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I was so fortunate to witness the most spectacular natural #firefall I have seen in my 20 years in Yosemite National Park in 2019—and capture a video to share with you all!

A Visit from a Northern Pygmy Owl

Beth Pratt July 16, 2020

I had this little Northern pygmy owl say hello this morning. I hear them, but don't often get to see my owl neighbors. What a treat!

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“We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ― Henry Beston

“What is the message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves—that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination?”— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost