Environment Observer Gifts

'Oh, so now the ocean isn't GOOD enough for you?'

Totem pole.

'Isn't that cute! They're thanking us.'

"Thor! I am Thor! Ha. Just kidding. I'm Tom the Seagull."

'So let me see if I've got it straight. It was a very large squirrel and your husband is a nut.'

"'I don't want war'. . . well, wither our translation program is broke or this president has a strange kind of humor!"

"I said the males were 'evolving' – I didn't say they were 'maturing.'"

"Finches, don't look now, but there's a creepy guy staring at our beaks."

Bird feeding chick that is nesting in a knight's helmet

"Okay, you both know the rules: no trash talk, no batting the other guy all over the house if he’s unconscious, watch the claws and nails..."

"Go away, he's not done playing Cowboys and Indians yet."

"You don't throw them back if they're too small!"

How Nature Senses a Change in the Weather

Sign in tree from bird "next appearance 3:00 pm"

Fly Fishing

They try, but those crows can't make noises they used to. The lost caws!

Duck Hunt

The interested bystanders.

He is familiar with the silent swoop of the evening bat.

"We've discovered they mate for life, as long as they don't discuss politics."

Bears catching fish

"Walk, hell- I gotta dance."

'I admire your floatibility.'

Annie, the Reptile version: 'The sun will come out tomorrow! Tomorrow! You will sun yourself tomorrow!'

Cat says of armadillo, 'It's one of those big armored rats.'

"I've got you in my sights now, Mister Squirrel, with your fluffy tail and those tiny hands clutching that itty-bitty nut. Aww, you must be hungry...poor little fella... I love you, Mister Squirrel."

Cat tries to reach a birdfeeder on stilts.

The prying mantis,

". . . So that's 4 birdies, 1 eagle, 2 ferrets and a rabbit!"

What does aloof mean?

"You're right—there's no such thing as personal space in a hibernaculum."

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

"Want me to talk to the squirrel's mother, or would you prefer to handle it on your own?"

"It can't be much of a life working all day, but at least he gets to wear a stripey jersey."

Monkeys/Humans in the zoo.