Wendy Wiens
@wendywiens.bsky.social
Exec. Dir. with Province of BC. Social Worker. Defender of wildlife and wild places. Trail cams, dogs, science, coffee. Opinions my own. Ktunaxa and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.
love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ~ E.E. Cummings (Frank Island, Augusts past)
IT'S BRACKET TIME The Search for B.C.'s Best Roadside Attraction is underway! 32 goats and waterfalls and giant trucks and gold pans and giant log men! A bracket I have definitely never done before! VOTE NOW AND EVERY DAY www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Search for B.C.'s best roadside attraction: Round 1, Vancouver Island | CBC News
From more than 300 nominations, we're asking you to pick between 32 finalists in this month-long competition to determine the best of this province's roadside attractions.
cbc.ca
100 years of July sea surface temperature anomalies... you'll see important patterns of regional climate variability as the animation evolves, but ultimately, the story behind the long-term trend toward record warmth is driven by human-caused climate change. Data from @noaa.gov ERSSTv6. 🌊
Zhashagi Light Luke Swinson ~ Anishinaabe n.d.
Today’s Canadian painting is “Long Bay” painted by Randolph Parker in 2021.
Every summer now. My heart is with all the evacuees and those who have lost their homes, as well as the wildlife displaced, deceased, and without habitat to return to. We all know this isn’t sustainable. Climate change is doing exactly what scientists said it would. One wonders what it will take.
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution, thousands of Gannet’s off the Bass Rock. A remarkable sight. #SuperSeabirdSunday
'Cornish dusk" by contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt
‘A fine gull on the tideflow, All white with moon or snow, Your beauty’s immaculate, Shard like the sun, brine’s gauntlet. Buoyant you’re on the deep flood, A proud swift bird of fishfood.’ ~ Yr Wylan (The Seagull), Dafydd ap Gwilym. #BookWormSat 🏴 🖼️ Wilhelm Kuhnert, 1904.
Writing about the time he visited now modern-day Kenya in 1910, Akseli Gallen-Kallela wrote: 'The visions around us change; everything is just days and nights that merge with the sun, the moon and the stars, in an air so gentle that one forgets one’s own existence.'
One of my favorite videos from a few years back. Not sure why, but I just always fondly remember it 😇🎻 Miles Jensen on guitar 🤎
it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. ~ Mary Oliver
Sand Martins at the nesting wall, RSPB Saltholme - the sun made patterns with the shadows of the birds and overhanging vegetation. And joyous to see the babies’ little faces peeping out! 🪶🐡 #birdingNorthEast @teesbirds.bsky.social
If a climate scientist like @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @wwattribution.bsky.social says it's extremely scary how climate change is intensifying hot, dry, flammable conditions conducive to wildfires, you should probably be worried.
‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather
Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely
theguardian.com
Marc Hanson (Canadian Artist, born 1955) "Coastal Grove", 2023. Acrylic on Canvas, 20 × 20 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Fulmar chicks have been hatching over the island in the last few weeks and you can just see this youngster peeking its head out. It’ll be early September before it fledges.
The Luna Moth (Actias luna) is fairly common in Nova Scotia, though it is seldom seen by people because of its nocturnal life. While this beautiful insect may look like a butterfly, its feathery antennae are a dead giveaway. It’s definitely a moth – one of the largest in North America.
Birds at Sunset Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1987
