Somewhere around June 13thit was pointed out that there was a bird’s nest on our Hydro box. Well, that was exciting! Especially since it wasn’t a robin. We’re used to robins’ nests in odd places. Continue reading “Watching and seeing”
I’ve been lazy recently. Not so many links. Continue reading “From the world pool: June 8, 2018”
My, what lovely eyes you have.
Young ravens leave the nest before they can fly properly, so they walk around with their parents constantly yelling at/about them. This one’s parents were making quite a racket; when I spotted the baby and moved closer one of them started aggressively tearing apart a dead branch. I’m not sure what it expected the rain of debris to do, given that I wasn’t under that tree.
Some days just feel like this. Continue reading “From the world pool: April 28, 2018”
Have a nice fungus. Continue reading “From the world pool: April 20, 2018”
Really.
Where did our sun go? We HAD it… Continue reading “From the world pool: April 8, 2018”
…the one that I’ve forgotten the password for. The one used for this blog.
Click on any image in the mosaic to view the gallery.
Or would that be bombii?
(Click images for gallery.)
The biggest thing this week that I saw was the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal. Lots of links for that, and lots else as well. Continue reading “From the world pool: March 24th, 2018”
Yeah, it’s out of focus. I like it anyway, and it somehow seems to fit the story I just found. Here’s a direct link to the PDF of the article “A bee as pet – a bee psychologist’s perspective.” It includes a letter from a woman who had an extraordinary relationship with a wingless bumble bee queen, and the commentary of Lars Chittka of the Bee Sensory and Behavioural Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London.
Oh, and there’s more pictures with this article.
Today I was doing some yard work, and as often happens I make plans to do A, B, and C, and then get distracted and do X or Y instead of B and C. I’ve been trying to eradicate the periwinkle, so I hauled what I’d pulled up over to a spot where it can sit on stone and slowly die. (At least I hope it dies, with things that are invasive you never know. I’ve still got an eye on a black bag of yellow flag iris corms that continue to sprout every year after being out of the pond for three years.) Continue reading “A Discovery”
Meet the black-tailed/orange-rumped bumble bee. She was very slow and methodical in harvesting a particular patch of crocuses, and let me take a lot of pictures. Here’s the first batch of them. Click individual images to see the gallery. Continue reading “Bombus melanopygus”
And more crocuses. These were photographed on March 10th.
I left out US politics this week, just because. Continue reading “From the world pool: March 17, 2018”
