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| The drive home |
A very short post; Saturday, because of cabin fever i drove north to Revelstoke. It was a reasonable drive of just over 100km which also includes a 20 minute lake crossing by ferry. The return was doubly interesting due to a large dumping of snow. Concentration was needed and i would liken snow driving to driving on slightly damp outback gravel roads. All in all though there was no real worries.
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| The return Ferry crossing |
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| More of the drive home - action shot! |
Today, again, very overcast with light rain but warmer, about 2 degrees. I went for a little walk to see if i could see any bird species and added one more to my Nakusp list to make an even 50 spp thus far; Townsend's Solitaire, which is listed for rare in the Kootenays during winter.
Hi Ken its Wicksy from Burnside SHS: Happy New Year. We have duck weather (showers with a chance of heavy showers). Is that a suitable bird comment? Took the missus and kids to Wild Horse Mountain in the rain and saw a nice red and black wren. Cute and horny chasing 3 or 4 females. And some cheeky kurrawongs that were mocking me as I sweated up the hill. Loving the blog.
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DeleteThe bird in question is, cleverly enough, the Red-backed Fairy Wren. And perhaps he understands Duck Weather as some clever rhyming slang. Seriously they have, the males this is, the largest testes of any bird spp compared to overall body weight. One for the trivia nights.
ken is the rain two degrees warmer or the temp?
ReplyDeleteAn interesting and perceptive question. I would have assumed since the subject of the sentence in question is the weather that the two degrees is referring to the overall atmospheric temperature however given that the precipitation is rain and therfore not snow, we can also safely assume that there has clearly been an increase in the temperature of said precipitation as well.... Btw ken has a capital letter both because it is the start of a sentence and because it is a proper noun.
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