The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note of any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or flowers. All are worthy additions to the bucket. Please let us know what is going on around you in a comment. Include, as close as is comfortable for you, where you are located. Each note is a record that we can refer to in the future as we try to understand the patterns that are quietly unwinding around us.
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Castro Valley, CA
Body is below the orange Robin's nest
Yesterday evening, Saturday, 8/11/2013, my wife alerted me to the presence of a baby California Towhee in our back yard. It was fledged but unflighted and therefore very recently fledged. Though I have no records to back it up, this is the latest that I recall having any kind of fledgling in our yard or neighborhood.
Meanwhile our weather remains more like fall, slated to go only to 69 (72 from another source) today:
Castro Valley, CA
Overcast
55°F
Current: Overcast
Wind: SE at 1 mph
Humidity: 96%
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"Green Diary Rescue" is Back!
After a hiatus of over 1 1/2 years, Meteor Blades has revived his excellent series. As MB explained, this weekly diary is a "round-up with excerpts and links... of the hard work so many Kossacks put into bringing matters of environmental concern to the community... I'll be starting out with some commentary of my own on an issue related to the environment, a word I take in its broadest meaning."
"Green Diary Rescue" will be posted every Saturday at 1:00 pm Pacific Time on the Daily Kos front page. Be sure to recommend and comment in the diary.
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So what's happening in your part of the world?? As usual, pleasse post your nature observations along with location information in the comments.
Thank you.