25 January 2025
This week was chilly and drizzly throughout our household go to to Boca Raton. My brother mentioned it was like Seattle climate. Sure.
We went to the seashore on Tuesday the place I noticed many Portuguese man o’conflict (Physalia physalis) washed up on the sand. They’re named for the topside bubble that resembles the sail on a Portuguese Man O’Battle ship. Not technically jellyfish they’re truly hydrozoa, small colonial predatory animals that sting powerfully sufficient to kill their prey. Do Not Contact, particularly whereas swimming!
Greatest Birds have been seven magnificent frigatebirds (Fregata magnificens) hovering within the chilly north wind close to their northernmost level on the Atlantic coast. (This Wikimedia picture is from Colombia.)
Flying into Pittsburgh on Thursday I noticed ice on all three rivers, particularly on the Allegheny so I ended at Duck Hole yesterday on my manner the grocery retailer. You’ll be able to see that a variety of the river is ice free however the mud bar is surrounded.
Pay attention as floating ice scrapes previous the darkish inexperienced channel marker (within the middle of this video) whereas 125 ring-billed gulls lounge on the ice.
