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Curse you, Donald Kroodsma – a Review of Raven 1.0
One of the utilities recommended by Donald Kroodsma in his book The Singing Life of Birds is a free software program offered up by Cornell for generating sonograms. I took some time last night to download the program, Raven Lite 1.0. The full Raven Lite program is being offered free (there is also a demo…
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Poetry in every blog.
Dave Bonta has such a wide ranging blog, Via Negativa. His interests run to practically all the world around him, the world he approaches in his own intelligent, literate style. I’m always proud when a post of mine pops up on his incomparable Smorgasblog. For it means that I have crafted my words well, that…
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Suicide
Once again Arctic Bay has lost one of it’s young people to the scourge of suicide. A young man took his life late last night. Suicide is always a tragedy, and unfortunately it is a tragedy that repeats itself over and over and over again in the Arctic. I feel for the young man who…
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Um, but I’ve already been “it”
Man, I can not believe how far behind I am in reading blogs. I’ve just spent the better part of the afternoon trying, without success I should add, to catch up. I really should have been doing other things but…Kara and Matt of The Adventures of Kara and Matt in Kugluktuk tagged me with a…
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Waiting, waiting
This morning, before the wind came up, I was out on the deck having coffee. Funny thing about the wind this time of year it determines if it is winter or spring. Calm days, the sun is intensely warm and even though the outside temperature might be in the minus teens, a t-shirt is sufficiently…
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The Singing Life of Birds
Somewhere, always, the sun is rising, and somewhere, always, the birds are singing. That is the opening line of The Singing Life of Birds by Donald Kroodsma, and it is the first glimpse of the passion that he has for birds, and especially birdsong. His passion is a thread that runs through the entire book,…
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Now you see it…
On Sunday we took a drive out to Nanisivik. We hadn’t been there for awhile and I wanted to see what was left of the town. I also wanted to get out and see if I could find some Snow Buntings as I had friends tell me that they’ve been back for a week or…
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Don’t Call Me Eskimo
Want to see Arctic Bay from the youth’s perspective? Here is a video made by some of the youth of Arctic Bay. It is very good. Warning Parental Advisary: contains mild swearing, references to drugs, suicide, and violence.
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A journey to Hill 70
The citation for my Grandfather’s Military Medal reads "For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on August 15th, 1917. Although on reaching the objective, he had only three survivors of his section, he bombed three dugouts, killing nine of the enemy and taking 18 prisoners, whom he kept in the trench until he had organized…
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I and the Bird #48
Wow, time to get the latest Field Guide over at Greg Laden Blog… the Field Guide to the Bird Posts. Go, you know you want it.
