Hey Jeff, et al.

That clip is from the BBC's Daylight Robbery II. That show also 
featured flying squirrels coming to birdfeeders. To make a long story 
short ... Barbara and I used up 90 seconds of our "15 minutes of 
fame" because we appeared in that show! The BBC came to our house and 
filmed us filling up our suet feeder on the tree trunk and then later 
caught one of our squirrels flying in at night for a suet treat!

The show premiered on the BBC in 1995. At the time I had people 
working for me in London and one Monday, I came in to my office here 
in MD and they called and exclaimed, "Phil, we saw you on TV last 
night!!!" They had no idea until they saw the show. Later, a friend 
of my wife's who was working on a two-year assignment in Australia 
dropped us a note that she had seen us on TV, too.

Ah, Andy Worhol, fame is so fleeting ...

Phil

BTW, I tell people that part of my other "15 minutes of fame" was 
when I served as a simulated Russian Cosmonaut for NASA. That is true 
... but it's a "share it over a beer" story ...



At 23:06 01/04/2008, Jeff Shenot wrote:
>Can't resist, hope you won't mind.  It's not exactly from MD or with 
>feathers,
>but tis the season for feeder watching, and humor!  The video of 
>this squirrel
>negotiating the obstacles to a feeder station is amazing!
>http://www.maniacworld.com/squirrel-obstacle-course.html
>
>Cheers!
>Jeff
>

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