“Simus Slide” Acrylic on canvas 16x12 #art #painting #hognosesnake #herpart #acrylic #nature

A great basin gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer deserticola) found in the Alvord Desert. #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

A desert short horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) from southeastern Oregon a few weeks ago, sitting and sunning on a rock. #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

Tahoma, as seen from an alpine lake, last summer. #naturephotography #outdoors

Another great basin collard lizard (Crotaphytus bicinctores) from a few weeks ago, this time found basking atop a rock in the Alvord Desert in southern Oregon. #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

A long-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia wislizenii) found alongside a road in the Alvord Desert the other week. #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

For those doing DIY HRT in the US. I just was shown this from a friend and it looks like DIY HRT is about to be under attack from the DOJ. The beginning of page 3 is where it is in this memo. www.justice.gov/civil/media/...

A ground snake (Sonora semiannulata) flipped in the evening down in northern Nevada. #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

A great basin gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer deserticola) sheltering from predators under the shade of a creosote bush, somewhere in the Blackrock Desert. #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

A great basin collard lizard (Crotaphytus bicinctores) defends their rock from a big nasty human. This lizard was flipped under a rock while looking for ground snakes #herps #fieldherping #naturephotography

Milkshakes and gopher snakes with @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social in the Alvord Desert earlier this week

A young north pacific rattlesnake found in the wake of birthing/hatching season in eastern Washington. Despite colder than average temperatures, there was a huge movement event with baby rattlesnakes and gopher snakes, about a month ago, in a rather concentrated area. #herps

Another Northwestern garter snake, this time extremely orange #herps #naturephotography

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand. Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

I love seeing stuff like this from Florida. It gives me hope that maybe one day I'll feel safe to visit friends and family again.

Sky is gay. If you go outside you'll turn gay. Good luck homophobes, you'll need it. Happy pride month. #pride

better yet, consider unsubscribing from HBO/Max the week before her show comes out (& if you rejoin, wait until the HP season is over). it's not enough to *not* watch it – HBO needs to know it will hurt their bottom line if they continue producing it

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 #ffxiv

Incredible, Tim!

The explosion of AI imagery online has had an odd side effect for me: it's made me so much happier to see amateur art. I love seeing art from people at various stages of experience, even when things are rough and folks are just starting out. It makes me happy, now, in a way that it never used to.

In opposition to the blue Nisqually garters last week, lately I've been seeing a large amount of the most striking orange Northwestern garter snakes (Thamnophis ordinoides) #herps #snakes #naturephotography #wildlife #nature #reptiles #fieldherping

The big beautiful blue Nisqually garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis pickeringii) have been out in droves lately in the south salish lowlands. #herps #herping #wildlife #nature #naturephotography

A VERY important point -- this bill is not final, not at all. It will now go to the Senate. If the Senate makes changes to the bill (they likely will), it will go back to the House for another vote. The House passed it last night with ONE VOTE. We can stop this. We have to.

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it. This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1. It now goes to the senate. It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

A beautiful California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata) #herping #fieldherping #nature #wildlife #photography

A lot of people, including in my hometown, just had their lives destroyed by a horrific storm. Remember when the media and politicians talk about how “strong” and “resilient” these communities are that they’re saying they don’t need that much help. It’s one of Neoliberalism’s most insidious tricks.

A great day of tidepooling earlier this week with 6 east Pacific red octopuses (Octopus rubescens). I also learned that, at least this species, will hunt tide pools at low tide, moving between pools in search of prey. #tidepool #nature #wildlife #pnw #naturephotography

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

The thing with Pedro Pascal is he not only gives a fuck; he knows he's huge enough to spend all day trashing bigots safely because entire franchises are built around him atm. He's no dispensable Gina Carano-tier secondary guy. This also underlines how most famous artists as big as him are cowards.

A larval coastal giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) found swimming in the slower flowing waters of a creek bank. #herps #nature #wildlife #salamander #amphibian

A young western yellow belly racer (Coluber constrictor mormon) found at the northern end of their distribution west of the Cascade mountains, in the PNW. #herps #naturephotography #fieldherpphotography

This past week has been so good, amazing finds left and right. Here's a beautiful Milksnake I found crossing the road right after dark on Sunday! Not a species I cruise often at all! #herps 🐍

1. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge has blocked the passport ban for transgender Americans... government ban likely violates equal protection, and is made with animus. Though the ruling only applies to plaintiffs, it is expected expand in coming weeks. Subscribe to support my journalism.

A Northwestern ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus occidentalis) from the other day, flipped under a rock. #herps #naturephotography

I got out to do some snake herping yesterday with @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social A beautiful Pacific gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer catenifer) in front of a blooming Lomatium sp. #herps #snakes #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #fieldherping

clash of the titans! two big snapping turtles have their annual early-April fight in our nearby beaver swamp.

Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." Stephen Jay Gould, 1941 - 2002

Another side by side, but can you see what's different? This time it is a blue-green phenotype Northwestern garter snakes (Thamnophis ordinoides), on top, compared with a Nisqually garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis pickeringii), on the bottom. #herps #fieldherping #snakes #wildlifephotography

Two Northwestern garter snakes (Thamnophis ordinoides) that were next to my work truck yesterday. One of the blue-green phenotype and one of the single orange stripe phenotype. #herps #fieldherping #snakes #wildlifephotography

Today I saw, at work, what is easily a contender for the top two bluest Nisqually garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis pickeringii) I've seen. I'd have to have the two snakes side by side in the same lighting to judge them evenly. #herps #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #outdoors

Damn—beat me to it!

The Trump administration is the modern face of evil.

A western redback salamander (Plethodon vehiculum) at work last Tuesday. My 5th and final species of salamander to see, that's been documented where I work. #herps #naturephotography #wildlifephotography

A friend sent this screenshot from TrueNorth gear yesterday for their International Women's Day PR-post. Talk about a positive way to start the day. Wildland fire is not the field I'd expect to see things like this, yet there I was and here this is. #rxfire

Get you a girl who can do both. Burning it down.

A beautiful Pacific chorus frog (Pseudacris regilla) calling from a road side ditch a couple of weekends ago. When sad: find frog. It never fails to bring mental peace. #herps #fieldherping #frogs #naturephotography

Such a "glamorous" but fun job. Resting ahead of an AAR for a fuels reduction fire on coastal sand dunes in Washington, to remove thatch ahead of a future herbicide application to manage plover and lark habitat. #rxfire #prescribedfire

A very unusual and cool aberrant, solid gray, long toe salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) from the weekend. In-hand is the only in-focus shot I got. #herps #salamanders #amphibians #fieldherping #nature