Huge congrats to Matt Fowler on his New Mexico giant! Special thanks to @aidangranado.7 for finding this buck and also to @laynek35 for helping on the hunt! It was a grind for three days, but we got it done with a shot of about 288 yards. More I have only them seen them a couple …
Month: October 2024
Splitters come for Brook Trout
The Splitters have come back with genetics for brook trout. Not much info on how definite this is but I can see it being possible, especially if there wasn’t that much mixing during ice ages.
John Gierach suffered a heart attack and passed away on October 3, 2024.
John Gierach on Wikipedia. John was one of my favorite fishing writers. He had a skill that was deceptive. He made it look easy when it wasn’t. No less than Tom McGuane said so, I think. John’s writing will be remembered for a long time. He was in the the same league as greats like …
Bird Radar
Something unusual captured on Doppler Radar tonight? (Oct 1, 2024) Check out what is likely migrating birds riding the gust front south just ahead of the advancing strong Autumn cold front across Ohio. Meteorologist Chris Vickers A short video is on his site. The annual Autumn bird migration may have peaked October 1st with over …
Coffee as a medium
“Mogli” by Ukrainian artist Oleskii Gnievyshev. Coffee and pencil on paper. 2024. Rick Hobson
Ridge Nose
Yesterday we announced our role in Project Obscurus, an exciting new conservation initiative underway to protect the endangered New Mexico ridge-nosed rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi obscurus). This nationwide program involves many government agencies, non-profit partners, as well as two other zoos (Los Angeles Zoo and San Antonio Zoo) in a cooperative effort to support the conservation and …
Tracking individual critters by track patterns pix and AI. Very Cool.
Zoe Jewell, a British conservationist, has spent the past 13 years helping WildTrack develop an artificial intelligence–powered system to identify animals from pictures of their footprints. The work was inspired by Jewell’s experiences working alongside Zimbabweans tracking black rhinoceroses. So far, the AI tool can identify 17 animals, including leopards, lions, and rhinos. But the WildTrack …
It looks like a vet bill in the making to me.