Where all the bird news comes to roost!
Yes, let us drag our minds away from the headlines for a few moments to consider the many amazing things about this rather drab, and somewhat unfortunately named little bird. And it really is minuscule, weighing in at about 5.3 grams — approximately the weight of one nickel. It’s one of the tiniest songbirds, coloured […]
The hysteria continues to thrive around us. Shelves laid bare in the paper aisle, shopping carts full of anything that has the word antibacterial on it and to top it off we have people that aren’t even accountable for the outcome pontificating on TV about how they would solve the crisis – comical in the […]
Today is the first part of a two-part contribution by regular Joe Dickinson. Joe’s notes and IDs are indented. Here is the first of two sets of photos from a trip down the coast to Cambria and Morro Bay. That means, of course, elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), sea otters (Enhydra lutris) and California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus […]
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The Hibernation Arms , our latest addition to Hog Town has been open for a few days now , so here is a short video showing the first customers………
A new 10-year strategy to halt extinction must protect the gene pools of all life on earth, say experts.
via Global rescue plan for nature ‘overlooks genetic diversity’ — BBC News – Science & Environment
The weekend was a bit frustrating as I was working Saturday and then had a family meal Saturday night followed by a family Sunday. All very nice but I so wanted to get out to Gloucestershire and Worcestershire to catch up with the Waxwing, Glaucous Gull and Smew. Monday morning found me out the house […]
What is Project 366? Read more here. March 1 and mom and pops Great Horned owl team is back in their cavernous tree down in the Whitemud Ravine. This couple are a bit of celebrities and people flock to their tree to watch them snooze. Last year they raised a pair of fluffy chicks using […]
via Project 366 – Post No. 336 – Mom and pops Great Horned Owls are back — The Birds are Calling
Meet the Model , Pippa the Pine Martin by Graham Stewart Pippa the Pine Marten – Martes martes Once extremely common in Britain, The Pine Marten was persecuted to near extinction, by 1915 only small pockets of them remained. The decline was brought about by 3 main factors, they were hunted for their fur, game […]
via Meet the Model – Pippa the Pine Martin — Wildonline.blog
March almost always comes in like a lion and often goes out like one as well. Last March was particularly brutal and windy with temperatures as low as seven degrees. An icy snow covered the ground and inch-a-half snows alternated with blue-skied deep winter days throughout most of the month. Despite the spring songs of […]
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