September 14, 2008 – 5:41 pm
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Okay, not really. From what I saw today on the balloon, she flies MUCH faster than Mothra. But DAMN she big. (at least compared to the 535g of attitude that is Anakin) All 1160g of her is chillin’ on the screen perch right now.
She’s actually incredibly sweet, which makes [...]
September 12, 2008 – 11:34 am
Okay, let’s get all of the bad waterfowl cliches out of the way.
Let’s hope I’ll be the “goose that lays the golden egg” for DU’s conservation effort. Did I mention that I’ve always been “the queen of all things fowl”? It has been pointed out to me that my people used to be “my peeps” but now [...]
September 7, 2008 – 9:24 pm
John Carlson at Prairie Ice kindly lends his fine biologist-behind-the-lens sensibilities
to how one should identify Hollywood Mallards. Enjoy and check archives. John’s photos are amazing!
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Mallard. Hollywood perfect. I dare you to keep a straight face.
September 5, 2008 – 11:19 am
My Holy Land of ducks, Mecca, was acknowleged by Kip even in ‘45. In discussing the Pacific Flyway and its possibilities Kip noted,
“Down on the Salton Sea you will be doing your shooting below sea level, and the quantities of canvasback and redhead around Mecca are just one more of the many things you will [...]
September 3, 2008 – 6:08 pm
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Was less than monumental…but she’ll bring me anything she has and drop it, honest. And she points stuff…sorta. Okay, I know I’ve been the worst dog trainer ever this summer…but we’ll sort it out.
August 31, 2008 – 7:30 am
In 1936 the season was closed on canvasback, redhed, bufflehead, wood duck, ruddy duck and brant. The great drought that caused the dust bowl combined with predation, fires, disease and a lack of best practices had annihilated the duck population. From S. Kip Farrington Jr.’s 1945 book “The Ducks Came Back: The Story of Ducks Unlimited”: Â
Duck hunters [...]
August 24, 2008 – 10:41 am
I went shopping last night —Â on purpose rather than on accident like I normally do. I hate shopping for clothes. I hate even figuring out what to wear. Yet, I think I had fun. When I got home, I opened up my bags and was taken aback by the splash of bright colors and gauzy [...]
August 10, 2008 – 9:45 am
A lot of feinting and yelping… right?
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But you can definitely detect the ”run off” involved in farming marijuana once it gets in the water…
At least you can in the case of discovering two major plantations just south and up the hill from me about five miles away.
I would like to point out that we would all be in much better mood down here if [...]
My first year living in Banning a neighbor asked me if “the bear got in your trash too.” Surely, he meant a possum, I thought, but I asked around and three other neighbors spotted the bear as well. “They always come down in the spring.” I was assured there was nothing to worry about and I [...]
