Today the 23 April, day after Earthday, is my birthday, 80 superb years! I am now an official “Old Fart”.. Happy shelling to all, go to Sanbel the junonias are 2 ft deep on the beach!!! Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Conchologists List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Harry Lee <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 12:42:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] [NatureList] Re: [CONCH-L] Earth Day April 22 A day like all days, filled with the events that alter and illuminate our times - Walter Cronkite; but with full data! Harry On 4/23/2020 11:46 AM, Fred Schueler wrote: > On 4/13/2020 2:41 PM, Fred Schueler wrote: >> On 4/13/2020 12:02 PM, John Jacobs wrote: >> >>> Earth Day this year is Wednesday April 22^nd . Usually, there are >>> all kinds of events surrounding this day, but COVID-19 has put a >>> damper on that. However, here’s something you all can do on that >>> day: When you go for a walk around your neighborhood, take a trash >>> bag with you, wear gloves, and help to clean up the trash left >>> behind by inconsiderate creatures. We don’t always take a bag with >>> us when we walk in the morning, but we’re trying to do that more often. > >> ...and, based on the brands and products recovered, publish a >> psychological profile of the litterbugs in your local newspaper! > > * here's the promised Earth Day psychological assessment of > litter-bugging. I was only able to do the 49 m of our land along Buker > Road, but it's a start on this literary genre. No snail shells were > seen. The results are more like the remains of an old gotten-away bag > of kitchen garbage than real roadside littering. > > 22 April 2020 - Canada: Ontario: Grenville County: Buker Road Field, > 142 m SSW Bishops Mills intersection. (49m between waypoints), > 44.87128°N 75.70164°W TIME: 1754-1802. AIR TEMP: 3.5°C, sunny, > Beaufort moderate breeze. HABITAT: roadside of grassy/brushy > shallow-soil oldfield on limestone plain. OBSERVER: Frederick W. > Schueler. 2020/086/e, anthropogenic junk (event). litter, captured. > scrappy litter scattered along and back from the road. > > - 2 old torn boxes from Yoplait tubes - "Add a taste of sunshine to > your day with our fresh and feel-good dairy products. We put a lot of > love into every Yoplait product, bringing families across Canada > together so they can connect, share and savour every delicious moment > along the way." > > - 53 x 139 mm wrapper for Dare foods Ltd - "Bear Paws Chocolate Chip > bar - Made with real chocolate chips, these moist and chewy Bear Paws > taste just like home-baked cookies!" from "a peanut free facility." > > - full-size Cheerios box bleached white on upper side - "A Heart > Healthy Breakfast Made With Whole Grain Oats. An Essential Part Of > Every Morning. No Artificial Flavours." > > - torn scrap of blue tee-shirt-like cloth in a Rhamnus cathartica > (Common Buckthorn) bush. > > - a piece of glitter-spotted tissue paper. > > - 19 x 19 x 8 cm black plastic open-top take-out food container > > - 355 ml Mug root beer can with "no caffeine." > > - cardboard roll from paper towels > > - wrapper of Nestle DRUMS mocha cookie crunch - "An indulgent > combination of coffee frozen dessert, cookie crunch coating, and a > fudge centre. Each cone contains real, bold roast coffee." > > - a coffee filter paper. > > - rusty 15 cm angled piece of steel. > > - old decomposing plastic grocery bag. > > . . . so the psychological profile is "dispersed kitchen garbage from > a household modestly engaged with processed sweets," at 0.26 items per > metre. > > The bounds of the survey were: > > Buker Road Field, 118 m SSW Bishops Mills intersection. (20m > waypoint), 44.87148N 75.70152W TIME: 1754:52. HABITAT: roadside of > grassy/brushy shallow-soil oldfield on limestone plain. 2020/086/ea, > visit (event). natural history, walk. WAYPT/Y115, collecting for > roadside litter assessment. The NNE corner of our land and end of the > village pavement here. There's a swoop of sand off the shoulder where > the village pavement sweeping ended. Lythrum salicaria (Purple > Loosestrife) and Rhamnus frangula (Shining Buckthorn) are the > invasives along the roadside - Pinus sylvestris (Scots Pine) and > Agrilus planipennis (Emerald Ash Borer) -afflicted Fraxinus (Ash) back > from the road. > > moved 49m SSW - Buker Road Field, 167 m SSW Bishops Mills > intersection. (20m waypoint), 44.87107N 75.70176W TIME: 1755:45. > HABITAT: roadside of grassy/brushy shallow-soil oldfield on limestone > plain. 2020/086/eb, visit (event). natural history, walk. WAYPT/Y116, > collecting for roadside litter assessment. The SSW corner of our land > here. Rhamnus cathartica (Common Buckthorn) and Rhamnus frangula > (Shining Buckthorn) are the invasives along the roadside here - most > cut down at least once, but relentlessly sprouting. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. 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