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the key to surviving a horror movie plot is to recognize early signs that you have to get out of the house

somehow my left AirPod has been left behind at the runway de-icing station at DIA if anyone’s passing thru

Saw them breaking down your man’s chitinous outer shell to devour the sweet tender meat hidden within

Pseudotriton ruber - red salamander. a larval salamander seen from above, just under the surface of a chert-lined creek. has a long smooth body colored light brown with irregular tiny dark brown speckles. its head is the widest part of its body & features two little gold-tinted eyes. at its neck there are feathery red gills on each side, obscuring its front legs. its two back legs are blurry as is its tail.

Eurycea cirrigera - southern 2-lined salamander. an adult salamander sitting on flat bedrock at the edge of a creek, seen from the side. two bulbous eyes protrude near the front of its head; besides its two sets of small legs, its body is otherwise entirely smooth, and is detectably taller than wide by its tail. the top of the salamander is golden yellow, bounded by two black stripes that run all the way down its body. on its side it appears black with flecks of gold.

Plethodon dorsalis - northern zigzag salamander. an adult salamander curled into a J shape with its long tail as the ascender, sitting in moist dirt. its sides are light brown, but a thick, wavy orange line bordered in black runs down its back.

🦎 salamanders 🌿

Pseudotriton ruber - red salamander

Eurycea cirrigera - southern 2-lined salamander

Plethodon dorsalis - northern zigzag salamander

#ecoregion71

ML611642440 - Varied Thrush - Macaulay Library © Nick Park; Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 27 Nov 2023

Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius)

Family Turdidae (Thrushes and Allies)
IUCN status: Least Concern

In December 1943, when Dickey Betts, vocalist of The Allman Brothers, was born as a full-grown, ramblin' adult male, it would have traumatized an entire modern labor & delivery ward. But the chaos of the American home front at the time led doctors to shrug and point him toward the enlistment office

Not all flats are the same; sticking to healthy unsaturated flats like sandy pine woods and dry heathland is key. Enjoy saturated flats, like mud and mangroves, in moderation.

Audio & photo of a green catbird calling its anguished yowl from the canopy, near Goonengerry, NSW #birds

I enjoyed taking time on my stay to learn the common local bird sounds in a place where you can't just turn Merlin on (yet!).

Also audible: brown cuckoo-dove, pacific koel, eastern whipbird.

warm brown woodpecker with red cap, working a branch

warm brown woodpecker working a branch

Male & female smoky-brown woodpeckers #birds

*wooderson voice* that's what I love about trees, man... I get older, and the second best time to plant one is still today

love this signoff on a random phishing email I got

It’s almost white clover season. Are you on your grind?

A close-up of a dark seabird with a long hooked bill, dark blue eye, and a bright turquoise throat patch. Photographed in La Jolla, California.

A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue!

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography

everyone is fighting a battle you can't see because you are the only one without cool invisible wizard powers

When nuclear lawfare brings the big firms crashing down, one man scuttles from the ashes... and he has an objection

they should call mating a castled king with a knight "house arrest"

Winter alpine tundra, looking south atop the Continental Divide

mountain chickadee on a picnic table

mountain chickadee on a picnic table

lunch inspector

That's right

sagebrush meadow amid lodgepole pine savanna/open woodland

The arc of history bends towards Unstoppable Secret Workouts and the Best Gear at the Best Prices

Autographed mosaics of the owner giving thumbs up next to Virgil, various senators and gladiators, a former consul

a gray/brown dove perched on a roadside concrete safety barrier above a large drop. a bright orange panel of bare flesh surrounds the eye

bare-eyed ground dove
PN Los Cardones, AR 🪶

small sandy-gray dove with red iris and pink feet, with scaly brown plumage pattern, perched on a sunny log

inca dove #birds

Had to grab these for my baby since they were out of BOTH Flamin’ Hot and Prawn 🙄

Juvenile gulls often pick up and drop stones to practise their hunting skills, this Herring Gull is on South Lake at
WWT Slimbridge #birds #GlosBirds #BirdsSeenIn2026

As a little reward for wrapping up the data entry minigame I let myself draw some river rocks tonight
#GodotEngine #gamedev #birdingRPG

ML617718537 - Bay Woodpecker - Macaulay Library © Abhishek Das; Darjeeling, West Bengal, India; 09 Jul 2023

Bay Woodpecker (Blythipicus pyrrhotis)

Family Picidae (Woodpeckers)
IUCN status: Least Concern

You can conduct research with your bird data, through a falling block game that rewards placing the same species together and packing things as densely as possible. You can also rotate the grid. Bring your analyses to the Ecology Institute!

#GodotEngine #gamedev #birdingRPG 🪶

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