Here and Now...What's Happening?

[TargeT]

Endless references...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tbBA6dysZ0Q

I haven't got to nerd out in quite a while...

[Guest]

Wednesday turned into birds of prey day. I was doing errands late morning and saw a Red Tail Hawk flying near. Well I hadn't seen one in a very long time so I stopped to sit with it as long as it would let me.




Then later on in the day a friend of mine and I were out riding around on his quad in the desert and through the orange groves. There are cotten fields between the orange groves. In the first field we saw fifty or so birds flying around. I thought that something had died; and as we got closer I realized that they were hawks. Wow, that is a lot of hawks. I've never seen that many in one place and thought how unusual. Usually two or three and once in a while I'll see a grouping of five or six. Well we drove through the next orange grove to the next field.... and there were hundreds of them flying together. Red Tails, cooper hawks including a few Falcons. I'm still awestruck by it. In all of my life I've never seen this many birds of prey flying together. Has anyone else experienced this?

Sorry about the photos, having editing issues,

Love

Nora

Yesterday I saw 11:11 three times

[TargeT]

I'm gonna go out and get meta drunk this weekend!
When drunk and surrounded by other drinkers, people’s judgements of their own levels of intoxication and the associated risks are related to the drunkenness of their peers, not on the objective amount of alcohol they have actually consumed, reveals a study by Cardiff University.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Nora (here)
...and there were hundreds of them flying together. Red Tails, cooper hawks including a few Falcons. I'm still awestruck by it. In all of my life I've never seen this many birds of prey flying together. Has anyone else experienced this?

Red Tail Hawk


Red Tails, Cooper Hawks and Falcons

That’s amazing, Nora. I’ve never seen so many or so many different breeds together.

Snippets from around the web that may help answer the gathering of different species:

1) Purple martins and Cooper’s hawks are intertwined in a predator/prey relationship that has grown more intimate and intense over the years as these hawks have increased in population and learned to associate martin housing with food. Cooper’s hawks and their cousins the sharp-shinned hawks are Accipiters and eat primarily birds. Accipiter hawks are slender with short rounded/elliptical shaped wings and long tails. These hawks are built for explosive acceleration, rapid flight for short distances, and flycatcher like agility using their long tails as rudders. Martin colonies are similar to bird feeding stations which Cooper’s hawks frequently stake out and hunt. Both martin colonies and bird feeding stations offer hawks a ready source of food that is concentrated in one location and the hawks develop hunting strategies to exploit the situation. [article]

2) Each fall, hundreds of thousands of hawks eagles, ospreys and falcons withdraw from their breeding grounds across North America and move to their wintering grounds, some as far away as southern South America. [article]

3) Depending on the season, there can be as many as 20 different species of falconiformes living in the North Texas area. Some are seasonal migrants. Other are what is known as occasional vagrants—birds that sometimes roam outside their normal range. [article]

4) Hawks, eagles and falcons share a lot of the same habitat and food sources as owls. What keeps them from directly competing? Owls are nocturnal (active at night), while hawks, eagles and falcons are diurnal (active during the day). [article]

5) Most raptors migrate over land. Large bodies of water do not produce strong thermals and are generally avoided. This effectively funnels most migrant raptors through Central America, a narrow land bridge. Because of this phenomenon, flocks of several thousand raptors of many different species can be seen during migration in many Central American countries. [article]

6) Juvenile raptors, particularly Northern Harriers, will “play” with corn cob pieces in fields after the harvest. They are not eating the corn but will harry the field then drop down as if capturing a meadow vole, and go through behavior motor sequence of taloning, dispatching, and biting. They will fly off with the piece, sometimes drop it and “recapture” it. They seem to enjoy this behavior which is most common in the fall. They select cobs that are broken in pieces about the size of a meadow vole.

This harrying-capture-kill motor sequence is, perhaps, part of a developmental phase as they perfect their hunting style or technique. Since animals learn adaptive strategies and also learn from one another, it is possible that they do this for fun at times when the prey base is sufficient and they can afford the metabolic cost, that is, the act of practicing hunting skills outweighs the metabolic cost. It can easily look like the hawks are hunting and eating corn! [article]

[ulli]

The next big hit will be inflatable UFOs.
http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/drink...able-irish-pub

[Michelle Marie]

This is what I'm up to today...

My second Alchemy of Light EVENT. "Applying the Quantum Physics of Group Consciousness"

There will be individual intentions that we will put the power of our united consciousness forth to materialize, and there will be global intentions that we will unite in consciousness to materialize.

Anyone willing to participate in Virtual Visioning, here is the list of intentions for the Global Shift we are creating:



If you sent me a private message request, I will send you more information regarding the Freeze Frame activity.

Lots of Love to ALL,
Michelle Marie

[RunningDeer]

For the last three evenings, I’ve had different dreams than usual. One I woke to go to the bathroom and entered right back into the dream. As I write this I recall the evening before where some of the dream happens in real life. I reminded myself that this is an overlap of my waking day.

The dream before waking today, I climbed a brick wall like a fly. I grew tired of the endless climb. So I created a window and punched through it. There was a time sensitive job to complete. Like a claustrophobic birthing canal, I crawled through with the understanding it was a necessary step to move through it because turning back was no longer an option I wanted to take.

It fits as a metaphor for where I am and what I’ve been pondering of late. It's high time to break out of this illusion. Birth into next.

♡

[Sueanne47]

Funny that, I once had a dream I was a fly on the wall...but I dont know what I was doing there..

[RunningDeer]

A lot of cool idea from homesteadonomics. Below are Part 5 of the sunken greenhouse and rain water harvesting system.

Sunken Greenhouse Part 5: Ventilation - Remington Solar, Wind Diversion

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W25lWtHOHWA

Published on Jun 30, 2016
Part 5 of the Sunken Greenhouse project includes me adding a Remington solar vent fan and a wind diverter to help in cooling the greenhouse. I cover both projects as well as a couple others... and as always, talk about the future projects that I still have left to do Thanks for watching!

Rainwater Harvesting - Home System Tour

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pNXooT2FVXM

Published on Oct 1, 2015
Here is a tour of my whole house rainwater harvesting system that accounts for approx. 90% of my family's needs here in the Arizona Sonoran desert. If you are interested in rainwater harvesting I hope it my give you some ideas of things that you can do in your own area of the world. If we can do it here in this area, I think most anyone else can certainly add to there water security with just a few simple steps. Thanks for watching and please let me know if you have any questions

[TargeT]

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/visu...national-debt/

[ulli]

Sniff, now not leaving for the airport. Jean-Marie not on her booked flight. On her way back to Bill's, so as to get things sorted out. Who knows how long it will take. Sniff.

[ulli]

[ulli]

Jean-Marie's flight is booked.
My cat Suzie has come home, after a two weeks absence.
A couple of more things to go, then my little world will be in order again.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

That's great Ulli. I finally got more than 8 hours of sleep last night, and my world feels right again, too. Alles in Ordnung.

[ulli]

Oops, Turrialba is active again. Airport was closed today due to the ashes.
Everytime someone wants to visit me, this happens.

[ulli]

This GIF reloads every ten seconds. Current state of the Turrialba volcano.

[RunningDeer]

Recycle visuals - two for the price of one to stop the heartburn and send in the clean-up crew. Intent for an interference-free atmosphere for Jean Marie, the Ulli Clan and all the folks of Costa Rica and beyond.

****

[Mike]

speaking of flying..

..i just saw this clip today, (hilarious) and thought it was enough of a coincidence to make me wanna do something with it..so here it is

enjoy(or don't). warning: adult content.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hFwfy4tY4hw

[ulli]

Love this website, that tracks all flights.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CMP458
Jean Marie will be landing in San Jose in 6 minutes.
Yay!

[Carmody]

Was somehow looking at vids on yootoob, and ended up being reminded.

Of this. One lab, one single lab caught. Doing something that is now considered 'simple' to enact.

The best guess is that the average person's mind evolves approximately 2 to 10 times slower than the technology. I'd say the most forward looking people are probably still falling behind in understanding and dealing with the ramifications of the technology.

How far ahead is black ops technology? Much further along, I'd wager.

When combined with CRISPR Gene editing technology, the changes are permanent and passed down through offspring.

Is the hybrid supersoldier for real?

Over half has been done, in the above linked article.

The other half is also real.