Nature Notes from Valentines Week

2/14/08 A bright and sunny day today - cold but not bitterly so. Feels just like February should. :)

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Legend has it the birds choose their mates on this day, so why not spend some time trying to identify the males from females? In some species it is quite easy of course - cardinals come to mind. But in others it's a challenge!

2/13/08 This is quite possibly, the ugliest kind of weather. It snowed a few inches last night which is all well and good, but today it has been a cold, steady rain. It's not really washing away any snow, it's just making everything slushy and wet. Yuck.

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We have - at first glance - at least 4 ladybugs in our bathroom this morning. One is dead actually, but the other three are milling about looking for - well I don't know what. What do you do for the poor little things? I can't put them outside or they'd freeze! But of course, they don't fare much better in my bathroom. Leave them be? Try to feed them? Create a habitat of some sort (not in the bathroom of course, but in some kind of cage)? The boys are really eager to help these little creatures in some way ...

2/11/08 It is going to be BITTER today - only in the 20s and with a brisk wind. On the upside, I've noticed the days getting longer ...

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[keri]

Ladybugs in the bathroom...cool!