Northern lights in the Arizona desert #aurora #northernlights #photography

Swamp lights. #aurora

Quick sound check to see if this breaks bluesky.

Mary Cynthia Dickerson was the 1st curator of herpetology at @amnh.org. She authored "The Frog Book" (1906), describing North American toads & frogs. Explore it in #BHLib thanks to the @uoftlibraries.bsky.social Robarts Library: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31830673 #HerNaturalHistory #HERpers 🐸

Sorry for neglecting Friday swampnight. A video documenting fall in the swamp. Optimizing this one for Bluesky with its limited video capabilities makes it unwatchable, so just going to stick with youtube this time. Alt text below in thread. #naturevideos #fallfoliage #newengland #autumn

More in my series, mushroom with a view. #FungiFriends #Nature #Scotland

Has this been posted here yet? A common yellowthroat, well-overdue for a dedicated SwampVid. This one is a female. #birds #yellowthroat #wildlife

Red Squirrel Never put the walnut down... never

Swamp Sparrow perched in reeds at the edge of a wetland meadow, Frederick County, MD. #birds #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #Sparrows

What does it mean for a tree to be “alive?” I’m sharing this #repost from 2024 because I think this is SUCH an important concept for us to understand! #tree #trees #forest #forests #ecology #woods #nature #death #outdoor #outdoors #forestry #biology #science #wildlife #habitat #stem #life

Is it still spring? Yes, of course, don’t question it. Nothing screams springtime quite like the song of the Baltimore oriole. Enjoy. #birds #oriole #naturesoundscape #asmr #swamps

Cheers!

The swamp usually just posts to tiktok and then rudely bolts without watching or engaging, so it’s probably taken longer than for most for the algorithm to reach the point of armchair diagnosing its various mental disorders, sexual orientations, and neurodivergence. FINALLY! Today is the day!

Spring is here! Yes, yes, you’ve all been hibernating like wood frogs! SPRING IS DEFINITELY HERE. Someone tell those wood thrushes to get their fluffy tushes over here! The peepers are peeping, the woodcocks are copulating, the swamp doesn’t have a wood thrush trap set up, of course not! NO NONSENSE

A remake of the first SwampVid shared with the world. The swamp seeks to force feed knowledge onto its viewers. How do you feel about captions in the video? Fine? Stupid? Too fast? Too slow? Hopefully still legible after bluesky compresses it for flip phones? #birds #naturevideos #peaceful

Cold, isolation, darkness, silence, and death. As the swamp rapidly descends back into its winter madness, it will pretend it’s spring for the next 5 months. #birds #whippoorwill #hellospring #frogs #natureasmr

In case you don't know, chimney swifts have their own species of bed bug called chimney swift bugs, Cimexopsis nyctalis. #birds

This robin sounds really good. 🪶 #naturevideos #swamp

Is there still no viable alternative to Tiktok before the skeksis take over? The “no politics” filter still seems to have zero application to Skylight and youtube hates boring swamp videos.

File under #fungifriends.

It’s Halloween in the swamp, which is a time to remember all the bodies that are buried in the woods. Abandoned cemeteries are certainly on the “hiking in New England” bingo card. Did people used to just bury their dead in the middle of the woods? Sort of… ⬇️ #history #halloween #curious #newengland

Guest post.

It’s been nearly a month since the swamp posted a video about satanism and ever since that one video, Tiktok will not stop begging for more. Terribly sorry, but there was just the one! The swamp though will make sure to leave subliminal satanic messaging in all future videos. Is that satisfactory?

Focusing on collecting bird butts is an excellent method of detaching oneself from the madness of reality. Join this important mission. www.inaturalist.org/projects/a-h... #birds #inat #newfieldguide

Texture. #FungiFriends #naturesky

Tiktok recommends the swamp post about SATANISM. In caps and all! They REALLY mean it. Finally!!!!

Yeah. Ok, no one reads captions.

This was completely unexpected! Did not know these grew this far north. These are yet another parasitic plant, Hairy pinesap, Hypopitys lanuginosa, not to be confused with its summertime sibling, yellow pinesap, Hypopitys monotropa. #parasiticplants #pinesap #plantsky

The last of fall. #autumnleaves #newengland

Please admire the most beautiful, most whimsical fall skunk cabbage. #swamplife #autumn #fallcolor #naturesky

The swamp has a squirrel now. There is an entire walnut tree that is his. Don't even think about going near it, he will trill you to death. #rodents #wildlife

Swamp still has a youtube? Apparently. YT ghost pipe version. It's dull but the bumblebee part is cute. youtu.be/a7dx6EKpUZg?... And audio now uploaded to SoundCloud. It sounds infinitely better without Bluesky's abysmal video compression butchering everything. Enjoy. soundcloud.com/swampvids/gh...

The swamp is still sleep-deprived but is conscious enough to fact-check itself. Correction: Mycoheterotrophic behavior has evolved in *20,000* extant species (approximately 1% of terrestrial plant species). 400+ species including ghost pipe are FULLY mycoheterotrophic.

Bluesky, apologies for the clipshow version at bot o'clock. You're getting the whole thing. #plantsky #monotropa #parasiticplants #nature ⬇️

Testing mourning dove audio. No watching, go back to your cat videos please.

Is there still a character limit if the captions are in the video instead of the actual caption…? Definitely have at least 45 minutes of ghost pipe footage, so that could work. Then everyone can still be educated about root morphology and convergent evolution in seeds and nothing needs to be cut. 🤔

The swamp is back, and it has a baby! WHAT A so muchhhh so much 🖤

Update: Caption is written. Made sure to keep things very simple to accommodate the internet that will implode from too much literacy...and was left with... 32 CHARACTERS TO SPARE! HURRAH! 🎉 So much space left!! So the swamp did what the swamp does and kept on writing... NOW there's a problem.

Closing bluesky until Friday to focus on writing…a caption... Swamp brain. Please enjoy gold swamp. #autumnleaves #newenglandfall

It’s time to be quiet. (sound testing owls) #birds #spookyswamp #timelineclease #nature

What did this used to be? #artifacts

The project is official! Please add your bird bottoms here! Views of undertails, fluffy tushes, tummy, any parts of the underside are wanted. Google search is abysmal and most field guides are limited in this area (some exceptions). www.inaturalist.org/projects/a-h... #birds #inat #citizenscience

Found the goldmine video. Here. Bookmark this. Any time you are sad or anxious, you must listen to these little gremlin muppet sounds. youtube.com/shorts/VPo2S... 🪶 #crows #babybirds #cute

Important: If you have a goldmine video of baby crows eating and you politely share it with the world online and you put music over the sound, you just broke the whole video, seriously, why would do that? Why?

#BirdOfTheDay for Saturday, 18 October 2025. Theme: #Black. A Raven perched on the crown of a spruce tree. #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin #Albertabirds #Canadabirds #photography #NikonZ9 #nikonphotographer #birdsofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

Dolomedes scriptus, the striped fishing spider, a giant as far as New England arachnids go. They walk on water! They dive underwater! They eat fish! Yes! Great, ok. Moving on. ⬇️ #swampspider #arachnids #bugsky #weirdnature #spookyswamp

Pleased to find this Jack Snipe at Grafham Water this afternoon (only the 5th time I’ve seen this species here). Also happy to find 5 Common Scoters @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirding #cambirds

A cute springtail hangs with its white-footed slime mold friends 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 640 Stack of 9 images 8/29/25 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

What would you like tonight? Fishing spiders or ghost pipe vid?

The swamp may have unintentionally managed to start a flamewar over warblers. Are you impressed? Internet...blessed internet...you are so unique. And important. Anyway, maybe it's time to go back to making videos! Chill out and enjoy a bird pile. 🪶 #naturevideos #calm #warblers #timelinecleanse