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I have a new science website

I have a new science website for an independent study I am doing through school. It has some cool pictures of what I've seen under a microscope and some other things. 

Festival of Birds

This is a poem I did for class in the 6th grade. I did the collage art myself. Willow, the dog mentioned in the poem, died in an apartment fire on Marks Road two days ago.

Festival of Birds

by Peter Hartwell

Fifteen turkey vultures flying low.

Sea gulls and herons feating slow.

The shore was littered with

Silvery dead fish. Alewives.

 

My mother went down to the shore

to see what the fuss was about.

Willow the dog, out with her owner,

picked up a fish and brought it to her

and dropped it at her feet.

 

The fish were Alewives,

fish that didn't belong.

They had died during the winter

and now were all washed up,

a silver tide of dead fish.

 

The heron in the creek

was the last to leave. He was

still scavenging for bits of fish.

 

Many months after that,

there were still remains of

the bird festival to be found

in the bushes and reeds.

checking out the creatures in the Hudson River

This was at the Clearwater Festival in Croton, NY. The person in the blue shirt is me.

Sea turtle rescue

I helped rescue a sick and injured sea turtle at Cocoa Beach last month. It had motor boat slices out of its shell. The sea turtle was taken to a wildlife rescue facility. People poured water on it to keep it moist during the rescue.

Big Foot Footprints seen at Coon Mountain

I found these foot prints on coon mountain I'm almost sure the tracks are not from a bear but it could be BIG FOOT!

Carnivorous Plant Monster

dragonfly facial expressions

these dragonflies really look like they have facial expressions

 

via  Kvejlend's photostream

I iz mousecat!

I iz kartoon cat!

Playing Miniature Golf in Lake George

Web Comic #3: Cryptid

This cryptid is one quarter frog, one quarter tadpole, one quarter fish, and one quarter Komodo dragon.

Web Comic #2: Graffitti

Web Comic #1: Candy Wrapper

by Peter Hartwell

Frog

This a frog I caught in Westport, NY which is upstate in the Adirondacks. He's pretty small compared to the other ones that got away or that I couldn't get because they were too far out in the water.

invisible man walks on water

as you might have noticed there is my reflection on the water.

Henry Hudson's Voyages

My Bionicle Photo Gallery

Amazingly Long Fish!

It's a blue, really long fish, probably as long as a really long piece of driftwood. It's called an oarfish. I went on Google and typed in "sea serpent." And I found these pictures that I will put on my weblog.

I wonder who first discovered it, washed up on the beach.

My Bat Map

Click HERE to see the whole map.Community Walk Map - Peter's Bat Map

My Thylacine Costume

A Newly Discovered Kind of Chimaera

It has been reported in the news that there is a newly discovered kind of chimaera. They have a picture. A chimaera is a relative of the shark that has big eyes and lives in black water. It's called a Hydrolagus mattallansi. I hope they give it a simpler name soon.

Chimaeras are very interesting. The are brown and white. They live very, very deep under the surface of the ocean.

There should be a newly-discovered animal web site for kids.

Pictures of Extinct Animals

This is a very good picture book that I made at my neighbor's house. The first one is a doedicurus, a giant armadillo as big as a car. The second one is gastornis, a meat-eating bird that is as tall as a grown man. The last one is a thylacine, which is also called the Tasmanian tiger.

I like the DVD Walking with Prehistoric Beats! I like learning about extinct animals. I think what's coolest about the leptictidium it's cute and has sharp teeth and looks sort of like a shrew.

I'm a Yellow Belt Now

I am now a yellow belt in Tai Kwan Do.

I even broke a board with my hand!

Doing Homework

Burgess Shale Creatures Museum

I drew a wiwaxia.

These Burgess Shale creatures are cool. Even the ones I have seen are cool. And I have seen lots of them and you had better go to the place where the ocean from before the time of the dinosaurs was. You might find fossils of Burgess Shale creatres, like the one on my web log.

I'm going to make a museum here on my weblog of Burgess Shale creatures.

The lace crab (Marrella) is cool and I think we might find a fossil if we go to the right place. [Pictures from the Smithsonian].

PLACES I'D LIKE TO GO:

The Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale exhibit at the Royal Tyrell Museum

I ALREADY WENT TO:

The Royal Ontario Museum
The Smithsonian

I also drew a hallucigenia:

Bunyips Play Area

Buynips are imaginary creatures that live in Australia. They're cool but they're sometimes scary. And sometimes they just walk around and sometimes they hunt but I don't think they get very much food.