In the news today there was a story about a cat who some how managed to get stuck in an engine of a neighbours car, the car owner took his child to school and the cat actually survived the run.
That's the trouble with animals they don't know the dangers which they can get themselves into.

I saw two lovely Long Tailed Tits on that bush outside mine. It's a mystery what they get off it.

Burrowing badgers have halted some train service in The Hague due to them digging into a dike carrying rails.
Such wonderful creatures though and they're one of my favourites.

I read on Focusing On Wildlife that a racoon had to be rescued from a disregarded peanut butter jar in New England.
It a reminder that we should all dispose our rubbish properly instead of just carelessly disregarding it.

This is not good, I read on Focusing On Wildlife that Nepal's vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another.

Yeah, I know it's on thanks but I'm waiting until it's finished on TV so that I can watch the whole series on IPlayer.

I read on Focusing On Wildlife that a three month old white tiger cub is fighting for life after being dumped in a trash can outside a Greek zoo.
What the hell is wrong with some people.

Why don’t you see butterflies any more. And ladybugs.

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There's a couple of lovely doves which have been hanging around here the past week or so. It's always nice to see them.
There's a lot of feral pigeons here as well. They're nice colours.

I recently as someone in their late 20's to now early 30's went back to University. I did a degree in Wildlife Conservation and Animal Management at level 6 and spent some time at a wildlife reserve in South Africa. If nothing else it made me utterly despise humanity and how we just roll over and let the powers that be destroy our planet and natural ecosystems. I started the course because I love animals, I foster cats and dogs with kittens and puppies at local shelters who are at capacity but I came out of that degree with a healthy hatred of powerful and greedy people.
The trouble is there's absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. We all, no matter where we come from can do all we can but so long as the sociopaths that run every country in the world are in power it won't make a jot of difference. The whole of the Uk, the whole of Europe and by some fucking miracle the whole of the USA can implement laws and policy decisons that help the climate it won't make any difference. So long as there are authoritarian dictators in charge of Russia ,China and other smaller polluters like India chucking c02 into the atmosphere it's not going to change.
All you can do is focus on making things better on a smaller scale and local to you, improve the lives of the local pet popluation to you and get involved in wildlife projects near you. Maybe by some lucky chance the likes of Winnie the Pooh and Putin will contract an aggressive and nasty form of rectal cancer but don't count on it and if they do they'll just be replaced by someone just as awful.
Humans are in general good beings but we always allow the worst of us to rise to power. Our planet is screwed and for me our sycophantic nature and need to worship and follow 'leaders' will be the death of us all and all that is natural and beautiful in the world.

Deer are one of my favourite animals, they're just so lovely.
Sadly though reindeer are in decline now which I'm not really surprised by.

Guess who brought cats, dogs, pigs, cane toads, rabbits, foxes and horses to Australia? The British. Don't cry when rangers who know the land go on pest hunts for their control.