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"We should not allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity, and rules will remain strong – if we choose to wield it together.”

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@hendygardenlove.bsky.social taught me that my phone can see auroras that my eyes can't see!

Me every time I read the news these days. Northern Pygmy Owl #birds #canada #nature #wildlife #photography #birding #nikon #owl #mcoupephotography #pygmyowl #northernpygmyowl

💧 🍄‍🟫 Morning dew and fresh fungi. 😎 📍 #Oregon #mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

Having become very erratic in it's appearances throughout 2025, I was delighted to catch up with the Double-crested Cormorant at Doon Lough for the first time since December 2024. A family party of Whooper Swans also fed close to the viewpoint, showing beautifully in the afternoon light.

I think it’s time for rescue cat Guinevere to take shelter in the barn with Angus and myself. Another changeable weather day 😊

Our friend the Chaco Granulated Toad is a relatively common toad who lives in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay! They are named after the Gran Chaco, the vast lowland plains of central South America! (photo by Vincent A. Vos)

#Woodhouse'sScrubJay #Patagonia, #AZ #birds #photography #birdphotography #BirdWatching #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

What a wonderful photo and thought provoking quote.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeedingTime. This is from last Spring - a White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) feeding a juvenile. The White-throated Dipper is the national bird of Norway, although this one was in the UK. #birds #photography

Northern lights last night from #Potsdam #Aurora

A car left quietly in a field near Hartsel, Colorado. I shot low so the grass and plants could press into the frame, letting time and landscape do the storytelling. Worth noticing. #FoundObjects #RuralStillness #ScottKissPhoto

My first ever horse painting. He was a challenge, but I loved every second of it. Painting an unfamiliar subject is rewarding—it forces me to truly observe my subject. #watercolor #watercolorartist #wildlife #horse #horsepainting #natureart #horseart

Good chunk of lichen. #lichen #fungifriends

Today's picture is of a Sea Eagle taken at Edinburgh Zoo. I had the lens right up against the cage in order to get the wire out of the visual field but it is still a slightly "misty" looking image. Cannot get over the size of that beak! #MikesPhotos

From The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams, illustration William Nicholson.

#Nuthatch 9x12 watercolor & gel pen #birb #birds #nature #art #wildlifeart available here: ko-fi.com/s/5126af6818

Blinded by the northern light #landscapephotography #northernlight

We used to do that with our cat Chloe, holding her up high enough for her to check out the tops of the kitchen cupboards . It was a breakfast ritual and she insisted on being picked up for it!

A familiar friend...but in TASMANIA! Hippasteria phrygiana! A near cosmopolitan species found in Atlantic, Pacific and Indian waters-generally predators on cnidarians-esp. octocorals-showing off prominent pedicellariae and big ass spines! thanks @drtimohara.bsky.social @oceancensus.bsky.social

#TuesdayBlue I forget you not! Can't wait to see pretty forget-me-nots later in the year, these dew covered beauties from March last year... #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

I've been making progress on this cable knit scarf today 🧶

Northern Lights from Phoenix Park now. #SpeirGorm

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

#Birds🪶🦉 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #NatureLover #WildlifePhotography Good Morning, BlueSky Friends! Here is a Throwback Picture of my First ever post on BlueSky a Red Kite Souring over head Taken on the First Day I Got My Camera. Captured on my Canon EOS R50

Today's #birdoftheday theme is #birds with food. Trying to avoid yet more photos of raptors with food I've gone for this Corn Bunting instead. @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social

I have used this image as my banner, but never showed it off properly. So for this #MineralMonday, I proudly present this spectacular specimen of Malachite!

Right above our house last night the best view of the Aurora we’re likely to get in Gloucestershire! Wow!! #NorthernLights #Aurora

Just enough to be seen is my motto.

colours of summer — sunset • 19.01.2026 • central tablelands • Australia #scape #australia #landscape #sunset #photography #photographersofbluesky #goodnight #naturephotography #sunsetphotography #colour #nature #potd #aesthetic #summer

Crystal clear sky, a million stars 🌌

Working on a blanket today. It's about half way done!!!

"Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too" (Beau Taplin) Happy Tuesday x #seascape #sunset #sky #watercolour #reflections

Cold winter night

We got wind of the aurora being visible locally last night (N Wales) and took a chance taking a few camera phone pics on long exposure 'night vision' mode. Weird how digital cameras 'see' more than we can with the naked eye

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Nuthatches don't hang about at #FeedingTime, Rob's theme for #BirdOfTheDay today. #UKwildlife #birds Shutter speed was a little too slow, but ISO was already at 12800 in the Cumbrian winter gloom.

Any kind of waterfowl is welcome on #MallardMonday! Here's a lovely female Northern Shoveler having a stretch! #birds #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin

#art#blueskyart#deeplake #Sunlakes#scablands #oilpainting#landscape #Lowergrandcoulee #greatflood#view Scablands Eyeshot oil on canvas 20” x 16” 1/18/26

A Robin in memory of Janet, Graham’s @oldmanrambling.bsky.social dear wife who passed last week. If you have one you’d like to post under the #WinterRobin #ForJanet please do. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Dunnock seen at South Stack RSPB a few days ago in Wales for #BirdsSeenIn2026

And lastly, this clump of adult velvet shanks (Flammulina velutipes). At least I think they are that. The shine on them is absolutely gorgeous. #fungifriends

Snowdrops and Violets, Eva Francis, 1903.

An edge-on disk galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the CANDELS-GOODS survey. It is at redshift 0.11 (lookback time 1.47 billion years) with coordinates (53.07446, -27.84980). 73 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo CANDELS.

Baby blanket done

These boys 💖