Biolite campstove and charger. Does it work? Yes. Is it heavy? Yes. Will it last? No. Not as reliable as a Coleman, Primus or MSR burner
I always thought these things were basically scams, junk. I knew electronics and fire aren't a good mix, and the math didn't add up. And this proves it.
There are two main types of window collisions: daytime and nighttime. In daylight, birds crash into windows because they see reflections of vegetation or see through the glass to potted plants or vegetation on the other side. At night, nocturnal migrants (including most songbirds) crash because they fly into lighted windows. Some of these nighttime collisions are due to chance, but much more often the nocturnal migrants are lured to their deaths by the lights. For reasons not entirely understood, lights divert nocturnal migrants from their original path, especially in low-ceiling or foggy conditions. In the lighted area, they mill about, sometimes colliding with one another or the lighted structure. The Fatal Light Awareness Program, based in Toronto, Canada, has much more about this problem.
There’s one additional reason: birds sometimes see their reflection in a window and attack it. This happens most frequently in the spring when territoriality is high. Although it can be annoying to the homeowner, it’s seldom a threat to the bird’s survival. Most of the remedies suggested below for window strikes will also help solve the problem of a bird attacking its reflection.
Some of Jolene Connelly’s best childhood memories involved time spent with her grandmother, who worked at a garment factory that dealt with furs.
“I would sit on the steps in her attic and pore through boxes of fur swatches trying to identify the animals they came from,” said the Selinsgrove (Snyder County) native.
Those moments helped spark her interest in trapping, becoming one of a growing trend of women participating in an activity that is shrouded in negative stigma involving animal welfare.
“I am an animal lover, and I assure you that if I thought that trapping would put any animal under a large amount of stress, I would find it hard to participate,” she said. “Any time you see the number of trappers dwindle, you see more diseased animals with mange, distemper and other issues, along with more human-animal conflict. Trapping is a vital part of our conservation that helps animal populations stay healthy and happy.”
It was the final morning of the 2019 “summer” camping season up at Pisceo-Powley Road. With my autumn road trip in two weeks, I knew that I wouldn’t likely be back up here until 2020.
I watched the sunrise from a much southerly place than in mid summer from my campsite perched high on the hill above East Canada Creek. The sun climbed and climbed until it was in my eyes.
It was a mild morning although still a bit chilly because the temperature dropped down the night before it was almost autumn. I turned the radio on briefly before deciding I preferred listening to the noise of woods, the rumble of Brayhouse Falls in the distance.
The eggs and the coffee were good as the clock ticked by quickly. Autumn days are not long, sunset will be over the land before you know it. Not that it matters, I had to be home fairly early today to go out to the folks house for Sunday dinner and prepare for work next week.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Jenkins said, he would tag hundreds of monarchs in a week. Now, like many others across the continent, he sees fewer monarchs each year, though there are occasional influxes. Some years, the number he tags drops to single digits.
Jenkins is witnessing the North American monarchs’ rapid decline firsthand. Eastern monarch populations have decreased by at least 80 percent in the past two decades, according to Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. The Western monarch, which migrates only on the coast of California, has declined by 99 percent. The entire North American population is currently under review to be placed under the Endangered Species Act.
For one, DDT use was widespread in the early seventies and that was widely known to cause egg shells of eagles and many other birds to be thin and crack easily.
Two, I have to wonder if the Christmas Bird counts which the study is based on have methodology errors – like fewer people participating today compared to 1970.
Third, blaming neo-nicotines for the decline in birds and butterflies is popular today but how strong is the evidence when these chemicals have short lives and are largely biodegradable and buried underground as seed coatings to protect seeds prior to germination from pests?
It’s good to question and wonder. But we need more science and more answers before we shout ban everything.
The fisher, also known as the fisher cat, is actually a medium-sized member of the weasel family, and not a feline. Native to North America, fishers are commonly found in the Adirondacks.
Male and female fishers differ in length and weight. The male fisher averages a length of 35-47 inches, and the female averages 30-37 inches. The male also weighs more at an average of 7-13 pounds, with the female half that at 3-7 pounds. The most recognizable features include its broad head, narrow muzzle, and long, bushy tail.
The dark, long-haired fisher varies in color from dark brown to black, but adult males have a less uniform coloring; they take on a more grizzled appearance with multicolored hairs around the shoulders, neck, and upper back. The short, furry creatures look friendly, but fishers are predators, and they have sharp, retractable claws.