Sometimes you just find these things on the interenet. www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

#birds I've never watched an eagle lay an egg before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZsS... The video is slightly edited, but you can hear Jackie's vocalizations while laying. Send donations to the Moon Camp Fundraiser savemooncamp.org to preserve the Big Bear Valley for Jackie and her partner Shadow.

#birds I've never watched an eagle lay an egg before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZsS... The video is slightly edited, but you can hear Jackie's vocalizations while laying. Send donations to the Moon Camp Fundraiser savemooncamp.org to preserve the Big Bear Valley for Jackie and her partner Shadow.

#birds I visit the website for these eagles almost every day. Now their habitat is in danger from humans building resorts. You can help here... They have till July 31, 2026 to raise the funds necessary to preserve the forest. savemooncamp.org

For our next seminar we're thrilled to have @saracharles.bsky.social speaking on 'The challenges and constraints of making medieval manuscripts in the twenty-first century'. 17.30 GMT Wed 25/02/26 at @ihr.bsky.social or online. Further details/registration at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

#birds A grackle captured on takeoff in brilliant light just before the wings pop out. (another photo from 2021)

#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme: #OddCouples A tufted titmouse and a robin "sharing" the birdbath. From a while ago (2021).

Spectacular recording if you click through... #medieval #music

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Venerat ad funus Thetidis de piscibus unus, Quem, rex Neptunus misit quasi nobile munus. [To Thetis' funeral came a monster fish, By Neptune sent to make a glorious dish.] Matthew of Paris records that in 1240, a very large "fish" swam 55 miles up the Thames River to Mortlake. v1, pp 316

zooming in was more of a treat than I anticipated

Nature is so graceful and beautiful. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...

#birds If you count drinking as part of today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #FeedingTime, this is a large batch of starlings. (repost from Oct 2025)

#birds from two days ago - a Cardinal in the morning sun.

#birds A late afternoon cardinal comes to get a drink at a frozen birdbath. Camera reports temperature as -4C, 25F.By pecking at the edges - the cardinal can get ice-chips - it's worth the visit.

A #fox wanders by the bird-bath in the very early morning light. The rain has spattered the lens of the camera - which has distorted the image. Can't tell if it got a drink or just wandered by to say "hi!".

#birds A junco comes to get a drink in the middle of the day. (That orange thing in the background is a leftover, partially eaten small pumpkin.)

Saturday just after midnight, it came to get a drink. Toes and tongue are so cute. #opossum #possum

Live from this morning - #volcano #lava #hawaii -- I am sitting here with my tea, and this looked so awesome when it came across my feed... www.usgs.gov/observatorie...

#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme: #Feathers&Form A robin interrupts a mourning dove at the bath.

#birds #BirdOfTheDay theme: #ShortBeaks A close-up of a Junco with a "short beak". (Dec 18, 2025)

#birds #BirdOfTheDay #speckles&spots Two (probably young) starlings. (From Oct 2025)

#speckles&spots #birds #BirdOfTheDay (From October 2025)

#squirrel From Christmas Day - a squirrel enjoying the autumn decorations set out for the wildlife.

#birds Many Starlings. (from October)

#birds - another October post that got lost. Noisy Starlings at the bird bath.

#birds - never managed to post this in October... They don't look like they agree!

#history This 4000 year old coffin (and contents) is amazing. The care and importance of this particular person is so moving. www.bbc.com/news/article...

#birds A junco is checking out the leftovers from the small pumpkins in the background (which have been gnawed by possums and squirrels).

#birds A cardinal visits the frozen birdbath - and it's December!

Late in the afternoon, the #opossum is out getting dinner. It's teeth do a good job of breaking off chunks to eat.

#squirrel munching down on our seasonal decorations (discarded out by the birdbath). Serious business!

This hungry #opossum is munching on a very small pumpkin, left out by the birdbath as a snack. This is about an hour past sunset, so the camera is using infrared.

I put out the Halloween decorations by the birdbath - and this @squirrel came by for a snack. (Actually, he stayed for 30 minutes and made a big dent in the calico corn.)

#birds A Junko is almost invisible in the spray while it takes a bath in the mid-morning light. (last week)

#birds Song Sparrow and Junco - sharing the bath... (from last week).

Our little duckling a week old and in need of a name

#birds Late season cardinals.

Sometimes when searching Google, I forget to turn off AI results. In this case I was looking for a Norse poem called "Outspoken Verses" (which failed). So I tried "plain speaking verses" and got a lot of random trash about how to write. 1/4

#birds In case you wanted some face-time with a starling, here you go. No idea what it's saying, but it is very interested in whatever is going on...

#birds - An early morning bath - to start the day clean!

#birds some starlings sitting still so you can see them...

#birds Last week - the starlings were all over the place... I think this is ten separate birds - arriving and departing...

Light speed is fast, but space is vast...

#birds A robin takes a bath - turn up the audio a bit to hear the splashing. The morning light really makes it a lovely scene.

#birds Two robins - facing off - are unexpectedly interrupted.

#birds Starlings are now passing thru on their way south.

#birds Captured by accident by my web-cam. Beautiful symmetry! Have no idea who this is...

#birds These are frames I snipped from this morning's video from the Friends Of Big Bear Valley YouTube channel. All compliments are due to the team there that tracks the local wild-life. Raptor - backlit by sunrise.