Saw a string of pelicans lifting out of LeClaire Cove on the Mississippi this morning on the drive home from work. RW Blackbirds and starlings here and there.

Heavy Rain when I got off yesterday, and when i stopped for gas at the Pleasant Valley BP there was a RW Blackbird hovering over some rushes growing in the ditch and squalling for all she was worth. Reckon her babies got flooded.


"Chances Will Be Taken"