​Cougar Fever

​​​​Eastern Cougar fever You never know what chain reaction will bring a laugh. I asked a friend where he got his firewood last week. He mentioned a guy close by to me but I didn’t know. I asked my brother and he knew him. My brother said he told him, 10-15 years ago, that he …

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Humiliation

​I was walking through town today to my 3rd covid shot and saw a dog walker across the street. A woman had a small greyhound in a heavy bright hunter orange body coat. I mean bright. It made me think of this. ​The dog would have been better served by protection from the sidewalk salt.

Jackdaw

Jackdaws are small corvids. Jackdaw Recital by Schoolkids Robert MacFarlane reading Jackdaw

Window Bird Tape

Window Bird Tape News Clip A big problem but it needs a cheaper solution. I have a window that has killed unknown numbers of birds. I didn’t know it was happenng because I never spent time in the room until recently. Early in the morning is when it happens.  

Mandarin Duck

In the owls-of-the-eastern-ice book, they used mist nets over the streams to try to catch owls. They caught a lot of other birds, mostly, but they got Mandarin ducks, too. How would it be to see such a resplendent bird on an icy stream in their natural habitat? The color and form would be such …

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Too cute, too funny, too cool.

Driving Goldfish You know somebody is going to start racing them. Too cute, too funny. Also, how long before we see road rage blossom.

Graphic Cover

  I don’t know the guy, or his work, but I love the graphic novel sytle cover. Artist unknown.

Owls of the Eastern Ice

Owls of the Eastern Ice I stumbled over this somehow before it was out. Being about the Russian Far East, I was interested. I had never heard of Blakiston’s fish owl and was surprised it was the largest owl in the world. I was even more surpised it fished in the rivers there all winter …

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Corbett

MAN-EATERS: Champawat Tiger A friend sent this video link, a week ago. I asked him if he knew of Corbett and his books. He didn’t so it prompted me to dig out a copy I had of to let him read. I hadn’t looked at it in 20 years so I started reading it out …

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