Hot Flash GNN Non Correspondent in Prague...

As tourists swarmed across the Charles Bridge to invade Prague on Sunday (see previous article), the pigeons declared war on the terns for domination of the bridge.

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An embattled GNN Non-Correspondent was on the spot to take pictures of the air battles as bird engaged against bird.

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besieged pigeon envoy tries to negotiate a truce admidst intense bombardment

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birds knocked out of the heavens by the heavy frontal assault

The Charles Bridge withstood the attack and the Castle was still standing when the Non Correspondent escaped to catch the train to another NonEvent at Srbsko to see whether Srbsko butterflies had come out of hibernation.

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The investigation was foiled by a vanishng sun and the question still remains open.

Comments: 9

♯ ♪ Feb 21, 2007, 1:12pm EST

I hope the butterflies win. How can you have butterflies when we still have winter?

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Mary C Legg Feb 21, 2007, 1:44pm EST

it's easy-- we had no winter-- well almost. We had 4days snow in end of January which happily disappeared-- that was very big snow that landed overnight almost hip deep-- and then a week or few days at beginning of month, but forsythia has been out since early january and ditto fro pussywillows. the ducks never go where the ducks are supposed to go. they stopped migrating two years ago and now we get cormorants that come across from the west-- I think England-Scandanavia, which also stopped their normal migration. They showed up here two years ago and I had to ask a specialist over in the US to identify the birds for me...

the first peocock sighted in England was on January first-- and my peacock woke up that day and hd something to drink in the kitchen, but he's apparently till sleeping in the cold storage room.

but on February 9th i watched 3 small tortoiseshells emerge from hibernation from the ivy on the house-- didn't have the camera on me, though or I would have taken a picture.

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Mary C Legg Feb 21, 2007, 1:47pm EST

I think the pigeons were just too slow-- by the looks of the photos, the terns came off with most of the food-- and they are far more aggressive on their assault.

I had a picture with one flying straight at the camera and apparently I deleted it-- sorry. gone is gone. it was motion blur-- and maybe I could hve submitted it to some contest.

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Madame Donna C. Feb 21, 2007, 7:39pm EST

Oh, fierce battle raging there.

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Mary C Legg Feb 21, 2007, 8:00pm EST

yup, you can see some of the terns taking a tern for the worse as they plunge into the brink-- fortunately I was wearing my NHL approved goalie mask which I ripped off Dominik Hasek who flew in for a quick visit. He was taking a break form the Red WIngs

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