Anything interesting happen yesterday or today? Yesterday, two visitors to the pond opposite - a Belted kingfisher and a Green heron

I entirely agree with you reverend. I should like a chance to glimpse a Stork - some were reintroduced to Britain (so I heard) after a gap of several centuries. Those Great bustards must be a sight worth seeing too (another re-introduction).
The Belted kingfisher here is much larger than the cute little European Kingfisher. The bird (I assume the same one) has been hanging round the pond here for three days now. Nice to have wildlife on your doorstep (so to speak). 

Really, how awful 99 - not even a solitary knifing or shooting - I had assumed you WERE in America, was I wrong, I thought that stuff happened there all the time. Ha ha.

Sure. It happens so often it's boring!! 

Actually, our murder rate went up by 50%...but in seedier areas of the city.

Ah a vulture doing his job eh. Some years ago in India there was started a program of setting out poisonous bait to eliminate certain predators that were becoming more of a danger to flocks. What happened was that people became sick from disease spread from the corpses of animals dead from natural attrition. The many vultures that usually cleaned up the carrion were succumbing to the poison too, and this left a sudden imbalance in nature; nobody left to do the cleanup of natural deaths. When the truth became clear, the poisoning scheme was stopped, everything gradually returned to normal, and a lesson had been learned. 

That's exactly what I say about vultures, they're doing their job! I always take advantage of the opportunity to point out how our well-being is dependent upon so much more than ourselves, especially when ignorant people say they HATE certain creatures. 

Humans demonstrate repeatedly that we're really bad at trying to "control" nature. There is so much imbalance because of human interventions. 

I can't argue with that! Ignorant people seem to want to kill things - even when they have no idea what they are or how they live their lives, or what part they play in our own well being.

My wife chased away our resident hawk munching on a chipmunk on our front lawn. I wanted to choke her.

I didn't know bunnies ate dead squirrels.

What? 

Vultures eat dead squirrels. 

Are you messing with me because I'm high? :P

You wrote it as if all those creatures eat dead squirrels.

I realized that after I posted my reply to you. Then I forgot to reply again that I get it now. 

What am I talking about?...

:P

I fixed it! :)

It seems blue herons are everywhere. They are quite common here.