Daily Bread for 7.19.26: Bird Banding at the Hemlock Draw Preserve

Good morning.

Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:33 and sunset is 8:28 for 14 hours 55 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 31.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 64, the Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.

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Trained and licensed bird banders make tracking migratory birds possible. Several beautiful species were banded at The Nature Conservancy’s Hemlock Draw Preserve last month:

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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis and a New Ethics Ordinance.

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Dark Energy Camera Reveals a Real-Life ‘Starry Night’ in Space:

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the NSF Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope captured an amazing view of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. “The scene contains glowing nebulae, dark dust lanes, and newborn stars, reminiscent of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night,” according to NOIRLab.