider!!)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9101343/Fear-of-spiders-makes-you-believe-creepy-crawlies-are-bigger.html

Around here, the big crow roosts are breaking up as pairs disperse to prepare for nesting.  Am I the only person who questions an expensive crow dispersal effort right before they naturally leave anyway? 

Paul

The very thing, Paul. How much better to have spent such a large amount of money on something like a bona fide conservation project for the area.

  YAY, we are fixed!! Thank you to whom ever did  this!

Shaky, did you do this from Florida???

 

Yes! Thank you! My morning was so disrupted with the site being off! (I did manage to get some cleaning done, however... an "ill wind" and all that...)

And he's ahead of Xiao Gou! Woo-woo! (Kinda feel sorry for the critters with no votes...)

Kinda not keen on Animal Planet stuff... is that just me? Fun film re the parrots, but I have me doubts about that guy...

Welcome, Sunshine! Join in the Forum!!

I am thinking of getting the brain of a hummingbird... might mean I do not to keep praying to St Anthony and paying him if he finds things... which (quite spookily!) he always does...

Funny, I read that with need in it! How the mind works! 

So your mind is already the size of a hummingbird's, huh, D-G?!

"... I do not need to keep praying..."

I saw that, Donna - what a thing!

I am thinking of getting the brain of a hummingbird... might mean I do not to keep praying to St Anthony and paying him if he finds things... which (quite spookily!) he always does...

Oh my word re Carly's post! We do NOT need more agro, but I guess that is the way of it at this time of year.