hello tweeties,

the most recently demystified mystery bird, thanks to Marv Breece, was a Lapland Longspur, Calcarius lapponicus, as all of my readrs successfully identified;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/01/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_99.php

also thanks to photographer, Marv Breece, here's today's mystery bird for you to identify;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/01/todays_mystery_bird_for_you_to_94.php

this bird might be a wee bit challenging ..

i will be giving a presentation in a couple weeks in North Carolina at the ScienceOnline '09 Conference about nature blogging, so if any of you have ideas, suggestions, comments, etc., about what makes a good (or bad) nature blog, i'd sure like to hear about it;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/01/science_online_09.php

cheers,

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