Hello Tweeties,

yesterday's mystery bird was a feral/escaped peach-faced lovebird, Agapornis roseicollis, as you all correctly identified. You all probably know my intense love for the parrots, so when Richard Ditch, the photographer, offered me a couple images of feral peach-faced lovebirds, i could not resist sharing one of them with you! But this sweet little lovebird also triggered a lot of commentary among my readers and even Rick Wright has a wonderful essay about these birds;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/10/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_31.php

courtesy of Richard Ditch, who is a new addition to the mystery bird photographers, today's mystery bird can be viewed here;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/10/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_34.php

further, thanks to my readers, one of my "DonorsChoose" classrooms in North Carolina will now be able to share the wonder of birds with poor children because some of you have fully funded their request for binoculars! The teacher wrote a thank you note that i share with you all here;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/10/a_donorschoose_teacher_speaks.php

I have to warn you that recently, the ScienceBlogs site is experiencing some problems of an unknown nature that cause it to time out when commenting and to send most comments to moderation (even my own comments are sent to moderation). do not let this bother you -- none of you have done anything "wrong" that has caused me to "moderate" you (i don't believe in "moderating" my readers anyway). it is a site-wide problem that affects everyone!

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC