hello everyone,

today's very lovely mystery bird (Kenya) is now available for you to look at and try to identify;

http://bit.ly/15BS8Z

the most recently demystified mystery bird was a moulting adult female Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris. The discussion that this mystery bird generated fulfills my vision for what the daily mystery birds can be, and thus, is well worth your time to read;

http://bit.ly/b4wPp

slightly off-topic .. I found a fascinating BBC video that documents how the islanders in the Solomon Islands archipelago use kites and spider webs -- no hooks! -- to catch fish;

http://bit.ly/4r3hfk

this is a little off-topic too, but did you know that Helen Keller could speak? I found a fascinating collection of 1930s videos that were just uploaded to youtube, one of which records an interview with Helen and her companion/teacher, Anne Sullivan, who talks about how she taught Helen to talk;

http://bit.ly/1O2rxv

and last but not least, here's a few pics of a pub on a bicycle rolling down the street that I photographed while visiting Tallinn, Estonia;

http://bit.ly/5thHp

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
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