Cuckoos

While shopping at Target tonight, I had a most peculiar encounter. I saw the endangered Target-cuckoo. As I shopped, I brushed by this lady and by the look on her face, she looked like she had just been dropped off here on Earth on her way back home to the smaller of Mars' moons, Demios. As I passed her and glanced down at the end-cap I heard a very strange sound. I realized the look she had was merely a precursor to the sound she was about to make. Breaking the still Target air, the lady cackled "Cuckoo!!"

I have heard the 'store sounders' before, but usually they whistle in a peculiar way, like to summon the lost person in their party. Usually their distinctive whistle is followed by another distinctive whistle from their mate or child a few aisles over. Ok, that is a bit weird, but I have only heard these seldomly and to think that someone may have gotten their secret signals crossed with other store-sounding-whistlers enough to have to change it over to a full fledged cuckoo, that is just way over-board. So Target-cuckoo-lady, knock it off, we are all on to your secret signal. Just buy a cell phone like the rest of us. Besides, I don't think you'll be able to hear your other cuckoos over the rest of the store's laughter. GAWWWWD!!!!

Speaking of birds, I have my webcam pointed over to a Sandhill Crane nest now. The mama is sitting on two eggs. It is about 600 ft. from the house, but the neighbor let me trim a tree in their back yard to get a good webcam shot of the nest. I zoomed in with my camera using the optical zoom and the digital zoom is selectable on the page. When the mama gets up to turn the eggs or stretch, you can clearly see the two eggs. The babies will hopefully hatch around the 25th of March, and you can see it live. The "nestcam" is on http://TomEckenrode.com/webcam Enjoy!