New Day Cafe - Saturday: Miscellaneous Stills and Vids

Good  morning, Newdists. We are getting more snow/ice tonight into tomorrow. Overnights will be in teens. I have given up on watching the news. I'm rarely on line anymore. In the evenings I’ve taken up Hamish Macbeth books, written by M.C. Beaton. There are 29 books. I’m excited. After that group of books, I plan on moving on to mysteries solved by Welsh PC Evan Evans, written by Rhys Bowen.

Three of my cousins had to move out of their home in anticipation of the Cal fire, and moved in with my aunt in Pasadena. Although she may have to move too… I hope not. My heart hurts for all the people and all the animals caught up in that conflagration. 

Onwards — 

That look of contentment — 

1/11 Musical eyes.
Have a safe and happy weekend everyone.
Friday evening with RLK KA85.https://t.co/9A481yzTMW pic.twitter.com/nyjwC4vVLb

— RoyalAlbatrossCam (@RoyAlbatrossCam) January 10, 2025

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Meet this mysterious beautiful hibiscus!

It’s a flower that turns heads, but it’s still waiting for a name that truly captures its essence.

We’re inviting you, our creative and flower-loving community, to suggest a name that feels just right for this stunning plant.

Let's… pic.twitter.com/IWWtybyH18

— Flower Show (@TheFlowerShow) January 10, 2025

Raven or Crow? pic.twitter.com/wGaiykAJv1

— Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺 (@MbarkCherguia) January 10, 2025

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Ok, did you know that squirrels could look like tiny bears? pic.twitter.com/sBLGb8NAiP

— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (@USFWS) January 10, 2025

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We interrupt your daily twitter scrolling to bring you this photo of this Ruby-crowned Kinglet because... look at that face 😍. Drop a like and continue your day. pic.twitter.com/ZeJnu5p6fT

— The Nature Conservancy (@nature_org) January 3, 2019

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Ounce for ounce, our #BirdoftheWeek's voice is 10x more powerful than a 🐓 crowing rooster’s, and their entire body vibrates as they sing (that’s some major vibrato!).

🎵 Learn more about Winter Wrens & how ABC works to conserve their habitat at https://t.co/Y5by6EK1mH. pic.twitter.com/1M2pZITLn9

— American Bird Conservancy (@ABCbirds) December 28, 2024

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The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest known species of jellyfish, with tentacles as long as 30 meters (100 feet).

📽: Andrii Slonchak pic.twitter.com/NJ8RUtEN5Q

— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) January 4, 2025

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Javelinas visited this morning. Note that the babies are right there with them taking a drink. pic.twitter.com/Je8cwTo21Y

— OpineP 🌵 🌼🐾❤️☮️🌎🦀🐶🐱 (@OpinePinAZ) January 5, 2025

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Smoke from the nearby Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst Fires drifting into the Borrego area this morning. pic.twitter.com/6pP9iXhGOj

— Anza-Borrego DRC (@AnzaBResearch) January 11, 2025

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Moose! These impressive bulls were photographed through a spotting scope during our New Year’s Wildlife Watching Field Seminar.

📷: Instructor George Bumann pic.twitter.com/zNfUykNeFc

— ynpforever (@ynpforever) January 9, 2025

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Great grey owl and her owletpic.twitter.com/Q9utteSwUy

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 10, 2025

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Good news 🎉: Thanks to a Center petition, USFWS just proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the bleached sandhill skipper — an extremely rare subspecies of butterfly that lives in alkali wetlands in far northern Nevada.

Learn more: https://t.co/7b2GROPNVL pic.twitter.com/wyJTzDMPVq

— Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) January 8, 2025

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In the two and a half hours between sunrise and sunset here in the Arctic circle, the light is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/yMPVRxwRDC

— Alastair Hilton (@London_W4) January 10, 2025

Having a bees up pic.twitter.com/V2CO56HlZg

— Paul Wright 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇸🇰 (@wilder_action) January 10, 2025

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Share your yellow photos 💛 pic.twitter.com/2XU1sEpXay

— Cederfjärd (@RCederfjard) January 9, 2025

My heart 😭

This baby elephant thought he was drowning and rushed to save him ❤️

We really don't deserve them. pic.twitter.com/Y8KuIKEbeK

— why you should have an animal (@ShouldHaveAnima) January 7, 2025

New year, same Wisdom.

This fresh footage of the 70-something Laysan albatross, or mōlī, shows the queen of seabirds incubating her egg recently on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago. pic.twitter.com/lAQQPGvP7A

— USFWS Pacific (@USFWSPacific) January 3, 2025

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