From Julie Jay

Little Burrowing Owl family, I love how the parents are making a heart shape and their little baby down below.

From Dane D Ward

Female Eastern Screech Owl being woken up from sleeping by an early morning Male Northern Cardinal that was making a lot of noise.

You can see the mad look on her face even from a distance. "SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP HERE?"

My yard
Dunnellon, Florida

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From Henrik Nilsson

Although its near impossible to see, the short eared owl in front appeared to have something in one of its talons. The shortie behind came in for the steal.

British Columbia, Canada.

Canon R5 with Canon 600mm F4 III. Dec 2022.

I name this forest appreciation series. "The Mosstodon Wonderland" 😁

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P.S if your country doesn’t have the freedom to roam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom/_to/_roam there’s something inherently wrong.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the closure of the occupied West Bank, immediately following two Palestinian gunmen opening fire Friday on an Israeli military checkpoint, wounding at least five.

Videos from the scene depict a firefight between the Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces that lasted at least several minutes with repeated bursts of gunfire ringing out. In one Reuters video, an Israeli responder yells that the shooting has been going on for at least 20 minutes and they were struggling to remove the wounded from the scene.

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Today, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has published the latest Six-Monthly Report on Hong Kong, covering developments in Hong Kong from 1 January to 30 June 2026.

The report explicitly highlights Hong Kong’s continued integration into the national development priorities of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), citing the publication of Hong Kong’s first Five-Year Plan and a White Paper on safeguarding national security in Hong Kong by the State Council of the PRC.

It also details the expansion of national security legislation and the prosecution of Hong Kong political prisoners under national security charges, including the 20-year prison sentence received by British citizen Jimmy Lai, and the trials of Chow Hang-tung and Joshua Wong.

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In the report, the Foreign Secretary acknowledged concerns about the “expanding scope and application of national security legislation in Hong Kong and its increasing impact on freedom of expression, assembly, association and the press”, but maintained that “Hong Kong’s economic, monetary, and financial systems remained distinct from the mainland.”

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Megan Khoo, Policy Director at Hong Kong Watch, said:

“Despite the UK government’s recognition of China’s ongoing non-compliance with the Joint Declaration ... this assessment severely underestimates the ongoing erosion of rule of law and basic freedoms, which goes far beyond Hong Kong’s media environment, education system and civil society.

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Hong Watch urges the UK government to take into account the broadening roles of national security legislation in Hong Kong, and assess the risks on Hong Kong’s business environment and its status as an international financial hub.”

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The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday, less than two weeks before the midterm elections, that New Hampshire officials can bar students from using their school ID cards as a form of identification when voting.

Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter, expressing support for a lower-court decision ordering New Hampshire election officials to consider student IDs as evidence of a prospective voter's identity. Jackson wrote that "when an election is looming," she "would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal-court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a state’s electoral processes."

Josh Orton, president of the advocacy group Demand Justice, condemned the high court's decision as "absurd," saying that "the Supreme Court thinks corporations can buy our elections but a college kid can’t use a student ID to vote."

“This November we vote in numbers they can’t ignore," said Orton. "Long term, we must expand the Court and end this corrupt majority for good.”

The Supreme Court's brief decision came after New Hampshire officials, with the support of national Republicans, filed an emergency request urging the justices to block the lower-court order allowing election officials to take student IDs into consideration when a voter is trying to prove their identity. The lower-court order limited an April directive from New Hampshire's Republican secretary of state, David Scanlon, who said that "student IDs cannot be used as proof" under a recently enacted state voter ID law.

Retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), whose seat is up for grabs in a competitive race on November 3, wrote in a social media post that she "strongly" disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision and is "troubled by any efforts to limit access at the ballot box."

"With midterm elections days away," Shaheen added, "the Supreme Court just made it harder for our Granite State students to vote."

The counsel for the Coalition for Open Democracy, which sued over the New Hampshire voter ID law, said in a statement that the Supreme Court's decision was "wrong," arguing it injects "confusion into the election" and authorizes "an unconstitutional policy that will deprive young voters of their right to vote."

"We applaud Justice Jackson for her dissent," the statement continued. "We will continue to vigorously litigate this case in the defense of the fundamental right to vote of young voters across New Hampshire."

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Cat-owners just won't be stopped unless laws are introduced. Until then, what can we do to protect our feathered friends from the rabid feline killers?