A pair of ruddy turnstones. These little birds spend their summers in the Arctic. Quite a long flight just to hang out on the beach each winter.

A gymnast from the Air Force Academy competes against University of Alaska at Anchorage this past Sunday.

No, I don't have a clue who won.

Vacation is over. Back to work.

At least I'll be wearing green for St. Patrick's Day.

A limpkin in Mayaka State Park.

A willet on the beach in Venice, Florida.

It's either Catoptrophorus semipalmatus or Tringa semipalmata. Not that it matters to anyone but the bird nerds.

I was not-so-secretly hoping for bad things to happen to the heron.

A 'gator in Mayaka State Park.

A Little Blue Heron stalks Myaka State Park in Florida.

I'm back from Del Boca Vista. There were 136 comments in the queue for me, all but one of them were spam.

The curious thing -- and I'm clueless on how these spammers and spambots operate -- 122 of the 135 bogus comments were posted (in vain) to four entries. All four of those entries had a title with a number spelled out. Entries titled Hundred-yard Stare or Thirty-four get spammed disproportionately.

When I post photos of birds, I put the species name (in Latin) as the title, and I've never been spammed in those entries. Everything else gets a random spam comment here and there.

I guess I could stop spelling out numbers. Then again, all comments are subject to approval, and when 90% of all the garbage comments are in a few posts, it's easier to delete them en masse.

Any web geeks have any idea why that happens? It's not like their comments are getting through on those posts. Perhaps some automated program just locks on to them.

One of these days I'll figure out some software solution to spam. For now, there's always the anti-spam hardware.