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For the two or three months leading up to mid-October I was focusing on getting ready for a long bike ride — my longest ever ride — and I found it harder and harder to fit other things in. Falling behind in writing here, I didn't want to miss a week or so and then try and back-fill, so I ended up not writing anything at all. I'd never had any reply, email, or other contact acknowledging anything I'd written here, it all seems to be personal mutterings into the void. Then I read a few depressing articles on habit loss, environment loss and and all too familiar Shifting Baselines in ecology and I mostly gave up
Today I happened to be watching an introductory video from a citizen science project on Christmas beetles[1] and I think it re-enthused me. I'll try again, can't say I promise to make it a daily thing but I'll try. Thinking about the project and others I've heard of it reminded me of how useful many ordinary small observations from everybody can be useful as part of a larger work
Today? Lunch time walk across campus and there was a squawking from up in a gum tree, about 3m off the ground a young Noisy miner[2] was being noisy, while an adult hopped around in the branches nearby waiting for me to move on so it could fly down and feed the young. Later, in the office, looking out the window a large fat European wasp[3] moved slowly from branch to branch on the callistemon, perhaps looking for sticky sap or moisture
[1] Christmas beetle count project
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5985 👣 / 8.0km 🚴 / 54bpm 💓 / 71kg ⚖