Modern Nature Observer Gifts

A Pupa in a Cocoon with a Satellite dish attached to it.

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

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

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

"Couldn't you have just laughed instead of spelling 'LOL' in your alphabet soup?"

"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

"God, I hope no one asks me to sing."

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

"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..."

How Nature Senses a Change in the Weather

Duck Hunt

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

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

Butterflies

"Walk, hell- I gotta dance."

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

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

'Darling - I think it's time to stop feeding the birds.'

"I think the ants are mooning me again."

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

Cat tries to reach a birdfeeder on stilts.

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

What does aloof mean?

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

The prying mantis,

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

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

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

Vegetarian Birds

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

"Do you want to be vaguely dissatisfied with Italian or Korean?"

"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."

Monkeys/Humans in the zoo.

"Beware of the frog"