@lauramoth.bsky.social
Writing, birding
Lovely iridescence on this common grackle (Banff, Canada) – purple, bronze, cobalt, and much more in the UV light humans can't see.
04.08.2025 16:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you, Kathryn!! Yes, I have the fortune to be watching two little ones grow up this year😍
14.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Barred owlet trying to tug a rat tail away from dad, Vancouver, Canada
13.07.2025 13:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“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
Maybe Mitz by Sigrid Nunez? – told in part from the point of view of Virginia Woolf’s marmoset. I’d consider it literary fiction grounded in deep research.
07.07.2025 22:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some post-Salt Path scandal reading:
06.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“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
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Great grey owls on an island in the Pacific
16.06.2025 05:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Extraordinary piece. Reckoning with what rape is, in such nuanced and resonant terms, is a gift to all of us.
31.05.2025 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Angry rufous hummingbird cooling off on its little swing
16.05.2025 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anna's hummingbird, Vancouver, Canada
14.05.2025 03:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is an extraordinary article, the kind that teaches you about far more than the specific subject at hand. And such great storytelling!
31.03.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
American marten, Alberta
31.03.2025 14:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Northern shovelers, Canada
21.03.2025 18:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boreal chickadee, Banff, Alberta
25.02.2025 22:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
