Friday, February 21, 2020

"Apart from the snowshoe hare, Short and Long-tailed weasels are the only animals whose coats turn white in preparation for winter".........."Both the Long-tailed and Short-tailed(short-tailed also known as Ermine) species ranges overlap with the larger Long-tailed Weasel able to out-compete the smaller Short-tailed"............"As a result, the Short-tailed life-paradigm has a range farther to the north where the the Long-tailed ranges farther to the south(see maps below)"..................."Both Weasel species are generalists, able to swim, climb trees and dig under snow in pursuit of voles, mice, rabbits, rats, lemmings, muskrats, pocket gophers, shrews, moles, squirrels,chipmunks, bats, bird eggs, snowshoe hare, snakes, frogs, and insects"..............."Deer, beaver, and woodchuck carrion is also on their menu with berries of any kind also sought out"............... "Long-haired Weasels will also prey on Short-tails should they cross paths"........."The main source of mortality for both weasel species are foxes, coyotes, owls, large snakes"

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R Read Full Article Winter Weasels – White on White by Susan Shea February 17, 2020 4 Comments Illustration by...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

"Similar to a human family where kids tend to thrive when Mom and Dad stay together and avoid divorce, a new University of Idaho Study reveals that for each year a wolf pair stays together, the odds of their pups surviving into adulthood increased 20%"..............."Unlike Coyotes, where male and females bond for life and remain monogamous, wolf pair bonds are super short" ............"They only last a couple years”.............."On average, wolf pairs stayed together for 2.2 years, although there was wide variance"..............."For instance, one wolf couple in the Idaho Study stayed together for at least nine years, basically an eternity for an animal that is considered ancient at 13"................"The average of 2.2 years found in Idaho aligned with rates measured in a recolonizing wolf population in Sweden".............."The longer wolf pairs remain monogamous, the more stability in the overall wolf pack"..........."Monogamy reduces the occurrence of 'sneaker males', those who come in and mate with females and take off, leaving pup rearing solely to the female and other cohorts".............."Another interesting observation and perhaps also similar to human couples is that when an older wolf mated with a younger wolf, the older appeared to teach the younger how to parent"................. "Pups born to those pairings were more likely to survive than pups born to two first-time parents"

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https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/sep/15/study-suggests-monogamous-wolves-make-better-paren/ Study suggests monogamous wolves ma...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Scientists are working on Fusion and Beaming Solar Power from the Sun to existing Power Stations on Earth—Both sources would power us up without burning carbon and therefore truly be clean and renewable energy sources......Conversely, there are currently 57,000 Giant 500-foot Windmills defacing what once was truly green forest, farm and Desert environs......Yes, when the wind is blowing, they can power up 32 million American homes........With 350 million Americans living here currently, we would need to have 635,000 Windmills up and running without a glitch to power our homes and industry.........Is that what certain Politicians, Academics and Enviros are trying to sell us?,,,,,...More purposely fake news trying to brainwash and delude us about what this so-called “green energy would actually be doing—- Destroying our last remaining open spaces............And let us not forget the extensive digging up the ground to run pipelines to get the energy to us.......And the fact that a ton of oil and precious minerals are required to manufacture the “Mills”.......Is this truly green?.......As my Dad once told me, “you do not get rid of something because it is old”........”You do not start to use something simply because it is new”......”You start doing something new only if is good”——WINDMILLS AND LARGE SCALE SOLAR FARMS—-NOT GOOD!!!!!!

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-the-energy-grid-11581645094 Friday, February 14, 2020-Wall Street Journal WHAT’S NEXT FOR TH...
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Thursday, February 13, 2020

THE GOTHAM URBAN COYOTE PROJECT has been evaluating and studying the Eastern Coyotes that now call New York City and surrounding environs home........They have been following one of the first NYC Eastern Coyotes to make a permanent home in Queens, New York City--- view on video(below)................"As determined by scat analysis, he(male) is at least 10 years old now, old for a wild coyote"

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One of the first NYC Eastern Coyotes coyote to make a permanent home in Queens is pictured on the video below: He is at least 10 years o...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Ranging from the eastern half of the United States across southern portions of Canada and into the Pacific Northwest, the large, Crow-sized 18 inch long Pileated Woodpecker is a year-round resident, braving Winter cold and snow...............“They tend to use deciduous trees more than conifers"...........“Most of their foraging is on dead, dying, or downed trees, but they will utilize trees that aren’t compromised if there’s food there"..........."Omnivorous, they are a key predator of Carpenter Ants".........."Fall and Winter have these woodpeckers dining on nuts, fruits,larvae of beetles and other bugs that excavate into the bark of trees".............."Typically monogamous, both male and female remain within their home territory throughout the year, even when not breeding"

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Pileated Woodpeckers: Winter Excavators Pileated Woodpeckers: Winter Excavators by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul February 3, 2020 ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

"Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together and can even be more successful hunting prairie dogs and ground-squirrels when they work in tandem"............"Studies have shown that this unusual relationship is beneficial for both species"..............."The coyote can chase down prey if it runs and the badger can dig after prey if it heads underground into its burrow systems"

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CLICK ON THIS LINK TO WATCH THE VIDEO 🎥 Peninsula Open Space Trust  pic.twitter.com/oS9BL5JOoK Spotted! A Coyote and Badger H...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Coyote Sightings Bring Cameras To Inwood Hill Park in northern Manhattan and also in Central Park-36 sightings over the past 30 years

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Coyote Sightings  Bring Cameras  To Inwood Hill  Park  Parks officials set up cameras and sent out tips  after rare sightings...