F/8.0, 1/250, ISO 250. Desert Cottontail Rabbit What is a tree’s favorite drink? Root beer! Interesting Fact: The lifespan of a cottontail that reaches adulthood averages less than two years, depending on the location.[6] Unfortunately for the cottontail, almost every local carnivore larger or faster than the lagomorph is its predator. Some predators, like snakes …
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Here’s the release from the Western Slope Conservation Center (Ben Katz): [On February 10, 2020]…the Bureau of Land Management released its Uncompahgre Field Office Resource Management Plan despite concerns and formal protests from stakeholders in the North Fork Valley and beyond. While Colorado’s governor and the public are focused on a major health crisis in […] …
The local beaver hut is no longer ice-bound, no doubt allowing it's occupants more freedom to get out and about (while respecting social distancing edicts of course).
Several v-shaped honking masses flew overhead as I was driving home yesterday morning, luckily I was able to capture some of the action.
With the ice receding at a quicker pace now, and with warmer temperatures upon us, the water and sky are seemingly in a competition to show off their best and most beautiful blue hues.
In these early, still nippy, Spring days, some of us just can't wait for the warmer temps to arrive to enjoy the simple outdoor pleasures.
Dear Lucy, Apologies for not having written in a while, what with the winter floodings causing havoc around the village I’ve not found a great deal of time with which to keep up my correspondence. After numerous council meetings, following a persistent series of strongly worded but polite letters and crayon drawings from the […] via …
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For weeks, Roberta Brivio’s phone has been ringing several times an hour. “I can’t even find the time to eat,” she says from her office in Melegnano, south of Milan. A 74-year-old psychologist living in Lombardy, Brivio is the president of the local branch of the Italian Society for Emergency Psychology. Italy has the world’s… via …
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kqy9hxhUxK0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Gulls are royalty amongst birds. Discuss. Well, I suspect most folk would disagree – aren’t gulls just the things that crap on your car, nick your chips, dive bomb you in the town and terrify the kids into dropping their ice cream? While there’s no doubt they can do all these things, there’s a …
Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including “ Lean On Me, ” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press. He was 81. The three-time Grammy Award …
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