Too bad. Looks like a mature male.
Month: January 2023
Not something I expected.
A new study in Scientific Reports found that childhood experiences in nature, travel and trauma were all predictors of green behavior as adults, such as recycling, driving or flying less, and taking shorter showers. Credit: Unsplash Childhood trauma linked to civic environmental engagement
Fake Fish and a Real One, a Spectacular One.
9 am Jan 24th, 2023
I was headed up the street, a few minutes ago, and saw a flock of about 100 birds crossing the street into the tree. They were backlight by the sun and I thought starlings but saw they were waxwings when I got closer. It was the biggest flock I have seen in town in many …
Making and Using a Fire Piston
I have never heard of it . If you have to pack fuel to use it you are back to square one and you might as well have a lighter.
How it starts.
Harkom 20-bore
A difficult picture.
More pictures at People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022. A difficult picture to see and a reminder of how nature is.
How to read shed antlers.
HOW TO READ SHED ANTLERS FOR HEALTH AND HABITAT CLUES Interesting data. I did a lot of shed hunting at one time. This would have been useful to know.
1st century BCE carnyx
A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right). Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE I think I have seen …