Coursing Video If you have facebook this is a pretty good coursing video. The weird thing is that the video shows on facebook but the link to it goes to an unrelated music video. Three greyhounds and a hare. No context info that I could see, like where, etc. It looks like the US but …
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… and how many is that!
Source “Cold front moving through right now Sept 20—but that’s not rain on the radar. Those are Monarch butterflies, riding the front south on their annual migration.”
Baby Crows
A super cute nest of baby crows. I have been feeding multiple generations for years now. I think it is the same family line that nests in the yard. I always get a laugh out of them. The great thing about corvids is that the lights are on and somebody is home. There has been …
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I love these kind of bio quest stories. The blog is a good one on west coast BC nature, hikes, etc.
First Day of Fall
A park site pic The Aspy valley in Northern Cape Breton in a few weeks. I was at this spot in the spring, a few years ago. It would be good to be there now. Source There are some good moose up there. This is one from this month. Forty years ago budworm set back …
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Snap! Richards memes are everywhere now but they are good for a laugh. Fifteen years ago, a buddy saw a concert and was very impressed with Jagger’s vitality at his age. Richards, however, “was the resuscitated corpse I expected.” I laughed and it was well before the flood of memes, lately. Of course, this …
The Deccan Traps post update
The Deccan Traps post Source of the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous They claim clear evidence that it was not the Deccan Traps but a meteor. We will see. These things can be refuted for years.
Ancient-native-americans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths
native-americans-were-among-world-s-first-coppersmiths I saw the article above and laughed. It reminded me of this TV psuedo doc, Great Lakes Copper Heist. The premise was that since copper was mined by First Nations peoples they were trading it to ancient Greeks, who were rowing across the Atlantic and into the Great Lakes for it. Natives were not …
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Book : complete-birds-of-the-world An ambitious book.
Cougar Origins
Cougars (Puma concolor) Control Feral Horse (Equus caballus) Populations in Some Environments “Incidentally, the Pleistocene cougars that lived in North America were not directly ancestral to cougars that live on this continent now. They were an extinct ecomorph that grew slightly larger than modern cougars and may have had spotted fur. According to genetic evidence, …