Cernunnos of the Hunt

Devotional sideblog of walkingwiddershins

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[crittervillage]

Pine Marten_C6A0818 by Stuart Allen

[byjove]

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

[byjove]

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

[herpsandbirds]

Blue-banded Pitta (Erythropitta arquata), family Pittidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Borneo

photographs by Supasil Kalayanakoul 

[nikkiitalks]

Grey Wolf taking a roll call and getting responses from seemingly the entire forest.

Sound on.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Unmute, please!!

I love how many wolves answer this one's call!! Knowing that they're all out there makes me very happy!! 😁😁😁 I love wolves!! I love all kinds of canines!! Aroooooooo!!! 🩶🤍🩶

[huariqueje]

Aspen - Toshi Yoshida , 1973.

Japanese , 1911-1995

Woodblock print, 30 x 50 cm. 11.8 x 19.7 in.

[vestaignis]

Photographer Damian Kwasek. The Red Fox in Frosty Winter Meadow. Poland (Siemień). Фотограф Дамиан Квасек. Рыжая лиса на морозном зимнем лугу. Польша (Семень).

Источник: /35photo.pro/photo_13747215/.

[troythecatfish]

(I compiled all 5 slides of the original Instagram post into a single video/edit for Y'alls enjoyment 😉)

Song is Philippines Party, by Zeca Zilocchi

[segmentedleg]

"A hungry killer whale breaks through Antarctic ice in an effort to eat the man who took this picture." Life Nature Library: The Poles, Willy Ley, 1962.

[orofeaiel]

Merry Mischief Makers

[tsalala]

The leopardess Faulu.

Taken in the Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Pareet Shah

[pangeen]

" The Stag and The Flies " //© fbimages

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WatercolorWednesday :

Maxwell Ashby Armfield, R.W.S. (UK, 1881-1972)

Unpublished illustration to chapter VIII of The Armfield's Animal Book: 'The Badger'

pen & grey ink and watercolor

10¾ x 9¼ in. (27.3 x 23.5 cm)

Via Christie’s

[ba1laur]

its time to let me go

[michaelnordeman]

Red fox/Vulpes vulpes/rödräv. Värmland, Sweden (9 July 2024).

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Daniel started on 6/22/25, posting some of his absolute favorite images and the story of how it happened and why it’s one of his favorite images.

This Yellow Crowned Night Heron image is from his VERY first encounters a wading bird performing a courtship and still the most memorable all of the displays he's photographed.

These birds can display in such a quick and unexpected manor that simplying blinking may cause you to miss it. The second hardest part is waiting for one to display facing your camera, which can take several hours of waiting and being prepared.

He considers this image one of his favorites just for the curiosity it sparked inside him. He had to see more but he also wanted to learn more about their courting behaviors. Since taking this image he's managed to witness five other species perform Nuptial displays and produce some of his most known images by doing so.

This image was taken in Port Royal, South Carolina

📸 by Daniel Riddle @birdcrazed6

[admiralgiggles]

There is something whimsical about this to me.