Wild way of organizing property in a town!!

Look at that title font! 💛💛💛

There are people who say there's no such thing as the best seabird in the world. These are people who haven't seen Light-mantled Albatross. North of Elephant Island yesterday. #Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday

We have to impeach him.

Sound OFF, but my god what a beautiful fossil ⚒️

A picture is worth 1000 words... This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK. Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect. Chapeau!

Wood engraving, near finished, on 10x10cm block of lemonwood. The columnar basalt cliffs of Rubha Hunish at the northern tip of Skye. A steep path, with a little scrambling at the top, leads down from the break in the cliffs onto a cliff-rimmed peninsula […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

First #FridayFold of 2026 - a new one for me, since I was able to hike further up Mosaic Canyon this year than I have on any previous visit. This appears to be a somewhat shaly subsection of the Noonday Dolomite? ⚒️

#FossilFriday (or at least #BiologicallyMediatedSedimentaryStructureFriday) One of the North Pole Dome, Australia, Paleoarchean stromatolites

Hoping to see Cape Breton this summer. 🤞

I ended up in position 7 in my county for eBird stats last year. Chasing the top five is a silly, arbitrary goal, but I find it motivates me to go outside & spend time looking for #birds. I'm old enough now not to care if it's silly if it makes me happy. 🦉

The only place I go running anymore is inside airports, trying to make my connecting flight. 🥵👎

Last of my posts about #birds I saw yesterday - here's Mr. & Mrs. Crissal Thrasher. 🦉

Four grebes seen yesterday in Henderson, NV's Bird Viewing Preserve. #birds 🦉

More #birds from Henderson, NV's Bird Viewing Preserve. Truly a spectacular place to visit - an oasis of diversity amid a landscape of industrial wreckage and sprawl. 🦉

Yesterday at Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, these were three of the duck species I saw: Ruddy, Bufflehead, and Northern Pintail. (2/2 duck posts) #birds 🦉

Yesterday at Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, these were three of the duck species I saw: Redhead (with Ring-billed Gull, Ring-Necked (male & female shown, surrounded by other species), and the Northern Shoveler. (1/2 duck posts) #birds 🦉

Ah, now that's a little bit better. 😁 #birds 🦉

*ICON* Greater Roadrunner, Clark County Wetlands Park, NV #birds 🦉

Las Vegas: good for gambling, and good for Gambel's quail. #birds 🦉

Lifer Cinnamon Teal today! #birds 🦉

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Celestial equator startrail over a truck skeleton" by Pavel Vorobiev www.astrobin.com/9d5awk/ #astrophotography

Las Vegas Natural History Museum

My Nevada eBird list currently stands at zilch. I'm going to change that tomorrow with a visit to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. 🦉 #birds

Yesterday evening's coyote - looks like he's stalking the frigid plains of the midwest, but that's actually evaporite mineral crust surrounding him. Soda Lake, Zzyzx.

Pied-billed Grebe & American Coot in the ponds at Zzyzx. #birds 🦉

Wow -- a 14 foot difference between one side of a lake and the other, due to wind's powerful push! ⚒️

Joshua Tree forest on Cima Dome, Mojave National Preserve.

American kestrel & Northern flicker (red-shafted variety) at Zzyzx this morning. #birds 🦉

Green-winged Teal today at Zzyzx. #birds 🦉

Striped mountain to the NE of the Cima Dome area - Paleozoic marine sediments, according to Rockd. ⚒️

Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve. ⚒️

The word is "extirpated."

The view east across Soda Lake toward the Devil's Playground. ⚒️

Zzyzx. ⚒️

Fossil Falls actually had a small current of water moving through it today: enough to make a small running water sound, echoing off the polished basalt. ⚒️

One of the most dependable astonishing views in all of nature: the Eastern Sierra at sunrise

What a difference a few minutes makes! Eastern Sierra alpenglow ⚒️

My wife & son provide a sense of scale to the fault scarp (in shadow) of the M~7.5 1872 Lone Pine earthquake. In a few seconds that horrible night, the ground where the shadow stops dropped suddenly away from the ground where my family is standing, a throw of ~22 feet. ⚒️

Eastern Sierra front, looking north from Manzanar. ⚒️

Möbius Arch, Alabama Hills. ⚒️

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What the elk?

Mount Whitney, and the Keeler Needles, above Lone Pine in the Sierra crest. One day twenty years ago, I stood atop that peak (14,494'). ⚒️

The White Mountains are snowcapped today. Sierran granite in foreground - just above Keough Hot Springs. ⚒️

Little wave ripples from the shore of the playa on the bottom of Panamint Valley today.⚒️

Argus Range reflected in temporarily pooled floodwaters on the floor of the Panamint Valley today. ⚒️

Northern Panamint Valley and Panamint Dunes with pooled floodwaters on the valley floor today. ⚒️

Cottonwood Mountains bathed in alpenglow this morning, as viewed from Stovepipe Wells.

Cool contrasting collapse patterns side by side on the leeward side of the crest of a sand dune in Mesquite Flats. ⚒️