It’s been a long winter here in the Parry Sound area, but Spring’s warmth is encouraging the ice to recede and soon disappear. The return of the geese and other migratory birds is so wonderful to see. All too soon, summer will be over and birds will once again be readying themselves for the migration…
Hard beginnings — Scottish pollinators
By Athayde Tonhasca If you have been out for a walk, you may have seen the odd bumble bee flying about. These are recently emerged queens, who will soon build nests in which to lay their eggs and kick start a new colony. You may also have noticed that the world does not seem quite […]…
What Monarch Butterflies Need | Los Angeles Times — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG
The showy Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) you have in your yard may be killing them. What Monarch Butterflies Need | Los Angeles Times — SANTA MONICA BAY AUDUBON SOCIETY BLOG
Wisdom The Albatross, Now 70, Hatches Yet Another Chick — News : NPR
“Each year that Wisdom returns, we learn more about how long seabirds can live and raise chicks,” said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Beth Flint.(Image credit: Bob Peyton/USFWS) Wisdom The Albatross, Now 70, Hatches Yet Another Chick — News : NPR
An Excerpt: The Peony — spanishwoods
photo by Sylvia It was named after Paeon, a physician to the gods, who obtained the plant on Mount Olympus from the mother of Apollo. Once planted the Peony likes to be left alone and punishes those who try to move it by not flowering again for several years. Once established, however, it produces spendid […]…
Flap Your Wings Like You Mean It. — Through Open Lens
F/13.0, 1/500, ISO 400. Bufflehead Duck ( Male ) What do you call a belt with a clock on it? A waist of time. Interesting Fact: To dive, Bufflehead compress their plumage to squeeze out air, then give a slight forward leap and plunge powerfully downward. They hold their wings tightly against their bodies underwater […]…
Rabbits — Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve
Our rabbits are beginning their long busy breeding season. Rabbits — Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve
OPINION: The Dollars and Cents of America’s Wild Horses — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
By William E. Simpson as published on The Pagosa Daily Post “Only a tiny minority of Americans want to see American wild horses sent to slaughter to make room for more livestock grazing on public lands.” BLM Victims of Antelope Complex Stampede ~ photo by Terry Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation Obviously, we don’t […]…
Celebrating our wetlands — @AudubonRockies via The Pagosa Springs Sun — Coyote Gulch
Pagosa Springs River Walk Wetlands. Photo credit: PagosaWetland Partners Here’s a From The Pagosa Daily Post (Keith Bruno): Swamps, wet meadows, floodplains, bottomlands, bogs, freshwater and saltwater marshes, places where the water stands still and the soil becomes inundated to the point of saturation — these are wetlands. Tuesday, Feb. 2, marked the annual celebration… Celebrating…
