MelHamnavoe@derickr youngest told me this morning that a lot of the #OnlineSafetyAct age verifications can be #rickrolled (bypassed with a Rick Astley img) which is both hilarious and sums up this idiocy perfectly.
Ignatz Pippin
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Retired software engineer, birder, backyard orchardist. I followed a lot of naturalist types on Twitter and this looked like a place they might show up.
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Saw sturgeon in Cobbosseecontee Stream in Gardiner, Maine; that’s about 40 miles up the Kennebec River from the ocean
Seen on a walk on our neighborhood in SW Maine; there was also a vernal pool with lots of tadpoles and a spotted sandpiper, and Merlin identified a singing bird as rose-breasted grosbeak. We didn’t see it
Random Newton Highlands front yard becomes wild turkey lek (there was a hen by the front door not looking interested)
@dezene the closest I’ve ever been to where you work is Kamloops, in the course of a transcontinental road trip in 1985. But I have good feelings about Kamloops, because it was raining all the way from Toronto to Saskatchewan. The first good weather was in central BC!
I forgot to mention, this is southwestern Maine, near the corner of Cumberland, Oxford, and Androscoggin counties.
My wife found two red-backed salamanders and a small frog between the soil filling a small plastic planter and the planter about a week ago, neither moving at all, all looking very flat (except for the salamander tails, which were rounded, more like healthy earthworms). We turned the soil ball back over, but left it out of the pot. Next day, no frog. Today, no salamanders either. Any comments?
My car (parked under a sidewalk tree, Norway maple) gets covered in maple flowers every year, but I had never noticed the samaras forming in the flowers until I saw a different tree in bloom yesterday