birdsday on a duck island

Conservative MP Sir Peter Viggers was forced to declare his retirement after attempting to claim £1,645 in taxpayer-funded expenses for a "duck island" in his garden.

Just what is a duck island?


Hytesbury Bird Pavilions

Now you know.

chirp chirp chirp

After a hiatus, birdsday returns, audibly.

Take a look at birdsongradio.com. You can listen to peaceful chitters and chirps whenever you want!





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birdsday gets counting

This weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Hunt. Count birds in your own backyard (or, for New Yorkers, the alley visible from your apartment window) from February 12-16, and submit your results here.



image from birdsource.org

birdsday chocolatey goodness

For birdsday today we bring you glad tidings of chocolate penguins. Or one chocolate penguin, as presented (and given to me) by An Xiao. Penguins are birds after all!






Important facts about penguins:
In their avian form, penguins smell very bad.
In their chocolate form, penguins taste very good.

a birdsday bridge to the future

Baby peregrine falcons on the Throgs Neck Bridge. See NY Times story here.

Introducing Birdsday

Surely you know about Caturday (although some sects honor the holiday a day later).

Cats are wonderful in all sorts of ways, but what about birds? Birds deserve a day of blogospheric adoration too! So begins a new weekly feature - Birdsday.

This week I'll start to gently ween you from cats. But next week - birds alone!