Hi Tweets,

In the "Amazing World of Birds" category I found this story of a Mistel Thrush who blocked a rain gutter with her body to keep her chicks from being flooded. The brief story with a photo appeared recently in the Telegraph of the U.K.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5399061/Bird-uses-body-as-dam-to-stop-drainpipe-soaking-chicks.html

Cheers,

Paul Webster
Seattle
paul.websterATcomcast.net