beautress
Always Faithful
While this may have nothing to the cyclone-like storm that has troubled the eu in October and November of this year (2018,) I found a weather report that shows what happened to a lot of birds in a hurricane in the recent past, which may be how birds have adapted a survival strategy to get through unimaginable weather:
Still praying for the birds, though.
Becki, ain't it amazing how they just seem to be connected to the Universal Subconscious that tells them to stay in the eye, just as they all just "know" to turn left in unison? Boggles the mind. One of many ways in which the animals are smarter than we are. Or at least more connected with Nature.
It is amazing, Pogo. For some reason, it never occurred to me that birds had ways to avoid devastation from a storm by just going with it inside of its eye. I almost fell off my chair when I ran across that video of tracking a storm that was truly and hopefully one in a millenia one that wiped out that many trees. I've lost at least a hundred trees in 9 years on my little wooded areas of my place, a score of them being centennial tall pines, but most of it was due to a several-years drought. This year, after a few more years of not seeing little conifers come up, we've had torrential rains like never before, and I was just wondering if trees have a way of telling Mother Nature "save us because we've lost a lot of centennial trees, and we don't have enough baby trees to replace them." Chemical prayers from earth's natural trees to Heaven? I'm hoping that next late spring, when the rains back down a little, I'll be able to walk out to the back acres and find seedlings of tall pines on the ground. I saw a few right after the drought years subsided some, but not enough. If I were a little younger, I'd look up ranching to see if the land just needed some fertilizer. So far, the deer are abundant back there, and I hate to disturb them too much, because there's also a small manmade lake behind the house that favors me with herons (one of them was a beautiful shade of mauve) and several generations of great white egrets I've enjoyed seeing for the past 10 years. One year, I had the rare pleasure of watching the mama and the papa great egrets instructing 3 fledglings (only slightly smaller than mom and dad) getting flying lessons before they migrated out of their seasonal summer grounds to someplace else. I did see a clump of baby tall pines out back, but all that's left of them are now about 12 feet tall, since they came up from babies since the severe drought of 2011 that lit up skies with fires in seven directions from my place after 2 months of awfully hot 100F - 112F average temperatures, half a week of light rain, then another month of 100 - 112F days as I recollect. Those fires glutted a lot of people's farms and forests all over the State of Texas, and I'll never forget it. I spent my time mowing around the fence so that if the neighbor's wild wooded area to the south, east, and north of my property would not send fires into places birds love on my property, and that if my place experienced holocaust, it would be less threatening to the neighbors as well. Nature cracks her whip if you live in the country. Last summer sometime, we had a storm that created small tornados, and I'm pretty sure several of them decimated my neighbor to the north's roof, 60' of my wood fence to the north, and here and there tree patches around Freedom Lake out back, and my last 4 tall pines left over from the drought, took the tops off 2 of them that survived 2011's furnace weather, and half the skeletal remains of a tall pine that was probably at least 130 feet tall it's last year before falling prey to the weather. I know what nature can do on 14 acres. What was done to 14 million trees north of the Mediterranean got my attention when all I was doing the other day was trying to find out if we could expect more rain here, and I saw the shocking news of a storm spreading holocaust over there in Italy and Austria. And I thought I had losses. I can't even imagine the pictures shown over in the EU.
