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Monday 22nd 60F, overcast and breezy. Rain forecast for this morning OR this afternoon. Depending entirely on whom you believe of the professional, seaweed gropers.
This would make a tremendous hill for tobogganing!
In spotting rain and very flat light I walked my traditional loop up to the woods. Then back down the other side of the hill. Taking dozens of photographs I was treated to several unusual sights.
A pair of Bramblings were swinging wildly back and forth on jutting twigs on top of a draughty hedgerow. Unusual enough in my daily perambulations to warrant confirmation of identity on my return.
An inverted, ex-slow worm was lying on the track down from the woods. While a male Kestrel came down and began to preen itself on the field. Sitting about 100 yards away as I watched through my binoculars. Then a female arrived and alighted nearby. Followed by a third. All three remained seated [or rather standing] as I plodded on. Taking even more snaps of the landscape as irritating flies tried to sit on my ears.
An oversized vintage lorry roared past on the road. Probably American, judging by its muscular appearance, deep tone and jolly paint job. Then a very noisy jet fighter came over below 200 feet. It was bristling with more weapons than a hanging posse looking for a crashed UFO.I had just switched off my Lumix TZ7 camera and it takes literally seconds to restart ready for a snap. So I didn't have a chance to capture the jet [perhaps for a ransom?] before it was a mere speck.
It was lucky it wasn't a real UFO because nobody would have believed me. Many of the remaining crops are dented with oddly shaped flattened areas. Though we've had no aliens knocking on the door in the middle of the night and asking to use the toilet. Probably rior to a jolly abduction and a free jaunt around the Moon or even Venus. My total today was 81 pictures in and hour and half. "And they all look just the same, tra-la!"
An odd story in the news about unhappy French cows dying near windmills.[Wind Turbines] "They" [the authorities] automatically assumed electrical/magnetic fields were causing the problems.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49045742
What they should look at is infrasonics. Very low frequency [VLF] sound waves. Usually meaning below 20 Hz but they extend right down to fractions of a Hz. [Cycles per second] Most humans cannot hear infrasonics. Hence the name. [i.e.Beyond hearing.]
Infrasonics can cause so-called, sympathetic resonance [severe vibration] in the bowels, lungs and even the eyeballs. Wind turbines produce masses of infrasonics. It is said that the blades passing the supporting mast or tower cause the most problems. The authorities should test for infrasonics in all wind conditions in areas where cattle are reported as suffering from premature deaths.
The effects can be quite devastating in humans. Severe nausea and visual disturbance are easily caused. Larger animals, with larger organs, could well be hypersensitive to specific very low frequencies [VLF] which go quite unnoticed by mankind. Elephants use infrasonics to communicate over many miles. As do whales. Their incredibly deep call sounds, or songs, can travel right around the world in the oceans.
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