Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.56.0308060120200.7813@panix1.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: changing faunal landscape in kingston pennsylvania
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:20:31 -0400 (EDT)
changing faunal landscape in kingston pennsylvania for jg ballard new species sighted: blue herons (3),* green heron (1) influx of muscovy ducks and canadian geese* muskrats in drainage ditches influx of virginia possums (opossums) intensification: rabbits,* skunks moving territory: broad-shouldered hawks (5)* into central town insects: small green back black-striped grasshoppers (1)* spiders: shield spiders (have to check into nomenclature)* (30-40 approx) some small waterbirds unidentified (inland) numerous crown coral fungi* archaic and other bacterial efflorescences around sulphur vents* increase in numbers of bats increase in crow flocks *, photographed -- one might speak of a _general efflorescence_ in relation to increased humidity and perhaps global warming -- the kirby park thicket appears subtropical and often flooded __