TYPICAL MONDAY

Another Monday, starting early. . .I wonder if this one will last all week?

 

 

  

THE 6th of JUNE, 1944

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

PICTURE PERFECT -- The Letter "B" is the Theme.

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Oh Boy!!!  I was really looking forward to this one!!! Heather chose the letter "B" as our theme.  And what is the first thing a red blooded American male thinks of?  Well yes, it might be beer, and yes it might be baseball for some of us, but for the great majority of us, the eternally immature,  it is BOOBIES!!!  I headed down to the beach, as it was a beautiful day here, but it did not turn out as well as I had hoped.

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Who would have thought they would be so easily upset.

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So after they released me from the hospital, I found a much safer subject.

BLUE BOTTLE

GREAT TITS IN THE CITY; GREAT TITS IN THE COUNTRY

I never imagined this in my wildest dreams, well, honestly, maybe  I have dreamed this in a wild dream or two!! But imagine, being able to listen to Great Tits sing!!??  Can you imagine that?  They can sing!!!!  You must be quiet.  You must concentrate. You must go where the Great Tits go.  You must think like the Great Tits think.  You must become one with the Great Tits. If you can do all those things, and listen like you have never listened before, you too might hear, the song of the Great Tits. . .

CITY TITS SHUN COUNTRY TITS CLAIM SCIENTISTS. 

by Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent, The Telegraph, Telegraph.co.uk

"Rural and City birds fail to warm to each other, just like humans, because they are not attracted to each others songs."

Male Great Tits in cities respond more strongly to songs of fellow city dwellers than to their country cousins – and the feeling is mutual.

A survey of the common garden bird across the UK has shown that the average minimum pitch of their songs is higher in noisy urban areas than in quieter, rural locations just a few miles away

And when the song from the city is played to those in the country they do not respond to it like they do to their own neighbours, claims the study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

 

 

Male birds sing songs to defend their territory and to attract a mate. In urban environments the birds have adopted a higher pitch song in order to be heard over the din of the city.

 

 

 

 

But if they move into the country, they found that their song is not so effective.Dr Rupert Marshall, of Aberystwyth University, Wales, who lead the project, and his team recorded bird song in 20 different cities in Britain. They then recorded birdsong just outside each conurbation – around two miles away.

 

                                                                             

You have your Great Tits, and then you have your Bouncing Tits, same bird, different traits. . .

 

When songs from the country were played in the city and visa versa using a speaker, it was discovered that other male birds in the close vicinity did not respond to it by singing back or flying towards the speaker.

Dr Marshall said: "People speak louder and higher in noisy places like pubs and bars but still recognise their friends' voices once they go outside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not sure which is happier, the Great Tits being held?  Or the Hands holding them?

 

 

 

 

"Great tits seem to learn the high notes from their neighbours but don't respond as strongly to lower rural tones even when it's quiet."

Dr Marshall's PhD student Emily Mockford suggests "the next step is to find out what the females make of these different songs – will they want to mate with a guy who sings too high or too low?"

 

 

 

And Next week we shall take a close up and personal look at Boobies:

BIG BROTHER IS HERE NOW!!!! SATELLITES ARE WATCHING!!

And all this time, people were telling me I was just paranoid!!!  Well, just because you are paranoid, does not mean someone is not out to get you!!!!  That is just the way it is.  Shhhhhh!  I think they are here again. . .

 

THE POOP ON FINDING PENGUINS

AP News, by Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON – Scientists looking for lost (Who says they were lost!!??) penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space.

 

 

"Be still, it is going over head again!!"

 

 

 

 

In remote  Antartica, about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States,researchers have been unable to figure out just where colonies of emperor penguins live and if their population is in peril.

 

 

"Do we look lost?"

 

 

 

 

 

It's harder still because emperor penguins, featured in the film "March of the Penguins," breed on sea ice, which scientists say will shrink significantly in the future because of global warming. Because the large penguins stay on the same ice for months, their poop (We think some scientist[s] have a  fetish problem) stains make them stand out from space.

 

 

 

Scientists at the British Antartic Survey found this out by accident (of course it was) when they were looking at satellite images of their bases. A reddish-brown streak on the colorless ice was right where they knew a colony was, said survey mapping scientist Peter Fretwell.

 

 

 

 

The stain was penguin poo — particularly smelly stuff — and it gave researchers an idea to search for brown stains to find penguins. They found the same telltale trail, usually dark enough to spot from space, all over the continent, said Fretwell by telephone from England.

Satellite image showing guano stains of an emperor penguin colony in Halley Bay, Antarctica (British Antartic Survey Picture)

 

 

 

Using satellite data, the scientists found 10 new colonies of penguins, six colonies that had moved from previously mapped positions (What part of leave us alone did you not understand?) to new spots and another six that seemed to have disappeared. Overall, 38 colonies were spotted from above, according to Fretwell's paper, "Penguins From Space" in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography. "It's a very important result scientifically, even though it's a lighthearted method," Fretwell said Monday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even though Antarctic sea ice hasn't melted so far, scientists predict it to shrink by one-third by the end of the century, potentially threatening the birds, Fretwell said.

 

 

 

 

 

The research is "incredibly useful," because the only time to see emperors are during breeding in winter when weather makes it nearly impossible to get to the colonies, said longtime penguin researcher William Fraser, who wasn't involved in the study. Fraser noted that salty penguin guano "over time will corrode your boots," adding that he has lost nearly a dozen pairs to poop in 35 years of penguin research. (It is called Kharma)

"You spelled it wrong, there are two "L's"!!"