Woman spots ‘one-in-a-million’ yellow cardinal in her backyard | Bird Feeder

Once you get past their odd name, the homemade faux-stone planters known as hypertufa containers have a place in any garden and make for a perfect spring project.

While it seemed like we might get away with leaving the shovels in the shed this year, it looks like winter finally caught up to us. I, for one, don’t mind a little snow on the ground, notwithstanding the 8-foot-wide plow ridge they inexplicably left in front of my mailbox. Snow means an opportunity to track wildlife, one of my favorite outdoors pursuits. And, more appropriately for our purposes, it means more birds at the feeder. So, let’s take a closer look at this curious and surprisingly recent American pastime: feeding the birds.

Choosing a fountain from the many options may be the hardest part of the whole process. Even a waterless option has value.

“In most cases, it involves cleaning and draining it until it’s empty of water, then filling the basin with towels to remove extra water and then covering it with a tarp or fountain cover,” says Steele. Regular maintenance of a water feature can better assure its longevity. Steele advises periodic cleaning with a brush — even a 99-cent toothbrush will do for a small feature — to break up any algae or debris that could clog the pump then running clean water through it. With regular care most pumps will last three to five years.

The difference in direction between true north and magnetic north (at a specific time and location on the Earth) is known as the magnetic declination. Global information about historic variations in magnetic declination is currently based on thousands of magnetic compass-bearings recorded in ships’ navigational logs from 1590 onward.

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Utica is the only place in the state where you still can find the wide variety of stone extracted, regionally and from across the state, from now-forgotten quarries. But it’s also good to know that stone varieties from Central New York were widely used in New York City and even across the Atlantic Ocean — leaving permanent traces of that past which refuse to be forgotten.

One surprising result that the researchers found in this study was that when deciding how much to feed birds, people prioritized natural factors, such as cold weather, more than time and money. Most people believed that the effects of their feeding on wild birds was primarily good for birds, even though many observed and took action in response to natural events in their backyard that could impact the health of the birds and might partly result from their feeding.

I’m won’t claim deep expertise on these things…my experience in the Telecom industry is from 20 years back. Unless the reverse engineered circuit is missing a bunch of stuff, the line side interface to the POTS line is not up to spec. It’s missing all sorts of protection, there is nothing preventing a voltage transient from getting all the way to the DTMF decoder chip while the line is seized for example… From the picture, the spacing on the traces between the line side and the rest also look pretty close, you’d have to measure to make sure the distance was large enough to prevent line side faults from getting to the electronics. So this thing might work well today, someday it will probably suffer damage, and leave you without being able to operate the relay to activate whatever you have this connected to.

When acorns or pine nuts are available, fox squirrels are very busy harvesting as many as they can find and storing them by burying them in the ground. Many acorns and nuts are infested with bugs and will not store well. These infested seeds are detected by the squirrel’s keen sense of smell and thrown away or eaten right away. The ones that are clear of bugs are selected for storage.

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[Felix]’s alternative firmware has a couple of key features that make it valuable. Longer PINs are supported, decreasing the likelihood that malicious actors can gain access to the system. Additionally, the device is set to restore the last relay state after a power loss event. This makes the device far more useful for situations where it’s important to ensure consistent operation. It’s no use if an intermittent power loss stops your livestock’s water trough from filling, for example.