2/2 Downy Woodpecker: A bit longer footage of the downy in our front yard- it is hard to see his little red head with the light in this one, but it’s fun to see him gripping the tree with his powerful toes and hear the rat-a-tat-tat ❤️🖤🤍 #UrbanWildlife#Silent-ishSunday
Seriously, this is what I see out my front window every night in the winter. Except I was moving and using the blinky-light box when I took this, so they're looking around and trying to figure out how to react to me.
Normally they're all just sitting upright, and all looking directly at me. I'm not kidding.
Photograph of a residential street in winter, seen (badly) out a house window. The street is covered with packed snow, and there are 5 jackrabbits (actually a species of hare) sitting in various positions and places. They are all observing the photographer.
The image is soft colours of maple seeds hanging off of leafless branches, snow making the grey of the trees fade in the distance and the sky grey. The punch of colour comes from a black squirrel hanging upside-down from a branch to reach a clump of the seeds.
A sunset scene with colorful clouds in blue, purple, orange, and pink with a body of water in the foreground and city skyline between. The silhouettes of two geese are visible in the foreground
I had a very fortunate encounter last evening, when I saw a skunk snooping around the porches in my apartment complex. The skunk was cute but I kept my distance! #pdx#urbanwildlife#skunk
A black-headed gull perched on a brick wall, beak open to vocalize with a sunset in the background. A band reading "AX373" is visible on the bird's leg.
In Nepal, some rhinos have stopped returning to the wild.
Instead, they’re strolling through villages, grazing on lawns, and wandering the streets of Chitwan.
What began as a conservation success — the revival of the greater one-horned rhinoceros — has led to an unexpected chapter.
Once nearly wiped out, their numbers in Chitwan National Park have grown past 750.
But with shrinking forests and expanding towns, the line between wild and human life has blurred.
Locals now wake to the sound of rustling leaves outside their homes — and sometimes, a three-ton visitor eating their crops.
For most, it’s awe mixed with fear.
Rhinos trample fences, destroy gardens, even cause traffic jams.
Yet few villagers wish them gone. In Nepal, they’re symbols of pride — proof that protection works.
Still, scientists warn this coexistence comes at a cost.
Urban rhinos lose their wariness, growing too comfortable around people.
Some are hit by vehicles or fall into ditches. Others are simply too used to town life to ever return to the forests.
In a way, these rhinos mirror us — thriving, adapting, and struggling to share the same land we’ve taken.
Not wild, not tame — just trying to survive in a world that keeps closing in.
📚 Sources:
– The Guardian – “Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?”
– BBC Earth – “Rhinos of Nepal: A Conservation Comeback.”
– National Geographic – “The Fragile Coexistence Between Humans and Wildlife in South Asia.”
A photo of two red foxes on the meadow. One is lying sideways on the ground, while the other one stands next to it and it is currently niblling/cleaning the first one along its side, with its canine visible as well. The first fox wears a very relaxed looking expression in the moment, with a mouth that seems to be slightly smiling and partially closed eyes.
A Noo Yawk pigeon walks purposefully across the grille of a storm drain on a Brooklyn street. He’s got places to BE, people! The bird is in the upper right quadrant of the photo, with the bars of the metal grid shown at an angle. A triangle of textured concrete pavement is at upper left.
A detailed eye-level shot captures a large, white and grey seagull standing on a textured stone wall in the foreground, looking to the left. The background reveals a vibrant, sunlit street scene in Porto, Portugal. Parked cars, including a bright red one, line a street, behind which are colourful multi-storey buildings with traditional terracotta tiled roofs. Many balconies are adorned with washing lines, displaying clothes. The clear blue sky overhead indicates a sunny day.
Baby groundhogs at Cimetière Notre Dame des Neiges. Also known as whistle pigs, or in French, marmottes, or in Québecois, siffleux. Their mama was watching from some taller grass.