• Readers’ wildlife photos

    Updated: 2023-09-30 13:15:09
    Ecologist Susan Harrison has some photos from her home town of Davis, California. Her narrative is indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them, Mink, Otters, Birds (and a Cat) It’s Fall again, a rewarding time to wander along the creek in Davis, California.   My most exciting sighting was an American Mink … Continue reading Readers’ wildlife photos

  • A deceptive oasis—and how birds deal with it

    Updated: 2023-09-29 18:15:47
    We’ll finish off the “work” week with another Attenborough video, featuring a remarkable oasis in the Sahara that isn’t what it seems. Fortunately, the swallows have evolved an adaptation to the oasis’s trick.  I wonder if the birds’ ingestion of flies is an evolved rather than a learned trait (I suspect it’s the former given … Continue reading A deceptive oasis—and how birds deal with it

  • Dianne Feinstein is dead

    Updated: 2023-09-29 13:36:20
    After hanging on as a sitting Senator while being very ill, California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein just passed away, and her death was confirmed this morning.  From the WaPo: Mrs. Feinstein’s death was confirmed Friday by the Associated Press, which cited three people “familiar with the situation.” She was the oldest sitting member of the … Continue reading Dianne Feinstein is dead

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