Nine gulls in a row, facing the wind and followed by snow
Category: wildlife
Critter of the Day: Plume moth
Check out the smiling cat ornament on its shoulders
Cloud of the Day: Nimbostratus
A dull sky brightened by a visit from the Red Kite
Critters of the Day: Snails
Our garden is overrun with billions of these bastards, eating everything in sight and breeding like crazy. They love the wet weather. But the iridescent slime is quite interesting.
Critter of the Day: Nanofrog
Grown from the tadpoles of 12 May
Critters of the Day: Bees
Critter of the Day: Squirrel in the mist
Today Admin1 climbed on the roof and washed all the dust, pollen and birdshit off the solar panels. Result: best day ever (watts-wise)!
Critters of the Day: Two turtle doves
Critters of the Day: Tadpoles
Our pond has been abandoned since we accidentally broke the lining trying to clean it out, but the frogs don’t know that and return every year to spawn in the pint or so of water in the bottom. But lately it has rained so much that the pond has filled up regardless and the frogspawn has brought forth a mass of tadpoles
Cloud of the Day: Nimbostratus
These enormous birds were once extremely rare; now they’re the airborne equivalent of the urban fox
Cloud of the Day: Cumulus
Critters of the Day: Lady(and Gentleman)birds
Critter of the Day: Ladybird
Mostly cloudy; clear later
Another Cloudless Day
For some reason, despite identical conditions, the solar panels produced a bell-shaped output curve and another kilowatt.
The Thieving Magpie
Zambia photos
A small selection of the photos we took on our trip to Zambia, Oct-Nov 2010, is now online. Use the Zambia 2010 link in the menu bar above or click here.
Bats in Zambia
Suburban foxes…
…sunning themselves in the nextdoor back garden, 15 August 2010.
