Moth on Screen Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Saw this guy this morning on our front door. I don’t know my bugs. Anyone in the audience able to identify? update: Chantal, in the comments, says: “That’s a white-lined sphinx hummingbird moth!”
Parrot tulipOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The garden’s going all nutso pretty all of a sudden, and Lissa got some nice pictures for me this afternoon, that we might share with y’all. The parrot tulips are the showiest of all right now. Meanwhile, the grape hyacinth are everywhere right now – sprinkled through our big iris …
White Iris Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The little miniature white iris in our front yard started blooming this week.
reading: Em Hall’s High and Dry, a classic on New Mexico water that’s one of those books that everyone says you should read. I am. paper of the day: ENSO as a mediator of the solar influence on climate, Julien Emile-Geay and colleagues, in paleoceanography last month: “ENSO may plausibly have acted as a mediator …
Bridge bridge Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It’s too early yet (Feb. 25, 2007) for the cottonwoods to be leafing out, but it seems worthwhile for phenological purposes to note when things aren’t happening as well as when they are – to sort of bracket the phenomenon. This is from a nice midday bike ride with …
Our most spectacular neighborhood bird, the Northern Flicker, paid a visit to the backyard pond this morning. The pond is really a stock tank whose purpose, in addition to the entertainment provided by its undirected ecosystem, is to serve as a watering hole for neighborhood birds. Last weekend, Lissa banged through the ice and within …
My first cranes of fall Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The whole point of yesterday’s bike ride was sandhill cranes. Nature did not disappoint. update: Looks like Johnny_Mango was there a week ahead of us. It’s like these birds are out there posing for photo ops.
Looks like the National Phenology Network is chugging forward: Over the past two years, Julio Betancourt of the Desert Laboratory has been collaborating with Mark Schwartz of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a group of scientists from various disciplines, federal agencies, academic institutions, and environmental networks to develop a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast phenology observation network for …
Not exactly phenology (is there such a thing as “cultural phenology”?), but Nora Friday noted another sign of fall: The mornings are getting brisker now; I need to wear my jacket when I walk to class in the mornings. Cold mornings mean hot air balloons, of course.
reading: Linda Cordell’s Archaeology of the Southwest. This is one of those standards that you’re supposed to have lying around to refer to, but who actually reads these? (I am, actually. Great overview of what’s known.) music: Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale doing Pipeline. Do they have waves in Texas? bonus extra track: Don …