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Nature lover-San Diego ✌🏻 𓅃 🐬🌎 🦑🦉🪶🌿🐍 conservationist, amateur photographer 📸 (pix mine), birder, independent leftist, advocate single payer healthcare, 🛑 duopoly, defund military. Anti-war. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · Jan 20

Willets at sunset. Low tide. 🪶

Willets at sunset on the beach. Low tide.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 5h

Kudos.

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 6h

If you can't get the animal out, cut the webbing around it, put the animal and webbing in a paper bag/box (with air) to keep it calm, and take the whole package to the nearest wildlife rescue/rehab.

Find local #wildlife rescue on the Animal Help Now website: www.ahnow.org. (See alt text.) #birds

Western Screech Owl trapped in a fake Halloween spider web.

Western Screech Owl trapped in a fake Halloween spider web.

Halloween and other holidays when people decorate the exteriors of their homes are particularly dangerous times for wildlife. Anything that dangles, loops or flutters is a potential hazard. Candy wrappers and increased human activity at Halloween also put animals at risk.

How can you help keep wildlife safe this Halloween?

Please don't use fake spiderweb or other decorations made of entangling fibers. Wild animals can easily get trapped and not be able to break the material to free themselves.

Avoid decorations with loops or closed circles. A foraging animal can inadvertently put his head through a loop or circle and choke himself.

Avoid decorations with small, dangling, edible-looking parts.

Don't leave candy out where wildlife may find it and dispose of all candy wrappers properly.

Dispose of carved pumpkins properly. Pumpkins are very attractive to wildlife as food, so properly dispose of them if you don't want post-holiday trick-or-treaters.

Be alert for nocturnal wildlife while trick-or-treating. Avoid cutting across lawns and through woodsy areas to avoid accidental encounters with your wild neighbors.

Give wildlife a "brake." Drivers on Halloween should be on the alert for children but also be aware of wildlife that may be scared out of hiding by all the unusual nighttime activity.

Avoid hanging lights or decorations in open areas. Strings of lights can entangle birds or animals.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 7h

🙏🏻

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 7h

Low tide magic with high clouds.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 7h

Timeline cleanse. Pink sunset and a beach full of kelp left behind by the tide. 🤙🏻

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 11h

Balboa Park , a huge park with a beautiful fountain, the organ pavilion and the museums.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 11h

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 14h

They can be quite nomadic. I might see them one day and go back to the same place the next day and they are gone. Such wonderful birds.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 17h

Lawrence’s goldfinch foraging on the ground. 🌿🪶 This is a California bird that will occasionally wander down into Baja or over to AZ.

Lawrence’s goldfinch on the ground.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you!

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 18h

Good stuff Libby.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 18h

Good morning from SoCal. Lingering clouds from recent rain. ✌🏻

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Long billed curlew scoring a sand crab. 🪶

Long billed curlew scoring a sand crab

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to hear that.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

San Diego

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🏻

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Lucy!