This is the sort of thing people say about men in any sort of educational field, to be honest (I know that’s not what you are implying). I’m in environmental education and you do get to know kids and they can get very comfortable around you. They’ll want to hold your hand or sit on your lap.

I’ve always made it a…

Good for Duke. I bet Coach K is happy to keep one of his experienced streaky jump-shooters to really mentor the new streaky jump-shooters on how to crash out of the tournament in the first weekend.

Yeah, I’d say so. I try to be very jargon-free, and it has activities that anyone can do to make themselves more aware of birds around them.

It’s available for a steal right now on Amazon. It comes out in paperback this fall so they’re really trying to move the hardcover copies.

Cool trivia about woodpeckers. Research looking into why they can wail on tree trunks all day and not get brain damage have led to innovations in football/hockey helmets to help prevent concussions.

A lot of birders I know are really into butterflies and dragonflies, too. I feel like wasps deserve more respect than they generally get.

That Red-headed Woodpecker (pic 2) on your suet is badass. That is a species that doesn’t come to feeders all that often so that’s particularly cool.

Black Vultures are a bit rougher than Turkey Vultures, and handle bigger dead things like deer and whatnot in groups, so that behavior sounds like Black Vulture.

I wrote this book so I know of what I speak: http://amzn.to/2oPQbJ3

I also really didn’t just come here to plug my book because I legit like it when people I…

South Florida is essentially a giant, open-air zoo. There are something like 20+ species of parrots living wild in the Miami-Dade area.

Carlos Martinez’s pitching line for this game was as ridiculous as his hair extensions.

The Speciale “snowflake” post is especially nice because *my* NC House representative, John Blust, is in the comments clutching his pearls as well.

The districts in this state are absurd, because Blust has been in the NCGA for more than a decade being a sanctimonious prick, and he hasn’t once seen a serious challenge…

Bingo.

Hey, at least in that league they can bring back the balanced conference schedule.

It’ll be nice to see home and homes again. Not to mention home and home and home and home and homes.

McCarver is better than Al Hrabosky, who usually does color for the Cardinals. Which says exactly what you think it does about both of them.

These days it’s more like Soccer Suburbs, USA.

I love how he turns from super pole vaulter dude to normal, slightly awkward teenager as he walks back to the start at about 20 sec in the first video.

It’s clear that the NCAA regretted even getting involved in this, given how quickly and completely they capitulated. Now that this is taken care of, they can go back to figuring out how to sweep the Baylor rape scandal under the rug.

I wonder how much playing in that cavernous stadium affects those shots. The NCAA makes a shit-ton of money selling tickets to those games, but they are consistently brickfests in ways that the regional games aren’t.

Maybe next year they can play in an airplane hanger or an Amazon distribution warehouse for a change.

Highest paid catcher the right way, amirite??!?!?

Did I do it right?

Word. It would probably be Jamaica or Trinidad & Tobago (maybe not Tobago).

Not for nothing, but this repeal is pretty much garbage. Just because they use the word “repeal” doesn’t actually mean they repeal anything.

I still can’t figure out what “leaving regulation of multi-use facilities to the state” means, considering that what caused this whole problem in the first place was regulation…