9 March 2024
The elements doesn’t know what to do with itself in Pittsburgh. Some days it rains all day (lately as an example). Some days it’s scorching and sunny. Some days it’s cold and overcast. This week we noticed all of it.
On Monday and Tuesday scorching sunny climate (74-75°F) inspired everybody to get open air. I waited some time to get a photograph, above, with out a large number of other people in it. Simply across the bend the solar was once so low within the sky at 4:40pm that it made lengthy shadows.
That stunning day got here after a foggy wet weekend, noticed at Duck Hole under. The Monongahela River was once working prime on account of the entire rain.
A wide variety of critters had been busy this week together with a striped purple 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. No longer earthworms, those are invasive Asian leaping worms. No longer just right! Click on right here to peer a temporary clip of them squirming.
On Thursday 7 March I discovered new leaves of (perhaps) corydalis at Todd Nature Reserve.
And at the manner house I ended on the Tarentum Bridge to test at the peregrines. The male was once perched within sight whilst the feminine incubated eggs within the nest. This (awful) digiscope picture displays the feminine’s wingtips visual within the nest field as she incubates along with her tail towards us. That is early for many peregrines in southwestern PA however no longer for this fowl. She’s at all times early.
p.s. Don’t omit to show your clocks AHEAD this night. (egads! I fastened that terrible typo. Thank you, everybody, for pointing it out.)
(pictures by means of Kate St. John)