Hello, Tweets!

BirdNote from Seattle Audubon, the week of February 12, 2007:
* Monday, Abraham Lincoln's birthday--"Old Abe, the War Eagle,"
about the mascot of a Wisconsin infantry regiment in the Civil War
* Tuesday--"Roadside Birds" --David Sibley notes that the
territories of all but one regularly occurring land-bird species
in the ?Lower 48? can be seen from a paved surface. What is that
one bird?
* Wednesday--"Swans on Valentine's Day"
* Thursday--"Swan Song," the myth that a swan sings only at the
moment of its death
* Friday--the Cornell Great Backyard Bird Count, weekend of Feb.
16-19, with a link to sign up

Check out next week's schedule and photographs at
http://tinyurl.com/ywo339

BirdNote is a two-minute radio show, which you can hear live on
KPLU* or KOHO**, or listen to --or read-- on the web site,
http://www.BirdNote.org. Also available as a podcast. Each is
accompanied by a photograph on the web site. All episodes are in
the archives, both in written transcript and MP3 format.
Depending on your connection, you may listen on-line or download
the MP3.

Good birding!

Ellen Blackstone
Comments? Suggestions? mailto:ellen at 123imagine.net
Seattle Washington
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* KPLU, http://kplu.org/home2.html
** KOHO, http://www.kohoradio.com
(KOHO schedule is slightly different.)