I’ve never seen a raven on the beach grabbing fish from pools of water on the Northumberland Strait. Amherst Shore May 2025 Dave Cole I have never heard of it either and I am surprised but given how smart ravens are it is hard to put anything past them. Updated There was some question if …
Fish Tracking
News to me. I didn’t know the lakes were covered in acoustic monitors. The scale is impressive. Very cool the data they are finding.
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Devils Tower
Devils Tower and the Missouri Buttes about 12 miles distant on a moody October morning as seen from the Bearlodge Mountains. ©MeghanDave Porter.. 10-29-2024. A prior post. An excellent view of the tower. I had a guy send me an email that it was a prehistoric tree stump a few years ago. He was serious. …
2025 U.S. State of the Birds Report
2025 U.S. State of the Birds Report shows widespread declines in every habitat: https://buff.ly/s2La1Rh Sickening. For the first time, all avian evolutionary relationships revealed Cool The birds and the bees: Including bird data improves estimates of wild bee species Hmmm…
Cutwater
This is my favourite Black Skimmer video because it perfectly illustrates the beauty of flight and this bird’s mastery of it and its environment. Watch how it makes a full 180-degree turn using its tail while keeping its head perfectly stable and its eye on the prize. It’s hard for me to fathom the amount …
Pilot Peak
The Record-Breaking Lahontan Cutthroat Trout of 2025 Fly fishing at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, offers both exhilarating challenges and unique opportunities, but what happened in January 2025 was truly AMAZING. A massive 29 lb Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (pictured below ) was landed, marking one of the biggest fish ever caught in the lake — a sign …
Tornado Season
One of the most famous tornado pictures in history was snapped on this day in 1989.Marilee Thomas of Beaver City, Nebraska, took this picture of her daughter in front of a tornado in Furnas County. The tornado produced minor damage to farms, and the “tornado girl” photo went on to win second place in a …
Is our universe the ultimate computer?
C:\Universe\system32 Information theory was formulated in the 1940s and deals with the quantification and storage of information and its communication. It turns out that the physics principle of entropy is a fundamental concept in information theory, and over the decades, the precepts of information theory have found application in neurobiology, molecular dynamics and theoretical physics—including …
Wilhelm Kuhnert (German painter) 1865 – 1926
Wilhelm Kuhnert (German painter) 1865 – 1926Tigers on the prowl, s.d.oil on canvas81.3 x 124.4 cm. (32 x 49 in.)signed ‘Wilh. Kuhnert’ (lower left)private collection© photo Christie’sWhen looking at Wilhelm Kuhnert’s oeuvre, one is left with no doubt that the artist was a great lover of wildlife and that he found his subject matter …