In “El Nino forecasts are climbing” (KPRC’s Click2Houston.com, 17May2023), Frank Billingsley and Amanda Cochran write: “By the end of the year, the European Model has at the very least a moderate El Nino with perhaps an extreme one. “What can we learn from any of this? Get flood insurance. I’m not being flip. The extreme …
A Three-toed Box Turtle I found one day mid-morning. I think it was a female ready to lay eggs — it was out in a section of dirt and grass near some woods, and it was near a dig-hole that looked like what Turtles dig for laying eggs. Thank goodness I had time that morning …
A Barred Owl secondary wing feather I found today. Gorgeous.
In “Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area,” they write: “Paleoecological evidence strongly suggests fire was a common occurrence on the Montague Plains from 500 to at least 2,000 years before European settlement. Throughout North America, prehistoric Native Americans used fire as a landscape management tool to increase browse and mast for game species, drive game, increase …
And now, after the silly game-playing with clocks, we are off solar noon, the true noon — even more than the time zone thing causes, but the time zone thing ain’t bad, I think. Image from GeoTimeDate, but from 12Mar2023. See also: ‘Spring forward’ to daylight saving time brings surge in deadly crashes by Lisa …