Thanks for sharing Bill!

Today’s #BirdoftheDay theme is challenging for me. I love #B&W #photography but have always struggled taking good shots. This pair of #trumpeterswans on an icy lake seems a safe choice. The reflected swan face is my favorite element. #birds

Who wants to help me find a Brown Creeper? You Ready? Let’s GO!!! #WiscoBirder 📷👐🏾🫶🏾🪶

Scientists call this “continental drying”:

A pair of #HoodedMergansers provide nice #SideProfiles for today’s #BirdoftheDay. #birds #naturephotograpy #minnesota #birddisplay

For today’s #AboutTheKids #BirdOfTheDay theme l chose this #HairyWoodpecker feeding a chick in our backyard maple tree. Sadly the tree is dying but at least we can enjoy its evolving bird habitat for a few years. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature

A beautiful #PaintedStork for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #LongLegsAndNeck. I got this flyby shot while up in an observation tower at the #PrekToal bird sanctuary on the edge of Cambodia’s #TonléSap Lake. #birds #naturephotography #birding #wildlife #cambodia

Great Egret in flight at the #PrekToal bird sanctuary on the edge of Cambodia’s #TonléSap Lake. A fantastic place for birding & ecotourism. For local Khmer, the lake is a critical fishing ground providing 60% of the country’s freshwater fish #birdoftheday #heronsandegrets #birds #naturephotography

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

The Oxenham Arms pub in South Zeal, Devon, boasts the unusual distinction of having been constructed by 12th Century monks around a prehistoric standing stone. If you’re lucky and visit at the right time of day, as I did today, you might also see it being recharged with sacred energy by the sun.

The Redpoll is one of my favorite #finches. Spotted this beauty in #kingsalmon #alaska this summer. #birdoftheday #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

#BirdOfTheDay is #CootsandMoorhens A pair of Moorhen's getting along just fine (as usual) #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #wildlifephotography #naturetherapy #birdphotography

For today’s #BirdoftheDay, I’m going with the alternate theme of #hidden. I never would have seen this #GreatHornedOwl if it wasn’t for the noisy crows harassing it. #Minnesota #birds #naturephotography #owl

"Cause I can think of a few cows who have it comin'. They know what they did." 🤣🤣🤣 @brittlestar.com youtube.com/shorts/0Kjt0...

For today’s #birdoftheday theme of #movement I chose this #heron photographed as it is shaking a leech before swallowing it down. I was lucky to watch this bird catch several leeches. Each one received a violent shake before it was eaten. #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #Minnesota

The #BirdofTheDay theme is #Songbirds so I chose this Eastern #Meadowlark singing away while perched on a mullein stalk in eastern #Minnesota. #birds #naturephotography

A juvenile American Robin eating cedar tree berries. One of a dozen robins that had descended on this tree in Como Park last September. #BirdOfTheDay #BerriesandBeaks #Minnesota #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

It’s cliché to call the Boundary Waters a refuge, but it certainly was mine when I was a kid.

This Red-eyed Vireo was loudly chirping away in the forest but otherwise remained hidden from me. The only photo I could get was this #headshot through the leaves. Wish the branch was gone but love the eye. #birdoftheday #birds #naturephotograpy #minnesota

American White Pelicans waking up #OnTheEdge in a southwestern #Minnesota pond. My contribution to today’s #BirdOfTheDay #birds #naturephotography

My contributions to #birdoftheday and #birdonawire are a Brewer’s Blackbird and a Field Sparrow. Both seen at #KeystonewoodsWMA. It was a beautiful early summer day with lots of bugs for the #birds. I likewise had over 70 wood ticks by the end. #worthit.

A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange. theconversation.com/a-centuries-...

I moved to Minnesota in June 2023 during a day when the air smelled like a campfire. When I’ve asked longtime Minnesotans about the increasingly severe smoke during our summers, they all say it was never a problem until a few years ago. And wow, this graph has got the receipts.

"The businesses north of University didn’t wait for permission. They saw opportunities in underutilized buildings and took them. They built for their neighbors rather than theoretical suburban customers." streets.mn/2025/11/12/n...

Happy Exploding Whale Day for those who celebrate :)

Northern Lights!!!!

"We live in a moment of confrontation over an attempt to hold onto the largest accumulation of the proceeds of crime. Stolen land, stolen labour, stolen lives, stolen histories, stolen time, stolen knowledges."

After collecting examples since 2006 (!) today I decided to finally create the Museum of Dead Digital Museum Displays: middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/m... Pathetic fallacy? Digital doom? The pained wails of curators everywhere? Yep. 🏺

I know a few 😃

Got out to #CrexMeadows in western Wisconsin on Sunday to watch the #SandhillCranes flying in at sunset. So impressive. Probably a couple thousand arrivals in a little over an hour. Took over 1000 pictures! #birds #wildlifephotography

A 30,000-year-old toolkit from a Gravettian hunter in today’s Czech Republic reveals a life of mobility, recycling & memory. Stone tools tell stories of survival & connection. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleolithic #Anthropology

Author (that's me) hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others www.twincities.com/2025/09/14/s...

‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster @drkatemarvel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Beginning with beach cleanups in the 1980s, @elsadevienne.bsky.social shows in this Environmental History paper how #data-collection methods & data itself have “shaped public understandings of who is to blame for major global environmental problems such as the #plastic crisis” doi.org/10.1086/737351

Got a glamorous and not so glamorous photo of this Double-crested Cormorant today. Love those gorgeous blue eyes. Surprised by the flying stream of bird poop in the next photo. #birds #nature #photography

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

Had a great time at the #MinnesotaStateFair. Ate all my favorite foods including cream puffs, poutine, and corn dogs. Visited the DNR fish pond, the fine arts center, and the always fun animal barns.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

hey do you need your own personal mousepad inspector? you should adopt Winsor! he is a purrmaster. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ljx...

Warblers are on the move here in Minnesota. A great time to be out #birding. #birds #warblers #migration

Heard a raptor cry while out birding in the Rice Creek Preserve. Started taking photos to help ID. Unexpectedly I caught this interaction between an osprey & eagle. Too far for a good shot but still exciting to catch. The osprey was likely defending its nearby nest. #bird #nature #talons 🪶

Hiking through our nearby woods I came across a family of noisy House Wrens. I watched as the young birds chased each other around until an adult showed up with a bug in its beak. I got some nice photos as the birds positioned themselves and the lucky one got to eat. Fun. #birds #nature #wildlife

Traveling (and birding) through the Netherlands and Denmark. Lots of little birds this morning including this sweet Lesser Whitethroat near Skagen.

The recovery of Trumpeter Swan populations in Minnesota is one of the great wild bird successes of my lifetime. Extirpated from the state by the end of the 19th C, conservationists beginning in 1966 worked through decades of challenges to re-establish these amazing birds. So grateful. #birds 🪶

Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.

I've just discovered the Public Writing resource created by the lovely people at @sapiens.org. I really enjoy trying to use storytelling to talk about the Anglo-Welsh borderland over millennia, but I'm sure I could do better. It's self-paced and open to all so there is no reason not to give it a go

The Smithsonian Girlhood exhibit is leaving the building at MNHS

"This corridor has an interesting history as a railroad mainline, and glimpses of its past are present when you look for them. The first part of this article focuses on the history and legal battle. The construction and latter parts of the article feature lots of photos and fun facts."