[Update: The robin watch is over.  Duties called us away for four days, and in that time, all three chicks up and flew away.  Bad timing - but the nest remains for use - next year?]

It’s getting a bit more difficult to follow our daily robin hatchling updates, so we’re changing the strategy a bit.  One post, that we will update with an additional picture or two every day.  We’ll keep the latest picture on top to make it easier to keep track of.

Comments are welcome… !

[Latest Update Day 8, 5/29/2009]

Read more »

Garbage in Senegal (Flickr CC License)

The story out of Senegal is absolutely horrifying. A seven year old boy drowns in a garbage bog – that should be enough, but the story goes on to explain that the boy’s entire neighborhood is built on garbage. A swampy area outside of Dakar, Senegal’s capital, Guédiawaye is pretty much built on garbage from the greater Dakar metropolitan area. It’s not that the rest of the population is using this area as a dump – no, the story is stranger than that. In fact, the residents here actually buy the garbage to use as building material: Read more »