One of our clever FReepers needs to make up a Piper for president poster..LOL
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SUNDAY SMILES:
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Phoebe Allen, the hummingbird, presently hatching her fifth clutch:
(Live cam)
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Mother cat hugs baby kitten (Absolutely adorable):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0&feature=player_embedded
(Viral on YouTube, made it to Good Morning America)
I have a desert area search plot that a survey (for birds) 2-3 times every ten days. I've got a black-chinned hummingbird female raising one chick in a nest in a desert willow (Chilopsis linearis).
She doesn't like it when I get near, though, so I check the nest status from about 20 feet away with my binocs.
Also been watching a brood of LeConte's thrashers turn into "punky teens."
I love my job!