The “golden-crowned kinglet” has a flight log?..............
Looks that way! 😁
Always some ‘living parable’ going on.
Such a precious little bird. A variety so small, I wondered if it were a baby, which made no sense this time of year but hey, it’s the new year.
Besides, we do have a strange case of little kid squirrels running around. Two red and two gray. I’d been seeing mommy squirrels late, way out of season, so I’m glad the little tykes are doing well and learning their way around.
Everybody gets along!
I'd forgotten all about this mighty rescue until coming here to look up when 70 had finally been updated on the flight log.
A couple of oddities I'm adding here for documentation purposes:
In all the woosh of today's news, I saw that the stats on the flight log had changed. Sticky fingers at JPL perhaps.
What's on there now for the distances:
70 1009 Dec. 22, 2023 260 ~853
71 1023 Jan. 6, 2024 0 0
72 1035 Jan. 18, 2024 0 0
Leaving the curious to wonder what happened to 71's forward motion?
From the Flight 71 thread: Horizontal Distance 71 m ~233 ft
From the waypoints log: 67.936 m, 222.887 ft
From the Flight Preview plan that fell way short:
Flight 71
Expected flight date: 01/06/2024
Horizontal flight distance: 358.3 meters
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The story we are left with [from the Flight Log as-is] is that forward progress "ended" with Flight 70, although 71 was actually supposed to go forward by ~358 ft.
The last movement now given is a distance that is ~358.. in reverse.
🤔
Well I wouldn't know how it all went down; I merely observed the anomaly.
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Had some strange, unexpected weather last night. Was supposed to be a little freezing drizzle becoming light rain along with warming temps so no ice build up...
... instead, everything was glazed over like a donut this morning. Yikes.
As dawn arrived I noticed that the huge ornamental grass (a lone specimen in a round clump, over 6 ft. tall) had curled outward all the way over to the ground in a circle, with some sparse shoots remaining upright in the center.
Oh look, a huge crown roast. That's what I described it as when I first saw it. I supposed it had to be just the right coating of ice to take that form. Weird how it had become a giant golden crown, a front and center focal point in the yard.
I've got pics, but couldn't find anything similar from the 'net to post.
Then imagine my surprise when I wandered back over here tonight.
...and after he posed for the pictures, he flew directly to "David"