BurningbirdWalking along the Riverway walk in San Antonio, I ended up at a large set of steps where a member of a local conservation group was introducing a golden eagle to the crowd. While she was talking with people, answering questions and posing the bird for photographs, I was captivated by the identical expression on […]
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 […]