Ross of Ottawa
Ross of OttawaAs the snow and freezing temperatures came on a couple of weeks ago, and all the garlic patch was planted, I borrowed a bit of Irish moss from the raised pond bed, and three extra garlic cloves for this little pot.
Not getting a huge amount of sun indoors, but it seems pretty happy.
#mosstodon #potPlants #pottedPlants
Ross of OttawaUgh the 'stuck on a #ViaRail train' thing is such a part of my life. I can't count how many times it's happened to me over the decades. In my first 20-25yrs the train was a big piece of life in a railway town.
Cold waiting for a connecting train in Sudbury, with the train 12-14hrs late due to prairie weather.
Even more recently taking a 3hr train from Montreal, realizing I could've driven to MTL and back in the time we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. Double-ugh.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-rail-toronto-ottawa-brockville-9.7011570?cmp=rss
Ross of Ottawa…The photo on that article is so foundational in my life too.
It's that classic Cdn train station, and with that old luggage/freight wagon too! Now it's just decorative probably, but I remember them carrying stuff to the baggage car.
My early childhood days involved sitting on one of those, dangling our legs counting the train cars whizzing by.
We'd sing song-like reading the boxcars: "Canadian National, Canadian National…"
#unsolicitedHistoricalTales
Ross of OttawaUgh the 'stuck on a #ViaRail train' thing is such a part of my life. I can't count how many times it's happened to me over the decades. In my first 20-25yrs the train was a big piece of life in a railway town.
Cold waiting for a connecting train in Sudbury, with the train 12-14hrs late due to prairie weather.
Even more recently taking a 3hr train from Montreal, realizing I could've driven to MTL and back in the time we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. Double-ugh.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-rail-toronto-ottawa-brockville-9.7011570?cmp=rss
Ross of OttawaGuy going down the street marking gas lines with spraypaint on the surface of the snow while we also get heavy snowfall is probably a futile activity.
Ross of OttawaHe also plants little 15cm tall flags occasionally, but we might get 20cm of snow today, so we'll see those again in spring. Hope my snowblower doesn't find one.
Ross of OttawaGuy going down the street marking gas lines with spraypaint on the surface of the snow while we also get heavy snowfall is probably a futile activity.
Ross of OttawaJust hearing that #UNESCO has recognized the whole of Italian cuisine as a part of our global intangible cultural heritage.
The announcement was made in New Deli – oh sorry, New Delhi rather.
#ItalianFood
Ross of OttawaI'm aware of modern sonograms etc, but I suspect intrepid Victorian explorers must've made some attempt at it with pen and ink.
Chuck in the Galapagos with the finches for example?
Ross of OttawaHere's a bit of info on the art of bird sound description and transcription I dug up.
There's more standardization there than I realized, in the construction of sound-descriptive syllables, but it still seems rather imprecise, leaving much to the subjective interpretation of the watcher/recorder.
I guess it would aid in identification but would be unlikely to help in tracking subtle frequency changes or timing drift over years or decades.
https://soundapproach.co.uk/blogs/blog/translating-bird-sounds-into-words
Ross of OttawaThe ornithology Q…
is there a means by which bird calls are captured/documented on paper, or other _non-audio_ means?
The only method I can imagine would be to record, slow down maybe 10x, then use musical notation
Ross of OttawaI'm aware of modern sonograms etc, but I suspect intrepid Victorian explorers must've made some attempt at it with pen and ink.
Chuck in the Galapagos with the finches for example?
Ross of OttawaA #birder question from a non-ornithologist which came to mind after hearing a #BirdNote segment on #NPR.
The piece reveals that some bird calls change over the years and others have been stable for millennia. One maybe 500kYrs.
That was seemingly deduced based on comparing calls of populations separated at a specific point in their history (prob thru DNA analysis).
So a #question…
#ornithology #twitcher #birdwatching
Ross of OttawaThe ornithology Q…
is there a means by which bird calls are captured/documented on paper, or other _non-audio_ means?
The only method I can imagine would be to record, slow down maybe 10x, then use musical notation
Ross of OttawaA #birder question from a non-ornithologist which came to mind after hearing a #BirdNote segment on #NPR.
The piece reveals that some bird calls change over the years and others have been stable for millennia. One maybe 500kYrs.
That was seemingly deduced based on comparing calls of populations separated at a specific point in their history (prob thru DNA analysis).
So a #question…
#ornithology #twitcher #birdwatching