A shrinking world

This weeks post starts with some of the wondrous / ingenious / gratuitous use of technology (delete as applicable per your own view). As most of you know we are great fans of both travel and birding. One aspect of travel is appreciating the local bird life (to the current author at least). Also given our appreciation of gadgets and teckie stuff we had fun with this site

In summary, you can control the camera, pan and zoom and finally take pictures. We've been trying to do a bit of photography lately with Chrystal's camera sometimes with the telescope (aka digiscoping) but we've never taken a picture at a distance of 2,800 miles before. Here's a shot of a Black-headed Grosbeak (can I 'tick' it now? ;-) ).



Talking of the shrinking world, this week saw the 55 year anniversary of the first commercial jet air service. Watch the video on this article
about the BOAC Comet service to South Africa, when Britain really was leading the world in aircraft manufacturing...







Last weekend, we finally made it to a Washington Nationals game with the benefits of some great tickets. Despite some somewhat inept pitching from the Nationals opener, the game went to extra innings at 2-2. Unfortunately that's where it all fell apart and the result was a 6-2 loss to the Mets. As you might be able to tell from the picture, it wasn't too warm either!!

Lastly, please give your thoughts and prayers for Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist abducted in Gaza in early March read the timeline of events here