Recycling and crashing birds

Having been a founding member of Wilmore Creation Care, I take great delight in the monthly meetings that are scheduled and arranged by the Steering Cttee. This month a woman came from an office in lex and she told us (again) the figures of the recycling in our area. I was hoping for more in-depth about how to get businesses and schools to join the recycling craze, and just what is the nation doing as a whole? I believe that 15 hundred plastic water bottles are tossed (to trash and recycled) every . . . . hold on. . . . .second. IT SAID so!!! Every second. I have not and will not buy water again. that is OBscene. The tap is fine and a canning jar is a suitable vessel. Or a peanut butter jar.

Birds are finding their way in to the extension of my house. One a week or so. Starlings have built a nest in the inner eaves, and there was supposed to be a guy (in March) coming to stuff batting in to the holes and chinks of the roof line. He never showed up - partly (i must admit) because his friend has the long long ladder, and it was not available. It probably will be after about 3 weeks when the birdies have fledged.!! But I have to wonder how the bird tells his children about the day that he could not get in to the sky - an invisible barrier held him back!! Sad really, since he would fly clearly into the sky - but the glass in the window was solid and caused a minor concussion every time the fellow crashed in to it. One bird was so 'out of it' that I was able to pick him up, take him to the deck, and lay him (was he dead??) at the threshold of the door. Not dead. Merely stunned and after a count of a fast 3, he was up and off. Relieved i am sure, that reality had resumed.