📷🦉 I Go Pogo

Yeah, I have two boxes of issues from '78-'85 ... if only we had some tech to scan and summarize those 😜

There was a graphic short story in Heavy Metal like that (early '80s???) with the guy being prepped to go in to work his one hour (once a year) and the robots telling him how smart and special he was ... don't remember the ending ...

A comic of a bird singing about somebody eating their babies, and a crow responding that they did and they'd do it again. And below them, it is a man listening to a cd of their conversation entitled "relaxing bird sounds"

When I hear lovely birdsong in the morning, I remember this comic and laugh

The people who destroyed the environment are the ones who should pay for it.

Instead we're still giving them subsidies.

Designing Nature's Half | Climate & Biodiversity Conservation Dr. Ronald J. McCormick, a field naturalist and systems ecologist, shares insights on complex systems theory, including its application in landscape conservation design (LCD). The discussion provides ...

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Designing Nature's Half | Climate & Biodiversity Conservation When federal climate protections shift, conservation planning becomes unstable. This article explores why ecoregional cooperation and landscape design may be essential for durable conservation outcome...

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Rob, my good friend and colleague, is back in writing mode after taking some personal time off. Check out his blog posts, and the podcast with the guy that doesn't have the fancy color headshot, just a B&W of how one carries two cameras, binoculars, phone, and holds the leash of a small rat dog ;-)

Sunrise through a window brightly ...

Mt Hood profile in the background with downtown Portland in the foreground ... sometime in February 2026

🦉 Green-winged Teal at Basket Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Dallas OR sometime in 2026

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

ALERT: New Science Findings🤣

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

flip.it/vpOkqS

Probably a Great Egret, a Snowy would have a dark bill (and be a bit shorter assuming I have the perspective right) ... but you gotta love Snow Goose herds😀

Fireside Chat Episode 01: FDR's Legacy and the Democratic Party YouTube video by Graham Platner for Senate

Watch the full fireside chat on FDR’s legacy here: youtu.be/ehD3MEz1B2g?...

OK, ibis, listen up, no wing flapping, these egrets see any black and they'll vote us off the island😬
Dammit Rodney, what did I just say? Luckily, no one was looking at you, just that silly plumage
Where are the ladies milliners when you need them? Likely gone mad? 🎩😂

Thoughts of a White Ibis ...

Place-Based Solutions The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis

New book from an old friend ... get a copy now!

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Here's the wide angle look at the tree island ... everyone welcome as long as you have white feathers ... well, OK, we'll let the Anhinga stay, but not the Little Blue Heron adults!!!

Showing off ...

🦉📷 with a Great Egret on a small tree island near Venice FL ... the first one is 'daylight' WB, the second is 'auto' ... not yet decided which I prefer ... I'm thinking somewhere in the middle ...

#bird #egret #florida #whitebalance #white #green #plumage

Just a breakfast snack ...

📷🦉 Backyard birding from the living room with a Red-shouldered Hawk pecking away at something ... early Jan '25 in the NOVA

#virginia #hawk #bird #birding #trees

So, good discussion of bat habitat and life history details; kind of missed linking ropey/rough to the ōlelo Hawaiʻi words ... just an observation ;-)

📷views of the huge lava field at Valley of Fires Recreation Area near Carrizozo NM 2025

I'm not a "Christmas" bird!

Vermillion Flycatcher catching a view near Portal NM sometime in 2016

📷🦉

Heel Stone🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️

Denizens of the Bitter Lake NWR, Roswell NM

1) Puddle ducks - two species present (test your knowledge!), but I know there were a few Northern Shoveler in there somewhere
2) Snake of the rattle variety (I don't do reptiles ;-)
3) Location indicator sign

#NWR #bitterlake #newmexico #rattlesnake

Early morning at a slightly smaller Stonehenge ... accurate in most dimensions at 70% scale ... The Heal Stone can be seen in the far right background (seen the plaque for details) ...

University of Texas of the Permian Basin Stonehenge

Built in 2004 by stoneworkers Connie and Brenda Edwards

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 26, 2025 | GoComics Read Calvin and Hobbes—a comic strip by creator Bill Watterson—for today, November 26, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

Circa 1995 ... so much has changed in three decades 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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This 26-year-old political strategist has a new vision for the Democratic Party Morris Katz is a 26-year-old political strategist who wants to take the Democratic party in a new direction. Leila Fadel talks to him about the candidates he's backing and his vision for the future.

Graham has some thoughtful folks helping him ... They got this🖖

www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

#platner #maine #dumpcollins

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

On the way out ...

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Jupiter FL

Fresnel lens
The Way UP
Dedication
History

#lighthouse #florida #jupiter #bureauoflandmangement #DOI #fresnel

The lighthouse at Jupiter Inlet sometime in 2017 ... below, behind, from the top ...

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Jupiter FL

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