A daily online word puzzle with a twist, five short videos about backyard birds, and the world’s oldest cave art are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month.
I hope you enjoy them, too!
What I Found Interesting
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This month I’ve enjoyed the five-part video series Backyard Birds Revealed from Wild Birds Unlimited and Cornell Lab of Ornithology on everyday backyard feeder birds in northeast US.
Each captioned video is three to six minutes long, highlighting the lives of birds, how they stay warm in winter, drama at the feeder, and more.
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Looking to de-Google your online life?
To celebrate Data Privacy Day today, Tuta offers a helpful guide to the best privacy-focused Google alternatives for your email, calendar, search engine, browser, online storage, and more.
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Congrats goes out to Paul Hebert who this month released their 100th daily Tiled Words puzzle.
A word puzzle with a twist, Tiled Words is a free online puzzle where you move and rotate tiles to find clues.
Each puzzle takes five to 10 minutes on average to complete. If you like word games or puzzles, give it a try!
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Start small and expand as you go, is what Australian urban gardener Debbie McMillan recommends for adapting your yard into a native garden.
I didn’t plan it out on paper at all.
I had ideas in my head about where I wanted things to fit, but I pretty much just went by gut feeling with plants.
It was really trial and error, and most of it happened bit by bit.
Which is how I started six years ago, when I began my own native plants journey and chose to sow native plant seeds in a small three by four foot area in my yard.
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Can you imagine cave art that’s at least 67,000 years old? And it might actually be older.
That’s what researchers discovered when they dated a faint hand print found in Liang Metanduno, located on Muna Island in Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi province.
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Love this idea!
OK Bouquet is a New Zealand website where you can search for gardeners selling flowers from their garden in your community.
I wish we had something similar to it in southeast Michigan, without having to go to a farmer’s market.
