One repeated theme (of many) that I saw at #NoKings #Boston was references to the Epstein files.

They were reading signs from the crowd over the PA system at #NoKings #Boston, and this is one of the signs they read out loud. I wonder if that's what inspired this change to the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkt... - did they plan that in advance, or improvise because of this sign?

@dropkickmurphys.com at #NoKings #Boston with "a special 'fuck ICE' edition' of Shipping up to Boston, "Let's Ship Them Out of Boston" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkt...

@dropkickmurphys.com playing a set at #NoKings #Boston, starting with the song they debuted at the Hands Off protest in Boston last April

Cats return for #NoKings #Boston again! Here's my thread of cat signs from last June's protest. Respond with pics of any No Kings cats you see today.

#NoKings #Boston rally starting with a crowd larger than I can fit in the frame from standing on the hill above the field

People streaming to the rally from Park St and Downtown Crossing #NoKings #Boston

Talking with a friend this evening about past birding reminded me of this beautiful spotted rail I saw in Guanacaste, Costa Rica thanks to www.instagram.com/christhiam.c... #birds #wildlife

I didn't see a lot of blennies on our trip with the New England Aquarium dive club last month, but here's a saddled blenny I got a nice picture of. I love blennies! #nature #coralreef #wildlife #scubadiving

MLK appeared at Graffiti Alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #streetart

Usually I see gadwalls in the water, but the rare times they come up really close to me - like this occasion at Fremont Canal in Seattle years ago - is when I can see how beautiful they really are. #birds #ducks #wildlife #Seattle

Father finch feeding fledgling at the feeder. #CambridgeMA #birds #wildlife

I think this one may be boulder brain coral, Colpophyllia natans. Off the coast of Belize. #nature #marine #coralreef

Close-up view of the polyps of my favorite species of stony coral, mountainous star coral. Off the coast of Belize. #nature #marine #coralreef

A rock pipit on the beach, Dingle peninsula, Ireland. They seem to like to flit about from rock to rock at the edge of the water. #birds #wildlife

On the same walk at Nisqually, a bullfrog and a Puget Sound garter snake. #wildlife

Some swallows from a visit to Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in 2018, my second time there but my first visit there with a camera that has enough zoom to photograph swallows. Two tree swallows (one on the gray side, the other shiny blue) and one barn swallow. #birds #wildlife

Graffiti alley today #CambridgeMA #streetart

A couple of cats appeared at graffiti alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #streetart

Graffiti Alley this evening #CambridgeMA #streetart

Diving in Gloucester MA this morning, I saw this pair of moon snails looking very coupley #marinelife #scubadiving

Graffiti Alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #StreetArt

A northern mockingbird I saw catch a grub in our neighborhood park #CambridgeMA #birds

Recent paintings and tags at Graffiti Alley earlier this week #CambridgeMA #StreetArt

Yellow warblers are back in town! #birds #wildlife

Some art currently at Graffiti Alley in Central Square

Years ago in Seattle I got pics of this bushtit that caught some grub. #birds #wildlife

www.instagram.com/onlybugzzz/ spotted this mining bee (genus Andrena) this weekend - first bee I've seen around here this year! #bees #wildlife

It looks like something from Ghostbusters attacking Boston

Yesterday a Cooper's hawk hung out for over an hour by our deck, but the screen door got in the way of taking good photos. It was so close I didn't want to move the door and spook it. So here's one from a couple of years ago that I got good pics of, on a branch a few feet further. #birds #wildlife

Some of the new art this week at graffiti alley

I don't usually post food pictures but these stuffed tapioca balls call for an exception

20 years of living in the area has not erased the joy that coming out of a tunnel to see this view brings me every time.

Yellowhead wrasses have goth-looking eyelash marks. Here's one terminal phase (which means it changed from female to male earlier in its adult life) I saw on the Florida Keys reefs a few years ago. #nature #coralreef #fish

Intrepid-looking black-capped chickadee at the suet feeder.

Bee on a flower in the Middlesex Fells last spring. I think it's some sort of halictid bee but nobody else on iNaturalist has confirmed or narrowed that down yet: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #bees #nature #wildlife

Nearly 5 years ago I got this close-up of a crown-of-thorns starfish on a Maui reef; they're nocturnal and tend to hide, lucky to see it in the open in daylight. They eat coral but in small numbers they help maintain the balance of coral species. Their pretty spikes are venomous. #coralreef #nature

On a stop at Niagara Falls a few years ago, I followed some gulls with my camera as they flew over the falls and got this. #birds #wildlife