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Natural habitat
Mar. 13th, 2015 08:01 pm
A house sparrow on her dragon mount.
A house sparrow on her dragon mount.
3:00 snapshot #1776: Friday
Oct. 11th, 2014 02:13 pm
I got a new eight foot grabber.
I was finally able to remove some sparrow nests from the facilities bays.
3:00 snapshot #1579: Tuesday
Mar. 28th, 2014 06:20 pm
Tuesday: Something sinister going on, no doubt.
I don't trust these house sparrows.
Creatures in and of the zoo
May. 9th, 2013 09:37 pm
A weird crow call drew me out from my office. Just outside, a red tail was getting harassed by a single crow and few songbirds. This grackle was the most persistent of the mob.
( many more creatures, in randomish order )
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Urban Nature Pictures 11/11
Nov. 11th, 2010 08:04 pm
House sparrows sheltering in a stack of shipping pallets.
Mysterious bird deaths in Austin
Jan. 8th, 2007 12:07 pmhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4454558.html
Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead in the streets, but officials said preliminary tests showed no dangerous chemicals in the air.
As many as 60 dead pigeons, sparrows and grackles were found overnight along Congress Avenue, a main route through downtown. No human injuries or illnesses were reported.
The reaction to this event is interesting to me. "Canary in a coal mine" seems to be the implicit message of closing the downtown area to human business. An airborne chemical strikes me as pretty unlikely, as these three bird species aren't going to be clustered together where a concentration of gas would kill them all--what are we imagining here? A dense cloud of poison gas hovering over the city? Have they detained the Joker?
I do love an urban nature mystery, and I hope they figure this one out in a hurry. Hopefully some brainiac has made the step of ordering necropsies of the birds to see what killed them. My prediction is that they will find that the birds were deliberately poisoned.
Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead in the streets, but officials said preliminary tests showed no dangerous chemicals in the air.
As many as 60 dead pigeons, sparrows and grackles were found overnight along Congress Avenue, a main route through downtown. No human injuries or illnesses were reported.
The reaction to this event is interesting to me. "Canary in a coal mine" seems to be the implicit message of closing the downtown area to human business. An airborne chemical strikes me as pretty unlikely, as these three bird species aren't going to be clustered together where a concentration of gas would kill them all--what are we imagining here? A dense cloud of poison gas hovering over the city? Have they detained the Joker?
I do love an urban nature mystery, and I hope they figure this one out in a hurry. Hopefully some brainiac has made the step of ordering necropsies of the birds to see what killed them. My prediction is that they will find that the birds were deliberately poisoned.
I had to attend a "retreat" at Habitat today. Having to take the train to Belmont and walking to the sanctuary was the best part of the day.
( visit beautiful Belmont )
( visit beautiful Belmont )
