I’m pretty much in a rut or a groove, I guess depending on your point of view. I’m trying to salute the sun each morning with a bit of yoga, eat some fresh strawberries with that awesome Finnish vanilla yogurt, off to work, coffee, lunch, coffee, bike ride, reading, and bed. Repeat. I guess that’s why I was easily distracted Thursday. I was sitting in my office when a Eurasian Sparrowhawk flew in, chased by just about every little wagtail at the station. He hopped about a bit, long enough for me to find Risto and discuss the finer points of accipiter identification. That led to a chat about Christmas bird counts, and before we knew it, a good chunk of the afternoon had pleasantly passed.
The days, er, the nights, are getting noticeably darker. I’m realizing that the street light outside my apartment is actually starting to shine in through the window, which means it must be darker. At the nursery here the staff is moving the 2+0s out of the greenhouses to begin hardening, and some spruce are being short-day treated (sorry for the jargon, non-nursery folks…. but that essentially means that the nursery folks are fooling the seedlings into thinking that the days are shorter than they really are so that the seedlings set buds and start getting ready for winter). As is customary, they move everything with machines, which explains why they need such tall greenhouses; there has to be enough room to maneuver the equipment.
After work today I decided to ride my bike the opposite direction, away from town. I made the stupid mistake of really cruising along, only to discover that once I turned around, I was peddling into a brutal headwind…. 20 minutes out, 35 minutes back. Erg. Probably nothing that a Lapin Kulta won’t fix… Tomorrow, blueberries?
Bird of the Day: Eurasian Sparrowhawk (lifer)
The days, er, the nights, are getting noticeably darker. I’m realizing that the street light outside my apartment is actually starting to shine in through the window, which means it must be darker. At the nursery here the staff is moving the 2+0s out of the greenhouses to begin hardening, and some spruce are being short-day treated (sorry for the jargon, non-nursery folks…. but that essentially means that the nursery folks are fooling the seedlings into thinking that the days are shorter than they really are so that the seedlings set buds and start getting ready for winter). As is customary, they move everything with machines, which explains why they need such tall greenhouses; there has to be enough room to maneuver the equipment.
After work today I decided to ride my bike the opposite direction, away from town. I made the stupid mistake of really cruising along, only to discover that once I turned around, I was peddling into a brutal headwind…. 20 minutes out, 35 minutes back. Erg. Probably nothing that a Lapin Kulta won’t fix… Tomorrow, blueberries?
Bird of the Day: Eurasian Sparrowhawk (lifer)
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