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The Owl Man of Logan Airport…

Some days when you turn on the news, it’s all just too much, so it was nice to stumble on an old YouTube video of something wonderful. Someone doing good things in the world. Something not negative.

Meet Norman Smith, the owl man of Logan airport. Specifically, the snowy owl man. Owls have been an ongoing problem for airports along the east coast especially Logan airport’s due to it’s flat tundra like environment and by being surrounded on three sides by water, reminding them of their home in the arctic. They come on by for a visit every year.

But now, thanks to this man, the way the airports deal with them has changed for the better. In the past, the problem was solved by the airport having people go out and shooting and killing these beautiful creatures. But times have changed, and I’m so relieved it has.

Photo by Mark Kent, Creative Commons

Norman Smith, now 73, is a raptor specialist who has worked for the Audubon for decades and who also started the The Snowy Owl Project. Smith created the protocols to safely remove the owls as well as a special net trapping system to help catch and protect these owls at the airport. He bands them for study and releases them. He has now dedicated 43 years to these owls and has saved at least 900 owls to date. Amazing.

Other airports were slower to catch on to these protocols. In 2014 New York’s JFK shot 50 to 60 of these creatures and when the press caught wind, they too adopted these protocols.

In 2023 and 24’ these owls numbers were decimated by the bird flu and climate change, every safe owl from Logan may mean this species will survive.

Snowy owls don’t have exact fixed migration routes they travel from the Arctic to the North East based on food sources, which we seem to have in abundance for them to return here.

Everyone should find out how their airports are handling wildlife. Have an active voice in their safety.

Norman Smith is a hero to me and if you’d like to learn more about his work you can check out this short documentary by Anna Miller.

Have a great Tuesday everyone…

Snowy Owls of Logan Airport

The Saige Antelope, History and Conservation Effort…

Humanities greed and destruction has made many creatures extinct, or at serious risk for extinction. While research companies such as Colossal are trying to bring back those that are extinct, some conservation experts are simply trying to save what exists today. Which brings us to the strange, but beautiful looking creature.

This amazing animal once walked with the ice age giants like the wooly mammoths. Their image is painted on cave walls by early man. But sadly, like the mammoths, they too were hunted to near extinction for their hides and horns.

These creatures somehow survived us, and it’s worth telling their story.

The Saiga antelope’s story stretches back over 100,000 years,

when it roamed alongside mammoths, woolly rhinos, and cave lions. Fossil evidence suggests that it was once widespread across Europe and Asia, even reaching Britain and Alaska during glacial periods. Its uniquely structured snout helps filter out dust and regulate air temperature, something that helped it survive in frigid landscapes.

Despite surviving the Pleistocene mass extinctions, the Saiga began to retreat eastward due to climatic shifts and human expansion. Today, it remains in isolated pockets across Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and Uzbekistan.

Showing its long history beside man, it appears in our Mythology and Folklore record. It has had cultural and spiritual significance across Eurasia, where nomadic peoples revered it as a “messenger between worlds”.

In Turkic and Mongol tribes, the Saiga was considered a “divine messenger of Tengri”, (the sky god). Its horns were believed to carry mystical energy, and were used in rituals and offerings to bring prosperity and good fortune to their people.

In Siberian folklore it was said to be capable of summoning rain during times of drought. Some legends even spoke of Saiga antelope “communicating with spirits”, guiding shamans through the invisible realms.

In Kazakh folklore the Saiga represents rebirth and endurance. Some ancient stories tell of wounded warriors seeing visions of Saiga leading them back home.

The Saiga antelope appeared in prehistoric cave art, suggesting it was a part of early human life. In the Cosquer Cave a near France, it was depicted alongside bison, deer, and horses. This artwork confirms it’s part in the Ice Age ecosystem, and its connection with early hunters.

To save this beautiful creature from going out like the mammoth, it is in protected status. They are cracking down on poachers in the area, the horns are wanted for Chinese medicine, creating an underground trade for the animal. In 2015 a devastating disease wiped out 200,000 of them. It’s at risk from both climate change and habitat destruction. So far, global conservation efforts have gotten the population up to over a million. And currently migration corridors have been safeguarded to ensure the species can roam freely…

As relieved as I am to see that this species is rebounding and protected, all animals are in constant dire threat from us. It’s something that keeps me up at night. We need to change, we need to stop tearing down woodlands and just live within what we have already constructed, if we don’t it’s the beginning of the end for all of us…

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga_antelope

https://saiga-conservation.org/2023/12/11/saiga-antelope-a-conservation-triumph-and-ongoing-challenges/

https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/21627/Unprecedented-Conservation-Triumph-Saiga-Antelope-Reclassified-From-Critically-Endangered-to-Near-Threatened-in-the-IUCN-Red-List-of-Threatened-Species.aspx

Did They Find Noah’s Ark?

According to the Daily Mail a team of American archaeologists believe they have uncovered the remains of Noah’s Ark.

Researchers working at a site in Turkey known as the Durupınar Formation uncovered a “tunnel” located under a boat-shaped formation, which matches the Biblical description of Noah’s Ark.

The site is only 18 miles from Mount Ararat, which has long been rumored to have been the final destination of the ship. “We’re not expecting something that’s fully preserved,” lead researcher Andrew Jones said. “What’s left is the chemical imprint, pieces of wood, and in the ground, the shape of a hall.”

Read the article here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14704603/Bombshell-discovery-site-Noahs-Ark-researchers-say-prove-Biblical-story-true.html

Rumpology: The Art of Reading Between the Cheeks…

“All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom in a pum pum, just shake ya rump”…

-Wreckz N Effect

Forget tarot cards—there’s a better game in town, rumpology, also known as buttology, the brainchild of the eccentric Jackie Stallone, yes, the mother of thee Sylvester Stallone. Jackie Stallone didn’t just give us Rocky; she gave us the art of reading rear ends.

So, what exactly is rumpology? Well, it’s the practice of analyzing the shape, lines, and crevices of a person’s posterior to learn their personality traits, future, and even health. Think of it like palm reading, but for your backside.

Jackie claimed that the left cheek represents the past, the right cheek the future, and the cleft (yes, the crack) is the line of your destiny. I couldn’t make this stuff up even if I wanted to.

Jackie Stallone, who was also an astrologer and wrestling promoter, believed that rumpology had roots in ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans. There is absolutely no evidence to support that theory. I’ve looked.

Jackie offered rumpology readings via photographs of people’s backsides, although sadly Jackie Stallone passed in 2002, just imagine the readings she could now via zoom!

But if you think her passing meant the end of rumpology you’d be wrong, it’s still being practiced today. The world renowned psychic (as she refers to herself) Sam Amos, offers rump readings for a fee. I’ll include her information below in case you’re feeling brave. But, if you do get a reading I hope you’ll let me know how it goes!

As a quick warning, don’t reveal that rump until you’re sure it’s really an experienced rumpologist, I don’t think I need to tell you all the things that could go wrong otherwise!

Have a terrific Tuesday everyone!

https://psychicsam.com/

https://youtu.be/_BAW9TawKO0?si=d3ydIIgsAOaiqGKt

A Walk at Two Ponds Conservation…

On a beautiful Friday morning, (that they said would be rainy) I took an early morning walk through Two Ponds Conservation area in Falmouth Massachusetts. This was my first time at this trail but I was excited to check it out finally and check it off my “want to go box” on Google Maps.

Once a popular 9-hole, par 3 golf course, the land was donated to The 300 Committee Land Trust in 2014, since then it’s been protected land.

This 14.75-acre features Jones Pond and Sols Pond, and an Atlantic white cedar swamp. The swamp was the main attraction I was coming for, but I stayed a little longer for the bird songs. I even learned a little something. I learned that old sea captains brought the water from the cedar swamps on board because the acidity in the water made it safer to drink and that the early European settlers used the wood from the cedars because they resisted rot and insects.

The Upper Wetland Loop Trail has a beautiful boardwalk and viewing platform where I sat on a bench and just absorbed the view for a bit. While I was hanging I was visited by a beautiful bird that was not at all afraid of me being there, and just sat on a branch above my head singing away.

The red winged blackbird, a beautiful bird with a little yellow on his wing was singing away.

Warm sunlight, beautiful view and great music was very relaxing. I highly recommend this trail if you’re in the area.

You can do the shorter loop or the extended one that includes a connecting forest network and spend the day like I did. Either way taking that second for yourself in nature will be with it!

Oh Yeti They Did…

Well, I have now watched and reviewed my share of movies about Bigfoot lately. But I think they may have just been leading up to this gem.

Yeti, Giant of the 20th Century. This movie May have left me speechless, and type less for that matter. But I’ll get it together. Let me pause a moment to get my thoughts together.

Yup. Still recovering from the shock and awe. So I will start with the easy part. The plot summary. Scientists have found a giant frozen Yeti. Then those same scientists do a series of ridiculous things to defrost said Yeti and bring him back to life.

I mean it’s no big deal to find and resurrect a Yeti the size of King Kong right? And while we are speaking of the king of the monsters. This movie paid homage to (Yeah that sounds better than ripping off. Right?) the king himself.

There is even a Faye Raye for the giant hominid too. Let’s not talk about the nipple scene! But I digress. This movie took me to places I never wanted to ever go from the beginning. Like up 10,000 feet to find a frozen Yeti. And Yeti, I guess can be size of a large dinosaur. (Don’t ask me why we aren’t finding those bones by now).

To defrost and reanimate him they take him up in a helicopter bring him to a place where they recreate the same environment they just found him frozen in and began the thawing. Huh? Interesting.

Then yada yada, they finally defrost him. He falls in love with the scientists granddaughter. (Faye) and takes her, the kid brother and dog with them. So then one of the leads says to granddaughter, “If you stay any longer he might expect other things from you too!?!?! Omg! Someone pause the movie! Scrape my ears! And my brain! We did not need to go there!

And as if that is not bad enough. The local store owners are making Yeti T-shirts that look as if blue Yeti hands are reaching around from the back and grabbing the women’s boobs!

Who made this movie? Russ Meyer?

So without giving away all the wonderful twists and turns of this spectacular movie. I will say, You do get your big Yeti on the top of a high rise scene. Move over Kong here comes something hairier!

So check out this movie for a good laugh or to experience Larry David level of awkwardness. Remember I warned you, this is not your father’s Yeti film.

Link to movie on YouTube:

*This post was originally released on my former blog,written a number of years ago…

Return of the Dire Wolf…

“Relying on deft genetic engineering and ancient, preserved DNA, Colossal scientists deciphered the dire wolf genome, rewrote the genetic code of the common gray wolf to match it, and, using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers, brought Romulus, Remus, and their sister, 2-month-old Khaleesi, into the world during three separate births last fall and this winter—effectively for the first time de-extincting a line of beasts whose live gene pool long ago vanished. TIME met the males (Khaleesi was not present due to her young age) at a fenced field in a U.S. wildlife facility on March 24, on the condition that their location remain a secret to protect the animals from prying eyes.”

The very first howls you’ll hear of a dire wolf…

You can read the rest of the article below;

https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/#

The Ostrich Egg Globe…

The Ostrich Globe…

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 15𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘴, (𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴) 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘶𝘱 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 16𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴.

𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 “𝘏𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴”. 𝘈 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, “𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘴” 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥. 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴.

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦!

A Tale of Two Tigers, Part Two

It’s with an extremely heavy heart I have to let everyone know, that the beautiful clouded leopard cub born at the Nashville Zoo passed away from intestinal bleeding on Friday. The cub was born on February 25th, and was from the third litter of a mated pair.

The Nashville Zoo President and CEO Rick Schwartz, released the following statement after the cubs passing on Friday.

“This cub represented a proud achievement for us and a hopeful future for her species. She captured the hearts of millions of people, and we are absolutely devastated.”

My sincere condolences to the mama and papa, and the staff at the Nashville Zoo…

Lochness Canera Found 55 Years Later…

“An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine.

The ocean-going yellow sub – called Boaty McBoatface – was being put through trials when its propeller snagged the mooring for the 1970s camera system.

It is believed it was lowered 180m (591ft) below the loch’s surface by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, a group set up in the 1960s to uncover the existence of Nessie in the waters.

No footage of Nessie has been found on the camera, but one of the submarine’s engineers was able to develop a few images of the loch’s murky waters. “