Sandy B.

Relatedly, this is your reminder that if a food pantry would help you, you should definitely go to one.

Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.

One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’ The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... They were the very first to kayak the entirety of the mighty river in more than a century.

Imperial cormorant, sound asleep..

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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We now have the privilege once more of being serenaded nightly by his hoots from the nest he shares with his mate in the oak tree outside our house. One of the most surreal yet worthwhile commitments I’ve ever made.

If this folklore malarky ever falls through, I think I might have found my calling…

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30."

"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious) My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines (its needed!) Here is an Arctic tern with young; the worlds longest distant bird migrant in the world! #SuperSeabirdSunday

Fishermen stunned after reeling in shark with never-before-seen mutations: 'We saw an orange glow below the water' "The sea still has surprises for us."

well this is kinda cool.

news.yahoo.com/news/article...

The return of wolves revives trees that had not grown for 80 years A new study reveals that Yellowstone's quaking aspens are growing back thanks to the return of wolves in 1995.

www.earth.com/news/the-ret...

A young Shy Albatross near Eden in southeast Australia, with the distinctive shape of Mt Imlay in the background. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Like gold, or silver dust.
Where once there were many.

Juvenile Arctic tern on the Holm of Papay this evening.

Rare blue whales spotted off Oregon coast Marine biologist Carrie Newell photographed four blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — 3 miles off Depoe Bay.

Rare blue #whales surface just miles off #Oregon coast (photos) www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/...

Orca whales swimming with a male and 3 females. Male has a 6ft dorsal fin sticking out of the water. In the Pacific Northwest of the San Juan Islands, USA.

Treated to part of the Bigg's Pod taking a stroll. Beauty in motion. Male dorsal fin (about 6ft) is much larger than other 3. If anyone can identify the by the fins, please comment :)
#orca #pod #family #killerwhale #wildlife #nature #pnw #SanJuans #photography #blueskyartshow #summerDaze

This week, there were hundreds if not thousands of brown pelicans, cormorants and osprey feeding on bait fish in the Klamath River estuary and plume. This is another sign the river is healing in response to dam removal.

Further coverage, this time from SciTechDaily, of the new paper from Towers et al about wild #orca presenting prey to
humans.

Killer Whales Are Giving Fish to Humans Worldwide – What’s Going on? share.google/in6DPjwmBmqx...

Bowhead Whale - Large Drawing

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#bowheadwhale #whale #whales #whaleart #sea #oceans #ocean #drawing #pencils #fineart #marinebiology

White Terns on Lord Howe Island last year. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Fulmar.

I’m really going to miss having these guys following us as we head further south. Watching them hang in the air just a couple of metres away as they ride the slipstream from our vessel is magical. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #birdPhotography #wildlifePhotography #norway #birdsoftheworld

Now it's time for #BlueSkyMonday with the #EastCoastKin, captured here are a pair of Artic Terns from the Farne Islands on the 19/06/2025.

#birds #naturephotography #wildlife #birdphotography #ukbirding #wildlifephotography #BirdLife #photography @rspb.bsky.social #SeaBirds #InnerFarne #Terns

Four views of this delightful bird. #BlackPhoebe
These charismatic birds are a joy to observe and fill the habitat with their lively energy.

#bird ##backyard-habitat
#resistwithlove #nature
#photography

His prayers are full of false hypocrisy

You know the waves must be getting big when you have to look upwards to photograph an albatross sitting on the water! (Shy Albatross in heavy seas off Eden in 2016). #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Two male goldfinches

Two male Goldfinches, the state bird of Washington

love that my local bookstore has a "banned books in the USA" table

Never gonna find Mr. Darcy if I don’t start hanging out in misty fields at daybreak