A view of the middle of the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory:
A view of our back yard, one foggy morning:
Coincidence? Ha!
Tag: Wildlife
Other creatures in our world
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Robin Nest: Fledging Day
The robin nestlings fledged fourteen days after we spotted the first eggshell on the driveway below the nest. The first one may have flown away the previous evening, leaving three increasingly restless siblings behind:
Robin Fledging Day – three nestlings They’re recognizably robins now, covered in young-bird speckle camouflage.
Feeding continued apace:
Robin Fledging Day – feeding After feeding, robin nestlings produce fecal sacs, which the parents either eat or carry away:
Robin Fledging Day – fecal sac Robins aren’t big on facial expressions, but, speaking from personal experience, anything to do with diapers isn’t the high point of a parent’s day.
And then there were none:
Robin Fledging Day – empty nest with parasites The gazillion black dots on the soffit are pinpoint-sized insects / mites / ticks infesting the nest and, presumably, the birds. The earlier pictures don’t show them, so perhaps these missed the last bird off the nest and are now regretting their life choices.
Go, birds, … gone!
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JPG Recovery From a Camera FAT Filesystem
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:
Garage Robin – recovered image 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 …
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Robin Nest: Nestlings!
All four nestlings emerged on schedule:
Garage Robin – four nestlings The oldest nestling was ready for feeding almost immediately, even with unopened eyes:
Garage Robin – Nestling begging As any infant will tell you, holding your head up is hard work:
Garage Robin – Nestling dozing But doing only half the job won’t get you fed:
Garage Robin – Nestling recovering They’re just starting to make little chirps, so this isn’t nearly as raucous as you might think:
Garage Robin – Nestlings begging 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!
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Robin Nest: Hatching An Egg A Day
The robin nesting atop the garage door spotlights keeps a careful watch over her surroundings:
Garage Robin – standing guard Based on past experience, we though a blue jay had discovered the nest when we found this in front of the garage door:
Garage Robin – plundered eggshell A day later, a quick peek when she was off the nest told a different story:
Garage Robin – 2 hatchlings 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!
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Robin Nest: Eggs!
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:
Garage Robin Nest – robin brooding 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 …
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Beaver Dam: More Timber!
Team Beaver continues to add logs, branches, and mud to their dam beside the Dutchess Rail Trail:
Beaver Lodge and Dam – DCRT N of Golds Gym – 2020-05-26 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!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 