David Attenborough turns 100 years old on the 8th of May.
He is a human who has spent his time loving the diversity of life on this planet. His documentaries helped emphasise the biodiversity crisis while also infectiously spreading this love of other species.
My partner and I are thinking of having a small, gentle event on the day to recognise his life. Maybe a walk with friends, taking moments to stop and acknowledge the creatures around us.
Want to join us, wherever you are in the world?
@ephemeral we just got back from our #AttenboroughWalk at míqәn (Beacon Hill Park) :^)
here're some of our encounters along the way:
dark-eyed junco, house finches, cherry blossoms raining down, bracken ferns, chestnut blossoms, brown creeper peeping,
a long worm crossing the path (helped along to the other side), bushtits & chickadees foraging in snowberry, june plum, and hawthorne,
a distant gull, a sapsucker snag w/ polypores, two annas hummingbirds chasing, a crow cawing beside a peahen, a towhee calling in a bush, cowbird, starling
out into a Garry oak meadow: common camas, golden painbrush, desert parsley, sheep sorrel, blacktail doe, great camas, twinberry, fringecup, cinquefoil
back into the forest: bluebells, dangling caterpillar, false lily of the valley, hedge nettle, salmonberry, pacific bleeding heart, oceanspray, a tree burrow hole
a lovely circuit. thanks again for the prompt!
Fionnáin
Seán