| The Singing Life of Birds : The Art and Science of Listening to ...
Listen to birds sing as you"ve never listened before, as the world-renowned birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma takes you on personal journeys of discovery and intrigue. Read stories of wrens and robins, thrushes and thrashers, warblers and whip-poor-wills, bluebirds and cardinals, and many more bird. Learn how each acquires its songs, how songs vary from bird to bird and place to place, how some birds' singing is especially beautiful or ceaseless or complex, how some do not sing at all, how the often quiet female has the last word, and why. Hear a baby wren and the author"s own daughter babble as each learns its local dialect. Listen to the mockingbird by night and by day and count how many different songs he can sing. Marvel at the exquisite harmony in the duet of a wood thrush as he uses his two voice boxes to accompany himself.
Millstone River floods local shops
MILLSTONE -- Newlyweds Richard and Sheena Potts had just put a large chunk of their life savings into a business where the pair could work side by side, every day. Sheena Potts, a teacher in Jackson Township, and Richard Potts, who managed a golf course in Robbinsville, quit their professions and opened "Gardner to Gardner" on Amwell Road in January. The shop -- housing colorful potted flowers and gardening supplies -- and its parking lot instead resembled a lake Monday morning when the Millstone River overflowed as a result of Sunday's nor'easter. Water rested just below a "Do Not Enter" sign behind the store on Tuesday. "There was six feet of water inside," Sheena Potts said Tuesday. "I tried to lift everything and get it as high as possible, but the water came in too fast." The Potts, who lives in Monmouth County, married in November and were on their honeymoon in the Virgin Islands when they thought of the idea to open the gardening store.
Compare the Performance of Landscape Counseling and Planning ...
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c53615) has announced the addition of Landscape Counseling and Planning: State Market Index to their offering. The metrics in this report cover three year trends in SIC 781 [Agricultural sector], broken out on a state-by-state basis. Analysis is based on data applied from 43,276 industry firms. Industry market vitality measures for each state are benchmarked against US averages for the industry, creating easy comparison of state-by-state performance. Industry sales are detailed for both company-wide headquarters data and locally generated sales levels. The report also compares proprietary measure in each state and the US, including failure rates, entrepreneurial activity and new branch development rates in the industry.
Landscape Awards Recognize Residential, Commercial Beautification ...
The City is looking for outstanding examples of residential and commercial landscaping for its third annual Gaithersburg Beautification Awards. Designed to honor those who value beautifully landscaped and well-maintained properties, and who work diligently to help make Gaithersburg such a lovely City, the awards will be presented on October 1, 2007. Any commercial or residential property within the City limits may be nominated. The City's Beautification Committee members will judge the nominees in June and July, and will select one winner from the many commercial and residential categories listed on the nomination form. Honorable mentions may be awarded if deemed necessary. Judges will be looking at the functional and aesthetic aspect of design, use of plant and hardscape materials, maintenance, and suitability of design to purpose.
Planner opposes turbines consent
Turbines higher than 50-storeyed buildings on the Lammermoor Range would dominate the landscape and the Central Otago District Council's planner has recommended the Project Hayes wind farm proposal be turned down. The planning consultant's report, released to the public yesterday, expresses concern about Meridian Energy's $2 billion proposal and the effects on the iconic landscape. Planner David Whitney says in the report the wind turbines would be up to 160m high, taller than any used to date on any wind farm in New Zealand, ``and have therefore not been able to be the subject of an assessment . . . the turbines proposed in Project Hayes are also taller than those used in most wind farms overseas (on land)''. The wind farm proposal, inland from Ranfurly near Paerau, would be the biggest in the world, with each of the 176 turbines exceeding the height of a 50-storey building.
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