November is Manatee Awareness Month! Today we wish thise gentle giants a safe and happy Manatee Awareness Month. Closer cousins to elephants than to fellow sea mammals such as whales and dolphins, manatees follow a fully herbivorous diet of sea grasses and other marine plants — so these fish hanging out with our buddy here needn"t fear becoming a manatee"s lunch. 😀

Blue tit (left) and great tit in snowfall, at the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park in France.

Grapes on the vine ripening for the autumn harvest.

A lion looks up at a drone.

Cypress tree tunnel at Point Reyes National Seashore in California, at different times during the day.

The Lantana plant, native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas such as the Maltese islands, is an important source of nectar not only for butterflies but also for many other insect species.

Bearded reedlings resting amongst reeds, in Northern Europe.

Eastern bluebirds in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Eurasian red squirrels in Scotland.