GERMAN-ENGLISH WEEKLY JOURNAL by Mark Alan Pollock, (January 22-31, 2025)
(4098 & 4101), E. 9th Avenue & Elm Street, Johnson City, TN, USA, 3:09 PM, (January 22, 2025)
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In the middle of the first picture, a male Bluebird is flying in front of the chain link fence. One can observe the dark blue color of the flying bird. In the middle of the second picture, a female Bluebird is sitting on a branch between two trees with the blue sky in the background. - MAP (January 22, 2025), https://translate.google.com
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In der Mitte des ersten Bildes fliegt ein männlicher Rotkehl-Hüttensänger vor dem Maschendrahtzaun. Man kann die dunkelblaue Farbe des fliegenden Vogels beobachten. In der Mitte des zweiten Bildes sitzt eine weibliche Rotkehl-Hüttensängerin auf einem Zweig zwischen zwei Bäumen mit dem blauen Himmel im Hintergrund. - MAP (22. Januar 2025)
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The bluebirds (Sialia) are a genus of passerines comprising only three species within the thrush family (Turdidae). All three species, the red-throated bluebird, the blue-throated bluebird, and the mountain bluebird, inhabit North America; the distribution area of the red-throated bluebird extends into Central America.
The birds, which are almost the size of a song thrush but are significantly lighter, have an intense blue coloration, especially on their backs, which is where the English name bluebird comes from. Their shape is more like flycatchers than thrushes. They are cavity nesters and feed mainly on insects, and in autumn and winter also on berries and fruit. The northern populations of all three species are migratory birds. Bluebirds are among the best-known songbirds in Canada and the USA. Like all smaller cavity nesters in many regions of the Nearctic, the Bluebird also suffers from competition for cavities from the introduced and rapidly spreading European starling, with which it is usually defeated in direct confrontations. However, population declines in many regions have been largely compensated for by intensive use of special nesting boxes. None of the three species currently appears on the IUCN endangered list. - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüttensänger, https://translate.google.com
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Die Hüttensänger (Sialia) bilden eine nur drei Arten umfassende Gattung der Sperlingsvögel innerhalb der Familie der Drosseln (Turdidae). Alle drei Arten, der Rotkehl-Hüttensänger, der Blaukehl-Hüttensänger und der Berghüttensänger bewohnen Nordamerika; das Verbreitungsgebiet des Rotkehl-Hüttensängers erstreckt sich bis nach Mittelamerika.
Die knapp singdrosselgroßen, aber bedeutend leichteren Vögel weisen vor allem am Rücken eine intensive Blaufärbung auf, worauf sich der englische Name Bluebird bezieht. In ihrer Gestalt gleichen sie eher Fliegenschnäppern als Drosseln. Sie sind Höhlenbrüter und ernähren sich vor allem von Insekten, im Herbst und Winter auch von Beeren und Früchten. Die nördlichen Populationen aller drei Arten sind Zugvögel. Hüttensänger zählen in Kanada und in den USA zu den bekanntesten Singvögeln. Wie alle kleineren Höhlenbrüter vieler Regionen der Nearktis leiden auch die Hüttensänger unter der Höhlenkonkurrenz durch den eingeführten und sich rasant ausbreitenden europäischen Star, denen sie in direkten Auseinandersetzungen meist unterliegen. Durch intensives Ausbringen besonderer Nistkästen konnten jedoch Bestandsrückgänge in vielen Regionen weitgehend kompensiert werden. Keine der drei Arten erscheint zurzeit in einer Gefährdungsliste der IUCN.
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hüttensänger
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Screen Shot, https://tickets.chq.org/landing.html, 10:30 AM, (January 23, 2025)
Welcome to tickets.chq.org, Chautauqua Institution's official ticketing website.
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This morning I bought all the necessary papers for the first week and the fifth week at the Chautauqua Institution. I immediately received everything by email. - MAP (January 23, 2025), https://translate.google.com
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Heute morgen habe ich alle nötige Zettel für die erste Woche und die fünfte Woche bei der Chautauqua-Institution gekauft. Sofort habe ich alles per E-Brief bekommen. - MAP (23. Januar 2025)
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STAYING ON-CAMPUS AT CHAUTAUQUA IS PREFERRED, AND HERE ARE SOME REASONS:
(1) Cars are only allowed on-campus briefly during check-in & check-out. So, if you commute, you will be walking back & forth from the main parking lot.
(2) The CHAUTAUQUA EXPERIENCE is maximized by staying on-campus. We know several teachers who check-in like we do. Having a convenient on-campus base, they are free to teach their classes and participate in all the Traditional Gate Pass (TGP) activities all-day-long (all-week-long).
(3) Most check-ins are on Saturdays. Immediately after you move-in, buy a Chautauquan Daily newspaper at the Chautauqua Bookstore, https://www.chautauquabookstore.com. Everything for that week is in that “weekender" newspaper and inserts. Speakers, lecturers, and teachers should check with Earl Rothfus, erothfus@chq.org, manager of the Chautauqua Bookstore. He may be able to offer a limited number of copies of relevant book(s) for sale.
(4) Early and continually, search the main website, https://www.chq.org, to find a place to stay. There are many options. Occasionally vacancies pop-up due to cancellations.
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Eagle Camera Project - Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City, TN, USA, https://www.etsu.edu/cas/biology/eagle-cam/, (viewed January 24, 2025)
https://www.etsu.edu/cas/biology/eagle-cam/cameras.php (Live)
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Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1 (viewed January 24, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE (Live)
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E-MAIL, to younger brother from older brother, 9:55 AM, (January 24, 2025)
Been keeping an eye on the Big Bear Valley eagle nesting cam, which I've been following now for more than a year.
A camera eye
Which now is mine
Is posted high up in
A California Jeffery pine
Just outside an eagle’s nest
Not more than just a foot or two away,
And yesterday at close of day
I was there to witness something rare:
The mother eagle’s there alone
But looking strange to me
Not like the many times
I’ve spied on her before,
Her body slightly bowed,
The smaller feathers on her back
All ruffled up
As by a gusting wind,
But piney branches told the air was still.
And then I noticed that her eyes
Were squinted almost closed
Which worried me that she was sick
Or suffering from some injury
Until her tail feathers tilted slightly up
And I could see,
At first a little discharge drop,
And then!
An egg ease out
And plop into the nest!!!
A sight that took my breath away
And rattled me so much
It nearly shook me from the tree!!
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E-MAIL, Videos from DANK, https://dank.org, (January 24, 2025)
🇩🇪 MASSIVE German Feast at Edelweiss | Best German Food in Chicago
- https://youtu.be/q5EiGodh8NM?si=lqSNmDRHHCCipTnD (9min46sec)
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(4102), Johnson City Press, (January 25, 2025)
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E-MAIL, from Big Picture Ranch, info@bigpictureranch.com, (January 29, 2025)
Common Ground documentary (2023) - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-M4Hq0MKFA&t=1s (2min54sec)
From the filmmakers of Kiss the Ground comes the follow-up documentary Common Ground, recipient of the Tribeca Film Festival's Human/Nature Award. In select theaters, and streaming on Prime Video, EARTH DAY, April 22, 2025: https://commongroundfilm.org
Sobering yet hopeful, Common Ground exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United States and beyond, and how regenerative agriculture and soil health plays a vitally important role in changing these systems for the better. At its root, it explores how people from different walks of life, different political backgrounds, and different places share one thing in common - the very soil beneath their feet.
The film is directed by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, who have created bold and inspiring environmental films (Kiss the Ground, On Sacred Ground, Regenerate Ojai, Fuel, The Big Fix), while winning coveted awards along the way from Sundance, Cannes, Red Nation, and Tribeca.
Common Ground features celebrity actors, activists and philanthropists Rosario Dawson, Laura Dern, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Jason Momoa, and Ian Somerhalder, along with interviews with Gabe Brown, Jonathan Lundgren Ph.D, Mark Hyman M.D., Leah Penniman, Ray Archuleta, Toby Kiers, Ph.D, Allejandro Carillo, Carey Gillam, Kelsey Ducheneaux-Scott, Kara Boyd, Robyn O'Brien, Rick Clark, and many other farmers, ranchers, scientists, educators, allies, and beyond.
In addition to warning the next generation, the narrators provide hope for ways to fix broken systems. “As parents of two young children, Common Ground is not only a love letter to our kids, but all of the co-narrators of the film are also writing the letter to their children,” co-director Rebecca Tickell - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mov...
Common Ground had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, receiving the Human/Nature Award, “…a prize established to amplify a film that best exemplifies solution-oriented environmental storytelling.” - https://tribecafilm.com/films/common-...
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