Greensboro Birds

Welcome, Running Shorts readers! You intrepid Web surfers are hereby rewarded with this shot of Barefoot Josh, pre-Grandfather Mountain Marathon, and in shoes (sort of). You’re feeling motivated now, aren’t you? Great! Then come out to Madison this Friday and join the MadMayo Running Club for the 1st Annual January 1 and Done 1-Mile Walk/Run. [...]

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Yesterday, Josh, my pal Christine, and I got up at the crack of the crack and drove down to Lexington for the annual Hawg Run 5K. It was originally planned as my athletic debut, but it turned out to be my third official 5K since I started trotting back in August. I set a new [...]

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While we’re busy correcting things, let’s talk about this recent news story from New Jersey. State police identified the bird that crashed into a minivan on Route 80 near Parsippany as a turkey vulture. Silly troopers. Smartypants birders like us know this is clearly a wild turkey (probably a hen), not a turkey vulture. The [...]

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Hot off the presses from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
Announcing a new FeederWatch Cam
We have recently launched a new streaming camera from the home of FeederWatch participants David Smith and Shanna Rendon in Grand Junction, Colorado. We are very excited to feature our first-ever participant FeederWatch Cam and are grateful to David and Shanna for [...]

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Looking for a free online photo editor? I’m intrigued by the rise of the netbook (Sellout.Woot’s offering an older model today for $160) and read Clive Thompson’s history of these wee machines on Wired.com today. He mentions losing his install disk for Photoshop and subsequently discovering online photo editor FotoFlexer.com. I thought I’d give it [...]

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