Archives for April 2006
Summer Has Arrived
Published on 18 Apr 2006 at 6:47 pm.
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Filed under Blather, Climate.
Summer has arrived early this year. We have had a full week of clear sunny skies and 70 degree weather. Perfect, absolutely perfect.
This weekend I was in New York City. On Easter Sunday, Emily and I walked from 34th Street (Macy’s) up to Central Park. The Central Park Zoo was horribly crowded on this beautiful day [...]
No Chickadees
Published on 14 Apr 2006 at 4:17 pm.
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Filed under Birds, Travel, Wildlife.
Our birdwatching trip to the Boreal Forests of northern Wisconsin was very exciting. We did not see any Boreal Chickadees, nor did we see any Black-Backed Woodpeckers, which we also looked for. However, we did see several Gray Jays, which in my opinion are beautiful.
They have no crest, but are covered in soft fluffy feathers [...]
On the Hunt for Boreal Chickadees
Published on 7 Apr 2006 at 8:36 am.
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Filed under Birds.
Its early morning in the Bronx and the car alarms are singing below in a chorus accompanied by sirens from the nearby hospital and percussion from the construction work. Its 8:30 am, which is early for me.
I am getting ready to leave for Wisconsin. Its my dad’s birthday this month, and we are going birdwatching in [...]
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Soft Tissue
Published on 7 Apr 2006 at 2:57 am.
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Filed under Birds, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Paleontology.
Just last week in the March 25th issue of Science, an article by Mary H. Schweitzer, Jennifer L. Wittmeyer, John R. Horner, and Jan K. Toporski announced the unimaginable. They had found soft tissue remnants inside the fossilized femur of a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0324_050324_trexsofttissue.html
The Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton had been found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana a [...]
