After the Equinox snow, we had typical post-storm weather-chilly, but bright and sunny:
At the Diner, Big Woody and Stubbs:
Nutkin stopped by for a face full of snow looking for seeds:
By the following Monday, the snow was gone.
3/26: a blustery day with rain showers, high winds and threats of t-storms that did not materialize. Temps were in the lo-60's until the front with storms moved through and dropped nearly ten degrees. Once the rain stopped, his Lordship went outside to survey his realm.
3/28-Beautiful sunny day with temps in the low 40's. For the first time saw a goldfinch at the feeder. Some from MI stay, others head South. He looks to be in the middle of molting.
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3/27: Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle of Pennsylvania announced that Phil and his partner Phyllis are proud parents of two little ones. These are the first babies the club has had in over a century. In fact, they had not realized Phyllis was preggers! Congrats to all!
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| The new parents in their digs located in the zoo at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library |
3/29: Beautiful yet chilly day
Mr. Bun doing some preening
Mr. & Mrs. Goldfinch enjoying Mr. Birch's seed pods, the most recent seasonal menu item at the Diner
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C has always sung to her cats and Buddy is no exception. The other night, she was in the kitchen and Bud came in from patrol and was waiting patiently by his food dish for service. She created new lyrics to "Please Mr. Postman" substituting waiting for a letter with waiting for pate. This segued into an adaptation of Oklahoma's Ado Annie's lament to "I'm A Cat Who Cain't Say No" (to pate). The lad loves his grub and his mum.
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It's mating season for brown hares in the UK and many lads are jousting for their lady's honour:
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| Adam Olliver |
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The collective noun for a gathering of flamingos is "flamboyance".
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Holy Week in Spain features Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternities performing penance processions on the streets of nearly every Spanish town and city during this time immediately before Easter. These displays have their origins in the Middle Ages although most date to the 17th-18th Century. In some towns, the parade is loud and glamorous with music, drumming, statues and crosses while others are silent, sombre and solemn.
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Fun name for casserole: rumbledethumps. This is comfort food from Scotland-a mixture of cabbage, onion, potatoes, butter and cheese. A close relative of English bubble and squeak and Irish colcannon.
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Classic Rodney Dangerfield joke:
I went to a place that said it was topless and bottomless but when I got inside, no one was there.
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As seen on TV: a toenail fungus cure claiming to be a biblical remedy. Oy.
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Disturbing critters:
Horned lizard who shoots toxic blood from its eyeballs
Star-nosed mole
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| Caters News Agency |
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Who doesn't like belly rubs?: A diver was cleaning the viewing glass in an aquarium believed to be in France. A zebra shark cozied up and asked for a belly rub. The diver complied (one usually does with sharks). I thought I'd make a silly meme out of the encounter.
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Drone footage from the Maldives captures image of man on paddleboard with large manta ray.
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| Ishan |
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A cattle rancher in NC trained horse to protect him from Mama cow when he needs to tend to calf. Otherwise, Mama would continually charge him. Good boy!
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| Roy R. Funch |
Researchers have discovered a gigantic complex of 200 million regularly spaced termite mounds in northeastern Brazil, which may be up to 4,000 years old and covers an area about the size of Great Britain. It is described as “the greatest known example of ecosystem engineering by a single insect species”. Stephen Martin of the University of Salford in the U.K. is a co-author of the study wrote "It’s incredible that, in this day and age, you can find an ‘unknown’ biological wonder of this sheer size and age still existing, with the occupants still present"
While people living in the region knew of the termite mounds, few outsiders did. The expanse of the construction was hidden by scrubby forest known as caatinga unique to that part of Brazil. They’d only really come into view by “outsiders,” including scientists, when some of the lands were cleared for pasture in recent decades.
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This is the Airbus A300 nicknamed Beluga, a specialized wide-bodied aircraft used to transport aircraft parts and outsized cargo. It was first flown in 1995 and replaced in the 2010's with a larger successor. Odd looking aircraft.
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| Head on view |
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Meet Mr. Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, aka Tunki, the national bird of Peru.
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| David Monroy Rengifo |
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| Snazzy dresser! Hey ladies! |
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A meme from China although some linguistic sites think it began with someone starting out in English then attempted to back-translate into Chinese with disastrous results as the Chinese here is untranslatable. Regardless, it's a charming idea.
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I noticed that our crab apple tree has been picked clean in the past month. Must be those hungry, hungry robins.
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The 2011 Smithville MS EF5 tornado packing 205+mph winds created astonishing damage. Here, the winds lifted a roof up, sucked out the curtains then dropped the roof back down leaving the fabric flapping in the breeze.
Roach merch: available now! The god bless the usa bible with handwritten chorus to the Lee Greenwood song and his signature! Only $59.99! The perfect Easter gift! Operators are standing by, suckers!
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Highway in Dubai after sandstorm.
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| Irenaeus Herok |
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The Falkirk Wheel: opened in 2002, this is a world's only rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, central Scotland. It connects the Forth & Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, replacing the original 11 locks at the canal junctions.
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| Sean Mack |
Feats of strength! 250+ Amish men and others pick up barn and move it!
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The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. NASA launched New Horizons in 2006 and became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close, flying by the dwarf planet and its moons in 2015. After a nine-year journey, New Horizons also passed its second major science target, reaching the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth in 2019, the most distant object ever explored up close.
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| Composite photo from data from New Horizons. NASA/JPL |
Arrokoth is a word that means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.
More on the Kuiper Belt from NASA:
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/10-things-to-know-about-the-kuiper-belt/
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