Regular tweeters will remember that just two months ago
we enjoyed a brief but exhilerating ruckus started by
someone who averred that Jon Anderson's "scientific
abstracting service," his regular summaries of the contents
of technical journals, was too exotic and uninteresting to
folks who wanted only to read about the latest sightings.

A whole passel of tweeters, me included, ganged up on the
killjoy for a least a week or so.

Such good fun--only two months ago.

By the way, I just came in from my morning break, during
which I always go outside and look for the downtown Tacoma
Peregrine Falcons, which (we hope) will mate this year.


Often, from one of their favorite perches on the Key Bank
Building, they drop leftover bloody bones and feathers on
people emerging from the STARBUCKS shop. Coffee thread, anyone?
Or they fly off hunting over the chemical-laden Tacoma tideflats--
how about a thread of homone mimicks and their effects on birds?
We haven't done much of that yet.

Such ruckuses are the soul of tweeters.

--cheers, Jim Lyles, Tacoma
<jrlyles at eskimo.com> or <jrlyles at usgs.gov>