[Rick Masters]

April 14, 2016

Taxidermists remove a crispy Ozone Warbler from a power pole.

[wingspan33]

I like the Colonel's "original recipe" better than "extra crispy".

But then, I also like my wings with bones!

[Rick Masters]

April 18, 2016

Helicopters are often used to locate nesting Ozone Warblers.
"They seem to like nesting in impenetrable thickets," observed a professor from the university.

[Rick Masters]

February 9, 2016

"It's getting hard to see around here at night with all these Ozone Warblers nesting in the lamps," said the old lamplighter.

[Rick Masters]

April 18, 2016

As two taxidermists and two cooks from a nearby Korean restaurant hold their breaths, a seemingly unperturbed Ozone Warbler nesting in power lines raises its leg to lay an egg.
"We know they like nesting in the dark," said one taxidermist, "because whenever they do, the lights go out all over town."

[Rick Masters]

April 22, 2016

Two taxidermists chase an Ozone Warbler that has abandoned its nest in fright.
"It will calm down once we catch it by an ankle," said a taxidermist. "It seems to relax them."
Sure enough, as soon as the creature was caught by the ankle, it ceased its squawking and snapping and was lowered gently down from the tree into the arms of a cook from a nearby Korean restaurant.

[Rick Masters]

April 23, 2016

"Hallop! Hallop!"
Deep in the forest, a lonely Ozone Warbler calls for its mate.

[Rick Masters]

March 4, 2016

On a dare, a taxidermist slowly pulls himself to the nesting site of an Ozone Warbler, perched on 220 kV power lines, to look for an egg.
"Hallop! Hallop!" cries the creature, disturbed. Unfortunately, no egg was found.
Far below, cooks from a nearby Korean restaurant chuckle at his progress.
"It's not fair," complained the taxidermist upon his return. "They promised me breakfast."

[Rick Masters]

Taxidermists, responding to reports of an Ozone Warbler nesting in some wires, were nearly run off the road by a speeding car full of cooks from a nearby Korean restuarant.
When they arrived at the scene, all they found was an empty nest.
"Not again!" sighed a taxidermist in despair.

[Rick Masters]

This translation from the Russian may explain the large numbers of migrating Ozone Warblers - although we're not sure.
We do know that Ozone Warblers appear to be causing fewer problems in Russia than in the West.

In Kyrgyzstan, a man on a paraglider hanging on power lines
3 March 5, 2016 11:06- Marat Urals
    The Suzak district of Jalal-Abad Oblast man on paraglider hung on the high-voltage line power line "Kemin Datca." This was reported in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic.
    As stated yesterday, March 4, resident of the village masses Nooken region, born in 1978, flying a paraglider. He lost a gust of wind, and it was cast on the high-voltage power line.
    At the scene went rescuers 30. Two employees of power plants climbed up on the line and shot the man.
http://zanoza.kg/doc/334447_v_kyrgyzstane_myjchina_na_paraplane_povis_na_linii_elektroperedach.html