BurningbirdThe critters we love and the critters that deserve our love.
Zoe always knows when I’m uptight or stressed. She will either wrap her body around my foot or jump up into my lap for some serious head butting. When I hold her close, she makes contented little grunting noises and between the fur and the noise and the love, I feel better. The Head Lemur […]
Japanese whale researchers recently discovered a new species of baleen whale, which they have named Balaenoptera omurai. It’s not unusual to discover new species of animals, but not ones this large – about 12 meters long. Big as a bus, in other words. This is going to impact on whale hunting, as it should. What may have been a larger population […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. We had another flock of robins come through again today. Many more females this time since they are on a southern migration, not northern. Robins are ground feeding birds, so it’s surprising how fast and agile they are in the air. Robins have long been the harbingers of spring, but […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. qB, in Red or Dead aka How to Kill grey squirrels: I find my antipathy to our grey furry red-genocidal disease-toting verminous arboreal cockroaches is not unique. There’s even a National Squirrel Awareness Week site with imaginative suggestions from readers as to things to do with squirrels. I particularly enjoy ‘I […]
Update on Front Range Equine Rescue et al v. Vilsack et al: Responding to a filing yesterday, Judge Armijo agreed to set the expiration date for the TRO for Rains Natural Meats to the same date as the other two plants: October 31, 2013. By that time, Judge Armijo will have a decision in the […]