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A reader sends in a pic of a fellow cephalopod-with-quill. Below the jump, so as not to muck around with RSS feeds. [Read more…]
Yesterday, vultures. Today, a coyote. My little street is looking more like the wild west every day.
Well… they’ve got wings and they are looking over me, anyway.
I discovered this morning that I have new neighbors. I had suspected them earlier, but they keep to themselves. But less than 100 meters from my front door, high in an oak tree, is a family of turkey vultures!
I think these ones are juveniles; one did his best to look all scary:
And did his best Angel Of Death imitation:
But he couldn’t fool me–I saw what a sweet, sweet face he has:
Welcome to the neighborhood, flying dinosaurs! (Click pics to embiggen!)
Reading Taslima’s recent posts, here and here, I was taken aback, just a bit. I mean, I really don’t think we need to look to our closest relatives to see common ancestry. I took this picture a few years ago, and I can’t look at it without thinking he or she is my cousin. (Mind you, some of my actual cousins are creationists, so I feel more kinship with this one than them…)
Might be deep in thought… might not. Same can be said of me.
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so I hear. This beautiful couple showed up in a local stream, in a pond just upstream of an old mill building.
It’s early spring (duh), and these gorgeous Hooded Mergansers are on their way north. For the time being, they are showing up wherever there is open water. I have shots from four different nearby locations in three days, from a tidal bay to a roadside stream. (click to embiggen, of course)