(photo R Graves)
Yea, the big storm is here. Rain and rain and some wind. The ravens don’t care though, I hear them now communicating. We sort of mind though as it feels like the closing of the curtain on Summertime.
But I have a project going out in the shop so I will be sheltered and content. We got the roof fixed over there and a new supply of firewood in place, all ready. I am building two exterior doors for Jen’s new art studio. Found some nice white pine to use. They will be sturdy
and full of character.
That’s like us, sturdy and full of character! At least that is what we should be shooting for. Those are the characteristics that will get us through these crazy days here in the States. It is hard to describe all the disorder that is occurring here in 2020. It is most like a storm, a weather event, yes.
Cris our CSABC and Catalina our Caminoheads Historian had a big confab yesterday. We are working on the “blog book”. We need a working title don’t we? Anyway, things are moving along. The process of converting from a blog to a book is most interesting. We are muddling our way. Oh, we are doing way better than that!
Well, I think I will mosey over to the shop and get things started for the day. Hang tough and keep centered!
sturdy loves, Felipé.
We get a lot of crow type birds on the beach and I was debating with my cousin if the are Carrion Crows,Rooks or Ravens.i’ve sort of eliminated Rooks due to the beak.they are one of the few terrestrial birds to go on the beach probably because of their more aggressive nature they’re not driven off by the Seagulls?I see Pidgons and Starlings from time to time too but not regularly like Crows.
Kevan ~ bird watching hey? I‘ve been entranced by the hummingbirds lately. We put up our feeder for them and they come to entertain us. Do you have hummingbirds there? Felipé.
Hi boss,
The week has been full of great meetings, it seems! This picture of “The three Amigos + Jenn” summarizes a great meeting, and definitely, our meeting in the afternoon was great too!
I just laughed at reading your line that “2020 is like a storm, a weather event”, very Pacific Northwest! 🙂 You guys love to talk about the weather… So, I think I will chime in with my weather report: beautiful spring day here, sunny, a bit windy, but mostly sunny and warm… still we are locked down, so I have been at home the whole day, but gladly my tiny apartment has big windows and I have a number of planters with lavenders to remind me of my gardening job at Raven Ranch a few years back!
Best Conversational Love,
Cris
Cris ~ yes, we had major fun Thursday for the walk out of SJPP. Phil’s Camino goes on! I was out mowing the trail yesterday afternoon in a break in the weather. The wind had dried the grass making it movable and I jump on it. May be the last time this season. That will keep our feet drier all winter. Felipé.x
No we don’t have hummingbirds anywhere in Europe and I think that they are only found in South and North America?I use to think of them as tropical birds but they get pretty far north,I wonder how far they get the other way towards Cape Horn?
Kevan ~ They are most amazing. We will get Cris our South America Bureau Chief on it for the info. Felipé.
I have looked up the hummingbirds range from southern Alaska to the very tip of South America.occasionaly some have flown across to Asia from Alaska.no reports from the Antarctic p
Peninsula.
Exactly!!! We have lots of hummingbirds here in Buenos Aires, but I have seen them in the Patagonia too. In Argentina, we call them “Colibrí”
I had no idea there were no hummingbirds in Europe, though…
Wow… we are becoming the Caminoheads-pedia…!!!
Cris ~ ah, great! I love them. Have you a feeder outside your window? Felipé.x
Kevan ~ good report, thank you. Felipé.
A brave hummingbird could fly to Greenland,then Iceland and Scotland to get to Europe,a perilous trip and that’s assuming any live in the very cold parts of Canada next to Greenland?the polar bears could have eaten them!
Kevan ~ I know that hummers fly across the Caribbean Sea in migration. What is that old maxim, nature abhors a vacuum? Could be! Felipé. PS – you better watch out, you could get on full time here!
Hummingbirds live on pollen I think so once north of Canada’s southern belt there’s nothing to eat until Scotland! very few decent sized plants in Greenland and Iceland although I have never been to Greenland,few people have!Iceland has stunted trees although I read that Rekjavik doesn’t get as cold as Zurich in winter but I was there in an October and ice froze on the streets I’d imagine Greenland is much worse.by the way the capital of Greenland is called Nuuk and originally went by the Danish name of Gothaarb or God’s Harbour.-1c in Nuuk at 12hr..
Kevan ~ here we put a certain recipe of sugar water in the feeders for the hummingbirds and they live on that all winter. What if we took a hundred over to Scotland and let them go. Like they were hitchhiking and we gave them a lift. Felipé.
If they live in humid temperature climates like Washington, BC and s.w. Alaska they could easily survive in western Scotland but it will have evolved different plants which they may not like the nectar off?
Kevan ~ maybe we could throw in some flower seed, make it a whole package. Felipé.
These days it’s illegal to introduce alien species! Australia has been over run by rabbits and foxes which where introduced by European sportsmen for hunting.i use to keep Painted Turtles outside in a garden pond but I believe that is illegal now incase they escape into the wild.people have released large aggressive,if you try to handle them, North American Snapping Turtles here and they probably bought them as pets and let them go when they got too big.in England we call freshwater turtles…. terrapins, tortoises are land dwelling ones and turtles generally sea turtles only.in the USA turtle is often used for all three but you have things like a Goper Tortoise and Diamondback Terrapin.those huge ones found in the Galapagos Islands are generally referred to as tortoises.
Kevan ~ right, yes, highly illegal but fun to think about. There was a thing on FaceBook going around that was about feral pigs on remote islands. They were originally put there for food for shipwrecked seaman and now the governments are trying to get rid of them, the pigs that is. There are plenty of instances of things that sounded like good ideas at the time. Felipé.
Pig’s,goats,sheep,etc they took them to remote islands so if a ship was wreaked the sailors would be able to hunt them for food.in those days they didn’t care about the effect on the already existing wildlife.some strange ones like reindeer on the sub Antarctic island of South Georgia.rats are a big problem too and they got to remote islands on sailing ships.i was just reading about a bird that flew,non stop,all the way from Alaska to New Zealand!
Kevan ~ man, that is one traveling bird, from Alaska to New Zealand! How did anyone figure this out? Felipé.
I expect that someone had ringed it?
Kevan ~ what does that mean? Lost you. Felipé.
Ornithologists put little metal rings on birds legs so that they can track their movements.
Kevan ~ OK, got it. We call it banding here. Yes, of course. That must have been a surprise to figure out that flight. I was out on a sailing adventure somewhere between Hawaii and California, out in the Middle of Nowhere and we had an owl land in the rigging and rest up for a while. What the heck? Felipé.