Sheltie dad. Bird and wildlife photographer. Reader of books. Retired appellate lawyer. Central Coast of California.
Rick Derevan
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Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides.
The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans.
easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
The whole country will be like this when It Happens.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TheGathering, images showing flocks, colonies, or communal behaviour. 🪶
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is celebrating #WorldOceansDay so any sea or river bird. Tufted Puffin, Alaska. 🪶
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme is #LivingLandscape; a single bird as part of a wider natural scene. 🪶
Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt Theme is #Gulls, any gull will do. This is a Glaucous Gull, seen on a pelagic trip off the coast of Central California. 🪶
Today's #BirdOfTheDay Theme is #Geese. Happy to oblige with this blast-off of Snow Geese at Merced NWR in California, and a pair of Emperor Geese who, as vagrants, somehow found their way from their home range in Alaska to the Central Coast of California a few years ago, causing quite a stir. 🪶
Turkey Vulture convention. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BorrowedPlaces, birds using human-made or unexpected structures, fence posts, signs, boats, rooftops, machinery, and other places to perch. 🪶
We have the weakest and at the same time the most destructive president thus far imaginable — he has no strength to achieve anything positive and not unrelatedly he achieves massive degradation wherever he makes a move.
