Ivory Billed Woodpecker Lives!

In trying to download the snowboarding picture above, I accidentally created a blank post that I can't seem to delete. So since blogspot is handing me lemons, I'm going to make lemonaide; I'm editing this post to share what I find to be a wonderful bit of news.

The Ivory Billed Woodpecker, one of the American South's most gorgeous native birds, was thought to have been wiped out of existance close to 60 years ago. Rumors of the bird's survival and occasional sightings persisted down through the years, but now there appears to be videotaped evidence that these massive birds have somehow survived. Yes, this is the sort of stuff that gets closet Environmentalists like me all in a tizzy. I'll be very upset if this turns out to be a mistake or a hoax.