Protect Night-

Looking up at the stars at my camping spot in the San Juan islands in Washington state and you can see a little bit of the Milky Way and the silhouette of Evergreen trees

I saw the night sky last week. There was a little bit of light pollution, but not much. Here is a photo of the Milky Way.

Have you ever seen the night sky in a place without any light pollution?

How did it make you feel?

camped out in a car away from light pollution for once and remembered stars exist

Do not.

a night sky filled with stars and trees in the foreground Alt: a night sky filled with stars and trees in the foreground

Hi friends, I don’t post here much. I just had to close up everything on the bird account and this is one of the accounts that I had. I hope in 2025 you will commit to fight for dark nights. It is the simplest way to rewild your surroundings by making them dark.

I do like fireworks either.

Todays vibe:

Mini Forest on a pinecone 💙
moment of zen

Purple Finch sitting on a Sumac flower. They're almost the same colour and size so it looks like he's one of the flowers.

Purple Finch doing his best Sumac flower impression #birds #birdphotography #ornithology #photography

YouTube video by WonderGrove Kids A WonderGrove for Birds: Make Windows Safer

First post at Bluesky… 3 minute video by WonderMedia. Yes for kids but great information for all of us! Watch out….its a catchy jingle!

Ditch the hawk stickers and mark that glass….EFFECTIVELY!

youtu.be/L-lVLxujPac?...

Alt Text of image: a certified “wildlife habitat” sign given out to yards that have some elements of wildlife habitat -but the criteria is pretty low…

Hey @NWF Since you run the backyard wildlife habitat program, will you please consider adding, as one of your criteria, Shelter from artificial light at night #ALAN? There is abundant research on the negatives of artificial light at night to #bees #moths #Bats and #birds.

Alt text: Conclusion:
Artificial light at night is significantly correlated for all forms of cancer as well as lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers individually. Immediate measures should be taken to limit artificial light at night in the main cities around the world & also inside houses.

From the research:

Alt Text: A photo of a house with blue light that is lighting up the whole house in blue.

In this house we believe in killing pollinators and harming our neighbor’s health:

Found a wonderfully (bad) example of LEDs that reveal the hidden blue light that lurks in them 💡

We can’t manufacture inherently white LEDs, so most are blue chips coated in phosphorus to create a ‘white’ light.

(There are other ways to do it, but this is most common)

Blue light = Bad News

The wave length in blue lights disrupts natural patterns, like human circadian rhythms and the production of hormones. The same is true to our wildlife.

This ‘white’ street light’s chip has degraded, meaning the phosphorous has gone, revealing the true blue at its core.

Alt Text: My white Akari🌈 looking reddish amber laying on a sofa looking at the camera -such a big girl!

Here is Akari (she is all white) demonstrating my healthy amber 1800K interior lights at 11 pm. #ProtectNight

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An example of a shield (solid barrier that lets no light escape) on a light that shields it in 3 different directions, so it can only shine on the school’s property. #NoPrisonLightZone

Alt Text From the archives-four examples of fully-shielded lights. You never see the source of the light from above a plane, of where the light is mounted. I also advocate to try to mount lights as low as you can for the purpose.

The Ever-Present Glow of LED Greenhouses Documented by Aerial Photographer Tom Hegen | Colossal #LightPollution is a stressor to wildlife and pollinators. Why aren’t these covered at night? https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/10/greenhouse-series/

Oh I forgot to add it turns on when you get within 10 feet and turned off when I retreated. (Found on a walk with my dogs)

Fully shielded, because it is mounted low and has a shield over the top, but still lights up the sidewalk so neighbors can see, an almost perfect light. If it had lower Kelvin it would be perfect.

My son was a teenager when he started this account in school. I didn’t want it to die on Twitter, so I kept it going a little, now bringing it over. There are other voices that say it better. At the time those voices were very few. So glad to see this. #ProtectNight

Oh the very worst choice. A graveyard for pollinators.

Blue LED lighting on the a49 in Had all Shropshire.

For some crazy reason Hadnal on the a49 in Shropshire has blue LED street lights. This can't be good for the locals and wildlife.

This cover of the latest Butterfly Conservation magazine hit me hard. It’s a perfect backdrop for a meadow brown or common blue, but your eye frantically looks for any sign of life in this picture.
Where have all the butterflies gone? 😔
#bigbutterflycount

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Amazing!

Magpie Moon Madness #birds #birdphotography #moon #moonphotography