March 16th, 2007
some notes and reminders
A few notes and reminders before I go on to my main post of the day:
* Hummingbird Migration: I’ve added a new link to the Citizen Science page of my blog. It’s a link to the Hummingbird Migration page where you view updating maps of the first-sightings-of-the-season of male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds in Canada and the U.S. The page for reporting your own sighting is here.
* Good Planets: The next edition of Good Planets will appear here on March 24th, so try to send submissions along by March 23rd. For the upcoming edition, I’ve decided to go with the theme, A Memory — however you wish to interpret that. I encourage you to send along a photo and a few words to describe the memory associated with the photo. You can email the photo to me, or send a link to the place where it is stored online. Please send only .jpg type files, preferably no larger than 1.0 MB. I just have a very slow dial-up net connection, so anything larger takes a long time to download, or generally gets bounced back to the sender. So, get busy and dig around through your photos and find a memory of something wonderful from our good planet that you would like to share.
* Circus of the Spineless: The next edition of Circus of the Spineless invertebrate blog carnival, will be appearing here on Burning Silo at the end of March. If you’ve blogged about invertebrates recently, or have a special photo, or a link to a good post you’ve seen on someone’s blog, send along a link. I haven’t set a deadline as yet, but tentatively, let’s make it March 28th.
Tags: Hummingbird Migration, Good Planets, Circus of the Spineless
March 16th, 2007 at 9:57 am
I just missed getting a good picture of the first butterfly of the season (a mourning cloak) the other day. Now it’s snowing again. Don’t know if I’ll have anything properly spineless by March 28 or not.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
When you say ‘Spineless’ do politicians count?
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself with that one.
March 17th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Dave – I hope you get your chance to photograph something spineless by the end of March! I should have photographed the Woolly Bear caterpillar that I found inching along the trail through the meadow a couple of days ago. I won’t find it again for at least a few days as we got a bit of snow too.
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Ruhh – Actually, the last time I hosted COTT, I think someone sent in a post about how much politicians had in common with fruit flies. (-: