Interesting talks this weekend about birds, earthquakes and volcanoes....

And for the more active, the rain may or may not have left a nice dusting of snow on the mountains. Check the snow conditions here up at Big Bear.

What's it like to live in the air? Robert McKernan, director of the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, will give a lecture on Saturday about our feathery friends. The talk will focus on why birds offer the most favorable attributes for scientific study and why ornithology has contributed so much to the sciences of ecology, evolution, distribution, behavior, ecology and taxonomy. The lecture is free with museum admission.

At the same museum but on Sunday, learn why the Earth is a place of earthquakes and violent volcanoes, and how mountain chains rise up. Kathleen Springer, the museum's senior curator of geological sciences, will talk about why there is a "Ring of Fire" circling the Pacific Rim. She'll focus on the Pacific plate, which extends from Japan to its eastern edge here in the Inland region with the notorious San Andreas Fault. The talk is free with museum admission.

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