Picture: Reminder of Summer

Picture: Bug Meeting

I wonder if there's an agenda, a diplomatic protocol, or if it's just two bugs meeting for a little nectar/pollen snack.

Pictures: Pollinators At Work

Pictures: Yellow Monarch, Green Moth

Pictures: Crows Flying

The upside to the psychotic obsession crows can develop with certain humans in certain situations is that you get lots of chances to take pictures of them at relatively short distances....

Picture: Yes, I'm looking at you.

If you don't think the crows are watching you, you're not paying attention.

Picture: Attack Posture

Crows are really eerie birds. They pay attention to us, and they don't like us, and they're pretty big....

Picture: Bird in Flight

I love digital photography. You can fail, and fail, and fail, and keep going until you catch that damn bird in flight, and it costs you nothing but time.

Picture: Eye of the Tree

Trees don't blink. Trees don't care. Trees just look into your soul.

Summer means Bugs and Flowers and Birds

Let's start off right: with nature red in tooth and claw and fang and web... The gray one is the winner here. The other one is collapsing in on itself at this point. More summer pictures to come, of course!

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Comment Elsewhere: Ecology of the Future

In response to a fascinating discussion of disturbing new trends in wildlife "management" I wrote:

At some point, we're going to need to decide that human economic activity isn't part of the ecosystem, at least not in terms of preserving environments. At some point, we're going to need to accept the fact that change - particularly climate change - is part of ecological history and that attempts to prevent *ALL* extinctions and migrations are un-ecological. At some point, we're going to have to accept that humans *ARE* part of the ecosystem, and decide whether they get managed like kudzu and snakeheads or like salmon and sea lions.

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