Hello Tweeties;

I was sidelined with serious computer issues that were resolved quite nicely when a reader purchased a laptop for me. Yeah! Amazing, huh? So I am back online, collecting all my files together onto my new laptop and updating all those mystery birds for you that were not demystified while I was going through internet withdrawal.

You can read about all the mystery birds here;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/bird_id_quiz/

I should have them all demsystified in the next few hours -- provided that my wireless connection holds up!

Here's today's mystery bird for you to identify;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/01/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_46.php

and here's a trailer from a soon-to-be-released Disney film, The Crimson Wing -- Mystery of the Flamingos, about the lives of the lesser flamingo, Phoeniconaias minor, which nests on Africa's Lake Natron;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/12/the_crimson_wing.php

Also, one of my readers and long time friend sent along his season's greetings to all of you;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/12/new_years_greeting_captured_in.php

happy holidays,

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