So fascinating! A single Magnolia Blossom is worth raking up it's tree leaves from the grass below. #Florida #Flowers #FlowerReport #Trees #Spring

#GardenBirds Trying the #BirdOfTheDay theme of birds lined up - the feral pigeon parade. #birds #birdphotography #ukbirds #wildlife #ukwildlife

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LockedOn, any bird with an intense gaze. A Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) photographed in our local canyon a couple of weeks ago. #birdseenin2026 #birdphotography #wildbirdphotography #birds #wildlife

Oh to have scratch and sniff…. Spring in Minnesota is a glorious season. 🌱 #flower #bloomscrolling #phenology #mnphenology #flowers #nature

forget-me-not: a very welcome sign of spring. Rodman, NY #flowers

A flower for your Monday: spiderwort. #flowers #bloomscrolling #PNW #springtime #nature #garden #photography

One of my favorite Scarlet Tanager pictures from the past days. Northport, Long Island, NY #birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife

Today in the garden. #photography #Photos #flowers #flowerscape #garden #flowerscrolling #bloomscrolling #flowerscan #flowerscape #Scape

These are growing like crazy this year. #photography #flowers #gardening #flowerbed #nature

Red-shouldered hawk. This bird let me approach and circle it to get some amazing photos. I moved slowly and remained silent. It was perched on a dead stump, looking out over the lake. #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors. #birds #Red-shoulderedHawk #CentralFlorida

Marsh marigolds, one of my favorite spring flowers, blooming now at Tamarack Nature Center. #springblooms #flowers #phenology #mnphenology

Ha! What a great photo you managed to grab, too!

#BirdOfTheDay chosen by @alan678.bsky.social is #EFGH, birds w any of these letters at the beginning of any part of their name. In honor of #WorldMigratoryBirdDay I chose Great-crested Flycatcher nestlings. GCFLs fly roughly 2,800 miles from their wintering grounds to my yard. Amazing. 🪶

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EFGH, birds who have any of these letters at the beginning of any part of their name. 😁 The alt is #UrbanLegends, birds captured in urban environments. Good luck. I’ve went with a Herring Gull. Yes I used two letters. 🤓🤓 #birds #photography #ECK

Lavender Arrival #Photography #FlowerPhotography #NaturePhotography #Flowers #Iris #BeardedIris #Garden #Gardening #EastCoastKin

Been so cold here my 1st peonies of the year have been in stasis for 10 days. Finally starting to open! Also, I’d like to join the #gardening 🌱 feed but the host has been MIA since ‘24. If anyone is a co-host, would love to join. #flowers #bloomscrolling 🌿 #mngardening #phenology

Been wondering what the stunning rose is that was gifted to me by a friend after my dad died. This is it! They smell amazing.

Whitebells. April 2026 #bluebells #flowers #wildflowers #WildFlowerHour #nature #BloomScrolling #sonyalpha #photography

Another day, another iris had bloomed. This was gifted to me, so I don't know the variety. 🌱 #Flowers #bloomscrolling

Something beautiful for this day: Rhododendrons, Yakima, Washington (May 2026). #flowers

Lupin #art #photography #flower #eck

Aaah yeah this is the good stuff. Makes all the pain and anguish melt away and we organize to destroy it. 🪶 🐣

What kind of ptarmigan? Why, that would be a rock ptarmigan. 😜 The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #RockSolid, as set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social 🪶 #birdpunsarefun #iceland #birds #naturalist

Plants do the hard part, I just show up to see them doing it! 🌿 They live in challenging conditions every day while I’m just passing through. The world does them no favors yet they bless us all the same with beauty and bounty. 🤗 Always grateful ☺️ Desert Lily

Hello fellow 🐧🤓s! Pileateds must be nesting. The pair haven’t been here together in several days. #FunFact Males form a brood patch and share incubation duties! #addbirder 🪶 #phenology #naturalists

Hit the trifecta of hibernating #butterflies as they emerged a couple weeks ago: a comma (couldn’t get close enough to see which one), mourning cloak and this beautiful red admiral. If you look closely, it is sporting tulips (or hearts) on its wings! #spring #mnphenology #phenology 🌿

Forsythia are a beautiful burst of early spring color. (And pair nicely with the yellow nares on migrating white-throated sparrows!) 🌱 #springblooms #mngardening #bloomscrolling

This is the Ghost Nebula in Cepheus. (Sh2-136) I took this image at Northern Nights Star Fest in Minnesota last weekend. The little dancing ghost on the edge of the nebula makes me smile. 👻 #astrophotography

On the night of 12 September the Waning Gibbous Moon will occult the Pleiades (M45). In fact it will be right in the cluster's centre. Low down for me to the east, but I'll be giving it a go. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography

After applying bird-safe film to the building, the 18 bird deaths at Chicago's Lakeside Center during migration season this past fall compared with 1,280 deaths in fall 2023 and 771 in fall 2022. US Bank Stadium will need $280M in maintenance and upgrades in coming decade. The film costs ~$2M.

This morning's snow geese flight. Taken in 4k 120fps thus plenty of slow motion potential here. Stick around till 26 seconds in. That's the real. good. stuff. #birds

Hey SciCommers! Science Talk is a conference series run in part by my friend @drkiki.bsky.social, and the next one is in Raleigh NC on April 3-4. I went to one and it was GREAT, with lots of folks eager to hear what you have to say. Go! www.associationofsciencecommunicators.org/conferences/...

Congratulations on getting it to sit still long enough for a photo 😆🙌🏼🙌🏼🪶

2nd round of larger crocuses and a few bright blue squills are brightening up the brown garden beds! 🌿 #phenology #mnphenology

River of birds up the middle! #birds #birding #spring #migration

Beautiful photo! 🪶

“In short, culling cars has been far more popular than her petrolhead critics predicted, with Paris becoming cleaner and healthier to boot.” www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Horrible phone photo of FOY butterfly! A dark late summer Comma, just waking up after hibernating. 🪲🌿 #phenology #mnphenology

Despite major progress in protecting vast tracts of rainforest, the world failed again last year to significantly slow the pace of global forest destruction, according to a new report.

Grew up in Chicago and distinctly recall walking on completely cicada-covered sidewalks - as in no cement showing, just solid….. gahhhh. 🪲

Fun! I also saw mine at an airport. Nice big expanses for critter hunting. 🪶🦉

Oh my. 😍 Grapholita moth. Tiny thing, and every millimeter stunning. 💙 🌿

For #WoodpeckerWednesday a rather handsome Hairy Woodpecker. These guys can be rather shy and elusive, much more so than their smaller doppelgänger, the downy woodpecker. #birds 🌿

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Mining interests are threatening the world’s largest blackwater swamp. Now, advocates and former regulators are trying to mount a last-minute campaign to get the public's input. Click the link to see how you can weigh in. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/oppos...

So true 😆

Wow. Not sure how I feel about this but seems tragic either way. Of course no mention of plans to halt deforestation or establish more protected forests for spotted owls. 🪶 www.iflscience.com/us-governmen...

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The Cromer Peregrines livestream is back up and running for the current season and yes there are eggs :) this is the best, closest, and clearest peregrine nestcam I know #birds #ukbirding www.youtube.com/live/GE6yxfQ...

The neighborhood bald eagle hunting for fish. 🪶📸