29 June 07
Back from Monterey
I now know what organs are most affected in Japanese quail by Napthalene (kidneys); that until very recently the Norwegian response to oiled wildlife was to shoot it; that shade cloth makes a better covering for bird-drying pens than either sheets or blankets if you want to have better air flow (which you do, because it cuts down the incidence of lethal fungi like aspergillus in birds that are being rehabilitated); that bat rays will suck on your fingers if you try to feed them shrimp; that the application and subsequent magnetic removal of iron powder to oiled feathers removes more oil than detergent washing alone.
I also now know the best spot in the world for breakfast if you want it in the company of a horned puffin, three sea-otters, and a constant stream of pelagic cormorants…
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Interesting stuff! I sure hope the Horned Puffins stick around for one more month….
They’re all the way south to Monterey? Dang, nobody tells me anything.
So are we talking about the MBA’s cafe?
Ron — my emails to you are bouncing. It was the Monterey Plaza Hotel, where the conference was. There’s a lot of krill in the water this year, unusually, which is bringing these birds south…
I think I’m becoming unhealthily obsessed with Horned Puffins – when I first saw your Sea Otter sketch I saw a Horned Puffin floating belly-up staring at its feet!