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You're lucky, I've never found a pigeon nest in the wild, although there must be zillions around here in NYC. But I am surprised the nest survived the winter, must be in a good spot that makes it worth reusing.

Don, has there been any previous swing of this magnitude in your experience? We went from the odds for a sub normal May to a well above normal probability in much less than a week.

Rock doves operate on the Facebook principle, move fast and break things. So they make cursory quick nests and hurry to get the kids out on their own, then go on to the next nest. There is probably a bestselling business strategy book in there somewhere.

Seems like it should be a healthy dish, the cicadas are purely vegan, unlike farmed shrimp that are raised in near cesspools. But 17 years between meals is a difficult marketing problem.

You're a fan of nature in the raw or are the cooking instructions secret?

Turkeys are fussy eaters, so compliments on your lettuce.

I'd not sound the 'All Clear' as yet, the case load in Asia is surging, not just in India, after having been back down to relatively low numbers. Research studies suggest the virus could potentially be 100x more infectious, although that may also influence its health impact in some unpredictable way. So there is a real risk that this will be a long drawn out affair.

Afaik, coyotes can take a deer, but pumas and wolves are really much more suitable. Good luck getting their return accepted by suburban America.

Deer populations in the East are way above normal carrying capacity, thanks to the absence of predators and the proliferation of edge habitat due to suburban sprawl. Lyme disease is likely to have a great time this year, not too dry a winter for the ticks and plenty of deer to feed on. Iirc, Greenwich Audubon had about 600 deer on their roughly 1 square mile property, they tried to cull the herd with bow hunters over a salt lick, with no real effect. So the ground cover and low nesting birds are toast. Eventually there will be a disease that culls the herd, most likely something such as Chronic Wasting Disease, which is as ugly as it sounds.

Life on earth began about as soon as the surface cooled enough to allow liquid water, so it seems a pretty quick process. Intelligent life on the other hand took a little longer, many would say it still not yet here.

Think Orwell had something to say about those who control the past... Frankly, storage these days is so cheap that there is no excuse for deleting data. Anyone who does so should be suspected of ulterior motives.

Maybe a link to a site that explains these charts, pretty please?

Not sure I'd put much weight on a deBlasio promise. If India is any guide, I'd keep my mask on well beyond that date.

Would someone please post a link to site where this spaghetti chart is explained? As is, it is possibly casting pearls before swine. I at least will admit that I'm baffled, but where can I get less so?

Seems short sighted to let the virus evolve in the poorer countries, the vaccines we have are not magic bullets, they protect against some variants, not against all. It just seems that neither common sense nor charity are getting much traction in the official reaction to the epidemic.

Think it will be like a drivers license, you'll need it if you want to use air transport and and maybe also rail and bus transport, as well as attending mass performances like concerts. So not 'compulsory', but pretty close.

Honestly I'd not hesitate to act. The country is going to be swimming in vaccines by the end of the month, multiple suppliers all revving up production. I'd expect vaccination to be compulsory by the end of May, in order to help restore normal activity.

Agree fully, a useful product has been eliminated for no good reason. Does no one at the NWS care?

My handicap was 2, as in 'factor of'. Breaking 100 was just out of the question. I'd even have paid for the celebration, had the concept been current.

Great time to walk with your lady friend. Don't miss it!!

So what is your implication, that we will see rising arctic ice levels from here on out?

Just wish there was a little more humility all around. With a reliable instrument record dating back two centuries at most, we have no real experience in the inherent variability of the environment. It would help if there were longer term records of first frosts and such, but afaik, nobody thought that was important until recently. Hence we get excited whenever our short experience base gets exceeded. Great for papers, not necessarily so for actual understanding. icne

Texas decided to stay off the federal infrastructure, so there is no meaningful power transfer possible between Texas and the rest of the USA. Someone would need to pay for the needed gigawatt power links from the rest of the country, if that was indeed available. That said, I think it disgustingly irresponsible to sell power without some minimal reliability standard. In Texas, that apparently was the norm.