Monthly Archives: February 2006

Well, hot damn. I just picked up a CD of bird calls (at long last), and the very second section compares the hairy woodpecker to the belted kingfisher. And damned if the kingfisher call wasn’t the chrk-chrk-chrk-chrk I heard from the mystery bird. I went and relooked, and yeah, male belted kingfisher had no crest […]

State of the Union address on NPR. ARRGH! Horrors. Turn it off. Orphaned baby walrus on TV. Oh, dear god. It’s…so…so…SO adorable. I mean, I don’t have words. It’s like a leather ottoman with eyes! I generally don’t watch TV during the day, but when the choice is listening to somebody I loathe ramble for […]