Missing from the 768 Antioch Church area of Adair Co., KY: Female Blue Heeler mix, "Dottie" has on collar with tags, she has a litter of pups she needs to get home to, please help! She is black/white speckled with black over each eye. Reward for her safe return. Please call even if you have just spotted her, so we know at least she is still alive! Call (270) 459-2969 any time day or night, we are frantic. -Cindy Thrasher

I know that the book has turkey vultures migrating, but we have some that are here all winter. We have several roosts on the farm. They have the red heads and we watched them land last night and roost in three separate trees within about 80 acres. -Pam Dailey-McNeiley

I have had an ear tuned to listening for sandhill cranes since I counted over 60 last weekend in the air. At about 2 p.m. I heard their plaintive cries and went racing down the stairs to grab the binoculars, yelled to my husband,"I hear sandhills!" and slopped outside immediately in my slippers.

He had no idea what I was yelling about and running outside for and thought some tragedy had befallen. "What's goin' on?" he yelled back with concern.

It took awhile to explain that I was just counting birds; but hey, I made it to 82 sandhills before the flock was out of counting range! - Pam Dailey-McNeiley

To leave and to return is work of wings
that nurture, oversee, and note our growth,
that lead the good and lure afar the slings,
that balance chances high and lesser both.

To stay nearby protecting wings will dare
the harm to self that fortune blind may bring,
the hidden threat that hunters set in snare,
the open choice that nature's pipers sing.

To soar at last post fledgling wings are spread
that seek the wider world new life to grow,
that strive to do the things on inner thread,
that stretch at last to meet death's final blow.

No chance will come to teach a second time
the needed guide to wing away and climb.

- Robert Stone, 20 February 2011

This is the state beekeepers website where he has listing for clubs all over Ky. as well as several schools still coming up this year.Kentucky Department of Agriculture/Home of the State Apiarist

And this is the listing for the Green Rivers Beekeeping Association:Green River Beekeeping Association, Campbellsville, KY, which Serves Adair, Green, Marion and Taylor Counties. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month at 7pmCT at the Taylor County Extension Office, 1143 S. Columbia AV, Campbellsville. KY.

For more information contact: Sally Price, president, Louisville, KY; Phone: 270/299-6386. Email: ssprice109@hotmail.com -John McCaslan

The honeybees are after the feed scraps. There are no trees blooming yet and they use the soy and corn dust for carbohydrates for nutrition to start raising the first brood of the season. Put some powdered feed someplace accessable to them and they should not be as much of a bother. They won't be swarming until late April or May and then there will be a large mass of bees (think basketball size) looking for a new home. That is the time to call a beekeeper to come and get them for you if need them moved. Better yet join (or visit) the Green River Beekeepers and learn about becoming a beekeeper yourself. They are fascinating little creatures and do so much for pollination as well as produce sweet treats. -John McCasland

According to the "Birds of Kentucky" field guide the Turkey Vulture is a Summer resident in the state of Kentucky.

They migrate to southern states, Central and South America.Maybe all of them haven't made it back yet. Or the ones we are seeing are more northern birds and this is as far South as they went. -Maury Lewis