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I believe in Divine Intervention! Seriously I am waiting daily for a Divine Intervention in that horrible stuff happening to God's children in Ukraine! We need only to believe..
A miracle or act of God that causes something good to happen
or stops something bad from happening!!
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Puku’s feathers are soft and delicate with the humble browns and grays you’d find in Oak Tree bark. We were tempted to ask if we could touch her. The little Western Screech Owl appeared to invite tactile contact from humans. We were told that in the past, she was petted, and her head area rubbed but some of her feathers were rubbed off, …loved off, because of the oil present on our fingers. Puku had developed a little bald patch which has since resolved. So, no more petting for this avian gal.
Puku has cloudy eyes. She had contracted a virus when a youngster that would have blinded her completely if it were not for veterinary intervention. She has 25% vision in her right but was totally blind in her left eye.
Puku is one of seven birds of prey that serve as education ambassadors. All were rescued and rehabilitated and, due to permanent disabilities, can no longer survive in the wild. EITS is the only licensed raptor education program in Santa Barbara County. The birds’ live presence and their unique stories of survival educate about impacts of human activities, good and bad, and foster respect and understanding for wild species and their habitats.
Eyes in the Sky (EITS) has been Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s key wildlife education program since 2000.
I find myself drawn toward scenes where light penetrates darkness. I found this light shining on the edges of a huge boulder that was split in two at Natural Bridge, SC. It reminds me of the cosmic struggle between good and evil.
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So, after a long, slow (endless!) and boring day at work, I met one of my co-workers at the community garden that is on part of our property at work. The purpose of this meeting was so that he could show me where his plot was so that I could pick vegetables and water the plants when he goes on vacation. He mentioned that next year I could also have my own garden here and how for him .... it isn't so much about the vegetables.... it is a kind of therapy.... working on the garden and not being at work. That is when I started to suspect that this little field trip to the garden might possibly be an intervention of sorts. In other words... hey Torrie, how about instead of breaking into abandoned houses, taking water to smelly baby vultures, filling your car with props so it looks like you are living out of it, and cutting down weeds on property that you don't own.... you grow some vegetables?!!
Yeah... I'm catching on ... and I will water his plants and pick the string beans and broccoli and turn the squash when he goes on vacation.... but when he asks me... "So what did you do fun after work?" ... I am NOT going to say.... well, I got some tools together and went the the slaughterhouse, used my brush ax to cut a path through the weeds to the door so that I could check on the baby vultures in the attic (they were fine) and then I worked for quite awhile on taking the broken latches and padlocks that the state park service had put on the door to keep people out (but they didn't keep people out because they just cut through them and now they are just hanging uselessly and unattractively off the door), off ... because I didn't like the way that they looked in my photos (yeah... I could have photoshopped them out, but I'm not that good at that) and now I don't have to worry about it... because they are gone for good! Mission accomplished!) and then I took some pictures and went home when it started to get dark. Nope... I'm not going to say ANY of that!! I am learning to keep my adventures to myself. It's OK... I know they mean well even though they don't get me... and personally, I don't really understand the things that they do for fun either... so I guess we are even!
The point is.... I'm learning.... to keep my mouth shut... and when broccoli and brussel sprouts are ready to be picked.... I'm feeling the need for a long road trip.... all by myself (or some new friends that I can share my adventures with... that get it and get me!)
Bruce took a much needed vacation from the ocean... it’s part of his intervention program and helps with his fish addiction.
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The Toy Photographers group over on Google+ is having a unique photo challenge this month of taking a picture of a cheap toy - $1 or less! This is my third entry. Hurry and join in if you haven’t!
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Even the devil will have to ask God for help once in awhile!
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres at 11:36am on Thursday May 12th 2022 off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)
By Paul Williams
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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« Faisant face à la Collégiale Saint-Jean, le parking Neujean n’est pas en reste architecturalement parlant. Son plan limpide est l’expression d’un fonctionnalisme appuyé, servant pleinement le confort de l’automobiliste. Séparés par une étroite ruelle, les deux édifices entretiennent un dialogue discret, que je propose d’activer au moyen d’un “objet contemporain” – la culture faisant office d’articulation plus ou moins fertile entre deux époques presque révolues. Plus près de Toi se présente depuis la rue comme une sculpture jaune coiffant la façade en béton du parking. Au 5e étage, on en découvre un fragment en interaction avec l’intervention d’Adrien Lucca. Depuis le toit, l’objet s’avèrera être une sorte de plate-forme d’observation qui s’avance dans le vide suivant une pente légère, entre le chœur et la rotonde de Saint-Jean. Aussi hasardeux qu’il en ait l’air, ce promontoire répond aux normes de sécurité en vigueur et nous laisserons à chacun le libre choix de l’emprunter pour s’y photographier, prêcher ou faire ce que bon lui semble. »
"Facing the Collegiate Church of Saint-Jean, the Neujean car park is not to be outdone architecturally. Its clear plan is the expression of strong functionalism, fully serving the comfort of the motorist. Separated by a narrow lane, the two buildings maintain a discreet dialogue, which I propose to activate by means of a “contemporary object” - the culture serving as a more or less fertile articulation between two almost bygone eras. Closer to You appears from the street as a yellow sculpture covering the concrete facade of the parking lot. On the 5th floor, we discover a fragment of it interacting with the intervention of Adrien Lucca. From the roof, the object will turn out to be a sort of observation platform that juts out into the void on a slight slope, between the choir and the rotunda of Saint John. As hazardous as it may seem, this promontory meets current safety standards and we will leave it to everyone to choose to borrow it to take pictures, preach or do what they want. "