A big "Awwww" Warning comes with these little guys. Probably don't want them around the house, tho...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9085000/9085644.stm

???  Circadean rhythms?   

A circadian rhythm is a roughly 24-hour cycle in the biochemical, physiological, or behavioural processes of living entities!! 

Oops! Sorry! I've been at the Oxford English again.

No mention of the illegal shooting - obviously inappropriate in the circumstances. But if things are to improve - anywhere - it is the children who will lead us.


http://www.birdlifemalta.org/view.aspx?id=281

No. 14 is up - Buena suerte a todos!

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=bb57d825c9d100356276141d224b0f78&sid=1AaOGLdu5asnLA Hope this works. MAK & Joyce's trip to Canada. Man, this was hard to figure out!

   Thank you so much for posting my pics Donna. Someday I'll figure it out for myself.     

Naaaah, MAK, why bother? We all know she "never leaves home"!

Oh she leaves home Bobbie. She just usually takes her laptop along. Donna just can't help herself!      She's  an addict!!!    

Tell her to watch out for "Laptop Knee Burn"... no kidding! I was just reading about that. Kinda like the McDonald's "Hot Coffee" lady, huh? 

10 of 33 freed from the mine!  Woo Hoo!!!   

 bguitar watching

I stayed up way past my bedtime last night and now I'm paying for it.  But, I just HAD to see the first miner come up through that small hole.  Totally incredible!

They'd have to leave me down there! 

Watching here too - it's like Banding Day!

One wag on Irish radio today (after things were looking so good, and with that famous Celtic sense of the black) texted a programme to say that it was too bad his wife was not down there with them... the men would have dug themselves out in 2 days' flat.

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me either 

Well, pooey! If you can't figure it out, Donna, who can!? Sorry I posted something so tantalising for so little result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r577ytYTZM&feature=related  yeah pooey...but check this guy out!

Pooey for me, too, as Big Mac does not like Youtube... will try Little Mac.

What a treasure this place is! No cranes, tho... boo-hoo!

http://php.democratandchronicle.com/blog/birds/?p=3616

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=bb57d825c9d100356276141d224b0f78&sid=1AaOGLdu5asnLA Hope this works. MAK & Joyce's trip to Canada. Man, this was hard to figure out!

   Thank you so much for posting my pics Donna. Someday I'll figure it out for myself.     

Naaaah, MAK, why bother? We all know she "never leaves home"!

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me either 

Well, pooey! If you can't figure it out, Donna, who can!? Sorry I posted something so tantalising for so little result.

Thought for Today

"Experience is the worst teacher.  It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward."

Au contraire

Janet, how you can be so spunky at this hour of the morning is beyond me! 5.15am for you - here, it is 10.15 and I am still yawning...

I get up at 3:00 and am in the office by 5:00 AM.  I will only put up with one commute from hades per day, so I leave early to avoid two of them

My Circadean Rhythms are hurting... BIG time!

[Autumn Gold]

I did not know these little guys migrated. But if Hummingbirds do, I suppose these can too. Is the same true of "your" Kinglets? As often occurs in Ireland, Northern birds (Scandinavia) head here for our milder winters. Pleased to see they are doing better this year. (A 20p piece [coin] is about the size of a quarter... maybe smaller.)

Autumn Gold
At the mass of a 20p piece, you'd be forgiven for wondering how Goldcrests managed to get across the North Sea at all. But migrate they do and after a very poor showing last autumn, this October has seen a return to form for this diminutive traveler. As any of you who were out birding the east side of the country over the weekend will testify, the easterly airflow has brought in huge numbers of Goldcrests...

http://blx1.bto.org/bt-dailyresults/results/s424-20-10.html

Thought for Today

"Experience is the worst teacher.  It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward."

Au contraire

Janet, how you can be so spunky at this hour of the morning is beyond me! 5.15am for you - here, it is 10.15 and I am still yawning...

Just found this. I'd be more excited if I could play them, but we are in the BBC broadcasting zone. Let me know if they work for you! Topics look good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Peregrine_Falcon#p00bjjsh

Watching it now - what an achievement. Bless them all.