Ruth Henrich's Open Salon Bloghttp://open.salon.com/user.php?uid=43Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:06:06 -0400For the birds<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p>I recently discovered a nest in my backyard now populated by a family of tiny birds that I hear twittering madly when I approach and then go suddenly silent when I get too close for their comfort. Small, brown sparrow-like birds come and go, but I haven't been able to identify which birds build this kind of hanging nest. Definitely not an oriole -- everyone's first guess. Anyone? <img id="cid_1055" src="files/IMG_2308_56.JPG" alt="IMG_2308" width="443" height="590"> &nbsp;</p></body></html> http://open.salon.com/blog/ruth_henrich/2008/05/09/for_the_birdshttp://open.salon.com/blog/ruth_henrich/2008/05/09/for_the_birdsFri, 9 May 2008 11:05:17 -0400Guess where I had breakfast?<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><img id="cid_664" src="files/IMG_2139.JPG" alt="The Mickey Mouse pancake" width="460" height="345"></body></html> http://open.salon.com/blog/ruth_henrich/2008/04/25/guess_where_i_had_breakfasthttp://open.salon.com/blog/ruth_henrich/2008/04/25/guess_where_i_had_breakfastFri, 25 Apr 2008 11:04:00 -0400