55 thoughts on “May 19, 2013: Pacers!”

  1. MikeWellsNBA Mike Wells
    My man @MattKryger of The Star w incredible photo of @Hoya2aPacer beating up Melo's dunk pic.

        1. You should have left it. Images of 'Melo getting blocked can never be too large.

    2. saw the bucket-cam view of just the hands on this. wowza. Is that Paul George? He's lucky he didn't get his hand broken on the play, but wow.

    3. Play of the game, no doubt about it. Just an awesome defensive play. What strength.

      1. to separate it from the Bahama Mockingbird as well as other Central and South-American mockingbirds.

    2. Minnesota, yes, common loon. I'm kind of thinking that Mallard would be a good one for ND, though. A common bird and migratory, but man, are they everywhere there is any water.

      1. A good birding site to check out every once in a while.

        Recently Seen is good, but also Showcase.

        These cats are serious ornithologistii, tho. It doesn't matter if you think you saw a Gunnison Sage Grouse in Hubbard County. It does matter if they saw it.

        1. I think I saw a Bobolink in flight on the drive to church. Black sparrowish with white rump.
          Not what they're looking for. Not rare, but new for me.

    3. Now that I've read it: really pedantic.
      "Eastern Goldfinch" was the common name when these state birds were probably adopted.
      Willow Goldfinch is geographically separated and somewhat visually distinct subspecies.

      Mockingbirds are plentiful in the South and not in the North, and their color is grey, same as that of the soldiers of the confederacy.

      There's a monument to the California Gull in Salt Lake City.

      Michigan should definitely be changed to Kirkland's warbler for the reasons mentioned and also because it's nearly wearing wolverines colors.
      Likewise Oregon's should be Spotted Owl.

      However, Tennessee's should not be the horribly-named Tennessee Warbler. So named because that's where it was first identified, passing through on migration. It does not breed or winter in the state, only passes through. Ditto for the Connecticut Warbler.

      Greater Prarie Chicken would be better for either of the Dakotas than Illinois.
      Lesser Prarie Chicken would be good for Texas.

      1. Cool! Male, I suppose?

        I thought I saw one last year, but it was kindof backlit by the setting sun and I couldn't get a good match to the vox.
        My other possibility is a catbird acting like an oriole (not the vox) with some made-up song. But I've seen tons of catbirds and it wasn't immediately recognizable like a catbird should have been to me. It did seem all-black when I saw it tho'.

        1. It was a male. I saw it on the oriole feeder, and I could tell it was an oriole, but it was a lot smaller than the Baltimores that we usually get, and had the dark chestnut breast, so I wasn't sure what it was until I consulted the bird book. We were pretty excited to see it.

          1. Have never seen that one. But at one point I did want to try to draw some Baltimore Orioles to our place in Scandia. I cut some orange slices fitting them onto nails on our bird feeder. I kid you not but less than half an hour when I went back into the house there was an Oriole on the feeder. Orange does that to some species.

            1. We had Baltimore Orioles nesting in the old yard. I put out orange slices hoping they'd drop down where the kids could see better. In about an hour we had ants.

              1. I can hear the orioles in the neighborhood (I think they are louder than blue jays), but havent seen them yet.

              3. We've got a number of the Baltimore Orioles (I've counted 8 or 9). We've got jelly, an Oriole liquid feeder and a hummingbird feeder. Occasionally, we'll get six in and around the feeder at once.

      2. Nothing fancy, but I successfully IDed my first white-breasted nuthatch today.

        1. We just had our first nuthatch of the year a couple of days ago. Which is weird, because growing up, nuthatches were - along with chickadees - the most common bird on the feeder. I wouldn't have thought that the fifteen miles that I moved would've made that much of a difference.

    6. I don't get his problem with the pheasant for South Dakota. They're all over the place around here.

        1. 28. Nevada. Official state bird: mountain bluebird
          Look, Nevada, you’re insane. You should have a bird that also represents what a zany, mixed-up world this is. How about a fat Asian grouse that was

          introduced by hunters

          in the 1960s and has managed to hang on in some remote Nevadan mountains?

          So, fine for Nevada, not for South Dakota? I'll second AMR's "really pedantic" comment from above.

          SD recognizing a bird that is a part of their history and a huge part of their economy makes plenty of sense to me.

  6. I got a sixer of the Summit Meridian Session Ale last night.
    I had one last night and could've finished off the sixer by now if I hadn't slowed myself down.
    Didn't impress me at first, tastes very strongly of grain. Does that make it biscuity? Bready? Dunno.
    But the first one grew on me. Very drinkable, especially upon a hot day like today.
    Wish it didn't cost so much.

  9. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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