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The great-nephews were visiting for the weekend before school starts next month. And its always full of adventures for us all. 🙂 What great adventures! And thanks to Judy for sharing her favorite childhood creek! The sting of love Why Have So Many Whale Remains Been Found on the Ocean Floor Near Los Angeles? The…
Do you have a nature bucket list? I do. It was working hard swaying its head back and forth. I wish I could tell you the species of the two grass skippers (Hesperiinae). However in the Wagner guide it says the only reliable way to know for sure is to raise them. I didn’t have a container…
Some days are more remarkable than others. But certainly there are always treasures to find! The First Park Visitor Center Celebrating LGBTQ+ History A Fossil Mystery, Solved by a Spin Redefining Planets Across the Universe Globally Renowned Ancient Rock Art in the Negev Desert Faces Imminent Destruction Keep looking! The more you know, the more…
Definitely not as warm today with the cloud cover. Indeed it wasn’t half bad taking my afternoon walk. Today’s high was ten degrees cooler than yesterday’s 101F. This Tiny Species of Birds Has a Remarkable Spatial Memory That’s Even Better Than Humans – New Research Explains Why Get to know the Garden’s new flagship Texas…
Certainly Toxicodendron radicans is very familiar to all of you I’m sure. So if the scientific name isn’t, the common name will be… Poison Ivy. Moreover it is a plant that I have been monitoring for friends. Ok, my non-human friends. LOL. Now should I raise one? Maybe I will. So I hope they like…
Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station (KAEFS) is a 360 acre (146 ha) environmental research and education facility located approximately 28 km southwest of the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman. KAEFS is home to a number of long-term meteorological and biological experiments. Wednesday morning (July 10th) Jeanne and I headed to the field station….
First a few more photos from the park walk. On conference day we were treated to some good presentations! Tomorrow the conference’s field trip! New Research Shows Why You Don’t Need To Be Perfect To Get the Job Done Fish Use Physics to Avoid Running into Each Other Maggie Aderin-Pocock on diversity: ‘It’s hard to…
This past week Jeanne and I headed up north to Norman, OK to attend the TORCH conference. TORCH stands for Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria. The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) $1.5 million to digitize its 355,000 herbarium specimen collections from Texas and Oklahoma in 2019. The…
You remember when it was cool last Friday? Me too! So this is last post from the cool Friday (July 5th). Ok it was time to look at some more nest boxes around the hill. Who would I find taking up residence? What a cool time it had been! What Is a Species, Anyway? Butterflies…
The rest of the box checking was by car. Yes, I could have walked but I had already spent three hours lollygagging along the other boxes. So up the road! More boxes to check so onwards up the road! Meet the Taxidermists Who Care for the Animals at Your Favorite Museums To Save Life on…