Hi Don,
Even though these capture shots are a little gruesome to some, I feel that these real peeks into the nature of life are vital to protecting these creatures.
Our children's book makes human caricatures of beavers, mice and bears. They are made to seem to have wishes and concerns in common to a human family, even with using pots and pans and driving cars. This is fun. However, it also distances us from what the creatures are and their fragility.
Worse it prevents us from seeing the animal nature of our own drives, the engine of much of which we do, like having wars.
Here Don shows the Red-Tailed Hawk in real life. This is an essential part of the cycle of nature.
The sun shines on the leaves of the oak tree allowing carbon dioxide that we breathe out to be trapped into partly to wood and also to starch in acorns. The latter food for the squirrel ends up in the Hawk, which, when it dies, feeds numerous insects, bugs and worms also fungi and bacteria.
Without all this there would be no soil for the trees to grow. If the trees didn't grow, the world would be barren, filled with toxic carbon dioxide and too hot for life, as we know it.
So lets have more of this.
Asher
