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  Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos Brunswick, Maine February 2012 '' Lest there be doubt about where I saw this bird! The Moc...

Pileated woodpeckers have a long, thick tongue for licking up the insects that flee from the holes they hammer out. In the top and bottom ...

A nonymous recently asked me if my brain ever shuts off. “Where do your ideas come from? Do you wake up thinking of this stuff ?” Yes, I wak...

P erry occasionally watches television. Here, he's watching Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet. He's only really into educational prog...

I just wanted to point out that at least one of our dogs was not always a useless bum. This photo was a few years ago. We had not had Perr...