Nick Mark, MD @nick

**Jon Bowie** @JonBowie@universeodon.com · 1d

**Jon Bowie** @JonBowie@universeodon.com · 1d

**Michael Fenichel** @drmike@mastodon.social · 1d

Michael Fenichel @drmike@mastodon.social

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Violating a rule of thumb, finally drilled into me, to "look up", at tree tops and branches, while doing bird/nature photography.

On this outing, I was looking for more 'low-hanging fruit' (actually not at all easy to find!) Looking for scrub jays in the scrub, mostly. I did not succeed with the jays, but was surprised to see some other (ground) creatures I wasn't looking for.

I came across a deer, plus the 'Echo Moth'

Photo by Fenichel:
A bright, colorful echo moth caterpillar, deep orange with horizontal bands of black and yellow, and quite "hairy" from end to end, is on a sandy trail across scrub woods in Southern Florida.

Photo by Fenichel: Gopher Tortoise
A large tortoise with dark gray/brown shell is walking among stalks of tall grass, which it stops to eat.

Photo by Fenichel:
A deer crosses the trail very close by. Behind is scrub bush and trees, in foreground the sand/dirt/gravel path.

#Photography #Nature #Fenfotos

**jaja** @jaimeJ@social.seattle.wa.us · 2d

jaja @jaimeJ@social.seattle.wa.us

"Dear" teableau for 04/12/25

The deer in my Western Washington woods are Columbian Black-tailed deer, a subspecies of the much larger mule deer found east of the Cascades.

Tea tableau with a deer patterned tea towel, a vintage velour flocked fawn figurine, a floral cozy, and Blueberry green tea.

#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy

**Cheryl** @cmooreart@mastodon.social · 2d

**Jon Bowie** @JonBowie@universeodon.com · 2d

**The Smartphone Photographer** @AverageS@pixelfed.social · 2d

**Jessica!!!** @tehjessica@mstdn.social · 3d

**Grickle** @grickle@mstdn.social · 3d

**Richard** @richard@scholar.social · 4d

Richard @richard@scholar.social

"White-tailed deer and invasive shrubs that deer find palatable are commonly found in high densities in deciduous forests in the eastern and midwestern United States. As a result, these findings will help to inform forest managers throughout the region about successful practices to help forests thrive."

Healthy forests require combined deer and invasive shrub control
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1080095

#OpenAccess https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/invasive-plant-science-and-management/article/longterm-interactive-impacts-of-the-invasive-shrub-lonicera-maackii-and-whitetailed-deer-odocoileus-virginianus-on-a-deciduous-forest-understory/68C9B82C32EDA17E457159D3BF73B8D2

EurekAlert!Healthy forests require combined deer and invasive shrub controlIf left unchecked, both overabundant white-tailed deer populations and invasive shrubs like Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) can devastate deciduous native tree regeneration. Yet, a management strategy focused only on deer, or only on invasive shrubs, results in little or no forest health improvement, according to research from Ohio, spanning more than 10 years.

#ecology #forestry #deer