big-catsss:

(by Octavio Campos Salles)

iradraws:

Some goauche foliage ♡

1st one is only goauche - ref source

2nd has color pencil layered on - ref source cycylittle on instagram

zegalba:

Monarch butterflies need moisture on hot days but cannot land directly on water to drink. Instead these butterflies sip moisture and dissolved minerals from the surrounding muddy, wet ground, an example of ‘puddling’.

dykearchive:

some butch and stud portraits from Nothing but the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image by Susie Bright and Jill Posener (1,2,3,7,8,9,10) and Sublime Mutations by Del LaGrace Volcano (4,5,6)

serthra:

Morning Break

A marmot enjoys the view and sun on a rock atop Blackcomb Mountain. 

Canon 5D4, Whistler, BC, September 2022

orofeaiel:

Marmot, Mount Rainier National Park

typhlonectes:

An  American Pika (Ochotona princeps) stretches on a rock at  Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, USA.

photograph via: National Park Service

escuerzoresucitado:

mountrainiernps:

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Unlike song birds that are born with eyes closed and no feathers, precocial birds like the Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus), already have downy feathers and open eyes when they hatch. This means their mothers don’t have to keep them warm in a nest. Instead, precocial chicks are on the move! They need lots of food to develop, particularly protein-rich insects. However, precocial chicks still need mom, who keeps an eye out for predators. Both mom and chicks continually chirp softly to each other to keep in touch and stay together.

NPS GIFs, filmed 7/22/19. ~kl

nepeteaa:

did you know ptarmigans will fly into snowbanks instead of walk so that it’s harder for predators to track them?

(📸 Kyle Thomas)