any time i get to post

farwell to tarwathie is a good day to me (even though it makes me cry each and every time). even found a version by eurythmics (which is a grand video at that. DO watch it)




Blue Whale Discovered Singing In New York Coastal Waters
ScienceDaily (May 30, 2009) — For the very first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales have been positively identified. Acoustic experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) confirmed that the voice of a singing blue whale was tracked about 70 miles off of Long Island and New York City on Jan. 10-11, 2009, as the whale swam slowly from east to west. At the same time, a second blue whale was heard singing offshore in the far distance..........