Lovely Sora having a stroll about the park; why lovely Sora should not have a stroll about the park
One month of owlet. Watching airplanes, ambushing ants, chasing entirely unconcerned squirrels.
That uncanny feeling when the words "brood parasitism" first flash across your mind
Rereading Nick Groom's marvellous The Vampire: A New History
Lobaria. Sheldrake: “Lichens are places where an organism unravels into an ecosystem… they never stop lichenizing; they are verbs as well as nouns.“
"When I called Donald Trump Idi Amin, I thought I was paying him a compliment," Soyinka said. "He's been behaving like a dictator." Wole Soyinka is a riot. (One that Trump's spineless henchmen can't shut down.)
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his US visa revoked
The 91-year-old Nobel laureate in literature has been a critic of Trump's immigration policy.
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So glad to hear that @chloedalton.bsky.social is writing a new book, Pet, about human-pet relationships and the wild counterparts of the animals we keep. We need a subtle voice like hers to stir conversation on this.
At a former golf course in the Coachella Valley that’s being rewilded – Greater Roadrunner and Green Heron
“Desertas petrels make some of the longest foraging trips ever recorded in any species, travelling 12,000 km… And, not only do the birds travel vast distances – they also put ‘themselves exactly in the right place at the right time to be run over by a hurricane’.”
Riders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanes
When hurricanes pass over the ocean they churn up creatures from the deep – a chance to feast for predators brave enough to weather the storm.
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An Oregon oak ecosystem - Acorn Woodpecker, California Scrub Jay, and Great Egret
European herring gull doing a worm dance, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin (sound on for the '80s version that plays in my head)
From the wonderful Nugrybauti, short fiction by @lidiamiles.bsky.social in the fungi issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social
Golden-crowned kinglet, Oregon – with bright yellow feet showing off its carotenoid-rich diet.
Lovely iridescence on this common grackle (Banff, Canada) – purple, bronze, cobalt, and much more in the UV light humans can't see.
Barred owlet trying to tug a rat tail away from dad, Vancouver, Canada
“Under Trump, manifest destiny is back with a vengeance. Now, Canadians can experience a taste of Indigenous life with the president’s threats to turn Canada into the 51st state.” -Niigaan Sinclair, from an essay in the latest issue of @cangeo.bsky.social
Some post-Salt Path scandal reading:
Polly Atkin@pollyrowena.bsky.social · last yr.I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?
“Anthropomorphism, at its best and most fluid, is not just a recognizing of the human in the creaturely but is a recognizing also of the creaturely in the human. In this form, anthropomorphism becomes the recognition of kinship.” - @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
David Naimon@davidnaimon.bsky.social · last yr.One of the true high watermarks for the show, don't miss today's conversation with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social A polyvocal deep dive into the world of words and rivers, of water defenders and language revivifiers. Come be rivered with us Audio🌊📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/robe... @wwnorton.com
