Southwest Volcanoes

The young volcanoes of the southwest I knew there were volcanoes down there. Steve lives under one, as seen above. I was impressed with the stats, however, and the Whack a Mole history. I hadn’t heard of these one off monogenetic volcanoes before.  I have to wonder what the mechanism is for that.

The Forests of Kunashir Island

The forests of Kunashir Island ​Steve and I share​ a fascination for​ the wilds of northeast Asia.  An added bonus for me is that the region is the eco ​​​​​​analog​ to here which is the boreal deciduous transition on the northwest ​corner of a temperature ocean. So similar and, yet, so different. This picture brought that out.  …

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More Comet Megafauna Extinct Theory

More Comet Megafauna Extinct Theory “It’s too soon to say if there was a causal connection or not, but what we can say is that this event did happen around the same time as when we think the megafauna disappeared, which is intriguing,” Schultz said. “There’s also a chance that this was actually witnessed by …

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Hognose Drama

Hognose Drama on Facebook This is a better video on Facebook but I can’t embed it here due to a paywall on WordPress. There are many such videos on Youtube but they lack clarity. Anyway, it’s the first time I saw this behavior, although I knew of it. It was neat to see and a …

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Superstar

NS Bird Society Scissor-Talied Flycatcher, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Oct 2021. This guy is a superstar.  There are many pix of this rare visitor online, this week When I was under 10 and in a bird phase, I was enamoured by this species but I have never seen one here, or in the states. As usual, …

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