Thursday, September 05, 2013
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
- Corrie aids recovery of baby puffin plucked from d...
- Common crane breeding in Scotland for first time s...
- New warning over pigeons in Cambridge after bird '...
- Use of cannons to deter birds spurs counterattack
DALE DRINNON: Giant land crabs, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs,
New at Frontiers of Zoology:
Will get back to Pembroke Dock ASAP.
New at Frontiers of Anthropology:
Benny has three new articles up at his blog for Thelma Todd:
And on Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
Best Wishes, Dale D.
Help Us Rescue Terrapins from Storm Drains-Wetlands Institute
Drain Rescue----Are you interested in helping young diamondback terrapins?
Join The Wetlands Institute staff and dedicated volunteers in an effort to
rescue baby terrapins that have fallen into local storm drains.
Many newly hatched terrapins fall into storm drains every spring and fall
as they make their way to the salt marsh after hatching from their nests. This
spring volunteers rescued 645 babies from Wildwood Crest and Sea Isle City storm
drains!
Volunteers help The Wetlands Institute by expanding the range and number of
storm drains that are checked through our Terrapin Storm Drain Rescue Project.
To contribute, all you’ll need is good eye sight and an extended net to free
terrapins from the drains. The process is simple too. You can check drains at a
monitoring location and on a schedule convenient to you. We just require that
you fill out and submit datasheets so we are able to identify and target storm
drains that prevalently have high numbers of trapped hatchlings.
If you are interested in rescuing hatchling terrapins from storm drains in
the South Jersey area, please come join The Wetlands Institute for a Terrapin
Storm Drain Rescue Workshop on Tuesday September 10, 2013 at 6:00pm. This
hour-long workshop will provide you with a background on our storm drain rescue
efforts, teach you how to monitor storm drains, provide you with training
necessary to utilize our datasheets, and supply you with the equipment needed to
rescue a terrapin from a storm drain.
To register for this workshop, please e-mail Katie Sellers at ksellers@wetlandsinstitute.org
with your name and number of people in attendance by Friday September 6,
2013.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN EMULATES A BOY SCOUT
And so another jolly day is afoot, and
being the early autumn (my favourite time of year) there are all sorts of joyous
things afoot. The new album by Belle and Sebastian, for example, is worth
checking out; another collection of odds and sods in the vein of 'Push Barman to
open old wounds', it is patchy in parts, but largely a thing of total wonder.
There are a couple of percussion heavy tracks that don't really work for me, and
a Shadows pastiche that - IMHO - is totally pointless. But there are many gems.
For example the song 'Meat and Potatoes' about a couple trying to spice up their
sex life, including the line "we tried a can of cold whipped cream, [but] I was
allergic to too much dairy", is classic Stuart Murdoch. It is probably not going
to be the most played B&S album in their canon, either by me or by anyone
else, but it is well worth a listen.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World
Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
Today's Track of the Day is by Primitive Graven
Image
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-primitive-graven.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-primitive-graven.html
Steve Hackett Tour dates
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/steve-hackett-us-tour.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/steve-hackett-us-tour.html
A fan's eye view of a Jon Anderson soundcheck
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/jon-andersons-soundcheck.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/jon-andersons-soundcheck.html
An open letter from Greg Lake
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/an-open-letter-from-greg-lake.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/an-open-letter-from-greg-lake.html
Premiere: The Prog Collective – Shining
Diamonds
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/premiere-prog-collective-shining.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/premiere-prog-collective-shining.html
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links
to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are
not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites.
Honest guv!
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
FUN WITH POULTRY: Happy Eggs - Falling For Clooney Audiobook
Aside from the lush ranges, playhouses and sandpits we provide for our hens, here at the happy egg co we're always looking for new and innovative ways to keep our girls happy.
With this in mind and with the trusty help of renowned British author and hen-keeper Catherine Alliott, we’ve produced our very own romantic Chick-Lit audiobook to play to our girls to help them settle at night after research found that the human voice can have a calming effect on laying birds.
We’ll be sending out Falling for Clooney to all of our happy eggs farmers to play to their girls in their hen houses at night!
Why not download it for yourselves and play it your own hens!
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1666 the Great Fire of London came to an end. In only a few days most of
the City of London (as in the current confines of the financial fiefdom not as
in the entire the urban conurbation) had been burnt down.
And now
the news:
A
typical street scene in London as one might see on any of it's
streets:
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