Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Threatened species!


House Sparrow is on the Red List of serious conservation concern. My garden is full of them: at least forty feeding on ground-strewn seed at any time.
Starling is on the Red List of serious conservation concern. My garden is full of them: anything up to forty feeding wherever there is something to eat.
In fact, I realise that the only truly endangered species on my property is me. I am male, I am white, I am heterosexual, I am old, I am mildly conservative, I am a carnivore and I am a Catholic. How many of those do you know still walking around unthreatened?

1 comment:

Novanglus said...

I have to laugh, Jake: I did a Google search for a threatened species scale to post as an image in reply to a friend of mine asking where have all the moderate Republicans gone.

Little did I know that the first hit I got on Google for an image scale would be yours commenting that as a mildly conservative person you regard yourself as " an endangered species!"

Take care and thank you