6 hours ago by wanderwest

Sandhill Crane Up Close ©SR Euston Evening approaches at Socorro County’s Bosque del Apache. We hurry to the northern end, where the cornfields and shallow wetlands are. Across the field we spot an enormous, restless, white, honking swath. Looking closer, we see it’s a giant gaggle of snow geese, re ...

Home on the Range - wanderwest.wordpress.com

9 hours ago by fishsnorkel

“And every other species I have previously mentioned in this book is exactly the same. As is every other species that has ever existed. They’re all trying to expand as much as possible and they’re all, without exception, and at the risk of over repeating myself, intrinsically unsustainable.” This is ...

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10 hours ago by GreenmanTim

I delayed my drive to work this morning, one in a series of days when the the mercury has stayed below freezing. We had open water on our lakes and ponds during the last snow, which means that the first ice of the year will not have to be shoveled for skating. There is a small pond in our neighborho ...

Walking the Berkshires - greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires · 150 references

12 hours ago by richard

This is the best 6 minutes I have spent in a long time.

Richard is amused - richardmangahas.com

13 hours ago by hillsteadnatureblog

If I were a bird, I’d surely be the migrating kind. Even with central heating and nice sweaters, I freeze from December to March. As a mammal, I ought to be able to up my body temperature running around the living room a few times, but winter is as much a state of mind as a condition to be endured. ...

Hill-Stead's Nature Blog - hillsteadblog.wordpress.com · 4 references

18 hours ago by Northern Waterways

New York Times – Twenty years ago, Theodore Cross traveled 16 time zones, from New York to Moscow, Irkutsk and Yakutsk, and finally to the tundra of the Kolyma Delta, in northeastern Siberia, to catch a coveted glimpse of an Arctic bird, the Ross’s gull. Mr. Cross did spot one gull, but its nest was ...

Arctos Canadensis - northernwaterways.com/news · Rank: 83,492 · 1 reference

18 hours ago by PaoloV

It’s a snowy Friday here in London, the Horniman is looking otherworldly – in fact, here’s what it looks like from my office window: But this brings us no closer to a mystery object. I was thinking of giving you an animal track in the snow, but that would be very limiting, since I only have photos [ ...

Zygoma - paolov.wordpress.com · 6 references

21 hours ago by Molly

Mosaic dolphins decorating the floor of a Roman villa, floral tapestries wrought by medieval needles, flowers frozen blue in Delft pottery or preserved in perpetual colour in a 19th century calico--to somewhat rephrase the old saying, even practical art imitates nature. On that premise, there was no ...

The Thousandth Time - apiperscave.blogspot.com · 1 reference

23 hours ago by atowhee

At Ashland Pond this morning the first Ring-necked Ducks of the season. An even half dozen. And the White-throated Sparrow is still there in the berry brambles. Location: Ashland Pond Observation date: 12/17/09 Number of species: 16 Wood Duck 1 American Wigeon 8 Mallard 10 Northern Shoveler 2 Ring-n ...

Towheeblog - atowhee.wordpress.com · 8 references

1 day ago by Minni Ang

Throughout today Bubbles kept writing random sums on her whiteboard and asking me to solve them. In this way she discovered operations with fractions, how to reduce fractions, reinforced her knowledge of the order of operations, long division and the other various thing we’d explored the previous da ...

Educating Bubbles - educatingbubbles.wordpress.com