“Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?”
Matthew 6: 26
“A Lesson From Our Feathered Friends”

“I heard a bird at break of day
Sing …

national geographic – June 2011 by Eric Friar McDermott
As the forages of their colony’s cste system (see rank and file), media leafcutter ants start out with mandibles as sharp as surgical scalpels.  But over the course of their lives, the repetitive slicing of leaves into small disks dulls their V-shaped …

Black bears typically have two cubs; rarely, one or three. In 2007, in northern New Hampshire , a black bear sow gave birth to five healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4 cubs, but five was, and is, very extraordinary. The photographer …

There will soon be seven billion humans on Earth, but how does that number compare to other species on the planet?  We are certainly outnumbered by ants.  Harvard biologist and ant expert Erward O. Wilson has estimated that there are a thousan trillion to ten thousand trillion ants at any …

Whimsical Watches hand-crafts these unique novelty watches for animal lovers of a variety of animals. If you have a love for Cows, Bunny Rabbits, or Pigs, you may want to look through our selection of Barnyard Watches. Our selection of dog watches includes a wide breed of …

The mystery continues
Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8,000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-Two-MILLION-dead-fish-wash-Maryland-bay.html
Blue stain believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia – lack of oxygen that is precursor to altitude sickness
Cold weather and overbreeding blamed for deaths of …

Found a disturbing site this morning…
LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them.
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Victoria River turns bright Green

“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.”
~Rudyard Kipling
What exactly did Kipling mean when he said this? What can we humans learn from these beautiful creatures of the wild?  Author, Twyman Towery, spent many years in research, seeking …

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Today I feel ….

Too old to play with my Barbiedoll
Too young to go on pension
Too lazy to work and too tired for an affair
Hope it goes better on your side
Rita