Hey tumblr, I’m Wren. I’m a millennial who works outdoors. Sometimes I post pictures of the animals that I get to work with. I also post art, comics, and weird dreams. Here's some FAQ.
Common Tags (now alphabetized!)
art, bird, bug, cat, caves, cheese bird, cockatiel, comic, crow, dog, dragon, dreams, me, music, nature center, painting, park ranger, poll, printable, puppet, rabbit, ripley parrot, snake, story time, the fair folk, video, vulture
Links
Website: cyaneus.com
Art Inspo Reblogs: @wrending
Redbubble: tillery
Featured Creatures
Ripley, Teenage African grey parrot. Dinosaur toddler and menace to household objects.
Enyo: My grumpy old man (2004 - 2024).
Cheese: ??? year old cockatiel adopted in April of 2023. Weird little guy.
Mousetrap: Eastern rat snake rescued from a glue trap in 2016. Frequent animal ambassador at park programs.
Galaga: Western hognose hatched April 10, 2019. Less skilled at being an animal ambassador due to being kind of an asshole. Intersex!
Elvira: Curly hair tarantula.
Decaf Cappuccino: @adoubtifitbeus's rabbit.
Cubbie: My mom's dog.
Content Warnings
I tag pretty consistently, particularly #bug, #snake, #spider, and #animal death. Some may want to consider blocking posts tagged #current events, #medical, or #the agonies, as well.
Art Usage
Feel free to use my art for icons and headers! Please credit either my blog (@draconym) or my website (cyaneus.com), and please don't edit my work except to crop or resize. Don’t use my art for any commercial purpose. This includes uploading it to print on demand websites like Redbubble. Don't.
Donation Reblog Requests
I only reblog fundraisers for people I know personally.
Messages & Asks
If I haven't answered your ask I probably just didn't know what to say. Feel free to like or reblog a hundred of my posts in a row, I will probably never notice because I have every possible kind of notification or email turned off. And even if I did notice I would like it. 👍 yay
When I asked him what he was doing to my teeth and why, my orthodontist said "pretty girls don't have sharp teeth." Which, as you might imagine, made Child Draconym very angry
Update: bird is at BARCS. Is almost certainly a pet based on how chill he was with people and the inside of a house. Being in a car with a cranky box of "christmas ornaments" was a very surreal experience. And once we arrived, it turns out a cardboard box that squalks periodically is a great conversation starter.
Sorry I didn't see this sooner! (I have every kind of notification and email turned off). I'm really glad you took this bird to BARCS, someone is surely looking for their pet.
Oh goodness, I didn't think you were going to see it at all. Good news as a final update! The parrot was removed from BARCS website around lunchtime today and that's during the stray hold duration, so it's back with its family!
Update: bird is at BARCS. Is almost certainly a pet based on how chill he was with people and the inside of a house. Being in a car with a cranky box of "christmas ornaments" was a very surreal experience. And once we arrived, it turns out a cardboard box that squalks periodically is a great conversation starter.
Sorry I didn't see this sooner! (I have every kind of notification and email turned off). I'm really glad you took this bird to BARCS, someone is surely looking for their pet.
Maybe i can pick your brain on a bird situation where we live. We have few baby seagulls that have been kicked from the nest already around our area. It's only going to get worse and no wildlife rescues will take any, even though they are the seagulls that are supposedly threatened.
This is in benton harbor michigan. Do you have any suggestions of what i can do to help, or who i could reach out to for the very young ones?
So, I don't know a lot about gulls. But gull babies seem to be precocial, meaning they're able to waddle around and pick up food soon after they hatch. If they're nesting in a dangerous location such as the median strip of a highway, a bear enclosure, a minefield, etc, this can be a real problem, because they're a lot more mobile than altricial (naked and helpless) baby birds and can get themselves into a lot more trouble.
It's almost always best to leave chicks with their parents whenever possible, but if you find that they are nesting in really problematic locations, you might be able to put up some signs or barricades to prevent people from messing with them.
Animal Help Now (https://ahnow.org) lists a few rehabilitators and offices who you might be able to call for advice, but it does seem like there aren't many in your area. Hopefully at least DNR can advise you if a rehabber can't.
As someone who goes outside a lot at work, I am often ensorcelled by fancy gear. I love insulated metal bottles and backpacks with five hundred pockets and a sternum strap. I snatch them up when I find them in thrift stores and on freecycle.
However: mad respect to my coworker who has been using these as his backpack and water bottle for years:
trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and everyone else being friends and holding each other close and falling in love and thinking of each other. I'm making this my future. let's all be okay together
Benni, one of my fellows in the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, just survived a horrific house fire and lost everything but her cat and the clothes on her back.
Benni, my niece, and her beloved cat, Stinky, experienced a life-changing tragedy w… Denise Cumor needs your support for Help Benni & Stinky
Please check out her fundraiser if you're able to donate anything so that she can rebuild her life.