A landlocked sea formed about 9-12 million years ago in the western arm of the East African rift valley.
Lake Tanganyika is one of Africa’s Great Lakes. It has a few things going for it like being the second oldest freshwater lake in the world, the second largest lake by volume, and the second deepest. It is surpassed only by Lake Baikal in Siberia. Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest freshwater lake and is shared by four countries.
Evacuate or stay?
Ever wondered what the birds are doing when the hurricane is bashing the shore? Locals and visitors alike evacuate or shelter the wrath of these storms. Well, it seems that many birds do the same.
In the chill of night, At the scene of a crime, Like a streak of light, He arrives just in time…. SpiderCat
Cort loves spiders. He doesn’t play with them, he just stops them and eats them. If he sees a beetle, roach, ant, cricket, etc. he’ll play with them until he kills them or they get away, but he does not eat them. I decided to check out this behavior. Spiders are the most common of all the bugs, I have no shortage of them in my house. Most of Cort’s prey is probably the common house spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum). Their common predator is birds, cats, dogs, and wasps. They eat mosquitoes, flies, and ants and live about one year.
Housed in a miniature submarine
Back around 1980 I decided to get a 110 camera to carry fishing and hunting that I would not have to worry about. I chose the Minolta Weathermatic A watertight pocket camera. The bright yellow, easy to find, color and the large, glove friendly, controls were very helpful.
The vine that ate the South
I moved to a one acre lot in Decatur, Georgia about 6 years ago. The backyard was covered in Kudzu. I kept cutting it back but it grows extremely fast. In a weeks time the vines would extend across my back yard, stretching out (one foot a day) to reach the house. I was able to keep it cut back with the aide of my Stihl Brush Eater blade and kept spraying it with Bayer Brush Killer. I feel I have it somewhat in control at the moment.
The weedless worm
My Dad learned to fish Texas rigged plastic worms fishing with his work buddies from Friendly Ford. He showed me what he had learned and soon I was hooked (get it). Simply slip on a lead , brass or Tungsten bullet weight and then tie your hook on using your favorite fishing knot.
61 tons of robins!
American Robins are 9 to 11 inches and are gray above, brick red below. Head and tail black in males, dull gray in females. Young birds are spotted below. Their song is a series of rich caroling notes, rising and falling in pitch. They use mud to reinforce their grass and twig, cup shaped, nests where they lay 3-5 blue-green eggs.
Ever see that group of birds and have to just say flock? The word flock covers all birds but there are set names for many bird groups. I’ll list a bunch of them here for you (and me). By the way the official term for a bunch of birdwatchers is a flock.
Light pillars are optical phenomena that occur in extremely cold atmospheres, when flat ice crystals form close to the ground. They reflect natural and artificial light in columns that extend through the sky.
Lightning Bugs
The Firefly or Lampyridae are insects in the beetle order (Coleoptera) with more than 2000 species. There is a large amount of variation in their color, shape, size, and features such as antennae. They use bioluminescence during twilight to attract mates or prey.
