15 March 2025
The good horned owlet that fell from its nest in Schenley Park and was returned on 11 March was comparatively simple to search out on Wednesday, posed like a statue on a sloping tree department (under).
The owlet spent Thursday effectively camouflaged on an inaccessible-to-humans cliff ledge. On Friday she was in a tree, see {photograph} at high. Juvenile owls use their claws to climb bushes. (Notice: in case you hear folks calling her Muppet, Tamarack gave her that nickname.)
Mercury and Venus
After sundown on 9 March I seen a vivid planet within the west with a divot out of the highest of it like a part of the moon. It was Venus about to set. How did I stay this lengthy with out understanding that Venus has phases?
Once I digiscoped Venus I noticed a shadowy planet subsequent to it. Mercury was additionally about to set, pinkish and to the left of Venus whose brightness performs havoc with my optics.
Right here’s a view that reveals Venus a bit higher.
Incipient Spring flowers and leaves
Incipient is an effective phrase to explain spring flower and leaf standing this week. As of Thursday 13 March spring was “in an preliminary stage; starting to occur or develop.”
Widespread whitlowgrass (Draba verna), a member of the cabbage household, blooms very early. It’s native to Europe, western Asia and North Africa and is now unfold all over the world.
Honeysuckle leaves had been simply starting to open on Thursday.
And the Cornelian cherry tree close to Panther Hole Lake had a single tiny flower open within the bud.
All of those vegetation are from different continents they usually begin blooming before our native vegetation.
After yesterday’s very heat climate the whole lot else will velocity up.
