Crow's Nest Antiques

02/25/2025

Wasn't going to share until I read, not scary.

Airplanes are designed to be hit by lightning, which is good because it happens pretty regularly! Careful engineering allows the electric charge of a lightning bolt to run through the plane and out of it, usually without causing damage to the aircraft. In fact, a plane hasn’t been brought down by lightning since 1963.

02/25/2025

Bees communicate by dancing. Inside the hive, one bee will dance while others watch. A special dance called the “waggle dance” is used to communicate flower patch locations. Specifically, the waggle dance is used to tell other bees the distance to a flower patch and which direction to fly in to get there.

02/25/2025

Scientists believe Jupiter has 79 moons orbiting it. There are 53 named moons orbiting the planet and another 26 moons are awaiting official names. The most important moons orbiting Jupiter are the first 4 moons discovered beyond Earth’s: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. (These 4 moons are sometimes referred to as the Galilean satellites.)

02/25/2025

The world’s largest bat is the flying fox. These bats have a wingspan of up to 6 feet and are found on islands in the South Pacific.

01/06/2025

01/06/2025

This is a year for arrival 🙌💫

12/25/2024

12/09/2024

Wilson's Snipe is a fairly common migrant and winter resident across Tennessee, present from mid-August through late May. This is a game species in Tennessee requiring a TN Migratory Bird Permit. The hunting season is usually in late November.This small, chunky, long-billed shorebird spends the non-breeding season in Tennessee.

It can be found alone or in small groups across the state probing in mud and wet meadows for small invertebrates. However, its camouflage coloration is so good that it is often overlooked until flushed when it rapidly flies away in a zigzag pattern, uttering its raspy scaipe call.

The Wilson's Snipe breeds across northern North America, and winters in the lower half of the U.S. south to northern South America.

This was my first time photographing three together.

Wilson's Snipe
Sullivan County, Tennessee
December 2024