Do you have a cat named Allie?

Is her collar missing?

Her collar was found in my back yard, 5436 Crossings Lake Circle on 2/14/2011 and may be retrieved.

I saw a small black cat without a collar in my back yard a few weeks ago which may have been Allie. She entered my back yard by climbing the fence and left the same way, headed south.

Tom De Shazo 981-2510

Not actual cat

You can help tally ~ Backyard Bird Count

The four-day count typically records more than 10 million observations.

The count can require as little as 15 minutes on one day. (The Huntsville Times file)This weekend, you can be a part of the annual Great Back­yard Bird Count, a collaborative effort to take a census of birdlife across the U.S. and Canada.

Between Friday and Monday , everyone from ornithologists to backyard birders is being en­listed to create an instantaneous snapshot of our feathered neighbors. Interest is high this year in the wake of several re­ports in scattered locales of large numbers of birds dying in mysterious circumstances.

Anyone is invited to take at least 15 minutes on any day dur­ing the survey to tally birds pres­ent in yards, parks or forests and to enter the results at www.bird­count. org.

Field guides and lists of spe­cies you're likely to see in your locale are available at the site.

After submitting your results, you can watch the count grow as fellow birders submit their re­ports. Coordinated by the Cor­nell Lab of Ornithology, the Na­tional Audubon Society and Bird Studies Canada, the four-day count typically records more than 10 million observations.

 

Thomas Spencer - The Birmingham News

Alas...an early Spring