Is a superb magazine published by Cornell Lab and can be yours with a small $35 yearly donation. We’ve been receiving copies for the last several years, and it quickly became my go-to source for birding.
The magazine and online site offer a great array of images. Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2025 – featuring birders around the world who have contributed more than 67 million photos to the Macaulay Library archive.
If you listen to the above video, then begin to focus on each line of text for several seconds, you can easily convince yourself that they are indeed saying what’s printed on the screen. It appears that our ears, can be easily influenced. But, what about our eyes…
14,300 years ago, a pine forest in France bore witness to an event that has never been experienced in modern times: a bombardment of solar particles so fierce that it would likely knock out all communications satellites and fry power grids across the globe if it were to happen today. While we often point to the Carrington Event of 1859, (that knocked out all telegraph communications around the world), as a worst-case scenario, for solar storms, the 774-75 AD storm was at least 10 times stronger.
Tonight, I watched with awe and admiration, as Harrison Ford narrated an impassioned five-minute video on behalf of the half-earth project. In this call-to-action presentation, Harrison urges us to pay attention to the glorious tapestry of life – our living Earth.
Baby’s breath (Gysophilia paniculata)
Okay, close your eyes and what do you see when you think of baby’s breath. Delicate, tiny white flowers? Wedding bouquets? Summer days? Invasive species? Wait, what? Not what you were thinking, right?
What have we done?
Seems the public succumbed to terrible advice regarding peanut allergies, thus, causing the very allergy now so prevalent in children. But wait, it’s only a problem in certain areas.
