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9 March 2024
The climate doesn’t know what to do with itself in Pittsburgh. Some days it rains all day (right this moment as an example). Some days it’s sizzling and sunny. Some days it’s chilly and overcast. This week we noticed all of it.
On Monday and Tuesday sizzling sunny climate (74-75°F) inspired everybody to get open air. I waited some time to get a photograph, above, with out lots of people in it. Simply across the bend the solar was so low within the sky at 4:40pm that it made lengthy shadows.
That stunning day got here after a foggy wet weekend, seen at Duck Hole beneath. The Monongahela River was working excessive due to all of the rain.
Every kind of critters had been busy this week together with a striped pink ant on a path in Schenley Park. What ant is that this? Are you able to inform me its title?
On Monday I additionally discovered two refugees from water-logged soil on a sidewalk in Oakland. Not earthworms, these are invasive Asian leaping worms. Not good! Click on right here to see a quick clip of them squirming.
On Thursday 7 March I discovered new leaves of (perhaps) corydalis at Todd Nature Reserve.
And on the best way dwelling I ended on the Tarentum Bridge to test on the peregrines. The male was perched close by whereas the feminine incubated eggs within the nest. This (awful) digiscope picture reveals the feminine’s wingtips seen within the nest field as she incubates along with her tail towards us. That is early for many peregrines in southwestern PA however not for this chicken. She’s at all times early.
p.s. Don’t overlook to show your clocks again tonight.
(photographs by Kate St. John)
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