The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning
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Other creatures in our world
You can do it by hand, as I used to, or use recoverjpeg:
dmesg | tail
cd /tmp
sudo dcfldd if=/dev/sde1 of=pix.bin bs=1M count=100
recoverjpeg pix.bin
ristretto image00*
Nothing prizewinning, but better than no picture at all:
Note that you start by copying a reasonable chunk of the partition from the Memory Stick / (micro)SD Card first, to prevent a bad situation from getting worse.
Now I can remember the easy way the next time around this block …
All four nestlings emerged on schedule:
The oldest nestling was ready for feeding almost immediately, even with unopened eyes:
As any infant will tell you, holding your head up is hard work:
But doing only half the job won’t get you fed:
They’re just starting to make little chirps, so this isn’t nearly as raucous as you might think:
The adults seem to have no trouble bringing an endless stream of worms, insects, and unidentifiable organisms from the yard and garden.
Go, birds, go!
The robin nesting atop the garage door spotlights keeps a careful watch over her surroundings:
Based on past experience, we though a blue jay had discovered the nest when we found this in front of the garage door:
A day later, a quick peek when she was off the nest told a different story:
As with humans, only parents can love things like that …
Another pair of robins built a more conventional nest in a small front-yard tree, although they seemed content to start brooding atop only two eggs.
We wish both families well, along with the wrens nesting in the front bird box.
Go, birds, go!
After pausing to recover from construction, Ms Robin laid four eggs in four days:
She’s surprisingly tolerant of our comings and goings, as well as garage door openings and closings:
We’re trying to stay out of her way as much as possible.
The gallery pix come from my phone, held against the soffit over the nest, and aimed entirely by feel, while standing on the Greater Ladder. If I had access to the top of the soffit, I’d drill a webcam hole, but …
Team Beaver continues to add logs, branches, and mud to their dam beside the Dutchess Rail Trail:
Apparently they’re now busy raising a bunch of little beavers inside the lodge. Next year we expect the water will begin rising in other marshes along the rail trail.
Go, beavers, go!
A pair of robins picked the best place for their nest:
I disabled the remote control for those spotlights, as we won’t be using them for a while.
Although I’m sure it’s a wonderful nest, robins certainly leave plenty of debris around their construction site:
I can’t figure how to mount a camera close enough for a good view and keep it out of their landing pattern.
A shed snakeskin appeared when I opened the garage door:
The skin sits atop the retaining wall next to the door, on a stone(-like) background with poor contrast: even an empty snake has good camouflage!
The exterior looks like genuine snakeskin:
I didn’t know the interior has an entirely different pattern:
As far as I can tell, the snake was going about its business elsewhere in the yard.
To be fair, there’s some luck involved.
Update: After Mitch nudged me, I found the (somewhat the worse for wear) snakeskin again. The head end was split, much as I described, but the tail end was intact (the snake having pulled out like a finger from a glove) and what I though was the inside of the top was the outside of the bottom, just pushed inward to form a very thin double layer.
Today I Learned … to always look closer!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 