Bridge warning, McCreight Lake

Should I risk it?

Someone has pencilled in a "68". Faintly, as if they weren't quite sure.

But if you're going fast enough, the bridge won't have time to decide to collapse, maybe. I made it across, twice.

Why do they do this?

I just discovered that one of the blogs on my blog list has been hacked and harbours malware. I have removed the link to that blog and I hope no-one else has caught it from me while it was active.

The hacked blog is round rock journal dot ... (without the spaces). If you have it on your lists, it would be a good idea to delete it until Google clears it.

So Sad! And a warning: keep a lookout for this.

I'm passing on a message from Bill of the Birds about another of those horrible "unintended consequences".

"... hole-punched sign posts could be inadvertently deadly to perching raptors.

... the owl was suspended by a single talon that had apparently gotten caught in the top hole of the post. Clearly the bird flew in and perched on top of the post. Then, when it tried to leave, found itself caught by a talon through the hole. It had struggled to free itself, and likely starved to death.

... And they asked us at BWD to help spread the word about the unintentional danger these sign posts may pose to any raptor with talons that perches on top. This style of sign post or fence post is commonly used, so how can the danger be reduced?"

Read the rest here.