For #wrensday a very vocal Bewick's Wren from today. #birds #nature

That’s the @wisebirding.bsky.social Thailand tour finished for this year. Over 400 species, starting with Spoon-billed Sandpiper, ending with Slaty-backed Forktail, with many goodies like this Blue Pitta in between #WiseBirding #Thailand 🇹🇭

It's #SquirrelAppreciationDay? Well then, let's appreciate some squirrels that I see in my area 🧵. First up is the Franklins' ground squirrel, known to some as a "bush gopher" for its preference for semi-open shrublands and aspen forest instead of open prairie...

Say hello to our little ball of cuteness! A rare southern three-banded armadillo pup was recently born to proud parents Vespa & Scooter. At just two months old, this tiny newcomer marks only the second healthy armadillo pup born at the Zoo in our 121-year history, making this arrival extra special!

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

I would like to repost this thread about my squirrely neighbors for today's important holiday, #SquirrelAppreciationDay.

Multnomah Falls cascades down 620 feet of flood basalts from the Grande Ronde Formation. Around 16 million years ago volcanism covered this region in thick lava flows. Today springs, snow melt, and runoff from Larch Mountain erode away at it. Multnomah Falls east of Portland, Oregon, 21 Nov 2015.

Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) 29 December 2025. Wellington Park, Fern Tree, Tasmania, Australia. These stunning birds usually move rapidly thought the vegetation, but this one had a territory in the park and sang briefly posing for a picture. #Birds

Adorable lil murder falcon.

A male Yellow-tailed Cribo (Drymarchon corais), right at 8 feet. These powerful serpents eat other snakes and many other creatures. At home on the ground or up in the canopy. Tapiche Reserve, NE Peru #herps #NaturePhotography #snakes 🌿

Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay to all who celebrate. Some of my camera trap photos over the years of the squirrels in our area.

Seeing people getting angry about how another set of people are now perceiving them and putting energy into that seems like what the ruling class wants. They want you all fighting each other and not point to the official and companies profiting off what’s going on.

look at this little cutie I met at the park today 🥰 🪶

It takes all kinds to keep this whole thing going! (Any entomologists out there know what kind of wasp this is? I am ultimately thrown off my ID research by the longer proboscus and shorter antennae. Thanks in advance!) #InsectPhotography #Macro #Pollinators

Happy #SquirrelAppreciationDay 🐿️ (Hiawatha Playfield, #Seattle #WA, 26.01.17)

A fledgling Steller’s jay squawking, er, singing, about snacking on peanuts 🥜 #Birds #Jays #Corvids #BabyBirds #BirdOfTheDay #Singing #Edmonds #BackyardBirds #PNW #Besties

Das Thema zum #BirdOfTheDay von @alan678.bsky.social ist #Singing. Hier ein Rotkehlchen und eine Singdrossel.

A white-crowned sparrow giving his full-throated endorsement of himself for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #singing. 📷🌿🪶

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #singing I have a Red-breasted Nuthatch singing and my office crow Henry Berry Lowry loudly cawing to his partner Rhoda. For #bowing I have an Anna's #hummingbird looking down while scratching and Henry bowing before his food. #birding #birds #photography 🪶

BIIIIIIG STRETCH if you got em! 🪶

I promised Graham @oldmanrambling.bsky.social I would post a Robin a day for a week in memory of his beloved wife, Janet. As she loved Roberto who is their little garden visitor. So for the third day #WinterRobin #ForJanet #birds #EastCoastKin

Mexican Paper Wasp [native to the United States] (Mischocyttarus mexicanus) CREW Penn Flint Strand trails in Bonita Springs, Florida 1-10-36 #ColorADay #RedWed #red #green #eastCoastKin #native #insects #wasps #bugsky #pollinators #nature #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art

Curtain Road, London EC2A Multi level carpark at night with graffiti #reference #buildingreference #materialreference

A full belly on this Anna’s Hummingbird, riding it out for the winter in Southern Oregon. 🪶 #BirdPhotography #Hummingbird #Birding #BirdsOfBsky #naturephotography

Missing her (sleepy resin bee, aka nugget bee) 🖤

🪶 For a #Twosday #twofer, a pair of prong-billed barbets. If you enlarge, you can see (particularly on the lower one) the peculiarity on the end of the beak that gives it its name. #birds #photography #CostaRica

I'm excited that they figured out seastar wasting syndrome! It was bad when I heard about it over a decade ago and it wasn't known the cause, but the death of the stars leads to urchins booming and devouring entire kelp forests I'm impressed they not only identified the cause but can treat it now!

This Ruby-crowned Kinglet was such a cute little ping pong ball to chase around the trail in Seward Park in south #Seattle #WA. #bird #birding #photography 🪶

What bird is this? 🤔 (See alt text for clue) 🌎 #whatbird #mybirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds

Toltec Potter Wasp, Parazumia tolteca. Texas.

Red-winged blackbird with a case of spidermouth. #BirdOfTheDay #FeedingTime 📷🌿🪶

Chestnut-backed chickadee at Burnaby Lake, BC yesterday. Canon R5+RF100-500, 1/320, f7.1, ISO 32000 (!) #birds #birdphotography 🌿

A couple years back I did a trio of Enantiornithes illustrations for wikipedia/free use. Enantiornithes are underappreciated & wikipedia has too few of them illustrated, making it harder for people's imaginations to be sparked by how unusual they are! Here's the first - Lectavis bretincola 🎨🐡🦉🧪

Steller's jay eating peanuts. #BirdOfTheDay #FeedingTime 📷🌿🪶

Spotted towhee with a wasp, and a bit of a fuzz problem. #BirdOfTheDay #FeedingTime 📷🌿🪶

Clifton Street, London EC2A Parked food truck made with a Bedford truck reflected in puddle at night #reference #vehiclereference #materialreference

Lunchtime stroll to grab a coffee and a sarnie. #Birds #UKWildlife

Wasps make me happy! #inverts Eastern Cicada Killer, Ichneumonid Wasp, Umbrella Paper Wasp, Parker's Thread-waisted Wasp

At the birding spot I visited this morning, Shima-enaga (Long-tailed Tit) showed up again and again. Quite a few people had gathered just to catch a glimpse of these little fluff balls 😅 🪶 さっき知ったのですが今日（1月20日）は #シマエナガの日 だそうです！㊗️ #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Long-tailedTit #シマエナガ #birds #野鳥

Anna’s hummingbird in the fog. #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #EastCoastKin

A air of Emperor geese chowing down like there's no tomorrow! (Look at the little teeth 🤭) #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Geese #FeedingTime #Birdscrolling #Photography #Emperor #AnserCanagicus

Wandered in the dark for awhile this evening, found a creature I'd only seen once before: Phidippus otiosus! They're not rare necessarily, there's just not as much of their happy habitat up where I live. This lass was deep in a swamp, under cypress bark, with her egg sac 🤍 #EmotionalSupportSpood

Goldfloof 💛 Ms Phidippus workmani, being a perky lump #EmotionalSupportSpood

It's been so cold here that I've had to warm up looking at pictures from Sanibel FL. Here's a #Twosday pic of Tricolor Herons. "Look at my magnificent takeoff...wait, he's behind me, isn't he?"

A gull at Elliot Bay marina, very pleased with itself after finding a yummy mussel! #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #FeedingTime #Gulls #PugetSound #PNW #Boating #Photography #Seattle #ElliotBay

🪶 Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social says #FeedingTime is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. This golden-hooded tanager fits the bill. #birds #photography

My cohost Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has said “ It's time for #BirdOfTheDay and the theme is #FeedingTime, any bird eating, and the Alt theme is #Gulls.” I’m going with a Song Thrush munching berries. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #FeedingTime I have a spotted towhee and a red-breasted nuthatch eating at a suet feeder and a #crow with a peanut in its beak. All were taken at Seward Park in #Seattle WA. #birds #birding #photography 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay #WinterLight White-throated Sparrow with a snowflake ornament. #snow #birds #nature