Author: Sea Run

Brown dog ticks carry carry R. rickettsii

This was sent around by Reid Farmer, who is on the blog roll. The CGI graphics look good. I remember when something like this was impossible. Still not enough feathers, right, Steve?

Howard Phipps

this new durable hybrid bamboo/woven glass fiber/polypropylene composite, treated with the plastination technique has a promising future. Better Bamboo Will this lead to better fly rods? Maybe, if the purists can hold down their gorge over the plastination reference.  A lot of them are already ‘impregnated‘. If they can use that term anything is possible.

Scolopax minor, the Woodcock. Back on March 22nd. I found this nest of 3 woodcock eggs. The hen apparently took off as I walked by working on pruning some young oaks. I took my picture and decided to stay away from this end of the property so as not to disturb her further. Today, as …

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THE 12 MOST UNFORGETTABLE DESCRIPTIONS OF FOOD IN LITERATURE

New Yorker Wendell Berry Profile I know of him but little else. A kind of traditional agricultural guru. I can’t remember reading much about him but he is a BFD to some. ​It occured to me that ​I thought I had seen him mentioned on the blog before. A search showed a great deal more than …

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Quantum Birds This is pretty dramatic stuff with evolution creating quantum level structures. It is a new level for biology. There is likely a lot more of it going on. Photosynthesis, and even human thought, have been proposed as being quantum. It will be interesting to see how the field develops.

Why the Vikings left Greenland Drought. Didn’t expect that.