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Who? Yes, they are owls. Interested in
nature, space, sciences because.

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Throwback Thursday to last year on this day. It was “one foggy Christmas Eve”. #Chicago #Christmas #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer

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Twas the Night Before Christmas. This evening in Chicago.

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🌌🎄May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.

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☕️Hot chocolate and 🍪🍪cookies are ready. #Believe.

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It's been awhile. The year has seemed longer than it is at times.😐 And now it's almost over.

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☀️🌎🌕To find the begin and end times for the lunar eclipse, check here: https://t.co/9l5WerBeT5
#lunareclipse2020

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One night only! Tonight!😀

[ARCHIVED - NASA Moon @NASAMoon]

A full Moon lights up the night this Independence Day.

Called the Buck, Hay, or Thunder⛈️ Moon, this full Moon is also a penumbral lunar eclipse! In the Americas, you might see a slight darkening as 30% of the Moon passes through the outer part of Earth's shadow. ☀️🌎🌕

[WBU Barred Owl Cam @WBU_Owls]

05/10/2020
We, along with one of the stars of the WBU BO Cam, would like to wish a Happy Mother's Day to ALL hoo it may apply to!

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🏟️ This hawk mother of long experience doing what is best for her chicks on human's Mothers' Day. ☀️

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05/10, 2:45 PM; BR doing what mothers everywhere do best. Taking care of the chicks. Happy Mother’s Day from Cornell Hawkland.

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🥜Is a handful of peanuts,🍫3 squares of dark chocolate,🍒🍓4oz berry yogurt,🧸3 gummy bears &🍘6 plain crackers a semi-nutritious dinner? 😉Asking for a friend.

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📄 You've got some time to read about interesting people in history. Not too long, not too short.
👉@Thehistorychix or 👉https://t.co/LiE6XD2991

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🗺️ 2/2 ...and each has its own set of problems. Here's a page that will show the true comparative size of countries. Click 'about' for explainer. https://t.co/k1hJDYNFlk

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🗺️ 1/2 It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator projection. Every map projection introduces distortion, ...

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Saw a great egret during a walk yesterday evening. That bird looks almost prehistoric along with the great blue heron, sandhill crane and whooping crane. Were these an inspiration for Big Bird on Sesame Street?

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2/2⏲️ ...The hour was divided into:
4 puncta, 10 minuta, or 40 momenta.

Considering an average 12 solar hours:
1 Moment = 90 seconds
Now you know the length of 'One moment, please.'

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1/2 ⏲️ Found ... on the way to somwhere else.
~from @fermatslibrary Apr 23
A Moment was a medieval unit of time.
1 day was divided into 24 hours.
1 hour was equal to 12 lengths of the period from sunrise to sunset.
and...

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While our attention was focused on owls & hawks @Fermilab posted on April 28: "Welcome to the first baby bison of the year born at Fermilab!"🐂 Really, no kidding.🙂The lab has a bison herd established in 1969. Fermilab is expecting between 12 and 14 new calves this spring.

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🦉 Those white & grey feathers in the foreground are two owlets fluffled under their momma's feathers while she hoots to dad in the afternoon & he replies 'who cooks for you' @WBU_Owls ⬅️(Full video link)

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🏟️ Littlehawk heap in early afternoon @CornellHawks cam.

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☁️ Cloudy no visible moon tonight. Goodnight unseen moon. G"nite fone. G'nite kiddos. 🛌 Sweet dreams. 💤