This was my second year of going to Sundance as a third-party, non-entertainment employed movie watcher. Although this year I did get to go to one party (!).This year I saw a multitude of amazing movies: Pretty Bird, Strangers, I Met the Walrus…and others. But I will spare you my top ten list, […]

A wallpaper I made awhile ago. I think its pretty cool.

The Republican party is an awkward bird with three wings: the Money! Bombs! and Jesus! wings. (I first advanced this theory — okay, not exactly a theory, more a re-labeling of conventional wisdom — at my own blog here.) For a long time the GOP held together because Money! and Bombs! got along pretty well, and both agreed to use the Jesus! wing

Pretty and cute animals charms for all nature admirers. You can't have your pet with you always, now you can take it everywhere. Dogs, cats, birds, fishes, horses, bugs and more your favorite animals in our Animal Charm collection. We have different kinds of Italian charms- photo charms, laser charms, enamel charms, so our charms will match any bra

BOSTON (Reuters) - Watch dogs are a pretty common first line of security for U.S. homes and businesses. Watch birds not so much. But that didn't stop Merlin, a seven-year-old blue-and-gold macaw who scared off a burglar at a Massachusetts pet store...

The Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides, is an Australian variety of frogmouth, a type of bird found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. The Tawny Frogmouth is often thought to be an owl.Males and females look alike, and are 35–50 cm long. They have yellow eyes and a wide beak topped with a tuft of bristly feathers. They make loud clacking sounds with their beaks and emit a reverberating ooming call.Owls fly around at night hunting food, but Tawny Frogmouths generally remain sitting very still on a low perch, and wait for food to come to them. They catch prey with their beaks, and sometimes drop from their perch onto the prey on the ground.Tawny Frogmouths hunt at night and spend the day roosting on a dead log or tree branch close to the tree trunk. Their camouflage is excellent — staying very still and upright, they look just like part of the branch.The Tawny Frogmouth feeds on rats, mice, cicadas, beetles, frogs and other small prey. They catch their prey with their beaks rather than with their talons, another way in which they are different from owls.Tawny Frogmouth pairs stay together until one of the pair dies. They breed from August to December. They usually use the same nest each year, and must make repairs to their loose, untidy platforms of sticks. After mating with the male, the female lays two or three eggs onto a lining of green leaves in the nest.Both male and female take turns sitting on the eggs to incubate them until they hatch about 30 days later. Both parents help feed the chicks.The chicks move to the edge of the nest and direct their droppings over the edge. About 25 days after hatching, the chicks are ready to leave the nest and lead their own lives. ReferencesBirdLife International (2004). Podargus strigoides. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern Gallery