I and the Bird #41 offers a literary theme for your birding pleasure.  There’s ample feathery excitement for the most robust avian fan.

A disturbing, albeit alarmist, update on H5N1 avian flu.  “Bird flu hasn’t gone away. The discovery, announced last week, that the H5N1 bird flu virus is widespread in cats in locations across Indonesia has refocused attention on the danger that the deadly virus could be mutating into a form that can infect humans far more easily. In the first survey of its kind, an Indonesian scientist has found that in areas where there have been outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry and humans, 1 in 5 cats have been infected with the virus, and survived. This suggests that as outbreaks continue to flare across Asia and Africa, H5N1 will have vastly more opportunities to adapt to mammals than had been supposed.”  I worry that this finding could lead to wholesale culling of felines in an attempt to get ahead of a possible bird flu pandemic.

Look at this group of troublemakers!  That’s a collection of chaos if ever there was one.

This is delightfully sacrilegious.  If you’re overly sensitive when it comes to Christian reverence, don’t look at it.  Then again…