Quite the Character the Blue Jay – this is Cyanocitta cristata differs greatly from the Western Scrub Jay.
I had a really superb marvelous magical  experience with a Blue Scrub Jay in California, specifically Encino, CA the Bev Hills of the San Fernando Valley where i grew up.
One day while going into the garage where the Peanuts for the 4 or …

Visiting Civil War historical sites is also good for Birding.  i saw my first Brown Thrasher – Toxostoma rufum – at Chancellorsville battle field. It was a hard shot to get; these birds don’t stand in one place very long.

I was quite shocked to see a Brown Thrasher,  my second, in my back yard sanctuary the first morning back from …

05.13.10, looked out the window and BINGO a Spotted Towhee – my first Pipilo Manculatus montanus .  There was a pair this is the Male.  The tail feathers are the distinguishing factor for the 4 species and these tail feathers aren’t showing what one would expect…hybridization does occur in the Great Plains.

Carduelis tristis in this case a Breeding Female American Goldfinch is dinning  on seeds – no doubt on her way to the breeding grounds.  She didn’t stay long but was very glad she stopped in.
The Cardueline Male finches interestingly when need be defend the female rather than the nest. They go throw some sexual acrobatics to get the female to …

Well i miss identified this as a Lazuli Bunting at first but when publishing the Lazuli Bunting from ’07 a few minutes ago i realized i have miss marked – and thanks to Ruth Vanderhorst on today’s local birding event to the Indian Caves (06.08.10) she took a gander in my camera and suggested it might be a Blue Grosbeak …

This is one of my year round residents… actually there are 3 One Red Female, One Yellow Male pictured and the young’n looks Orange!  Colaptes auratus, the Northern Flicker  is really an odd and friendly character… He’s so big yet so sweet. He’s big on the suet and occasionally takes his share of my special bird mix
This is apparently an …

the House Wren – Troglodytidae Passeriformes / photographed by me in my birding sanctuary in Billings, Montana;  Just a couple of weeks from when i saw my first House Wren in Falls Church, Virginia  in the first week of May ’10.
The Wren is quite a migratory bird equaled by its territorial behaviors. It’s a not a problem to eliminate any …

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Fifteen Ways ISI Twists the Afghanistan Story
Posted By Melissa Roddy On May 21, 2010 @ 3:34 pm In Special to The Public Record | 23 Comments
Make no mistake, withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan, before the country is strong enough to defend itself, would not result in peace for the Afghan …

Renee Crain opening speech at Copenhagen Climate Summit

this is what fascism looks like.

Published on Friday, May 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America’s Public Housing

HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America’s …

by George Lakoff

The Obama Administration’s move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even …