Susan M Thom, Esq ⚖️

#SquirrelAppreciationDay ❤️Fav #photo #NYC #CentralPark #Friend #Squirrel #Fun always bring #Peanuts with me on my #Trip 🐿 restorative fun!

My fav #Writ of #MANDAMUS ordering another agency (court) to do their job, irrespective of another judge. #Trump Win!🎉 Very rare from an appeals court. @SusanMThom @Steve51Thom

Service dog in training.. 😊

Pam Luongo bought six plastic flamingos at a garage sale in March 2019. She stuck them along her front walkway in Beaufort, South Carolina, and forgot about them. By September, seventeen real flamingos were standing in her yard. Wildlife officials couldn't explain it. Caribbean flamingos hadn't nested that far north in recorded history. A biologist from Clemson set up cameras. The birds were landing at dusk, tucking their heads, and sleeping between the plastic ones like they'd found family. Pam started leaving out shallow pans of brine shrimp. By 2021, the flock hit forty-three. The Audubon Society designated her quarter-acre lot a protected habitat. She still mows around them.

🚨 San Diego PD K-9 takes down suspect who allegedly hit a parking attendant in the head with a wooden cane. Lathapoun Keovongsa, 20, reportedly struck the attendant multiple times before police located him armed with a 6-foot stick. After he ignored commands and non-lethal rounds, the K-9 was released and ended the standoff.

Look at this pint‑size rascal… just vibing with a whole picnic spread. 🤣

Give this dog an award! At about 4:30 this morning, Fillmore barked urgently from his bed inside the family home on Skyway Drive in Unincorporated Tustin, refusing to stop. Realizing something was wrong, the homeowners looked out the window and saw a flickering light.

A young great horned owl that fell to the ground in a dangerous area was helped by fire crews in Huntington Beach, officials said Wednesday. ktla.com/news/orange-co…

Fans can now submit name ideas for Jackie and Shadow's 2 new eaglets in Big Bear spr.ly/6016B645u6

A herd of about 100 to 150 goats stopped traffic in Calabasas after they escaped through a hole in a fence! The herd's handler, known locally as the "goat man", was able to use herding dogs to bring the goats back home. No people or goats were harmed. 🐐

Here's a Beaver carrying a carrot and a head of lettuce back to his home

Spotted this lovely Northern Cardinal flitting through the Black Cherry trees near Central Park's Green Bench this morning. A pair nested here last year--maybe she's part of the same couple! 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birdcpp

🚨 LMAO! Sen. JOHN KENNEDY on Democrats: "They hyperventilate on their yoga mats if you use the wrong pronoun. They think our kids ought to be able to change genders at recess!" "They have a unique solution to the crime problem. They have a way to get crime down. It's just don't PROSECUTE anybody!" "How can I put this, their motherboard is FRIED. I mean, Republicans aren't perfect, but they're CRAZY." "The wing of the Democrat Party that is in control, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani and Bernie...they hate George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head!" "I mean, the American people deserve to be governed by normal people. And these are not normal people. They're deeply weird. They're nauseously woke." "They have the right to believe what they believe. But I have the right to my opinion too. And I think their motherboard is fried, DEEP FRIED."

Stephen Miller could HARDLY keep it together when Jesse Watters asked if President Trump had been following the Swalwell saga. MILLER: “Why, has he had a bad week Jesse? I haven’t been watching.” [Bursts out into laughter] Then Miller dropped what he said is the single most important part of the entire story — and it leaves the Democrat Party completely exposed. MILLER: “The most important part about this story, and look, Swalwell is a scumbag, he is a terrible person, the worst of the worst, the lowest of the low, the most dishonest of the most dishonest…” “But the real story here is how the Democrat party controls its members through blackmail.” “It’s got a blackmail file on all of its politicians and it uses them to leverage and control them until it’s time to release it.” “That is how sick and twisted the Democrat party is.” “That’s the next thread we have to pull out here.”

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Radical Judge James Boasberg got slapped down SO HARD for targeting President Trump that the Appeals court issued a WRIT OF MANDAMUS against him! Boasberg has been found to be ABUSING his discretion. "This federal appeals court pretty much SMACKED him down and said, you were wrong to hold them in contempt. They didn't even violate your order!" Boasberg has failed to block deportations under the Alien Enemies Act! "An EXTRAORDINARY remedy that is the court ORDERING another court to do something because the government has no other option!" "They accused this judge of abusing his discretion, of engaging in an improper, inappropriate investigation, of basically meddling in the executive branch's ability to make decisions on national security issues." "And this all stems from that incident that I'm sure a lot of us remember when the Trump administration deported members of Trinidad and Tobago to El Salvador. A judge said, turn that plane around, or, you know, you can't turn them over, bring them back. And then they didn't." "And this judge found them in criminal contempt for not complying with his order. This federal appeals court pretty much smacked him down."

Big Bear CA Eagle Mama sits and protects her baby eaglets from the snowy cold. ❤️❤️❤️

Every bird screaming outside at 4 AM is doing it on an empty stomach, after a freezing night, while burning 2.5 times more energy than sleeping. And they've been holding it in for hours. Scientists call it the "dawn chorus." It kicks in 30 to 60 minutes before sunrise, and every species joins at its own exact moment. Robins and thrushes go first. Wrens and warblers come in a few minutes later. Sparrows hold off until there's enough light to actually see. Bird researchers at Cornell say the entrance timing is precise down to the minute. In 2025, a lab working with zebra finches cracked it. In complete darkness, hours before dawn, a bird's body starts flooding with hormones that build the drive to sing. But it's too dark to make a sound, so the pressure keeps rising. The second that first sliver of light appears, it all fires at once. Researchers called it "rebound singing," the bird version of finally getting to talk after being stuck on mute all night. Dawn air is cool and still. Wind dies down and background noise practically disappears. Birdsong carries up to 20 times further in those conditions than it does at noon. For a male bird announcing "I survived the night and this is still my spot," dawn is the best time to be heard. I love this part: it doubles as a morning workout. Some sparrows start singing at lower speed and narrower pitch, then gradually sharpen up over an hour or two of practice. One species, the Red-eyed Vireo, was recorded singing 22,000 times in 10 hours. Just constant repetition until the voice is dialed in. Only the strongest, best-fed males can keep this up. Females are paying attention. A loud dawn concert is a live audition, the bird proving it has enough energy to spend on music instead of just staying alive. City lights have thrown the whole thing off. When researchers tracked over 60 million bird calls across 583 species, they found artificial light adds 50 minutes to a bird's singing day. The birds start 20 minutes earlier and keep going 30 minutes past when they'd normally stop. American robins in heavily lit areas sometimes begin two full hours before sunrise. Some European robins have given up on mornings entirely and just sing at night to avoid competing with traffic. Those birds at 4 AM are staking out territory, auditioning for a mate, warming up their voice, and proving they made it through the night. All before breakfast.

Beautiful Mama Squirrel ~ She will be 8 years old in August but doesn't look a day over 3. Time sure flies by.

Our girl is out of surgery and all went well. Hoping she will be able to come home this afternoon. Thanks everyone for all the well wishes ❤

This Osprey hovered and finally dived. When it came up the water, lo and behold, a catch! Not a fish but a red-eared slider turtle. Probably realizing it made a mistake, quickly dropped it. -Central Park, Harlem Meer. #birdcpp #wildlife #birds #nature

Baby donkey meets a horse for the first time..🐎🐴😊