by Matthew Cobb
And yes it is indeed Wednesday, and that means that yesterday was Tuesday, no matter what I wrote here. Don’t believe everything you read on the Interwebz, folks!
In Poland, too, it is Wednesday, and autumn has well and truly kicked in. I can’t tell whether Hili is pleased or annoyed, but she certainly is:
Ja: Powoli jakoś sobie z tym poradzimy.
30 October 1944 | Evacuation transport of 1,308 female Jews from Auschwitz reached the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Among them probably sisters Anne & Margot Frank. They died there of typhus at the beginning of 1945. pic.twitter.com/S9sXiLP4lA
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) October 30, 2019
You know it's autumn when you spot this happening in the sky 😲#Autumnwatch pic.twitter.com/O5pyOMzhIJ
— BBC Springwatch (@BBCSpringwatch) October 24, 2019
Sanderlings reliably greet me at nearly every beach trip. I love to watch them run like little windup toys as they play tag with the waves. pic.twitter.com/leMXqMBR1i
— Get To Know Nature (@GetToKnowNature) October 26, 2019
"The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
upon the place beneath; It is twice blessed,
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."William Shakespeare https://t.co/ySEuwGpkJQ
— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) October 29, 2019
I too wish to jog with these tiny raptors. pic.twitter.com/NooMeQajFF
— Clip Clop Flappy Top (@MelliesLair) October 26, 2019
Video of the so-called "holy grail" of nudibranchs, Melibe colemani, the ghost nudibranch #seaslugday https://t.co/7GMZlvpiy3
— Christopher Mah (@echinoblog) October 29, 2018
Cat Snails!#medieval pic.twitter.com/vFDmmPruxc
— Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) October 28, 2019
Good Hili Dialogue entry!
Amazing ghost nudibranch!
Are those pheasants in the video?
Matthew described them as Golden Pheasants but I think that is incorrect. Golden pheasant is Chrysolophus pictus – I think these are Reeves Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii which jhas a white crown and neck ring like these. The native range of Reeves pheasant is in China but it has been introduced as a game and ornamental species in the UK and elsewhere.
Amazing. To my knowledge you would never see our typical pheasants here doing something like this. Nor would you see them in such numbers all together.
I can only assume that they were reared in a hatchery and are accustomed to being fed by humans. Behaving in this way does not seem likely to be a very effective survival strategy for a wild bird!
Yeah, those aren’t golden pheasants. But as far as invasive species go, at least this one is pretty.
Bit of a stretch describing them as ‘tiny raptors’, though, isn’t it?
Agree, definitely not golden pheasants – Reeves pheasants
The portrait of the Frank sisters is sombre beyond belief. We feel we know Anne. What a loss.
What will happen to that bear?
I was wondering that myself. I doubt it would survive without its mom. It was probably taken to a wildlife refuge, but then what? who knows?
Well, touching, so long as Momma isn’t around (in which case it’s Run Like Hell, I think…)
Joking aside, I’d be feeling very cautious in that situation.
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