Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora)
between Rte. 34 B & Black St. which goes north as a continuation of
Indian Field Rd..
Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house & one on
the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us.
On 27 June, Becky & I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in
the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find
anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active.
In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in &
out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I
have noticed a remarkable lack of barn & tree swallows here this summer,
compared to previous years.
Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" ... & eventually people got her
message & did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of
acres of weed-free corn & soybean fields, I thought about seeing only
one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies & few of any kind of
butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be
abuzz with honey bees.
We still have mosquitoes & black flies, insects that need water in which
to lay eggs & blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water &
blood. They thrive. We scratch.
Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are
fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use
of insecticides, weed killers & fungicides by home owners, golf course
owners, large & small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect
that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become
in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late.
I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating
that scientists at MD U & the USDA have now found evidence that bees
that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to
be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder.
I wonder ... WHO CARES???
Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104
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