The rustic-sounding drums and calls of a yellow-bellied sapsucker. #birds #woodpeckers #naturesky

Our friend the Huila Stubfoot Toad lives in Columbia but has seen a huge decline in the wild. They were once believed to be extinct, but in 2006 a population was found in a remote area! (photo by Mark B. Robbins)

Do you need a swamp to cry in? Here’s one. 366 Basin Rd, Vernon, VT. Except in the fall, there aren’t usually any people there in the morning. #solohike

The swamp went ahead and collected data on its blockers and now feels infinitely better about its weirdly high block-to-follower ratio. Oh yes, dear sweet blocky addicted people, please continue to block the swamp to your heart's content. Please carry on with wasting your sad, empty lives. 🖤 ⬇️

Just discovered a new species of thermogenic fern! Name suggestions please.

Tiktok's superb tech support for a video still stuck in a rendering blackhole due to their own glitch is to simply repost it. OH but wait! "Make sure you change it a bunch first otherwise our system will flag it for unoriginal content." Haha how long do videos take to make? Please enjoy the bird. 🪶

Snow day? Puh-lease! It’s May, quiet down and listen to birds. Cold winters are a celebratory event for northern starflowers as they’re not doing so well in our warming climate. ⬇️ #botany #spring #birds

The swamp iphone is toast. Don't take videos of bomb cyclones.

Farewell, early rising skunk cabbages. It's time to be buried alive again. It was lovely to meet you for a few hours. Perhaps we shall meet again in, uhhhh...May, probably, at the rate we're going. #skunkcabbage #wetlands

Question: Why do people here like to randomly block the swamp? Is it offensive? Maybe it's ugly? Does it smell bad? Be honest. #bluesky

Cute and snuggly! 🖤 #skunkcabbage #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

Well hullo there, crane fly! #bugsky #insects

Hooded pitcher plant. #carnivorousplants #botany #nativeplants

The swamp's video for Tiktok seems to be stuck. Or it doesn't like the word "witch" or something completely arbitrary that it will never reveal, who knows. Not flaking. Reposting now.

Simmer down, it’s brown thrasher time! Wait, it’s Bluesky time. Hold up a few minutes, need to grab some notes on this one and type up 80 posts. ⬇️ #birds #swamps #naturesky

The juncos have begun their springtime trills. …In a blizzard.

An old illustration of a whip-poor-will, by Alexander Wilson, 1812. #sciart #oldbooks #birds

The white-throated sparrows are singing their latest hits and the pine siskins have arrived. #birds

Yellow-billed cuckoo's call. Beautiful, tropical-looking birds with an amazing set of offbeat bird sounds. If you want to attract them to your yard, there is an easy way to do it: Tent caterpillars! Free cuckoo birdfeeders! Yes! Stop killing the delicious little fuzzies, all right? #birds #nature

If there's a SwampVid today, it's because the swamp cannot stop thinking today is Friday and just wants to play.

A green basilisk, Basiliscus plumifrons, the lizard infamous for walking across water. #herps #lizards #wildlife

Felids are split between two subfamilies: Small Cats Big Cats Thoughtful and creative... Mountain lions, the fourth largest cat in the world, are taxonomically SMALL cats. Human-folk, you've really got to get better about naming things.

HE LIVES!

Youtube out of the blue recently started showing the swamp's stuff to people (talking like 10 views to 1000+). It's specifically the shorts that focus on a certain sound that seem to be what people are after, so started a new playlist. There will be more to come. #birds youtube.com/playlist?lis...

What's screaming in the woods in the middle of the night? Don't be spooked -- it's just a fox looking for a mate. #wildlife #naturesounds #redfox

Wow it’s been a long winter. Can’t watch this without laughing. New Englanders: “I get it!” Californians: “What’s so funny?” NO IDEA.

This sword-bearing conehead sounds like an insect god. #insects #bugsky

Seeking opinions: Which is a more stereotypical, Hollywood film-style cricket sound? Spring/fall field cricket or snowy tree cricket? Thank you. Samples if you need them: Field cricket - songsofinsects.com/crickets/spr... Snowy tree cricket - songsofinsects.com/crickets/sno... #bugsky #nature

The new word for this is megaswamptropolis. #swamps #naturesky #sunset

Fungi and moss on a log. #NaturePhotography #nature #photography #outdoors #naturescenery #NatureBeauty #photo #walk #countryside #Norfolk #photosky #NorthNorfolk #fotografie #Blueskyphotography #moss

The swamp is not dead, see? NOT. DEAD. Extremely full of life, full of warmth, 77 degrees. (Pay no attention to the rotting corpse smell.)

These are warm. Texting catbird now - pay no attention to the week's forecast, it's just been hacked. Time to migrate, hurry up now before someone takes your spot. #skunkcabbage #springishere

Ok so the swamp’s out-of-range carolina wren has been silent for 2 weeks now. Is it reasonable to start worrying?

If the swamp hits 10,000 followers somewhere, it will invest in a better telephoto lens. In the meantime, please enjoy a grainy photo of a red-cockaded, head not hidden behind a branch. Fortunately, the bird's audio came out nicely. #birds #woodpeckers #wildlife

The swamp has found the one bird it's been searching for in these gator-infested wetlands. Attempting to convince the catbird to come home right now this instant, the first question he asks, "Aren't you still cold and dead?" Utter discrimination. #birds #wildlife

The lovely thing about snow is how it helps keep traces of those who passed by before… Context clues and knowledge of the nature neighbours lead me to believe that these are snow bunting and mink prints. We saw the snow buntings lift off, found prints soon after. Saw no mink but we’ve plenty here.

This is what a red-bellied woodpecker looks like in real life. #birds

This is what a red-cockaded woodpecker looks like in real life. #birds

Thanks to iNat people for IDing this pretty and hefty-sized turtle. This is a coastal plain cooter, Pseudemys floridana. #herps #turtles #wildlife

In case you don't know, veeries turn into moog synthesizers when slowed down. PLEASE DON'T BLOCK. Promise this is the last one. Tonight. 🪶

Has the swamp ever actually talked about hermit thrushes? It seems not. So many videos with hermit thrushes and no written notes! What happened there? ⬇️ #birds #naturevideo #timelinecleanse

WHOA. Do you want to hear something really trippy? About to make your favorite bath CD rubbish — try listening to hermit thrushes slowed down. #birds #weirdmusic

Pine witch's broom, a deformity of conifers caused by a parasitic phytoplasma. People find it unsightly and perceive it as a terrible disease, but rarely does it cause major harm. It is of ecological importance, serving as an ideal nesting site for many species of birds and mammals. #trees #nature

A reminder to everyone to please send your favorite SwampVid to your least favorite elected official, in the hopes of encouraging them to stop trying to burn the planet down. Thank you.

A baby roughskin newt on moss; an old photo. One of many moved off the road over the years, as they migrate from natal ponds to the winter forest to forage. Somewhere I have a video of this little one's climb from my hand up the rock to this summit. #moss #bryology #newt #taricha #herps

The anhinga, species name, Anhinga anhinga....anhinga... anhinga anhinga anhinga? It's a swamp bird that's confusing for out-of-towners to spell, all right? They don't have nostrils, which makes it easier to not drown when diving underwater for fish. #birds #anhinga #wildlife

Please allow the dazzlingly beautiful reflections of the blackwater swamp soothe your soul. So calm. Extremely peaceful. #naturesky #wildlife #wetlands

Internet: It’s time to stop perpetuating the tiresome falsehood that dandelions are the earliest source of pollen. Go outside.

Look at what this old phone that's mostly an error message and has been soaked a few countless times can still do. ....Sometimes. #mossy #naturesky