GrrlScientist is a female evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist and writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning her PhD. In NYC, she was a postdoctoral fellow for two years, reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a science blog since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 
tags: birds, Eastern Phoebe, Sayornis phoebe, ornithology, Image of the Day
With any luck, by the time you are looking at this image, I will have finished running around the city trying to get last minute tasks completed, such as buying food for my birds, cleaning my birds as much as possible (I've given up on cleaning my apartment and caved-in bathroom so both are complete disasters), doing my looong-overdue laundry (I have no idea how I will do this one-handed since it involves hauling a mountain of dirty clothes down four flights of stairs and piloting it three blocks along the streets to the laundromat and back again), checking my mail and mailing some books, and buying a dufflebag to replace the one that I lent to a friend many months ago.
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At least you're keeping occupied...
Have fun birding - I hope you can report back. Especially if you see any albatrosses.
Posted by: Bob O'H | March 24, 2008 3:28 PM
as a matter of fact, my host posts here under the pseudonym, albatrossity. but you already knew that, right?
Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | March 24, 2008 3:43 PM
And there I was thinking that the Cassini mission had released another image...
Posted by: andy | March 24, 2008 8:23 PM
Let's just say the choice of albatross was not entirely coincidental.
We are both Church Burnin' Ebola Boys. He can explain. :-)
Posted by: Bob O'H | March 25, 2008 3:36 PM