Tag Archive: Birds


TGIF- A little bird told me…

Feathered friends File Photo KDG

Feathered friends
File Photo KDG

Remember our feathered friends,as our first nations friends say I,ts all connected to mother Earth….

On this Day: January 6th 1907

Montessori opens its first working class day care and school in Rome.

Nicola Naturalists AGM and photo night

Osprey File Photo KDG

Osprey File Photo KDG

The local naturalist society is having their annual public meeting on Thursday the 17th at 7PM. The Nicola Naturalist Society meets at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology monthly through the winter and has guest speakers. The registered society is presided by Alan Burger the founding President and PhD. Members will  show photos after a brief meeting, in the lecture theater Belshaw Street Merritt BC
They group is also involved with projects like the annual Christmas bird count.

About the Nicola Naturalist Society

On this day: September 16th 1980

General Motors Corporation is founded.

Water levels summer level

 
A bird looks for food amongst the rocks of the Coldwater/Nicola river that required no sandbagging this year.

On this Day: June 6th 1933

The first drive in theater opens in Camden New Jersey.

100 pieces of puzzle

100 puzzle pieces, one hundred bird extinctions since 1600  Photo KDG

100 puzzle pieces, one hundred bird extinctions since 1600
Photo KDG

There are reported to be 2 of these relief puzzles, and the maker quotes EO Wilson on the statistics of extinction of 100 species since the 1600s.

This puzzle is on the main entrance wall at NVIT, a community college in Merritt.

On this Day: February 18th 1930

Pluto is discovered.

Ravens

The ravens that fed Elijah are fed up and sitting atop a self serve sign at petro can.

Lots of ravens about here scavenging. I saw one take a golf ball and bury it in a field once.

Today in History,  January 25, 2004

Opportunity rover lands on Mars.