"Drinking tea and watching the snow fall"
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Category: Life
...and with it, 4 chickens. --- The 4 chickens have arrived and are settling in. Gonna be awhile before they can be fully incorporated into the existing flock. The (wild) bird feeders are also set up as of today, all ready for winter. Bring on the winter finches. The property is all set for winter, everything is put away, gardens put to sleep until spring, late fall plantings ready to go (garlic... » Continue Reading
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
While I've had lichen books sitting in my bookshelves for a couple of years now, I'm now finally taking it far more seriously, as it seems to be a rare skill to properly identify them to species level. While my main professional focus at work (and in hobby) has me wearing three hats (Botanist, ornithologist and entomologist, with dabbling in mammalogy - bats), I'd like to lend my skill set to als... » Continue Reading
Category: Life
This was originally a bulletin, but it's a blog too. a) I don't know how to code b) It's Friday and your salary slave pal (ME) is happy for it c) In 2 weeks I travel to Nova Scotia for work-related trip (I gotta identify birds, with special focus on species at risk. Sold my soul » Continue Reading
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Category: Blogging
I was going to write a long rant about how the environment/nature/wildlife is doomed due to the severe ignorance of humans -- but this is common knowledge (unless you are optimistic on a delusional level) so I won't. On a minor tangent to that though, I hate people who romanticize nature, but cannot even identify a common bird species in their area. You are pathetic... ---- Acquiring 4 more chi... » Continue Reading
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Category: Pets and Animals
Today at work I've begun acoustic analysis of bat call files. That is, files from a device that was set up outside on the edge of a forest to capture the sounds of bats. The calls are inaudible to us, but the device can pick up on them. I then go through each call file, and manually identify which species each call file belongs to. Almost all of the files are pure noise, and not a bat at all. T... » Continue Reading
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Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
I'll never listen to any musical genre with the word "core" in it. As winter essentially begins, I will shift my attention to understanding lichens more. This is a tough species group to get into, and an entirely new set of taxonomic terminology to learn. The terminology will be the biggest hurdle, but how difficult can it be compared to botany? Guess we'll see. This past work trip I took to the... » Continue Reading
Category: Life
Today, Hugelkultur plot 2 was planted with garlic that was harvested in August. In total, 57 garlic cloves were planted. Hopefully all of them pop up in spring. The last of the carrots are still needing to be picked, but gonna wait until the last possible moment before a hard freeze to pick those, even though it did snow yesterday (a particularly nasty Hallowe'en, but so rural that no trick- » Continue Reading
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