Urban wildlife evening!
Jun. 16th, 2012 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeThis afternoon I worked on one of my least favorite work activities: writing to a journal to ask them to reconsider their rejection of the manuscript I’d sent them. Not normally something I’d do, but in this case the reviewers didn’t seem aware that the journal publishes qualitative studies, and that my paper emulated the length and structure of qualitative papers already published in that journal. That is, their complaints were things that by that journal’s standards, at least as of a year and a half ago, I was doing right. It can’t hurt to point that out and ask for another chance.
I also watched quite a bit of Zelda: Twilight Princess – D. got through an innovative dungeon in a desert region, then an attractively colored dungeon in a yeti house.
After he left for the night, J. and I went and stuffed ourselves on Mexican food at Chapala, then since it was such a warm evening, we went for a walk on the Fern Ridge Path between the fairgrounds and Chambers Street. Thanks to some other passersby, we saw a beaver almost immediately! He (or she) was tugging and then gnawing on a branch. Then we mostly saw ducks, lots and lots of ducks. On the footbridge near Chambers, we watched for a while and soon saw an adorable little nutria in the grass right next to the creek; later we saw an adult nutria several yards away, maybe watching the little one, but she then crossed to the other side of the creek and left it alone. On the way back, we watched five little mottled brown ducklings travelling along in the creek with their mother, and then we passed the beaver again; this time he was sitting on his own tail.
We can see deer almost every day, if we spend enough time outside, and raccoons and possums are not uncommon (nor are nutrias, for that matter), but I can’t remember seeing a beaver since 1980. Now that I know where one hangs out, though, I may be back!
I also watched quite a bit of Zelda: Twilight Princess – D. got through an innovative dungeon in a desert region, then an attractively colored dungeon in a yeti house.
After he left for the night, J. and I went and stuffed ourselves on Mexican food at Chapala, then since it was such a warm evening, we went for a walk on the Fern Ridge Path between the fairgrounds and Chambers Street. Thanks to some other passersby, we saw a beaver almost immediately! He (or she) was tugging and then gnawing on a branch. Then we mostly saw ducks, lots and lots of ducks. On the footbridge near Chambers, we watched for a while and soon saw an adorable little nutria in the grass right next to the creek; later we saw an adult nutria several yards away, maybe watching the little one, but she then crossed to the other side of the creek and left it alone. On the way back, we watched five little mottled brown ducklings travelling along in the creek with their mother, and then we passed the beaver again; this time he was sitting on his own tail.
We can see deer almost every day, if we spend enough time outside, and raccoons and possums are not uncommon (nor are nutrias, for that matter), but I can’t remember seeing a beaver since 1980. Now that I know where one hangs out, though, I may be back!