Dingoes ARE NOT domestic dogs, multiple lines of evidence demonstrate this. Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care. Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems. This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Steller’s Jay displaying beautiful blue feathers #birds #jay #corvid #birding #birdphoto

Feeding time at the #farmenagerie. 🤠👍

One chick is down the north end, but all three chicks while a bit bedraggled from the rain are busy preening out some of that annoying baby fluff. Another innate ability that seems to be hard-wired into their DNA. #367Collins #PeregrineFalcons

I might struggle with a daily Robin, so hats off to @robcrank68.bsky.social for his dedication to this red breasted marvel. Like many I've a real soft spot for these little characters. #FestiveDailyRobin #Birdsinflight #Birds

Violet webcap in the darkening afternoon forest. #fungifriends

Strong article, Kate, on many levels. Outrage for Regions! 🤠😳🤬 @nswfarmers.bsky.social says “move favours a mining giant over regional communities and water security.” ”NSWgovt considering compulsory acquisition of pipeline easement, to ‘get project going’. “Get energy into Hunter manufacturing”.

The ever reliable #MothApp on the kitchen window tells me #rain is coming. How much? Your guess is as good as #BoM’s. 🤠👍

Deliveroo #Birdsinflight #birds

📸🐛🐞🐜🦗🦟🪲🪰🪳🕷️🐝🦋🐌🕸️📸 If you’re in Australia, grab your camera and get ready to record all the bugs & inverts you see in the first Bugs in My Backyard week (Nov 17-23). Then record your sightings on #inaturalist for #citizenscience #insects #inverts #ausinverts #wildoz www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The true delights of the Cocos Keeling Islands await you under the water. It comes alive with life and wonder. We were in the water several times a day, you just can't see and experience it all in one go. #CocosKeelingIslands #underwater #turtles #TravelAddicts

In 2019 we had at least 6 Welcome Swallows living around my home. Now there's one. I'm observing this trend everywhere. We're losing small aerial insectivores because we're losing our insects. I urge everyone to keep records of Swallow and Martin numbers in localities. (image: Clinton Wood) #nature

Anthropogenic EMF can affect sensitive species. We are not alone. #biodiversity pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This cheeky busy body came so close to me I had to put my camera down. I shook a few plants for him and he dashed over in the hope that I might dislodge and insect or two. When I held my hand out he hopped to within 2 or 3 centimetres hand. Certainly the friendliest Willie Wagtail I've ever met!

Just another urban Sydney Echidna giving it his best shot, snuffling about and hoovering up masses of ants along the curb at North Head . . . #naturelovers #nature #wildlife #echidna #australia

Lovely #birding thread💚 Thanks @rickicoughlan.bsky.social Appropriate find considering it’s the wrap up of the #AussieBirdCount today. 🤠👍 #lyrebird #wren #nature

This is the best use of social media I’ve seen in ages, re-post ad nauseum

Meanwhile my favorite congressman....

Wrote a thread, of disagreement, in response to this, which seems to equate 'people' with 'select elites.'

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Eider rules of etiquette: It is okay to rip the legs off brekkie and toss it like a salad. #commoneider #bird #birdphotography #birdsoftivertonri #birdsofrhodeisland

Eider rules of etiquette: If it fits in your mouth, it is okay to swallow it. #commoneider #bird #birdphotography #birdsoftivertonri #birdsofrhodeisland

"Tens of thousands watch online as city’s beloved peregrine offspring prepare for first plunge" Early November is when the first fledge will most likely happen so ... do not be led astray by these misleading headlines in the @australia.theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🎧 to @risingtideaus.bsky.social Zack Schofield put shock jock radio host Ben Fordham straight on why many Australians are prepared to protest for a future safe from the impacts of burning coal and gas. #FossilFuel has had it Ben. Join us in Newcastle and see how its done. omny.fm/shows/ben-fo...

The stars have aligned so that #WorldWombatDay falls on #WombatWednesday this year. Congratulations to #wombats everywhere, for: 🍑A butt that can crush predators to death. 🦷Ever-growing teeth that never wear down. 🧊The ability to poop cubes (so they don't roll off things). 🔵Glorious roundness.

Good morning, butterflies #BirdOfTheDay is #Raptor There’s nothing quite like watching an owl fly towards you through the forest, settle in a tree & have an extended sleep blink visit; I was absolutely awe struck

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through distances, that's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Rumi, 13th century #Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Red squirrel. #mammals

I'm thrilled, I saw my first ever Ring Ouzel late this afternoon! 😀😍 It's amazing that this beauty turned up at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset, as they usually only stop off on migration on high ground, such as The Mendip Hills.🐦 It put on a great show as it feasted on berries! 😍 #birds 🪶

Scientists have described a new species of mouse opossum discovered in 2018 in the cloud forests of the Peruvian Andes, 2,664 meters (8,740 feet) above sea level. The find was reported by Mongabay Latam staff writer Yvette Sierra Praeli.

My chat with Richelle Hunt about the massive problem feral deer pose to human safety, agriculture & the environment, & the disappointing decision by the Victorian government to maintain deer as 'protected wildlife' & game, yes protected, it's not a typo www.abc.net.au/listen/progr.... Starts 38:00.

Taking a goddamn Liberty

Perfect one day, dramatic and ominous the next. We are in the shoulder season now, transitioning from the dry winter months to the wetter summer. The tropics at it’s perfect and dramatic best. #travel #CocosKeelingIslands #traveladdicts

'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt

My new report is out - Adani sold coal at mates rates to India, avoiding $400m in royalty payments to Queensland ...and Qld's LNP gov doesn't seem to care. Thread below on how they did it. Write up in @australia.theguardian.com @australiainstitute.org.au www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You can watch 20 minutes of the high drama and kerfuffle surrounding the chicks moving to a shady area in the gutter yesterday, at this link. #367Collins #PeregrineFalcons youtu.be/WT5YTFFqjRM

All is still going well out at Orange, NSW. Here's a change-over for brooding duty from Gimbir to Diamond this morning. If any of these eggs are viable, hatching is expected around 1 November 2025. #PeregrineFalcons www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2R...

Gimbir delivering a half-eaten but very welcome meal for Diamond this morning. #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons

A layered photo sequence of food delivery at #367Collins. #PeregrineFalcons 📷 Credit: Vil Laincos Tumes

It’s the week to learn how water works (literally) New Englanders are being urged to rethink how they use water and to uncover the hidden ways it flows through everyday life as part of National Water Week 2025

:) Thanks mate! Frogs are so cool, I am saving them for last in the hope my results have improved substantially as my first attempts are a little wonky!

The fishing has been fun on this adventure to the Cocos Keeling Islands. #travel #fishing #CocosKeelingIslands #TravelAddicts

Seriously cool. 🤩

Amethyst deceivers. #fungifriends

Orange jellyspot fungus and a turkey tail coming in blue! True colors, no edits. #fungifriends

Great created grebe feeding it's chick - older posting linktr.ee/vickyouten... 🪶🦉 #birds #wildlife #ukwildlife #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #vickyoutenphoto #greatcrestedgrebe

As It's happy harvest mice day today here are some harvest mice on some berries linktr.ee/vickyouten... #wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #ThePhotoHour #photography #vickyoutenphoto #harvestmice

These moths fly well, but I wouldnt be in a hurry to get on a plane that looked like that.

Duval High School needs to be reinstated as a school! Worst decision Adam Marshall made. 😠https://engage.netimes.com.au/2025/10/duval-high-school-needs-to-be-reinstated-as-a-school/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR65OtabFuFU85ye3Q5Ahvxg5qddU6_ehPWWULEs7ue5p4M736VDd0Mb7loJoA_aem_A73cJT0XbiHFHiweVuUovQ

Day 4 playing around removing backgrounds. I have discovered that removing the green leaf a green caterpillar is on, makes that caterpillar POP on a black background. Much, I am sure to the caterpillars eternal horror lol.