Beautiful Northern Flicker

first bird of the season! WTSP

I also found this wing belonging to… something

I have a slight problem with this excerpt- although it’s true that global contamination and pollution and pesticides are still a major problem, I think this is kind of defeatist. Remember, Bald Eagles and Ospreys (and lots of others but those are the ones I know the most about off the top of my head) were driven nearly to extinction because of DDT. Now, because of restoration efforts, Eagles and Ospreys are back. They’re not common, but they’re not teetering on the brink of eradication. There are hundreds of nesting pairs instead of a few dozen. And acknowledging that is just as important as acknowledging we still have a shitload of work to do.

(page xviii of the intro to the 40th anniversary edition. Intro by Linda Lear.)

amazing

(page xvii of the intro to the 40th anniversary edition. Intro by Linda Lear.)

“The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.” -Jean Rostand.

gonna liveblog reading Silent Spring. I started reading and I’m not past the intro and I already have Thoughts I want to share, so I figured fuck it why not.

Woodcock, killed by a Peregrine Falcon on campus :3

i just think everyone should know that one of darwin’s finches drinks blood because it’s metal as fuck

so many areas have been un-wetlanded and we need to re-wet them. if there is an area that makes a big puddle for days every time it rains everyone wants to make a channel to make the water go away faster. but actually that solution creates muddy polluted water flowing rapidly into the streams. the real solution is to dig a wide shallow pit to become a pond and make the water hang out for longer so it can become the cattails' and rushes' home. make sure to make the edges a gradual slope so the frogs can get in easily btw

I love you moss I love you mushrooms I love you morning dew I love you trees I love you rain I love you crows I love you crunchy leaves I love you autumn I love you nature

you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act

Make this your New Year’s Resolution. I promise it will pay off.

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