The New York Times has a rather fluff-filled article on the infamous Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island becoming a birder’s paradise.  Here’s hoping that the park stays more wildlife refuge than picnic ground so it truly has a chance to become worthwhile grassland habitat.

Life has been a little turbulent of late so I’d just like to say thanks to Alan Tilmouth (http://dustybins.blogspot.com) for taking time to give me some good advice and encouragement which has substantially helped smooth the waters. I’m very grateful.

This is a sentence with a link to the really good blog post.  This is a sentence in which I wish I had written the referred to really good blog post.  This is a sentence in which it is explained that the really good blog post has placed Coyote Crossing on the top of the nature blog heap that is the Nature Blog Network’s toplist.

Volunteers are needed for the second annual Rusty Blackbird Blitz taking place January 30 through February 15. Participants report sightings via the eBird program led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. The blitz is coordinated by the International Rusty Blackbird Technical Working Group at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center along with the Cornell Lab and Audubon.