OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

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On this day in 2011 the space shuttle Discovery landed for the last time.

And now the news:

Using a Gun in Bear Encounters Doesn't Make You Sa...
Bats in northern Australian town prompt disease wa...
Aggressive Turkey, Named 'Godzilla,' Stalks Detroi...
Dinosaur Guts Reveal Velociraptor's Last Meal
Shark found dead in blaze at bungalow
BIGFOOT-HUNTING AIRSHIP TO BE LAUNCHED IN UTAH
Grave costs of tortoise paperwork operation
Virus threatening Critically Endangered Mauritius ...
Rhino wars – 7th March 2012
Standing Still in Running Water: Lotic Dragon and ...

Bud-a-bow-bow… the fiiiinnnnaalll touchdown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVlPH3ZiVnU

DALE DRINNON: Atlantis/Primate Family Tree

Maps and Charts Time:

New on the Frontiers of Anthropology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/03/surveys-of-atlantis-continued.html

New on the Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/amended-primate-family-tree.html

CFZ NEW ZEALAND: Search for the last Kakapo

A Conservation Department (DOC) team flew to Fiordland - the endangered birds' last mainland stronghold - in the hope of finding evidence of their existence in historic breeding areas. The trip was sparked by a credible-sounding report from trampers that the ground-dwelling parrot's distinctive "booming", or mating call, was heard in the remote Transit Valley, near Milford Sound, on New Year's Day.

Read on...

JON'S JOURNAL: Breeding blackbirds

Since the departure of Helios 7 with Oll last October, the songbird population of the garden seem to be a little more relaxed. There are a pair of thrushes nesting in the yew tree outside my study window, and the first pair of blackbirds (there were three pairs last year) have started doing what comes naturally.

Here, a diligent female blackbird collects moss from the lawn for nesting materials. I think my grandmother (who first laid the lawn) must be rolling in her grave at the thought that there is moss on the lawn, but it is hardly avoidable with the siggy summer s we have had for the past five years.

JON'S JOURNAL: The Garden Game

Spring has definitely sprung, and Graham has been busy in the garden.

First of all, he has been putting our new chainsaw to good use, and preparing some firewood for next winter. It all looks uncharacteristically neat and tidy.

Those of you who have been to the CFZ in the last few years will remember thnat at the 2007 Weird Weekend cocktail party irreparable damage was done to a chunk of the lawn underneath the old spreading beech trees in the middle of the grounds.

We have tried to replant the lawn with differing degrees of success: we tried re-seeding, re turfing, and even translocating chunks of turf from elsewhere in the garden, but nothing worked for more than a few months.

So, we have finally given in to the inevitable, and Graham has created a rather swish new flower bed...

Looking at that picture here I rather think that the handsome fellow on the left has lost some weight. After being on this very stringent diet since the beginning of December I bloody better have!

BIG CAT NEWS: Another one from Scotland, courtesy of Nigel Wright

This afternoon Nigel Wright, an old friend of us all, wrote to me:

Hi Mate!...

I have just got this in, thought you might be very intrested in the desription given of the cat!..I cant regonise what it could be?...here is the local newspaper link, from northg Scotland....

http://www.lochaber-news.co.uk/News/Big-cat-on-the-prowl-in-Corpach-29022012.htm

The animal was described as:

"I haven’t seen it for a while but it’s about the size of a collie and has a big bushy tail and the zig zag stripe patterns I would associate with a wildcat"

Thanks for that Nigel. What do you guys think?

BIG CAT NEWS: More on the Smallthorne Beast

I received another letter from the bloke behind the recent reports of The Beast of Smallthorne. He writes:

"Dr Shuker has got an inventive imagination, he starts off with words like 'Spoofed you again' he seems to be using 'suggestion' here, that is how he gets people to doubt from the very start. Then cunningly invent his own false evidence, he says 'the photohas been darkened and tilted very slightly to the left the Cub's head has been changed', This is pure invention, where is he basing this from? was he looking over my shoulder ? and the comment on the eyes of the Cub, common sense shows that Black Leopards have similar eyes".

No changes have been made to this narrative which is exactly as it was received.

Goodness me. I wonder what will happen next.