We'll get back to the birds shortly ...... tomorrow at 10:08 am the moon will begin to nudge in front of the sun ... and the partial eclipse will finish at 12:22 pm. Should look good. BUT .................... And after weeks of heat, mainly clear skies and no rain at all etc , you'll never guess, it looks like rain is on the way. Here I am at 5pm Wednesday 9th, and the whole sky has darkened considerably. Grrrr. This is not good for eclipse-spotters. So ... back to birds. One thing I've noticed lately is the total lack of any young birds. Normally we should be getting clusters of LTTs around the fat feeder, juv. Starlings gobbling up all the food we put down ... that sort of thing. This is prob. due to the crap weather making everything a month late. And this very afternoon I strolled down to the estuary and the nearby flood . And said "flood" has been shrinking and drying out dramatically , to such an extent that now it is about the size of a table tennis table, and the lonely Oik that was there had 90% of its legs above water. The salt-marsh only featured two little Egrets. Nowt else. Anyway, I've bet The Significant Otter £1 that it'll be raining by 7pm. What about a relevant spot of music ..... But to put all that into perspective, here's a jolly excerpt from " The Accidental Universe"
here it goes telling us just one of the many ways our universe might finish up ..... Further subtle quantum effects may occur, which would cause the black holes to slowly evaporate away, leaving only a residue of radiation. Protons in the material that escapes a black hole demise might also gradually decay, ultimately into positrons, which would begin to annihilate the remaining electrons. Whether or not complete annihilation would eventually occur depends on the details of the model. In any case, the ultimate condition of the ever-expanding universe would seem to be a tenuous and fading bath of photons, neutrinos, gravitons and perhaps a few electrons and positrons. Nothing further of interest would then happen for all future eternity.
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