I am in Altoona Florida at the southern border of the Ocala national forest. Well my picture was pretty bad...my daughter was playing with the camera and had switched it to landscape mode. Which is really too bad cause I have rarely had a chance to get a picture so closeup with pretty good lighting. I usually us my video camera and capture stills. Anyway, I see now my data is not considered credible. But, I am really sure this is a migrating RT and not a over winter bird or a Roufus and I also believe it is my second bird and the first one (Feb 22) was on his way someplace else. I saw him again this morning and he looks exactly like a male RT..nothing like a Roufus.

Oh Claire, I'm so glad you gave this update! You had me smiling from the beginning. That's so great. Glad you all had such a good time. You'll all remember these times fondly forever. You did great. I really laughed at his nightime dough making. Then trying that at home. LOL. Good going kiddo.

Hello everybody, Unfortunately, I am having a relapse triggered by a family fight I had today. As I mentioned in my first post, my relationship with my mom is not good and she is very disrispectful with my stuff and has thrown away very special things to me. Things that I really treasured. Today, I picked up a carped that my mom had removed almost a year ago. She wanted to throw it away, but the carpet was in good condition and I liked it, so I took it to a place to have it washed and storaged. Today I finally got it back home and put it behind a wall in my living room. It was well hidden and it wasn't taking too much room. My mom saw it and started acting like crazy and told me she was going to throw it away tomorrow. I got angry and she started telling me that I had my stuff all over the house, which is not true, and then mentioned that the fact I put my little dog's stuff, like his plate and little bones in the laundry room was a problem for her to. This made me get very angry and I went down the stairs because I wanted to make sure my dog's stuff were safe. suddenly, my uncle, who was at home for a visit, stood up and got between me and my mother because according to him he thought I was going to hit my mom, which is a terrible lie. He dared me to fight and I told him I was not going to accept his attitude in my house. Then he asked me to go outside and I said: OK. Let's go. Next, my brother showed up and my mom to avoid the fight. Then my brother told me he didn't want to fight because he was much heavier than me and that it was going to be easy for him. I said: Come on, let0's do it. And he refused it and said he loved me. Ever since my parents divorced he has interfered in many of my family's issues that are not concer of his and sometimes he has tried to act like the man of the house. Today was the last straw and made me lose my mind. He has brainwashed my mom several times, my mom almost always does what he tells her to do and of course, he usually takes my moms side. All this conflict made me have a psychiological crisis and miss my little dog a lot since I feel very alone again and I have no friend and partner at home to rely on. I really didn't need this since I was starting to feel better about the loss of my beautiful Guyton, to heal, to rearrange my life without suffering too much and feel more peace. On top of that, my Psychiatrist took the liberty to show my mom and my brother my diagnosis file after a visit my mom and my brother made to his office, which was a terrible violation to my privacy and to the confidentiality respect Mental professionals have to have. It's the most basic and important rule. Now, my mom is using this as a weapon and threatening me to send me to a mental hospital because my Psychiatrist also told her and my brother she could do that. It is just unbelievable. He betrayed me and put me in a very difficult position. Specially now that I am trying to overcome the death of my little dog and my mind is unstable. It just looks he also took my brother's and mom's side and they are their patiens not me. Now I am missing Guyton a lot again and their loss became bigger again too. I am lost and sad again. I really hope you can reply to me. Thank you very much in advance for your help and kindness

We rescued a Sora in North Central Texas when our daughter was in elementary school. She and her friends found it on the ground, near death on the way home from school right at Thanksgiving holiday after a heavy thunderstorm. We cleaned it's poor crusted eyes, kept it warm in a dark box and tried offering anything that we thought that it might eat all the while leaving 15 million voice mails for the local bird rehabber. It was looking a lot better after the holiday weekend and the rehabber let us know that she released it shortly after we were able to drop it off with her. It never ate a thing, I was surprised that it survived.