Birds are everywhere

Tersely, this communication rattled off of our receivers:

the hummingbirds are almost here:

http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html

Prefaced by this:

Speaking of birds, I found this site with day to day satellite tracking of an Osprey headed back to Scotland:

http://www.roydennis.org/Female%20osprey%20migration%202007.htm


oh, it was all started by this:

I'm psyched. Saw this bird on my walk to work. A Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Apparently this is really rare in Illinois, and even more rare to see it's red crown, which I saw (this is not my photo--as I reached for it, he flew away).

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet.html

it would be processed, processed, and homes