An ad for the X Games on ESPN - maybe I'm the only one here who watches that
stuff - has two Barn Owls on a limb with a great Horned Owl voiceover, and
the script something like, "Even Snowy Owls like the X Games."
My favorite before this was a CNN program on the recovery of Yellowstone
Park since the big fires of 20 years ago. The redoubtable Sanjay Gupta was
on camera talking about the much fuller and more robust willows along the
stream beds. Sure enough, there was a Yellow Warbler, and it promptly
called, "Witchety-witchety-witchety." Well, both names have yellow in them.
Gary Nelson |