Horton Deakins's Blog, page 17
July 3, 2012
My latest author interview
Please read my interview on Rachel Hunter's blog:
http://rachel-m-hunter.blogspot.com/2...
and check out her other posts while you're there.
http://rachel-m-hunter.blogspot.com/2...
and check out her other posts while you're there.
June 27, 2012
Didja miss my book giveaway?
Be sure to check out the giveaway for my book, Time Pullers.
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
A Dog and Her Boy
Lucy with her daddy
OK, I suppose “boy” is stretching it a bit, but it just sounds better that way!
June 26, 2012
June 23, 2012
Alan Turing's 100th birthday
Alas, if it were not for him, I may not have graduated from college. I needed some direction to go when I dropped my physics major (and thus lost my scholarship), and computer science was the obvious choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
June 22, 2012
Mystery solved!
It’s a baby scissortail flycatcher, Oklahoma’s state bird!
Bird mystery solved!
I figured it out--it's a baby scissortail flycatcher, the State Bird of Oklahoma!
UPDATE: This was so cool--I just found the mother and two of her babies in the top of a small tree. I don't know, of course, if the bird I first saw was one of the babies in the tree, but the tree was within 40 feet of my first encounter. The mother would fly out from the tree repeatedly, sometimes to threaten me, and sometimes to catch a fly in mid-air, and then she would return to her babies to feed them the flies she caught. There was no nest, though--the little birds were just sitting next to each other on a small limb.
UPDATE: This was so cool--I just found the mother and two of her babies in the top of a small tree. I don't know, of course, if the bird I first saw was one of the babies in the tree, but the tree was within 40 feet of my first encounter. The mother would fly out from the tree repeatedly, sometimes to threaten me, and sometimes to catch a fly in mid-air, and then she would return to her babies to feed them the flies she caught. There was no nest, though--the little birds were just sitting next to each other on a small limb.
Or not.
Actually, all kidding aside, I don't think a chicken hawk will have a white head like that. Any other ideas out there?
I'm a CHICKEN HAWK!!!!!
An old friend said the bird might be a chicken hawk. Ah say, ah say, son, that's a good--ah say--that's a good guess, there, mah boy.
