Center for Land Use Interpretation

Here is a group I want to find out a lot more about: The Center for Land Use Interpretation. I discovered them from a little sidebar in the New York Times on the Hudson River which mentioned their new book, Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy. [...]

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More Rare Birds

Last week I was on the Georgia coast for a work trip. I stayed an extra day to tag along on a couple of field trips arranged by one of my colleagues and got to visit a huge nesting colony of Federally Endangered Wood Stork, Mycteria americana at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge.
Here are [...]

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Green Maps Project

I have been waiting to post on this for over a week while I became inspired to add some value to simply linking to Green Maps Around the World, but I really can’t add anything to their own self-description:
Green Map ® System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world, using mapmaking as [...]

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Shaming people into conserving energy

via GeoLounge (check out this link to see some sample maps):
 Haringey Council (located in London, England), is using heat mapping to highlight energy inefficient homes within their jurisdiction. The city council hired an aircraft fitted with a thermal imager to fly over all the homes in the jurisdiction to capture heat loss. The houses were [...]

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Noodling

I saw this article in the NY Times over the weekend and remembered a colleague telling me about this odd southern pastime.
The Catfish Are Biting (and It Hurts)

COWDEN, Ill., July 22 — Stripped to the waist and armed with nothing but his bare hands, John Burns plunged headfirst into a half-submerged hollow log [...]

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Fish Depression

I apologize for my lack of posting here lately. As I mentioned a while ago, I started my new job working for a large conservation non-profit about a month ago and it has taken most of my time and energy. During that time there have been some wonderful news items and crafty creations [...]

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Snakes

I have just returned from vacation #2 for the summer – to the Peaks of Otter area of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Much soul refreshment was to be had in the wilds of western Virginia. We saw four snakes (three species) in one day on one trail!

Timber rattlesnakes (Croatalus horridus)

Northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix [...]

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Live Nude Birds on MAPS!

As a follow-on to my post yesterday on the topic of bird nest webcams — today I found a post in the Google Earth Community with a link to a map file of peregrine falcon and osprey nest cams.  If you are familiar with Google Earth and have it installed on your computer, you can [...]

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Live! Nude! Birds!

Barn Owls in a California nestbox
I got my Cornell Lab of Ornithology Newsletter today and there were several features on their Citizen Science Programs (such as Project Feederwatch). A new one (new to me anyway) that I decided to check out, is their Birdhouse watch project. Participants put up a bird nest box [...]

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Natural beauty

Photo by R.W. Scott
This morning, a beautiful hummingbird came to my kitchen window to inquire as to why I had not yet provided the customary sweet water? So, I promptly corrected the error, of course!  I normally feed the hummingbirds sugar water (1 part sugar to 3-4 parts water) from May through September.
Did you [...]

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