Tag: nature
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Found GCAYFMG Més enllà de la via II (13) - Granja Fortuny
This checkin to GCAYFMG Més enllà de la via II (13) - Granja Fortuny reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Retreived the cache from beneath its insect guardian (pictured). TFTC!
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A hundred and fifty one days since we were flooded out of our house, and I needed to visit to meet a contractor. The garden's starting to get a little wild, this summer: we've been periodically visiting to mow the lawn, but our hedge seems to have decided that this could be the year that it will consume the gate once and for all...
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In a verdant garden, an unkempt hedge of various species grows into the space of a green-painted wooden gate, beginning to hide it.
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Drinking a coffee while editing a podcast episode in the beautiful Ullswater valley, and this lovely little pied wagtail came by to say good morning!
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Pied Wagtail (motacilla alba yarrelli) atop a dry stone wall.
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Wikipedia @ 25: Cirrothauma Murrayi
Today, Wikipedia introduced me to a mysterious deep-dwelling octopus. So cool!
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Wikipedia @ 25: Lake Baikal
Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really, really big lake. Like: it's got about a fifth of the world's fresh water in it; that's how big it is!
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This plant has sonehow managed to grow through the atrtoturf lawn of our temporary home!
Life... uh... finds a way?
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A leafy plant growing in the middle of an artificial lawn.
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I don't know what this machine was (a crane, perhaps), but it's now been almost-completely reclaimed by nature.
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Rusted remains of what might have once been a crane lie in a pasture, almost completely enveloped in thick brambles.
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Small-World Serendipity
We travelled 7,000km across the ocean only to find, by complete coincidence, that the Caribbean’s biggest cymruphile is the captain of a boat we chartered when we fancied a morning of reef-snorkelling and turtle-spotting.
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Something I've long enjoyed about Automattic gatherings is the opportunity to meet some the most diverse characters you'll ever find in one place.
But today was the first time I've ever been at a beachside disco that was attended by a foraging racoon.
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A slender long-tailed racoon stands on wooden decking in front of lush tropical vegetation.
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Bumblebees surprise scientists with 'sophisticated' social learning
There are two - maybe three - things I love about the recent discovery that bees exhibit complex social learning behaviours. Allow me to drone on about bees for a while...
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I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
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The Great Flamingo Uprising
The story of the war between the geese and the flamingoes at a petting zoo. Laugh-out-loud funny.
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The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander
Wired wrote an article about the mythology surrounding salamanders, and it reminds Dan of other animal myths.
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Seconds after I took this "penguin selfie", a third penguin snuck up behind me and bit me on the arse. 🇿🇦🐧😧
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I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. 🇿🇦🌅😍