The Song of the Lark Jules_Breton I saw this the other day and it didn’t come to mind but, apparently, a very famous image. We don’t have the skylarks here but I have heard the song is wonderful. I would like to see it. https://youtu.be/-QsorI-fZsY?si=kS2XRuw5-nMn-1qR https://youtu.be/8eOIcWB7jSA?si=J8pEMsrlUwMufPIR Knew it was popular but not sure as much …
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Parrot Training
Parrot Training I saw this and it was new to me. I thought of Steve with his falcons since there are similarities. Source This guy Or this guy. Not sure which now. I was reminded of this guy that takes his parrot to waterfalls here and posts online. They are often in deep woods …
On Target
Source “This bird of prey had caught a meal 30 minutes ago but was back for more. Through high speed maneuver, it was successful in breaking the group down to just one shorebird. With its target locked in, it was just a matter of time. Sandpiper being chased by a falcon, Brier Island, September …
Ebooks Are an Abomination
Ebooks Are an Abomination Some good comments but books and ebooks complement one another. The big downside of paper is the lack of images, etc. Most books are cheaply printed. I didn’t know that ebook usage had leveled off.
‘Art’ 225,000 years old.
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-footprint-art-dates-mid-ice-age.html ‘Art’ 225,000 years old. An international collaboration has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. The prints date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago – three to four times older than the …
Helen Macdonald, Euro Robins
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/lauren-groff-matrix/619998/ “I once saw [the writer] Helen Macdonald, who I think is a genius, ” I saw this reference to Helen and it prompted me to look her up to see what she was up to lately. I downloaded the Vesper Flights audio book which she reads. She has a good reading voice. Checking through …
Terror Bird
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4515981261814265/ A parent Devincenzia (a huge Phorusrhacid)has brought prey (Cardiotherium) to its chicks. A mangrove forest in Miocene South America. by Gabriel Ugueto I love these guys. T Rex 2.0. Steve and I read a novel I found about them. It sucked. Neither of us could finish it.
Warg?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4510726782339713/ “The gigantic skull of the Hyena relative Dinocrocuta and one of the largest land based mammalian carnivores that has ever lived with a shoulder height of 1.9 metres and 300 kg in weight.” That beastie would do justice to Tolkien’s wargs.
Darwin Awards – Stuff Happens
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5158114987548472&id=100000500665737&sfnsn=mo Arkansas Shit happens but this is in a new league.
Fundy Falcons