Category: pastoral

pulchra terra

creek and marsh grass
Betz-Tiger Point Preserve, Edwards Creek. Ten miles from JAX and a million people. Sitting above the St.Johns, in proximity to Amelia Island, Big Talbot, Black Hammock, Nassau River, Pumpkin Hill, Fort George, Timucuan. Not terra firma, pulchra terra. Build your subdivision elsewhere.

When we destroy nature we diminish our capacity to sense the divine, to understand who God is and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings. RFK Jr.

bird identification

Slabtown is sparsely populated. Walking the 6/10 mile tree loop my phone heard a Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinal, Canada Goose, Tufted Titmouse, American Crow, White-eyed Vireo, Northern Mockingbird, Blue Jay, American Goldfinch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Fish Crow, Great Crested Flycatcher, Carolina Chickadee, House Sparrow, Baltimore Oriole, Osprey, Eastern Bluebird, Northern Bobwhite, Indigo Bunting, House Wren, and a Great Blue Heron. It was not able to identify the mechanical bird. (I could hear that one)

HAWT

wind turbines
view from PA 36, north of Patton, looking east.

Large three-bladed horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWT) with the blades upwind of the tower produce the overwhelming majority of wind power in the world today. These turbines have the main rotor shaft and electrical generator at the top of a tower, and must be pointed into the wind.
In 2009, for every bird killed by a wind turbine in the US, nearly 500,000 were killed by cats and another 500,000 by buildings.–Wikipedia