#willdlife

[travelella]

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Gateway Rd, Commerce City, Colorado, USA

Joe McDaniel

[wingedjewels]

Male Brewer's Blackbird by Ruby 2417 Via Flickr: In the harbor at Bodega Bay, Ca. November, 2022.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[soapywalrus]

[namu-the-orca]

Dragons are real

The Americas have their Great blue heron, here in the Old World lives the near identical Grey. Outside of large cities, where boldness is a virtue, they are shy birds. Always keeping their distance, and getting a clear look at one is synonymous with them taking wing for our gaze disturbs them. They are usually seen as a grey ghost out the fields, or heard as a rough squawk in the evening when something has disturbed their peace.

Only caught in fleeting glimpses it is easy to pass them off as dreary drab birds. But in fact they possess a delicate beauty to those who look closer, and with unexpected colours too in the right time of year. And when their hackles raise, yellow eyes burning as the wind takes hold of their long black crest, they look for all the world like dragons come to life.

Watercolour on cold-pressed paper, 21 x 29.7 cm (A4). Original available.

[rabbitcruiser]

Papilio Glaucus and Thistle

What do you think about my pic?

[thiscountry]

fast and faster

[veganerudition]

I find it so incredibly ignorant that the Australian government thinks killing pockets of the millions of feral cats present and creating an open space of resources for other feral cats to move into and flourish is better than supporting a nation-wide trap/neuter/release program to ensure the majority of cats are unable to breed. 

But no, they think it’s better to make the latter illegal to do despite many vets being on board with it, and instead go in favour of a method that does nothing except temporarily satisfy the people that are just desperate to kill cats. Honestly the time for short-term solutions has passed, this is a problem that we seriously need to tackle for the long-term and it is not feasible to kill them all without using methods that will also kill an abundance of wildlife.