[Rick Masters]

August 4, 2017

While others search for an egg, taxidermists begin plucking and stuffing an Ozone Warbler in its nesting crater.
Unfortunately, no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

June 16, 2018
https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x6m0oub
In this rare footage, nocturnal snipe hunters help sleepy taxidermists lower an Ozone Warbler from its midnight nest.
As the creature nears the ground, a taxidermist can be seen wheeling the plucking and stuffing table into position.
"We like the taxidermists," says a nocturnal snipe hunter. "We tell them when we've found an Ozone Warbler, and they mount a snipe for us."
Unfortunately, no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

Six starving peasants joke around over an Ozone Warbler they found sleeping in its nesting crater.
"I can just feel the heat rising from the barbeque, already!" says an imaginative peasant, enthusiastically.
"Hey! So can I," says the peasant in the green shirt, drooling.
"Shhh! Not so loud. You'll wake it up! Then it will be mad," says the tribal leader. "Besides, nobody's gone to get firewood, yet."
"I can't get firewood. I'm starving!"
"That leg is mine," whispers the pothead, pointing.
"Can't we start plucking it? My stomasch's growling."
"No," says the tribal leader. "We have to wait for Jose. He went to get the barbeque sauce."
"Jose? I thought he was starving..."
"We're all starving. Somebody go get firewood."
"Well, if we're all starving, we should start plucking it!"
"We can't. Jose made me promise we'd wait for him. Go get firewood."
"Well, I hope he hurries up. I'm starving!"
"It doesn't matter if Jose shows up with the barbeque sauce if we don't have any firewood!"
"I don't have any energy."
"Me neither. I'm starving."
Unfortunately, no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

"A new scientific study conducted by the university has provided some insight as to the reasons eggs are rarely found in the nests of Ozone Warblers," said a professor from the university. "Using tiny models of Ozone Warblers and suspending a chicken egg beneath them, the study evaluates the survivability of the egg during the nesting phase of the creature. Unfortunately, when these models are dropped into shrubbery, simulating trees, results are not good. Even worse, when nesting in a crater, results are abysmal."
    "We are concerned about the future viability of the species," the professor added. "Without eggs, the Ozone Warbler is doomed to extinction."

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"We are concerned about the future viability of the species," the professor added. "Without eggs, the Ozone Warbler is doomed to extinction."

[Rick Masters]

The DOOM of the Ozone Warbler
https://vimeo.com/233590953

[Bob Kuczewski]

The DOOM of the Ozone Warbler
https://vimeo.com/233590953

Cool Hand Luke ... another heroic inspiration.

Thanks Rick.

[Rick Masters]

[Rick Masters]

June 26, 2018

Snipe hunters find another Ozone Warbler.

"These dang critters are interfering with our snipe hunt," says a wiley snipe hunter in frustration.
"It used to be we'd find snipes up there. Now look it it! The dang things are everywhere!"

[Rick Masters]

July 17, 2018

VIDEO    https://vodvmsuso-a.akamaihd.net/proxy/vms/world-5b4d83cfa2ea506cf12850d3-598082b12e58a50b2d302ab9--progressive-0-ed818b88.ism/video.mp4

"It was a terrible shock to our congregation to discover that our church was infested with the creatures," said the pastor.
"The exterminator said they had come in through the roof and started reproducing.
"Now the attic is full of them," he added in dispair.
"We can't get rid of them! And you can hear them pounding away up there all through the sermon.
"It's ungodly!"