Back from a great weekend of wildlife watching, mushroom hunting, and eating and drinking with bloggers- more below (Or rather, above). But first let me catch up with the news, serious, unserious, amusing and distressing… On our perrenial concern, AR, anti hunters and so on: the LAT does a fawning profile of Wayne Pacelle. Apart …
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More and longer and prettier soon, but here is the usual presentation of friends, foes, follies, and gallimaufry, not to mention science.. Which first: a very old bat. (Zimmer has also devoted a new site to his collection of “Science tattoos”. Love that Archaeopteryx!) The long- distant migrant known as the red knot is in …
“Scouts banned from eating burgers and bangers – because of religious beliefs”
This is not the Onion, but a real headline from England. (Would be that or California). “The location is Brownsea Island in Dorset, the starting point of Scouting where Lord Baden-Powell led the first expedition. “Those young pioneers caught rabbits and then skinned and cooked them on an open fire. “Some 300 modern-day Scouts (the …