Fur, Feathers, Flowers and More #26

[A bit light-on for photos this week due to Covid quarantine requirements - both Bron and I succumbed last Monday, James later in the week.]

Trying To Outrun Climate Change

A big challenge - how to maintain plant species with narrow cultural parameters while climate change is attacking their very existence.

Climate change is so much more complex than mere temperature increases and rainfall totals.

Plants have evolved some really exotic relationships and niches.

Pollination requirements are easily overlooked - the birds, the insects, the wind are themselves influenced by many factors. Change one and the whole process can fail.

The first response of plant growers in residential and agricultural settings is to simply turn to plants or cultivars deemed to match the new micro-climate.

Nature is not allowing sufficient evolution time for plants in the wild to adjust with climate change - intervention will be needed to keep species from succumbing.

Magpies Warbling Impacted By City Noise

Have you suspected that magpies have gone quiet? Not as much carolling in the dawn hours?

Bird of the Week

Peregrine Falcon