Has anyone seen Alexander yet?

[okasha]

And what did you think? I'm birding this weekend and won't be able to go til next.

Okasha

[blindpig]

1. birding? did you say birding?

Let's start a birding group. If I'm not herping I'm birding and usually combine my activities in season.

I'd like to know about Alexander too. It was trashed by the critic at Slate but he hates Stone.

[okasha]

2. I said birding.

Heading to the Lower Rio Grande Valley to scope out where we'll be doing the Falcon CBC next month and maybe pick up the Crimson-Breasted Grosbeak at Frontera and a Hook-billed Kite or two.

What do we need to do to start a birding group?

Okasha

[okasha]

5. A follow up

I don't know if this is the place to post this, but birding's entertaining, after all.

Yesterday a group from my Audubon chapter did Salineno first, a very small settlement south of Falcon Dam. On the river we had Muscovy Duck, Grey Hawk (imm.), Osprey, Red-Shouldered Hawk, Harris' Hawk, Hook-billed Kite, Green Jay, Brown Jay, all three Kingfishers, American White Pelican, Anhinga, plus all the usual suspects among the waders and ducks. At a feeding station maintained by a winter Texan couple, we picked up Clay-colored Robin, Eastern Screech Owl, Altamira Oriole, Hooded Oriole, Olive Sparrow, Pyrrhuloxia, Northern Cardinal, Chachalaca and more Green Jays and Brown Jays.

Not much going at Chapeno--midday by the time we got there--except Brown Jays and Ospreys, with Pelicans and lots of waders and cormorants.

A couple of White-collared Seedeaters at the Sancturary at San Ygnacio, though. One excellent torqueola male, but the most entertaining bird was a black-backed Lesser Goldfinch that didn't think he was lesser and occupied himself running half a dozen incoming American Goldfinches off 'his' feeder.

Okasha

[flowomo]

3. yeah, well, he's not alone....

You rarely see a rating this low for a big pic like this (69 reviews; 58 negative):

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alexander/

[nebula]

4. It would be more fun to poke my eye out with a fork

than to watch another period movie.

The last ones I saw were Braveheart and Gladiator. Both excellent flicks.

These two were the ones that prompted the avalanche of third-rate copycats we're now witnessing. There hasn't been a decent one since.