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Arctic Winter Games on-line
Take some time and check out Kent of the North’s reporting from the Arctic Winter Games for APTN. APTN and Kent have created a blog to do timely reporting from the games. The video reports/blog/podcasts can be found here. And by the way, watch these videos and then go vote for Sarah Ali.
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A splash of Blue
Lately I’ve been missing flashes of blue in my landscape. There are blues of course, I’m looking out on a beautiful blue sky, at night the deepening dark turns incredible shades of blue turning to indigo before the black of the night. But I’m longing for those bright flashes of blue, that appear on feathered…
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Finding Your Wings
Like many people who like to observe birds, I’m largely self-taught. Identifying birds takes a rather complex skill set, and it is the rare individual who grasps them in the first instance. Often bird watching or birding grows from encounters with birds, be it at a feeder or on a walk, and the question "Hmm,…
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I and the Bird Film Festival
Ahh, the Red Carpet, the celebrities, the paparazzi (lots and lots of paparazzi)… Tai Haku, over at Earth Wind and Water, offers us an Back to the Movies edition of this the 70th version of I and the Bird. It is filled with stars, and as always the stars are birds, the best posts…
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Magical Mushrooms
Much to my surprise I received a package in the mail today, that had a couple of plastic bags of dried mushrooms in it. No, not those mushrooms (I just lost half of my readers from the west coast), but dried morels. They are a culinary delight. Growing up in Roblin, every spring would bring…
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Circus of the Spineless
By far, the most successful group of animals on our planet are the invertebrates. In terms of both sheer numbers and biomass we animals with spines just cannot compare. The current edition of the carnival that celebrates these spineless creatures just happens to be hosted by one of my favourite bird bloggers, John over at…
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More Atua
Another picture of Atua, thanks again to Ida.
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Atuat
Thanks to Ida, who pointed me in the direction of this web page from Library and Archives Canada I now have a picture of Atua, who I wrote about here. Atua is on the left, her sister (who is also tattooed), is on the right. The tattoos are hard to make out on their faces,…
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Whew, I’m glad I got that out of my system.
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What? Pop culture on the House?
I don’t recall when the last time I watched the Oscars ceremony. I suspect it may have been before I went to University (and no, Casablanca did not win best picture that year, Rocky did). They (the Oscar’s) have just never seemed that interesting to me. I watched this year. Why the change? I suspect,…
