Pine Tree Cricket 🦗 (Oecanthus pini) on cone flower (Echinacea) yesterday in Chagrin Falls, Ohio (suburban Cleveland) 6-27-26 Home to “flahrida” early morning— looking forward to seeing Leo the cat. #stunDay #macro #ColorADay #orangeSun #pinkMon #eck #bugsky #pollinatorweek #art #threeWordGenre

Male Boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major) callin high atop a pine snag early morn in Bonita Springs, Florida 6-23-26 Alan & Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #LifelnTheBalance: precarious / unexpected bird positions. Alt #LightAsAFeather: backlit feathers. #birds #blueSkyMonday #ECK #threeWordGenre

Mel Brooks is 100 today. Drop a gif of your favorite of his films to celebrate.

Imagination & interpretation required! I glanced to my left and there were 2 Soras. She stopped in the, long for Soras, grass and he jumped on top and they began mating. If you zoom in you can see her back … check where his feets are. Mating Soras is not something you see every day! #Birds 🪶

smol, round, and grumpy

Ducklings after dark (mom let them stay up late & eat flies) 🐥🌃 Central Park, 6.25.3026 🪶

Very active at the Wrenhouse today. Was able to confirm at *least* 3 hatchlings, and I'm pretty sure there's a fourth, but it's *very* hard to see that many at once through the entrance, even with the awesome scope @walelaruby.bsky.social got me! (Photos with the EOS R5 & telephoto lens) #birds

“welcome to my abode human. my roommate is shy, but agreeable and pays the rent.” lil guy was giving me a whole mtv cribs tour. remember cribs? #birds #photography #owl

All the everyday #birds in San Francisco were so much fun for me to spot, because everything was a lifer. 😂 Black Phoebes were high on my target list, because they're SO PRETTY. When I went hunting for grebes at Lake Merced, I saw this beauty too.

Tippi Hedren didn't survive live birds being thrown at her head only to befriend a raven named Buddy so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Also, absolutely no AI in this video. I guess I should mention that every time I post one. Just me hanging out at favorite spot, gleefully filming everything I can #birds #invertebrtes #herps 🌿 🧪 🐡

It looks like there are some alt accounts that are in fact run by real federal employees and former employees. The fact that it’s so hard to tell, and some of the bad ones started out as good ones, makes navigating this challenging, but there’s a starter pack in this thread you can check.

On our late walk, we ran into a lady who lost her bull terrier last year to old age. She wanted to meet me. Today is her birthday. She cried happy tears & I gave her a kiss. She said it was her favorite birthday present 🥰Watching #TheSheepDetectives tonight #TVPicks #dogsofbluesky

A revolting habit of patriarchy's upholders is insisting all women are there to be judged as pleasing or not pleasing their sad little libidos. And really it's not even about that: it's about displaying to other upholders that they are the anointed judges and not the judged. But judge him. Harshly.

Today's new friend: this juvenile toad (𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘹𝘺𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘱.)

"A big dog ran by like a shadow." It's just a little throwaway line, utterly not germane, and I kind of oohed over it.

I DO NOT appreciate this Team Fish loss to Team Bird, but it is indeed an epic #BirdsVsFish photo! Note that even a large predatory raptor like an eagle or osprey wouldn’t be able to dispatch a gar this big. Clearly the vultures are doing their whole savenger (scavenGAR?) thing!

A Bobcat on the prowl #mammals #cats #caturday

Great Blue Heron at Berkeley Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California. #birds #nature #eck #eastcoastkin

You deserve joy. I hope you find some this weekend 🌿

That face says, “oh yeah, that’s the spot.” #SquirrelSaturday #ECK #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #WesternGraySquirrel A little late, but captured this cutie this morning.

Emphasis on older people don’t sense heat. Mom doesn’t start registering “hot” until it hits 90 inside. Under 80 is cold. Part of moving back in with her was this. She has no central air and the sound of fans/portables bothers her. So there’s a lot of arm twisting.

you've fined your last young cannibals

next time you hear someone “throws like a girl” this is what you should assume they mean

The Swainey: No. 🪶

Holy crap, this Odd Guide to the Flowers of Portland by Kris Corey, Emmi Greer, Edy Guy, Rich Perin, and Ellen Robinette is wonderful and so imaginative and surreal! From Buckman Publishing, found at the indie book fair today.

You deserve joy. I deserve joy. Things are a dumpster fire right now, but we can only be prepared for future challenges when our hearts & spirits have joy. Joy is respite. Joy is love. Joy is fuel. Get your joy.

family portrait

Ms Cardinal was looking rather #Rotund for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme. 🪶

Found a friend while folding up a tarp. Quite a hefty wood frog. He/she wiggled back under under the kayak for safety. 🐸🌿

In Chicago, they hide from me and it took me two years of looking to get a semi-obscured photo of one. In San Francisco, the Marsh Wrens just...hang out. Chilling. All over the place. Chicago #birds need to take lessons. ;)

A hovering Drone Fly for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Macro #Cheshire #ECK #photography #nature #naturephotography #TenMinutesFromHome #Kodachrome #1980s #ManualFocus #ManualExposure

Bird Of The Day (Rotund) Round Robin... Co. Galway, Ireland. #Rotund #Robin #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #ECK #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

Bird Of The Day (Rotund) Confident and plump looking Collared Dove walking on the grass... Co. Galway, Ireland. #Rotund #Dove #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #ECK #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

The first light of day strikes a tree swallow as it tries to warm up on a cold morning. For the #birdoftheday theme of #rotund #birds #treeswallow #swallow #protectnature #EastCoastKin

As much as I try to move away from anthropomorphizing generative AI, I feel like this captures why I find the writing so cringe-y It sounds like my friends and me in high school, speaking in thesaurus words and debating philosophy based on Wikipedia pages alone and needing you to know we were smart

#Photography #ECK #BlueskyArtShow #Macro #PollinatorWeek #Milkweed #Bee

The second Wrentit! This one is younger, lighter eyes - outer ring darkens to maroon (see other pic). Best deduction is mated pair though could be adult and juvie? No idea what a juvie looks like 🤣 Juvies fledge anywhere from mid-April to mid-July so ? #birds #becurious

Went out on the downstairs porch to try to get pics of the Bullock's Oriole at the suet feeder. No luck. Had to "settle" for pics of a pair of Wrentits instead. 👀😮 Fun fact: Getting a pic of one of these cuties is like Threading the Needle Whack a Mole! #birds #becurious

In case you didn’t know, that beluga whale post is AI and that alt account is terrible. They know just how to get us to look and feel outraged and it sucks

Seven Spotted Ladybug - can you see her eyes?

Pure Green Sweat Bee (Augochlora pura) on poisonous Hemp Dogbane flower (Apocynum cannabinum) yesterday in Chagrin Falls, Ohio (suburban Cleveland) 6-26-26 #Native #bees are favorite subjects. #BlueSkyArtShow #macro #insects #ColorADay #GreenSat #green #eck #bugsky #nature #pollinatorweek #art

saturday at the feeder

Yesterday I unsubscribed from an email list, got a confirmation about this, and then received the company’s usual email blast four hours later. If this happens you should get to have the CEO’s phone number so you can bother them at home.

“Whatcha doin’?” #Caturday

Leaves for the #BlueSkyArtShow on Saturday June 27, 2026 The theme is #Macro

Coyote pups peek out of summer grasses near their hillside den in Yellowstone. (2015)

It's #Caturday! And this is what happens when you drape Squeezy's clean blankets over the dining room table chairs after washing them!