As I was leaving a store yesterday, the breeze increased causing me to turn my face. A movement caught my eye. I stopped and realized rolling across the parking lot were a couple dozen cigarette butts. An idea popped into my head for a project.
I want to start a project entitled, "See a Butt, Pick it Up!"
Years ago, while on a Cub Scout field trip I learned from our guide at Palmyra Nature Cove that cigarette butts were becoming a problem for them. Why? Birders would come, perch to watch their feather friends in a quiet and serene locations only to litter the area with their butts!!! The guide said he was doing all he could to "educate" the masses.
Here is a few websites where you can learn more of damage these butts make:
Cigarette Butt Litter -- IMPACTS!
Cigarette Butts: Tiny Trash That Piles Up
The Facts About Cigarette Butts and Litter
Litter Fact Sheet -- Cigarette Butts
Who is going to help me? Show of hands!!! See a Butt, Pick it Up!
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
without Snow Geese!
Last week, I was ducking (no pun intended) into the house because of massive flocks of birds. I believe it was made up of mostly European Starlings, although I saw Robins and Blackbirds too. There numbers were probably in the thousands.
This week, I was gifted with the chance to take a quick picture of a flock of Snow Geese. It was so beautiful. What do you think?
In case you want to learn more about Snow Geese ... Check out Snow Goose, Life History, All About Birds website.
If you'd like to learn more about European Starlings ... A bird species that is consider to be invasive; as it doesn't have any natural predators like those birds who were already established in the United States. Check out European Starling, Identification, All About Birds website.
I found myself chuckling after reading WHY this specie was introduced to the United States... "Introduced as part of a plan to introduce to the U.S. all birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare." Quote from National Invasive Species Information Center page on European Starling
Amazing, somehow I managed to segue back to a writer!!! Who knew taking a picture of Snow Geese would lead to Shakespeare?
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| Vincentown Lake, Vincentown, NJ |
In case you want to learn more about Snow Geese ... Check out Snow Goose, Life History, All About Birds website.
If you'd like to learn more about European Starlings ... A bird species that is consider to be invasive; as it doesn't have any natural predators like those birds who were already established in the United States. Check out European Starling, Identification, All About Birds website.
I found myself chuckling after reading WHY this specie was introduced to the United States... "Introduced as part of a plan to introduce to the U.S. all birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare." Quote from National Invasive Species Information Center page on European Starling
Amazing, somehow I managed to segue back to a writer!!! Who knew taking a picture of Snow Geese would lead to Shakespeare?
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