Guest blog – Viewers May Find Scenes in This Nature Programme Upsetting by Beth Richardson – Mark Avery
Beth is a Sussex-based nature writer who has enjoyed writing for websites, local newspapers and monthly regional and charity magazines. She has recently completed an MA in nature and travel writing at Bath Spa University and hopes to use her new skills and experience in purpose-led PR to write about conservation and rewilding. Warning: Viewers […]
Marine Invertebrate and Intertidal Terms – The Tidepooler
Marine Invertebrate and Intertidal Terms July 9, 2024 Tide pooling isn’t an exclusive hobby for those only with scientific knowledge. But because it deals with marine invertebrates and the ecology of the intertidal, there is plenty of science to delve into, if you want. Every scientific field has field-specific terms that are used to simplify concepts […]
Don’t Make Them Cross the Road
A few days after Thanksgiving last year, a male mountain lion approached Highway 17, the twisty, traffic-filled, high-speed corridor that connects San Jose with Santa Cruz. In previous years, the mountain lion might have turned around. Or it might have jumped out and been hit by a car—like four other mountain lions recently killed on […]
Journaling Situational Awareness, Weather, and Nature’s Unfolding Stories • John Muir Laws
Miriam Morrill, author of Pyrosketchology: An Illustrated Guide to Observing and Journaling about the Fire Environment, gives an introduction and examples to journaling wind observations for enhancing situational awareness (personal safety planning) and examples for using temperature and humidity metadata for observing the intimate relationships and between weather and phenology (unfolding nature stories). Class session […]
Illegal use of lead ammunition to shoot Mallards continues – Mark Avery
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124014702 ^(https://www.blogquicker.com/goto/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124014702) This paper looks at lead pellets retrieved from shot Mallards in the 2020/21 shooting season at a time long after the use of lead ammunition to shoot ducks was made illegal in England (similar but slightly different rules apply in other UK nations). Most Mallards in the study were shot with lead ie […]
Pre-Dawn Summer Low Tide in Orange County – The Tidepooler
Tide Pooling Log: Pre-Dawn Summer Low Tide in Orange County July 17, 2024 Pre-dawn summer low tides are some of the best of the year in Southern California. You can avoid the crowds and the heat while getting the warm water summer species during an excellent low tide. I took advantage of several of the low […]
To Protect Plovers, We’ll Have to Outwit the Ravens
Photography and text by Sarah Killingsworth Matt Lau is scanning for tiny beige spots in a sea of sand. For the past nine years, Lau, a National Park Service wildlife biologist, has been playing this beachfront Where’s Waldo at Point Reyes National Seashore during spring and summer. He’s looking for western snowy plovers (Charadrius nivosus […]
Ask Jack: Grab Bag of Tricks!
In this “Ask Jack” session, John Muir Laws goes over various tips and tricks, including how to sight with binoculars, creating a foggy landscape, using a smudging tool, and iridescence. Read More ^(https://www.blogquicker.com/goto/https://johnmuirlaws.com/ask-jack-grab-bag-of-tricks/) Source ^(https://www.blogquicker.com/goto/https://johnmuirlaws.com/ask-jack-grab-bag-of-tricks/) #Jack #Grab #Bag #Tricks
English Hen Harrier numbers slump – Mark Avery
Hen Harrier chicks. Photo: Gordon Yates Natural England has published, in more detail than in previous years (click here ^(https://www.blogquicker.com/goto/https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/16/drop-in-numbers-of-nesting-hen-harriers-in-2024/)), the numbers of Hen Harriers nesting in England – they are down this year. From Natural England blog https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/16/drop-in-numbers-of-nesting-hen-harriers-in-2024/ ^(https://www.blogquicker.com/goto/https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/16/drop-in-numbers-of-nesting-hen-harriers-in-2024/) Numbers in 2024 are lower than in 2023 and 2022 and only slightly higher than […]
Olympus Tough TG-6 – The Tidepooler
Underwater Camera Review: Olympus Tough TG-6 July 29, 2024 Recently I’ve had some questions about my photos and the camera I use for tide pool photography. I currently use the Olympus Tough TG-6 for all my macro underwater photos. Since you all seem interested, I’ll give a quick review here. Let me know if you are […]