Had to work late yesterday, and at dusk I was leaving the building I was at when I noticed a familiar tiny shape on a young maple they had planted on site. Surprise sleepy nugget (resin bee) 🥹 Goodnight y'all

Shrooms galore! 🍄 #FungiFriends

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

As wetlands freeze over to the north, waters that remain open will draw in migrating waterbirds. Today, our local river was a magnet for ducks, geese and grebes. #birds

catching the sunset 🧡🍂✨️

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

Trying to get some practice with my camera while enjoying the birds. I got a soft spot for chickadees after saving one from a building during my first date with my now-husband. #birds #birding #chickadee

We’re on our way home after an incredible safari in South Africa! One of the highlights was definitely all the dung beetles! This male has formed a dung ball and is rolling it off away from other males that will try and steal it! More info in the alt text. #insects #photography #wildlife

One of my favourite polar bear photos I've taken to date. It was a weird, misty evening with just a sliver of sunlight coming through the fog, lighting up this bear on the rocks just outside of town. #mammals 🌿 #BearSeason2025

Oh it's good not to be on-call! I have just a few pics and need to get out birding to get some images. It's supposed to rain this weekend, but I'll try and make the best of it. Here's a #GreatBlueHeron jumping up on a log giving a beautiful wingspread during a break in steady rains. #birds

Sometimes these buffoons are sooooo close to getting it!

Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

Y'all - now you know us photogs are NOT kidding when we say the Northern Pygmy owls are SO SO SMOL!

A Barred Owl is visiting us today! 🪶

woah [checks the firehose] she’s buckin like a bronco

It’s big, it’s bright - but only a tiny bit of crater detail on the bottom edge as the Beaver Moon is 99.5% illuminated as seen from San Diego county tonight. I missed my premium shot of the moon just breaking the tree covered hills to the east, darn.. 100% Full 5am tomorrow morning.

Nature playing Go, lichen on rock today 🌿

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Orange lichen is the new black. Lichen on granite at Heil Valley Ranch today 🌿

i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not

It is the season of beard decorations for schnauzers indeed.

The sign of a good walk in the woods is you have leaves and fir needles on your face!! #DogsOfBluesky #MiniSchnauzer #becurious

today's 10 minute sketch is a baby emperor penguin

Burgerville is the latest Pacific Northwest restaurant to announce free food for those reeling from the loss of federal food stamp benefits. https://www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/11/kids-can-show-a-snap-card-to-get-a-free-hamburger-at-this-pacific-northwest-chain.html 

The Starlings definitely approve of the new crabapple trees that were planted in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. Every morning, the trees are filled with birds! 🍎🍎🍎 #Starling #CentralPark #birding

Imagine if they had used human artists to craft something really special, distinctive, and imaginative? This still looks like shiny AI slop - soulless and mirthless - devoid of creative spark. #AI #cocacola #coke #ads #advertising

I could not disagree more. There are many reasons that MMR is given as one shot. Separating it out means: -Babies more vulnerable to preventable disease for no reason -Three times as many doc visits -Three times more shitty days for baby -Three times more copays -Three times more work absences

man we need more stories of platonic love that doesn’t fit the societal definition of standard friendship?? like we NEED that passionate intimate friendship shit that blurs the current lines so that people can be okay with having intense affection for someone they don’t want to romance or bone

Pets are wild, man. There's just this little dude or little lady living in your house, being a whole ass creature, living their little lives and following the tune of a song you'll never fully understand. It amazes me every time I look at an animal.

Welcome to Lake Estes, Estes Park, Colorado 😃 About a 3 second exposure on this to smooth the water out. You can never go wrong a sunrise in the mountains ❤️ #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Colorado #Sony

For my contribution to #StunDay I will go with the Fox that was waiting next to the Premier Inn car park for us to return from our day out at the Zoo. It didn't even mind that I turned the car so the headlights illuminated it a little. #EastCoastKin #photography #mammals #naturephotography #Foxes

Almost full moon rising over the hills to the east. 96% illuminated. A little crater detail on the lower left edge. Seen from Southern California. 🌕

I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor

I miss the FDA

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"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

"Clean", graphite & pencil crayon on paper, 8x10", 2024 (private collection).

On @brewsterslinnet.com’s recommendation I checked out Avibase and learned that the common name for the American Redstart in most Spanish speaking countries is “Candelita” with some modifier (Candelita Migratoria in Venezuela, Americana in Peru, etc.) “Little candle” Is so perfect for this bird 🥹

I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was. I'm kindof emotional about it. 50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶

Hey sweet thang, This is your reminder that every living thing in the world slows down during these next months. You’re not lazy cuz you’re doing less. It’s okay that the early darkness makes you tired (it’s supposed to). Humans the only ones who keep fighting against the natural patterns of life.

A male Golden-olive Woodpecker at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica today #birds #nature #woodpeckers

Not a great fall for changing colors in SW Illinois but there were a couple of nice spots. The spots that still have some nice greens for contrast are my faves.

Yes! I was arguing with someone who said “learn to weld” and it’s so dumb. 1) if tons of people pivot to trades, it’ll get saturated quickly. 2) if a bunch of decent to well paid knowledge jobs disappear, demand for trades will plummet.

Snootflies are back 🖤 Spotted a handful of these silly creatures this afternoon near a cypress swamp. Panorpa lugubris, the mourning scorpionfly. Distant relatives of fleas. I make a small pilgrimage or 7 to this spot every year around this time in hopes of seeing them, as one does

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

You put your right leg in Your right leg out Do the Hokey Pokey And you turn about

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