Summary: Stuff that happened while Non Birding Bill and I were out of town: Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Black Swamp Bird Observatory launched a website to try and connect young birders called Young Birders Network. Ornithologist forced to participate in reality tv show. Some gruesome but awesome images of a lanner falcon and chanting goshawk...that does not end well for at least one of a flock of turtle doves. The American Birding Association announced the 2013 Bird of the Year and Robert Mortensen of Birding is Fun fame made a hilarious video.  This man knows how to commit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VIo2wqeS46o And this video led to this: And then this: Sometimes, there are just plain weird projects on Kickstarter and it may be best to quietly navigate away from the page. The Hitler Hoary Redpoll video...(man, if you're not a birder, that probably sounds weird). You can use a pigeon to deliver your mail...but not feel guilty about it! And you think you have a crappy job...
