bird's-eye view for Hoover - Charleston Gazette
25 May 2012, 8:36 pm
Herbert Hoover leadoff man Corey bird is hitting .491 with 51 runs and has struck out just once in 108 at-bats this season. The Huskies have hung a lot of crooked numbers on the scoreboard this season, averaging nearly nine runs a game and hitting double ...

Remarkable Bay Street bird brigade saving tiny lives - Globe and Mail
25 May 2012, 8:22 pm
Carrying two butterfly nets and wearing shorts, a bright yellow windbreaker and a baseball cap, Brian Armstrong cuts quite a figure among the suits and stilettos of Toronto's financial district in the morning rush. Passersby would find him even more ...

Revisting bird's iconic steal against Detroit 25 years later - NBA
25 May 2012, 8:15 pm
The darn play happened so fast, Larry bird said, that all he could do was react. This wasn't genius and it sure as heck wasn't geometry. It was purely see the ball, steal the ball. "Too bad I didn't plan it out," bird said some 25 years later. "Then I ...

bird flies in truck driver's window, sits with him for 3 hours - KMOV
25 May 2012, 2:24 pm
PERCY, Illinois (KMOV) -- A News 4 viewer sent us a picture on Friday of a bird who apparently likes to take joyrides. The viewer said his friend, Danny Stephens, owns Ellis Trucking company. One of the company's drivers, named Billy, says he ...

Florida airport hires $76K a year bird-watcher - myfoxny.com
25 May 2012, 2:10 pm
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A  Florida airport is going to the birds -- so much so that authorities are hiring a full-time bird-watcher at $76,000 a year to stop feathered pests from fowl-ing up flights. Federal Aviation Administration officials are ...

Pacers-Heat: Larry bird hits as hard as Dexter Pittman. Or Udonis Haslem. - Washington Post
23 May 2012, 10:30 am
It’s going to take a while for the NBA to sort out just what kind of penalties the flagrant foul-fest that was Game 5 of the Miami Heat-Indiana Pacers series might warrant, but the hardest hit in the increasingly physical series was landed by ...

Larry bird calls his Indiana Pacers ‘soft’ following the team’s physical Game 5 loss to Miami - YAHOO!
23 May 2012, 1:12 am
He might not be right, and it might be an overreaction, but in the words of Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski, "you knew Larry bird wasn't going to sit this one out." In the hours following Indiana's Game 5 loss to the Miami Heat, in a physical affair that ...

Relics With Much to Tell About bird Diets May Be Lost to Time - New York Times
22 May 2012, 12:37 am
At first glance, the contents of the 15 glass jars in Sam Droege’s collection do not look like much — bivalve shells, twigs, a fishhook. But they hint at a story that would fill a vast ornithological library. In fact, they once did.

Colorado pair's home near Franktown is a bird-watching haven - Denver Post
19 May 2012, 3:07 pm
FRANKTOWN — On a recent morning, Hugh and Urling Kingery sat at the patio window of their hillside home and rattled off their backyard bird sightings like kids in a Toys 'R' Us aisle. "Oh, see that? That's a downy woodpecker! That small blue ...