Awwwww!
:o)
Friday, February 28, 2020
Free range chickens....
.... for a little while the other day:
The girls lined up on a branch in the run:
(probably trying to get away from Benji)!
It was cold yesterday:
Had snow flurries and..
.... some sunshine ....
.... and wind!
:o)
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Don't junk that old engine!
Look at what you can make!!!
A cool lamp shade for the garage:
What a rockin' chess set!
A "piston" guy:
A wine rack:
Or one just to hold a single bottle:
A coffee table....
...... and a neat head lamp!
:o)
Pushy Wilma..
Wilma molted and her new feathers turned brown, (she was blondish) She is still queen over the girls:
Notice how she pecks at the others when I put melon rinds under the fence.
Poor Benji didn't even get any!
They didn't like the raspberries either. They ate all the greens though:
Another tiny egg! I don't know which one is laying them!
Hubby finished splitting that big pile of logs:
:o)
Monday, February 24, 2020
Unicorn of the sea
Source:
The
narwhal (Monodon monoceros), or narwhale, is a medium-sized toothed
whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It
lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and
Russia.
Like the beluga, narwhals are medium-sized whales. For both sexes, excluding the male's tusk, the total body size can range from 3.95 to 5.5 m (13 to 18 ft); the males are slightly larger than the females. The average weight of an adult narwhal is 800 to 1,600 kg (1,760 to 3,530 lb). At around 11 to 13 years old, the males become sexually mature; females become sexually mature at about 5 to 8 years old. Narwhals do not have a dorsal fin, and their neck vertebrae are jointed like those of most other mammals, not fused as in dolphins and most whales.
Found primarily in Canadian Arctic and Greenlandic and Russian waters, the narwhal is a uniquely specialized Arctic predator. In winter, it feeds on benthic prey, mostly flatfish, under dense pack ice. During the summer, narwhals eat mostly Arctic cod and Greenland halibut, with other fish such as polar cod making up the remainder of their diet. Each year, they migrate from bays into the ocean as summer comes. In the winter, the male narwhals occasionally dive up to 1,500 m (4,920 ft) in depth, with dives lasting up to 25 minutes. Narwhals, like most toothed whales, communicate with "clicks", "whistles", and "knocks".
Narwhals can live up to 50 years.
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