A friend’s male (musket?) Cooper’s Hawk. If this is the look one would get from an incoming Dromaeosaurid, heart attack would be a likely cause of prey death.
Sno-Cat!
The local historians think that the Second Miskatonic Antarctic Expedition had 3 Sno-Cats (along with the with the LeTourneau Snow Train mothership): 2 Utilities and 1 Freighter and that those vehicles that weren’t destroyed were brought back to the Archive. I’ve been seeing this beauty on Rte. 236 in Eliot, Maine for a couple months and decided to stop and get some photos today. Mo Labrie is going to kill me, but I forgot to get serial numbers/VINs etc. I’ll have to stop again; no telling if the Goat Island Project historians can tie this Sno-Cat back to the 2nd Misky (as they call it), but they’ll need numbers to even try.
I guess that sometimes you need to lay on the horn out on the Antarctic plateau.
Three bog garden photos
Good things continue to happen in the bog garden.
Drosera seedlings.
Rose pogonia – Pogonia ophioglossoides.
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Some spring milestones
It’s been a (re)productive spring here at the ranch. Some pictures:
I sighted some fry in one of the Betta macrostoma tanks. They are mouth-brooders; males have had clutches in their gullets before, but this is the first hatch-out.
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The Dendrobates leucomelas Guyana Banded laid their first eggs. A shot, taken moments ago, of the developing tads.
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My tiny little plug of Utricularia jamesoniana decided to flower. This is a woo-hoo all out of proportion to the size of the plant: I looked for a division of jamesoniana for years and to get one and have it flower within a year is a cause for celebration.
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And lastly, something I had nothing to do with at all. A Polyphemus Moth on a column at work:
