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by Retrograde
Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:20 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Weather!
Replies: 2850
Views: 986086

Re: Weather!

I looked up quotes for self-delusion and found this by The Bard. I can't grok English of that period very well, so I'm not certain this quote actually applies, but it sounds impressive as hell, don't it? It's interesting--I feel like my recent disasters are actually counter to celestial intentions,...
by Retrograde
Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:10 pm
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Owl Time
Replies: 21
Views: 10480

Re: Owl Time

Very nice first post Retrograde! Burrowing owls are a new world species, and they're not very small owls either. Little owls also sometimes nest in the ground but they're an old world species, and I think the photo you posted was of Little Owls. What part of the planet did you see them in? Bruce I ...
by Retrograde
Fri Aug 03, 2018 8:40 am
Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
Topic: Owl Time
Replies: 21
Views: 10480

Re: Owl Time

In my old suburb, at the edge of town giving way to desert & farmland, you could see what I guess are burrowing owls. Big earth mounds left by some excavator years ago, with dozens of little openings like gopher holes, were left alongside an irrigation drainage canal. In daylight, just walking b...