January 9 is Static Electricity Day – no one knows why.
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Why am I wishing you a Happy Bird-day?
January 5, 2017
“National Bird Day is on January 5 each year, as it’s scheduled to coincide with the end of the annual Christmas Bird Count. The Christmas Bird Count has been going on for more than a decade. It lasts three weeks and is the longest running citizen science survey in the world that helps to monitor the health of our nation’s birds. Birders and the public go out and count as many birds as they can see during the count.
The reason National Bird Day falls on January 5 is that, for three weeks, the country is focused on native birds and wild populations. Once that period ends, we begin to focus on captive birds (who mainly consist of bird species that are native to other countries, but who are kept in captivity in the U.S.). January 5 is the new beginning for captive birds!” – more facts and activities here
What am I sappy feathered star blogging?
December 16, 2016
I think this creature is really interesting. It is a crinoid. I have fossil crinoids. I thought they were extinct. Look at this one just swimming around. Sometimes they are on stalks and are called sea lilies. They are related to star fish and sea urchins.
What is Wednesday about? Freckles . . .
December 14, 2016
What am I sappy nudibranch blogging?
December 2, 2016
This tiny fellow is a member of the nudibranch family. Nudibranchs (naked gills) are gastropod molluscs that shed their shells early in their lives and swim around naked and free.
What did I see on tattoo Tuesday?
November 22, 2016
This morning on the way to work at Fancy-pants University, which is in what we call an urban setting, I spied this guy off on the grass – actually there were two of them. I quickly took a photo and if you zoom in on it you will see . . .
I don’t know where they came from, but clearly they were making a break for it.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 