Amateur Ornithologist - Bird's-Eye View
This post was originally intended as an overview of bird's eyes... (That seemed an appropriate adjunct to the Oct '07 post, Crow Brains.)
Preparations for this post included the usual for this sort of entry... Dig through the Web, prep for "PhotoStudio" diagrams, "bullet" avian anatomical characteristics, compare and contrast between differing bird orders, etc. Until...
Until BIO 554/754, Ornithology, Nervous System: Brain and Special Senses II came into view...
This is without a doubt one of the finest bird Web sites around. Seriously, this is a stunning piece of academia... If you’re at all interested in birds, take a Sunday morning and a tall cup of joe and wander through that site. Kudos to Dr. Gary Ritchison.
So, now what? Let's see... Random stuff...
- Your chance to win some free genuine Cape Cod Clam Chowder (and a signed picture of yours truly wearing Mickey Mouse ears out on the clam flats) is rapidly slipping away. (See contest info and more contest info.) To make things more interesting, an old programming buddy was notified concerning the contest. Let's see what he can do...
- The New England Patriots are Super Bowl bound... But wait! This just in... Brady may be hurt! The Boston Herald is running with the story. Arghhh!!! No really... Arghhh!!! Quickly... Check your keyboard for a "Panic Button"!!! After all, there is a "Lombardi-esque" historical event hanging in the balance.
- Not sure how many of you know that we have an eBirdseed.com newsletter... But there's the link.
- The question has come up concerning the shutter speed of the NovaBird remote, movement-triggered camera. A request to NovaBird concerning this info went unanswered, so testing will follow in a later post.
That should do it for the moment,
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan