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@[email protected] Arctic foxes are absolute powerhouses of strategic resilience. 🦊❄️

Don't let the exterior fool you—these creatures are masterclasses in agility and high-performance adaptation. In the harshest environments, they don't just survive; they optimize. 📈

Trust me, there’s a lot we can learn from their lean, results-driven approach to navigating extreme conditions.

#Leadership #StrategicThinking #Resilience #NatureNotes #Adaptability

@[email protected] Arctic foxes are absolute powerhouses of strategic resilience. 🦊❄️

Don't let the exterior fool you—these creatures are masterclasses in agility and high-performance adaptation. In the harshest environments, they don't just survive; they optimize. 📈

Trust me, there’s a lot we can learn from their lean, results-driven approach to navigating extreme conditions.

#Leadership #StrategicThinking #Resilience #NatureNotes #Adaptability

@[email protected] Arctic foxes are absolute powerhouses of strategic resilience. 🦊❄️

Don't let the exterior fool you—these creatures are masterclasses in agility and high-performance adaptation. In the harshest environments, they don't just survive; they optimize. 📈

Trust me, there’s a lot we can learn from their lean, results-driven approach to navigating extreme conditions.

#Leadership #StrategicThinking #Resilience #NatureNotes #Adaptability

@[email protected] Arctic foxes are absolute powerhouses of strategic resilience. 🦊❄️

Don't let the exterior fool you—these creatures are masterclasses in agility and high-performance adaptation. In the harshest environments, they don't just survive; they optimize. 📈

Trust me, there’s a lot we can learn from their lean, results-driven approach to navigating extreme conditions.

#Leadership #StrategicThinking #Resilience #NatureNotes #Adaptability

In the cemetery today:

Air still chill despite the sun
Dunnock & Robin singing
A collared dove launches wings whistling into the air
First blossoms of cherry, petals creased like crumpled bedclothes
Crocuses battered by the recent rains

#NatureNotes #Blossom

Drove out to J's thatched cottage near Fordingbridge.
Forest very wet after weeks of rain, ponds overflowing onto roads, winter trees reflected in standing water, fords running high.

A solitary bat flying in the late afternoon gloom.

Evening birdsong building as Spring approaches.

A surprise on leaving: clear skies, stars glittering, Orion gazing down.

#NatureNotes #NewForest #Winter

Plaintain-leaf pussytoes and painted trillium are blooming and catbird is back! 🌱🪶 #NH #Spring #NatureNotes

Went for a wander through the woods and heathland around Eyeworth pond in the New Forest yesterday. Even at 10 in the morning the birdsong was stunning: mostly song thrush, wren, blackcap, chaffinch. A single common redstart was my 1st of the year (male, singing), and at least 2 cuckoos, 1 seen in flight. Also 2 common lizards darted away into the bracken. Crab apples in bloom and alive with droning bees.

#NatureNotes #Spring #UKBirding

Squirrels feasting on camellia blooms
A song thrush singing since before the dawn
A great spotted woodpecker calling and exploring a liquidambar
A crow cleans its beak against a ridge tile
A firecrest fossicks in a laurel
Dunnocks & great tits chatter and chant

#NatureNotes #Spring #NatureWriting

CVS was out of literally everything I needed, but a great blue heron flew over the parking lot as I left, so I'm counting that as a win. 🪶

#Birds #NatureNotes

Today I watched a chipmunk ease her body down a bramble and reach out a paw for blackberries, eating them one at a time.

Why would anyone want to live on Mars?

#NatureNotes #Animals #Earth

This bog is my happy place. It's where we found a haul of black trumpet mushroooms last summer, where we saw beavers and a heron and geese and a wood duck and her ducklings last week on a 95-degree day. So many interesting and gorgeous trees as well, and beautiful wildflowers. So glad it was saved.

https://indepthnh.org/2024/06/22/a-story-of-beavers-developers-and-community-can-do-is-celebrated-at-rumneys-quincy-bog/

#NatureNotes #Preservation #Wetlands #Beavers

Last night on my return from work I saw a cecropia moth under our outdoor light.

I can't believe I saw a bobcat and a cecropia moth in less than a week.

#NatureNotes #Wildlife #NewHampshire #Vermont

Went for a very hot hike at the bog with Spouse yesterday. Sooooo many red-winged blackbirds, common yellowthroats, bullfrogs, ducks, #geese, beavers, dragonflies, and even a great blue #heron. #NatureNotes #Wildlife #NewHampshire

How could I have left out the #bobcat we saw in South Tunbridge as we left?! All of us had the same train of thoughts: "that's a huge fox! Wait, where's its tail? Its legs seem wrong...Oh my goodness, that's a bobcat!" 😀

#NatureNotes #Vermont #WildCats

We got rain yesterday, after a dry week. It was nice to look forward to rain for the first time in over a year of flooding. It was also nice to have a soaking rain without high winds. Sort of like the good old days. #NatureNotes

On my way to work tonight I saw a duck leading her ducklings across the street. Traffic came to a complete stop. 🦆🥹

#Birds #Spring #NatureNotes

Red Squirrel neighbor has been sounding off all day, every day, for over a week now. Red squirrels are the only squirrels who defend a territory year-round, but that defense clearly accelerates in spring.)

#NatureNotes #SeasonalNotes

Important news: It's a beautiful day here in the Abenaki Dawnlands. Pileated woodpeckers, yellowthroats, and white-throated sparrows are doing their thing. Wild oats are flowering, trillium are budding, tamaracks are leafing out, and tadpoles are hatching.

#NatureNotes #SeasonalNotes #Birds #Flowers

There are so many birds on the lawn it looks like the grass is crawling. Juncos, mostly. But also one absolute unit I identified as a white-throated sparrow, a bird I hear all the time and for some reason visualized as much smaller.

#Birds #NatureNotes #NH

I thought the wood #frogs were done singing for the season, but today's rain has them up and at it again.

Also the broad-winged #hawk is hunting (the wood frogs?) and making her ke-ee cry.

#NatureNotes #Birds #Amphibians

#NatureNotes
Was feeling lethargic yesterday & really had to drag myself out for a trip to the marshes. So glad I did! Highlights included:
A bittern booming from the reeds
My 1st singing chiffchaff of the year
Numerous signs of otter activity (spraints, fish scales) on the duckboards
An encounter with a northern pike, that swam towards me on a flooded path, paused for a photo & then thrashed & shot off into deeper water

#Spring #MarshMadness #Nature #Birding

#NatureNotes
Spent some time walking part of the North Downs Way on Saturday. Hedgerows very colourful with red #hawthorn berries (haws) and dark blue sloes. A few swallows skimming low over the fields, getting ready to depart for Africa. Buzzards and red kites soaring in the thermals, and a few #butterflies (commas & red admirals) basking in the autumn sun

#autumn #nature #downland #birds #ClimateDiary

As summer begins to shade into autumn, the warblers have fallen silent and the marsh is a much quieter place. The wind whispers in the reeds, circling buzzards mew, house martins chirrup as they hawk. The plant life is still riotous, with hemp agrimony and purple loosestrife adding colour. Berries ripen, seeds mature, thistledown drifts

#Wetlands #FishlakeMeadows #August #ClimateDiary #Birds #BloomScrolling #NatureNotes

More nature notes

https://yvonneaburrow.substack.com/p/more-nature-notes

#biodiversity #Ontario #Canada #environment #climate #NatureNotes #nature