By the time I got that ready it would be over. 1300 comments, many by comedians. You can sell anything. Michigan Outdoor Obsession
The Feathers Fly
Peregrine falcon hunts pintail ducks at Colusa NWR What’s causing all the commotion? Look closely, and you’ll notice the culprit – a peregrine falcon on the hunt! Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in California saw some action as a peregrine falcon flew into a flock of northern pintails, looking for its next meal! The larger greater …
A Worthwhile Summary.
All mushrooms are edible, however some are only edible once!… ~ Terry Pratchett Ross Birchall
Cormac McCarthy, Pedophile?
On Wednesday, Vanity Fair published a profile of Augusta Britt, a woman the author calls the “secret muse” of the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died last year. According to Britt, McCarthy was 42 when they met in 1976; she was 16, a runaway fleeing an abusive childhood. She tells Vanity Fair’s Vincenzo Barney that McCarthy ferried her across the …
An Unusual Perspective
Distance to the nearest National Park.. Amazing Maps The Adirondacks are actually the largest wild lands in the east and not included here so a little misleading but still interesting.
Snakes and Raptors
A capture at the exact moment J. Rigatti El Curioso Two favorite critters of Steve’s. A 3d printed resin massasauga rattlesnake model I’ve just finished painting with acrylics. Russ Jones Something for Steve’s desk?
Coolest Catch
Today was the absolute coolest catch I’ve ever seen while hawking. I’ll save you all the boring stuff that led up to Athena ripping this large buck gray squirrel off the side of the tree about 75 feet up. Upon falling the squirrel bit her and wiggled it’s way loose from her talons about 30 …
High-res lidar exposes large, high-elevation cities along Asia’s Silk Roads
The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. A team of researchers led by Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and Farhod Maksudov, director of the …
Vultures and AI as death detectors
Vultures are perfectly adapted by millions of years of evolution to detect carcasses across vast landscapes quickly and reliably. They have outstanding eye-vision and sophisticated communication that allows them to monitor very large areas of land when many individuals work together. Vultures thus fulfill an important ecological role by cleaning landscapes of carrion and containing …
Got ‘cha
This is one of my all time favorite two image photographs. Bobcat vs Blue Heron –Jacob Hall Canon R6 Mark II Got ‘cha Yeah, it will be hard to beat that. BTW the bobcat got it but I didn’t see aftermath pix which was too bad. They had to end up in the water.