Friday, April 1, 2011 - Boulder Beach Campground, Boulder City NV
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I'm off - that nest needs a few more sticks, Great Blue Herons, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
Fuffy
What's with the fuffy beards? Most of heron pictures I'm getting show these long beard feathers, often puffed out in the presence of a mate. Is this a nesting display of some sort?
Night camp
Site 94 - Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV
- Good Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Boulder Beach Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Alex Can Spell
Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.