A good sign and unexpected. I would love to now what it is like here where the density is very high. Bird Flu is hitting them hard. Bald eagle mating flight. National Eagle Center
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In from the West.
Golden Eagle feeding on a dead beaver. Pleasantfield, Queens County, March 21st, 2025. Nova Scotia Bird Society Greg White · He had video too. Not that common here. I have never seen one except maybe out west. A roadside meal is dangerous for them. I almost hit a mature bald eagle, a year ago.
Parker
Painting by Tom Lovell A very neat illustration no doubt for a magazine article which is unknown. The silverware, the knife, the squint eyes, all suggest skulduggery. LOL The shotgun caught my eye. The eye bolt makes it look like a Parker. As usual, open in new tabs to embiggen.
Some truth in that.
“Pets, it turns out, also have last wishes before they die, but only known by veterinarians who put old and sick animals to sleep. Twitter user Jesse Dietrich asked a vet what was the most difficult part of his job. The specialist answered without hesitation that it was the hardest for him to see how …
Desert of a Thousand Lakes and White Sands NP
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses[a]) is a national park in Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil, just east of the Baía de São José. Protected on June 2, 1981, the 155,000 ha (380,000-acre) park includes 70 km (43 mi) of coastline, and an interior composed of rolling sand dunes. During the rainy season, the valleys among the dunes fill with freshwater lagoons, …
Satisfaction.
Better than some years.
Snowpack update for the Western US. Blue is well above normal, green and yellow are near to below normal, and red is well below normal. An early look at the potential for this year’s monsoon. Long-range prognostication issued 3/20/25 by the climate prediction center shows a 30-50% chance of above normal precipitation for July-August_September. Let’s …
Screwing with the ocean
What if one of the solutions for climate change was to boost the storage capacity of the ocean? That’s what a new area of science called ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) promises. Could the ocean have a climate solution in store? Yikes, now they are talking about screwing with the ocean. When the ocean is screwed we are, …
Flaco Lives
The exhibition takes up half of a long, narrow space that could more accurately be called “a hallway.” But it tells Flaco’s story in satisfying detail. Flaco escaped from the Central Park Zoo when an unknown vandal cut open the mesh of his enclosure. Though zoo employees initially made several attempts to recapture Flaco, mostly …
Future Shock
A squirrel-inspired robot that can leap from limb to limb Yeah, I never thought I would see this stuff. A gun added will be next.