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Working wildlife biologist living at the edge of nature. Naturalist. Macro photo fanatic. Intuitive birding by ear. Friend of pibbles! All original photos my own. Opinions my own.

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Los Lobos: Kiko Live - "Saint Behind The Glass"
Los Lobos: Kiko Live - "Saint Behind The Glass" YouTube video by ShoutFactoryMusic

Beautiful performance, musical escape. youtu.be/x0GxAbI1lh0?...

08.03.2026 05:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Robin having a splashy bath in a lake.  The bird has an orange chest, brown wings and a white throat.  The bird is looking at the camera and there are water droplets in the air.

A Robin having a splashy bath in a lake. The bird has an orange chest, brown wings and a white throat. The bird is looking at the camera and there are water droplets in the air.

A Rusty Blackbird in the water near the shore.  The bird is rusty brown with brown and black wings.  The beak is open and there are water droplets in the air.

A Rusty Blackbird in the water near the shore. The bird is rusty brown with brown and black wings. The beak is open and there are water droplets in the air.

A Pipit in the water looking down at it's reflection.  The bird is mottled light and dark brown.  There is some black in the wings and on the tail feathers.

A Pipit in the water looking down at it's reflection. The bird is mottled light and dark brown. There is some black in the wings and on the tail feathers.

3 Bohemian Waxwings on a round green water bowl.  One is standing on a rock in the water and two are on the edge of the bowl.   The bird on the left is leaning forward with the wings open.

3 Bohemian Waxwings on a round green water bowl. One is standing on a rock in the water and two are on the edge of the bowl. The bird on the left is leaning forward with the wings open.

Robin, Rusty Blackbird, Pipit and Bohemian Waxwings for #BirdOfTheDay #StandingInWater

08.03.2026 04:40 👍 43 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0

This describes me perfectly.

07.03.2026 21:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Step over ants, put worms back in the grass, rescue baby caterpillars, release spiders back into your garden, open windows for bees to fly home. They are all little souls that deserve a life too.

07.03.2026 21:39 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Congratulations! They sometimes come through here in big flocks and they actually nest in wetlands throughout the western US.

07.03.2026 21:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t mess with Soras!

07.03.2026 21:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Birdoftheday #standingwater #birds

Fighting Soras
Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve

07.03.2026 21:33 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

You can even see a hint of their darker primaries hidden under the folded wings.

07.03.2026 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A shore bird white below and brown above a thickish bill and dark legs. It was very foggy on the beach.

A shore bird white below and brown above a thickish bill and dark legs. It was very foggy on the beach.

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🪶 ID help please, of possible. I saw this bird today on Top Sail Island NC. It was foggy and from afar at first I thought Am Oystercatcher but when I got closer I saw it was not. The thickish bill is throwing me off. Anyone have any suggestions?

07.03.2026 21:28 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Willet because of tall stature, big thick bill, grayish legs, and they like to forage in the surf like small sandpipers. They kind of appear like an oversized greater yellowlegs.

07.03.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Willet!

07.03.2026 21:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A macro photo of a cream-colored crab spider clinging to the tip of a cream-colored flower petal, against a blue sky background. The spider is far left in the frame; in the lower right the flower shows dark red and greenish-yellow stripes toward the petals' centers.

A macro photo of a cream-colored crab spider clinging to the tip of a cream-colored flower petal, against a blue sky background. The spider is far left in the frame; in the lower right the flower shows dark red and greenish-yellow stripes toward the petals' centers.

Here is your Saturday Spider 🕷️

(A tiny crab spider waiting for meal delivery on a scale bud flower, Mojave Desert) #BugSky 🐙🌿📷

07.03.2026 19:47 👍 89 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 0
Soaring bald eagle with white head and white tail, dark wings, and dark body.

Soaring bald eagle with white head and white tail, dark wings, and dark body.

Bald Eagle over the house today.

07.03.2026 19:46 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My hand with pink nail polish holding a book called “Hawaiian Insects and their Kin” outside in front of a plumeria flower. There is a butterfly and spider on the cover.

My hand with pink nail polish holding a book called “Hawaiian Insects and their Kin” outside in front of a plumeria flower. There is a butterfly and spider on the cover.

I went to Hawai'i and all I got was this stupid book on insects 😏

07.03.2026 18:47 👍 73 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
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The theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #StandingInWater

Least Sandpipers have short legs so the water isn't very deep but everything is relative. Standing in the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge #Alaska. Maybe on the way back? 🪶

07.03.2026 16:48 👍 42 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

She really is but oh so feisty!

07.03.2026 19:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Purple flowers with long red filaments and light orange anthers

Purple flowers with long red filaments and light orange anthers

Amorpha canescens, our Lead Plant, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refugee #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 7 🌿

Amorpha means ‘without form’ since this genus’ flowers have only one petal, unlike most "pea-shaped" flowers, missing the wing and keel petals.

07.03.2026 14:57 👍 86 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Hummel badet in einem Meer aus gelben Blütenpollen

Hummel badet in einem Meer aus gelben Blütenpollen

Hummel am Wegesrand
#Nature
#Insects
#bumblebee
#NaturePhotography

07.03.2026 14:19 👍 68 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Check out the fake Christians in that photo. Just because you’re praying over the guy doesn’t make you a better person. You’ve capitulated your morality, losers.

07.03.2026 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or all those hypocrites gathered around to pray over Trump at his desk. Praying for what? Nice capitulation of their morality.

07.03.2026 14:59 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Three all-white Trumpeter Swans flying in a line.

Three all-white Trumpeter Swans flying in a line.

Trumpeter Swans flying high against a nice spring blue sky. #birds #AB

07.03.2026 14:50 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Burrowing owl with his eyes closed.  The eyelids are covered in tiny feathers.

Burrowing owl with his eyes closed. The eyelids are covered in tiny feathers.

I just love the fluffy eyelids. 🪶

07.03.2026 14:51 👍 331 🔁 61 💬 2 📌 2
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Protect Old-Growth Forests in Oregon The Trump administration has proposed a new plan to more than quadruple the amount of logging to 2.5 million acres of public land in western Oregon. Stand up for living forests and the endangered spec...

Wildlife need homes, forests, and people need places to escape the absurdities of humanity. It takes just a moment to fill out and speak up for western old growth forests. act.biologicaldiversity.org/5E-gjTsTuE22...

07.03.2026 14:52 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Star Trek - a 60th anniversary tribute to the original cast
Star Trek - a 60th anniversary tribute to the original cast YouTube video by JediPhoenix1976

Best cast ever youtu.be/-pHEkiAm0vo?...

07.03.2026 14:46 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cluster of bald cypress knees reflecting

Cluster of bald cypress knees reflecting

Bald cypress knees and reflections ...

07.03.2026 14:05 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A Great Blue Heron stands in the water, its reflection standing with it. This bird has grayish blue feathers, a long neck, and yellowish orange beak.

A Great Blue Heron stands in the water, its reflection standing with it. This bird has grayish blue feathers, a long neck, and yellowish orange beak.

#BirdOfTheDay #StandingInWater
#herons #nature #photography

07.03.2026 13:30 👍 104 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
A bright yellow bird with a black forehead and wings stands in shallow gently flowing water with brown fallen leaves in the background. He is in profile facing left with his head turned and looking directly into the camera. His feathers are wet and puffed up showing off his bright white downy feathers and he has an annoyed look on his face as if he did not appreciate having his bath interrupted.

A bright yellow bird with a black forehead and wings stands in shallow gently flowing water with brown fallen leaves in the background. He is in profile facing left with his head turned and looking directly into the camera. His feathers are wet and puffed up showing off his bright white downy feathers and he has an annoyed look on his face as if he did not appreciate having his bath interrupted.

"Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where a guy could get some privacy around here, would ya?"

American Goldfinch

#BirdOfTheDay #StandingInWater #SmallBirdSaturday #BlueSkyArtShow #flowing #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

07.03.2026 14:09 👍 81 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
A bright winding ribbon of green light shoots diagonally up from the bottom, left to the top right of the night sky. The bottom of the image is framed with the silhouettes of spruce trees.

A bright winding ribbon of green light shoots diagonally up from the bottom, left to the top right of the night sky. The bottom of the image is framed with the silhouettes of spruce trees.

Of the three seasons during which I guide tours in Churchill, #aurora season is by far of the most stressful, because we have no control over what people are coming up to see. Tonight’s show was a big relief and a huge excitement for my guests. Now I can sleep. 😊

07.03.2026 06:11 👍 533 🔁 60 💬 7 📌 1
White pedaled crocus with purple striations.

White pedaled crocus with purple striations.

Moar Crocus. 😉

07.03.2026 14:25 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
 A fluffy kitty with azure eyes.

A fluffy kitty with azure eyes.

Happy #Caturday Daisy!

07.03.2026 13:58 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0