Greetings All: One of my favorite things about birding is that one can 'do it' in almost any environment and, if the bird is big enough, bare-eyed. Yesterday evening (5:35 PM), whilst stopped at the intersection of 4th Street and Quaker Avenue, I watched a stunningly beautiful Osprey drift slowly over the intersection. It was most likely in transit from Whisperwood Pond to the TTU Sewage Ponds and, whatever its origin or destination, it was a startling contrast with the Black-tailed Jackrabbit-dotted agricultural 'wasteland' to my left and the mesquite-dotted grassland to my right. Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock