Take The Devil From Your Mind

Call me Elwood (or Bugs) Biggest Eagles fan you'll meet (the band and the bird) #creature feature is my tag for animal-related posts, and #botani-cool is for plant-related posts I draw stuff. Sometimes.

[fazbearfart]

say what you will about jfk, but i find it incredibly disrespectful that most people who say they’re fans of him solely sexualize him and dehumanize him. he was a real person and i can assure you looking into his life is much more interesting than fantasizing about him

[maswartz]

[igotbugsinmypocket]

[frankidacre]

A fall from grace…

[igotbugsinmypocket]

I don’t believe in fate but sometimes it feels like reality as a whole is laid out, be it for better or for worse.

[stjohnstarling]

One of the most pernicious illusions the internet creates is that things need to reach a large number of people quickly in order to matter. The opposite is true. Culture is created through social connections - and stable social connections are built slowly. New subcultures and art styles need to move at a slow and stable rate of growth, or they’ll collapse under their own weight before they reach full maturity.

[rastronomicals]

ZZ Top

[sexchangedotcom]

a "mutual" is a type of animal predomenantly found in michigan, serbia, and the north of england

[memories]

Sally sells #peafowl by the sea shore.

[onenicebugperday]

Yes, your fireworks are harming wildlife

Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of injured and dead wildlife.

When a fireworks display occurs near a wild bird roost, the birds simultaneously explode into the night skies in utter panic, which can lead to huge numbers of deaths, usually because these birds either smash their skulls or break their necks as the result of flying into trees, fences, billboards, houses and other solid objects that they cannot see in the gloom and ensuing chaos.

Many of the startled birds who take flight fly at much higher altitudes and for much longer durations than they’re used to to escape the noise, which is energetically costly and physiologically stressful.

Small birds and bats can be knocked from the air and killed by the sonic shock. In 2010, 40 dead sparrows were discovered dead under a roost in a nature reserve after a local fireworks display. The manager of the reserve witnessed a tawny owl fluttering and convulsing on the ground after a particularly loud explosion. It died shortly after.

In Arkansas in 2010, some 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, common grackles and brown-headed cowbirds suffered blunt-force trauma after colliding with cars, trees and buildings, an ornithologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission would tell National Geographic.

In 2008, federal officials showed that seabirds in the northern California town of Gualala abandoned their nests after a fireworks show, leaving their eggs vulnerable to predators.

Each year in Austin, Texas, the Congress Bridge bats can be seen fleeing the fireworks display en masse on weather radar, and emergences from their roost diminish noticeably in the days following the Fourth.

In 2018, the Galapagos banned the sale and use of pyrotechnics. According to the BBC, conservationists said that fireworks caused elevated heart rates, trembling and anxiety in many animals. 

The threat to wildlife doesn’t stop at startling lights and sounds; fireworks also have the potential of starting wildfires, directly affecting wildlife and destroying essential habitat. Litter from firecrackers, bottle rockets and other explosives can be choking hazards for wildlife and may be toxic if ingested.

So what do you do if you want to watch fireworks responsibly? Experts say municipalities are more likely to be aware of these dangers than private consumers. Their best advice is to stick to the shows put on by professionals and local governments, which tend to follow guidelines put forth by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others, about animal safety.

The National Audubon Society offers similar guidelines: “Commercial fireworks are concentrated in one location, rather than in several locations at once, which is what often happens in neighborhoods. This allows birds to take off and land again in a ‘safer’ location rather than continuing to flee noises coming at them from all directions.”

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[onenicebugperday]

Yearly reminder :)

[igotbugsinmypocket]

I’m on a roll and must be stopped

[jackharkness]

Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde in RESERVOIR DOGS

[rockandrollsstuff]

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Billy Gibbons backstage in Hartford, Connecticut, 1983. This was an incredible year for Texas blues rock. ZZ Top had just released their massive smash hit album Eliminator, while Vaughan exploded onto the scene with his phenomenal debut album with Double Trouble, Texas Flood. Photo by Byron Barr.

[memories]

Do not blame me for who I am. The doctor prescribed me 20 mL of #the eagles twice a day.

[memories]

You ever just... yell about #waterfowl??

[hobohobgoblim]

[icanseetheangels]

Hes so kawaii to me