Botany and Zoo

 Skunk -

                

                 Red Trill -

 

                                              Trout -

 

 Scouting ahead for May-hem

After the March storm

 

 wob

 

Red-breasted Sea Goose

 Well-traveled from the South

 Resting for the North

 WOB

Caught out

 Flash - Lyrid, lyric?

"Astronomer - moon lighting"

PAN SOHO Comet 

 

Or in pictures:

 

 

Lyrids 2026 campaign

- don't know anything lyrical

 Technically, there is only this "Moon", all the others are satellites, and those going around the Earth are called artificial satellites. However, in most cases the meaning and intent is clear - and astronomers don't publish dictionaries.

 So these dancing objects are the 4 Galilean satellites of Jupiter, They are bright enough to be visible to the unaided eye if it were not for the brightness of Jupiter nearby. If one can hold binoculars steady enough one can see them in 8 X 40s or better.

 

 

 Too much moonshine?

 

WOB 

Spring sprang a leak

 Road under water:

Heron,

 

 

Osprey

 

 fly over

Fishing the flooded

 

 WOB

Electrifying April

 3 AM

300m/s

Lightning flashes, Thunder roars!

Cuckoo seeks shelter,

 

Warm air over ice

Snow melts

 The fishin' is good

 But "hair" raising?

 The consequences of too much hot air:

 

 We don't have to heat:

The times are changing quickly:

 

Between mid November and mid April 4 electrical storms, several more heavy rain storms and more than 4m of snow - flooding? 

Soon? 

 

Stay tuned.

Looney,
WOB