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44 plants, 4 insects, 1 lizard, toads, and fungi was the count on Seek for my great-nephews! Additionally that doesn’t count the frogs they didn’t get recorded on Seek. This was their first time to use Seek, the iNaturalist app that is kid-safe! This was only the first of several firsts for the weekend! They…
We were getting closer to our target. 🙂 Fabulous find! What Really Killed The Neanderthals? A Space Physicist Has a Radical Idea Summer solstice: Could trees know when it is? The Buzz Around Hydration Thank you Claire via Diane via Karl. 🙂 Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking! The more…
We continued on across the prairie! Still on the prairie we were getting closer to why we had come to this particular prairie. No hurries though, we didn’t want to miss anything. In Alabama, a Social Media Influencer Really Gets Wild “Strange” – Scientists Discover Ghostly 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in New Mexico Stand Up for…
Yesterday, Jeanne and I headed out to explore on the grasslands. More tomorrow! Touch the Sky Bringing out the Dead Joshua tree visit shows impact of park budget cuts Stand Up for Science! Our lives depend on it. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more…
So it was another day for Jeanne to check nest boxes! Furthermore I needed to be outside so it was perfect. 😉 A nice way to spend the morning! Thanks Jeanne! How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago The Human Epoch Doesn’t Officially Exist….
Now that summer has settled in, I guess we won’t be getting much more rain for the summer, eh. These Sandhill Cranes Have Adopted a Canada Gosling, and Birders Have Flocked to Watch the Strange Family Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet…
Indeed I have been thankful for the wind the last few days! So I think I can see the saddle in the movie. Bats live long, cancer-free lives using extra tumor-fighting genes and stable immune systems. This may unlock new ways to fight aging. Thanks Judy! A new study knocks down a popular hypothesis about…
If you remember, I only said we had not walked in this next area before. So we continued on into the unknown at Dixon. Darn I say…the Golden Dalea is having a golden moment this summer. 🙂 More from Dixon tomorrow! Engineers Are Racing to Harness the Dazzling Magic of Feathers. They Haven’t Solved the…
Today Jeanne and I headed over to the Dixon Water Foundation. My goal was to look for Black Dalea and a parasitic plant that grows on it, Thurber’s Pilostyles. We headed to a spot that I thought might be promising. So I didn’t remember the Black Dalea being there before at this particular location. However…
Second day of the Bobwhite survey today. There will be more but I’m waiting until July to conclude the survey. So no Bobwhites today, but I will be hopeful for July. In fact, a person who has a place near units at the grasslands, said there is covey that she sees quite regularly. Indeed that…