"H is for Hawk" is pretty great (but the animal also comes when called, almost). The list of great animal books on Goodreads is also awfully anthropocentric. Children's books dominate. www.goodreads.com/list/show/89...

These two were taken on the same day:

Think twice about this. Telling authors that our books should be available for free is just censorship by another name: It means we can't make a living as writers.

SPOILER ALERT: The “reporter” witnesses the last words of an assassinated US president & DOESN’T TAKE A NOTE. (Tearing out my hair)

I like the photo. Unusual to have male and female together as if a couple

It's always frustrating when social media algorithms do this, but the photo appears to be John Talent, who exposed the fraud, rather than Gupta, who committed it.

Thank you. Glad you liked it. Reposting to see if I can make that link work better. “Jake's Wild Wingding." A morning chorus celebration. ((Photo: Barth Bailey/Unsplash) 🦉, 🪶 open.substack.com/pub/richardc...richardconniff.substack.com/p/

JAKE'S WILD WING DING

A Morning Chorus Celebration

Here's the next episode, about a way to bring back wild dogs, if only in a fenced-in reserve.🌿🌊 🧪🌍 open.substack.com/pub/richardc...

African Wild Dogs (Part 4)

That Old Cat and Dog Thing

Thank you, and thanks to all for the reposting. Such a contrast to The Former Place, where the post-Elon algorithm has throttled my posts despite c. 6k followers.