Baby owls

We had to have the two dead sycamores taken out of our backyard. We suspected that one tree had an owl nest, because we often saw the adult owls hanging out there. And the tree being dead and mostly hollow was excellent owl habitat. Unfortunately, it also sat right next to the house. And it was dead. So while it was excellent owl habitat, it was also excellently situated to cause a world of pain Read more…

Earthquakes in New York: I thought I was just making it up!

It turns out there’s actually quite a bit of seismic activity in New York state: Still, it’s not where geologists expect quakes in New York. Quake central has been the Adirondacks, the site, for instance, of a magnitude 5.5 quake in 1944 near Massena that had residents thinking they had been attacked by the Japanese. Second, and most worrisome, has been the New York City area, where a quake off the Rockaways in 1884 registered Read more…