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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ergens in het noorden van Nederland tart de #natuur op imposante wijze het natuurbeleid (nulstand voor o.a. edelherten)... Somewhere in the north of The #Netherlands nature is spectacularly defying policy (zero tolerance for a.o. red deer). ❤️

Male red deer on a rainy evening, seen from the side, sporting an impressive pair of antlers, standing in shaĺlow waters, sniffing the air with its head held high. There is a reed bed in the background.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rossig buiskussen - Tubifera ferruginosa - Raspberry slime mold. Ripening pseudoaethalium, fov ca. 10x8 mm. Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #mycology #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds #NaturePhotography #SlimeMoldSunday

Bunch of closely packed purple-brown slightly elongated sporangia on decaying wood, next to a tuft of bright green moss.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nieuwe poging, foto werd niet geüpload: Gelobde pruikzwam, detail - Hericium cirrhatum - Second attempt, photo upload failed: Tiered tooth fungus / Spine face, detail. Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #TimeLineCleanse

Almost black-and-white photograph, showing a multi-lobed white mushroom with hairy spikes on top and icicle-like spikes below the cap, entangled with forest debris, withered beech leaves in the foreground.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gelobde pruikzwam - Hericium cirrhatum - Tiered tooth fungus / Spine face. Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #TimeLineCleanse

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gelobde pruikzwam, detail - Hericium cirrhatum - Tiered tooth fungus / Spine face, detail. Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #TimeLineCleanse

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Vooraankondiging: Tentoonstelling Waterritme in de #Boterhal in #Hoorn vanaf 6 september. Met onder andere Jan Reus!

Poster of exhibition The Rhythm of Water, with a large W, functioning as an inverted mask, showing within its contours a painting of a coral reef in pastel colours. To the right of it a yellow ribbon with the names of the participating artists, and some useful information.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wie zijn deze mensen in de veiligheidsregio's? Waarom zagen ze niet aankomen wat ieder weldenkend en enigszins geïnformeerd mens wel ziet aankomen? Of hebben we hier te maken met politieke onwil? 'Brandweer heeft meer mensen en andere auto's nodig' • Ook brand bij Valkenswaard - nos.nl/l/2625464

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Er is nog moois in deze wereld / there's still some beauty in this world (bloedcicades op akkerdistel/ black-and-red froghopper on creeping thistle). #Fochteloërveen #Friesland #Drenthe the #Netherlands #TimelineCleanse

Two small (approximately 8 mm long), slightly elongated black insects with bright red patches on their shoulders and backs, sitting on different sides of a spiky green thistle stem.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LargeBirdsInFlight. So here is a white-tailed eagle hunting harrier-style among the reed beds. #Fochteloërveen, #Friesland #Drenthe, the #Netherlands. Jagende zeearend tussen het riet.

White-tailed eagle with spreaded wings, hovering among the reeds, looking downwards for prey.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Timeline cleanse: our garden this morning. May you have a very 'Zen' day! #NaturePhotography #Garden

Snow-covered Japanese lantern and large boulder, in front of a high hornbeam hedge with dry, reddish brown leaves, also sprinkled with snow.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We should stop referring to it as 'Trump's ballroom' and call it 'Epstein Hall' instead.

Comparison of the old White House and the proposed new extension.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Groot kalkschuim - Mucilago crustacea / reclassified Didymium spongiosum (2023) - Dog sick slime mold, #Fochteloërveen #Friesland #Drenthe, the #Netherlands #Myxomycetes #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds #FungiFriends Left photo taken 24 hrs after photograph on the right.

Whitish spongy structure of about 10 by 8 cm across, lying on blades of grass.

Pale yellowish grainy structure, about 13 by 8 cm across, consisting of small slimy blobs, lying on blades of grass. At the edges some threads and films of translucent plasmodium can be seen.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Gewoon een herfstavondwandeling in Zuid-Oost #Friesland - just another autumnal evening stroll in the south-east of Friesland, the #Netherlands... #mammals #wallabies #kangaroos

White wallaby at dusk, foraging on a forest floor and munching away at something it's holding in its front paws, ears stretched in different directions.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Alvast een tipje van de sluier achter dit nieuwsbericht - voor het hele verhaal: kom naar de lezing op 19 november in Natuurmuseum Fryslân in Leeuwarden. www.geologiefriesland.nl #geologie #geology #vulkanen Google niet blij met AI-foto's van vuurspuwende vulkaan in de Waddenzee - nos.nl/r/670151

Photographs of a piece of drill core from the Dutch Waddensea at a depth of 2200 meters, with micro photographs of mineral details.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Geheel mee eens. Deze was dan wel niet gehakseld, maar gewoon doodgereden met de maaimachine. En het is allemaal zo simpel te verbeteren met minder natuurschade. Dat er gemaaid moet worden snap ik. Maar doe het 6 weken later. Er zal altijd wel wat 'collateral damage' zijn, maar niet zoals nu.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

O ja, die brede bermen zijn het zomerleefgebied, niet alleen van de boomkikker, maar ook van de eveneens beschermde Ringslang. Fijn dat jullie die ook even gehakseld hebben @natuurmonumenten.bsky.social.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#Natuurbeheer in het #Fochteloërveen: brede bermen vol wilde bloemen, sommige tot ver in het najaar voedselbron voor talloze insecten en vogels, braamstruiken met boomkikkers (nota bene een beschermde diersoort) - alles genadeloos naar de gallemiezen geklepeld. Waarom, @natuurmonumenten.bsky.social?

Fietspad met kale bermen, een rietkraag aan de rechterkant, bomenrijen aan de horizon.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Fietspad met kaalgemaaide bermen, rietkraag aan de rechterkant, bomenrij aan de horizon.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Epidoot, zandkorrel in gepolariseerd licht, uit afzetting van zware mineralen langs de Waddenkust van #Wieringen. / Epidote, sand grain in polarized light, from a deposit of heavy minerals along the coast of the former isle of Wieringen, the #Netherlands. #SedimentSaturday #Geology #Microscopy

Somewhat rounded sand grain in metallic rainbow colours, surrounded by some other, dark and dull grains.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

#Fossiel voor de vrijdag: ostracode in Silurische kalksteen uit het Zuidelijk Oostzeegebied, zwerfsteen van het voormalige eiland Wieringen, Noord-Holland. 5-stack foto. Collectie Huis van de Aarde HvdA W-565A #geologie #geology #NaturePhotography #zwerfstenen #Microscopy

Minuscuul schelpje dat bestaat uit een aantal lobben met nog kleinere bultjes erop die lijken op 'kippenvel', in een schilferige kalksteen waarin fragmenten van andere fossielen zichtbaar zijn.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Micro #fossil for #FossilFriday: #ostracod shell in Silurian limestone from the southern Baltic region, glacial erratic from the former isle of #Wieringen, North Holland, the #Netherlands. #Geology #Rocks #NaturePhotography #Microscopy Collection museum Huis van de Aarde HvdA W-565A, 5-stack photo

Tiny shell consisting of several lobes with even tinier 'goose bumps', embedded in somewhat flaky limestone with fragments of other fossils.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Have a safe and peaceful night, everyone. Early spring greetings from the marshes, #Fochteloërveen, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #NaturePhotography

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Winterslaap is voorbij, op naar het water! Kleine watersalamander - Lissotriton vulgaris - Smooth newt heading for water after hibernation, #Fochteloërveen, #Drenthe #Friesland the #Netherlands, #NaturePhotography #Amphibians

Small, smooth skinned salamander, dark reddish brown with pale yellow underside, on a gravel path.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Laatste restjes winter? Last (?) bits of winter, Haarmos - Hair moss - Polytrichum sporofyte emerging from melting snow like a crocus. Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #MossMonday #Mosses #Moss #NaturePhotography

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#Geologie #Geology #Volcanoes #Tectonics Na ruim dertig jaar morgen een vervolg op het verhaal van de #vulkaan onder het Wad - more than thirty years since I wrote a short piece on this, the follow-up on the story of the volcano below the #shallows.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Dus. Ruim 30 jaar geleden een artikeltje geschreven. Morgen het vervolg.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Studie in vergankelijkheid - Oorzwammetje - Crepidotus sp. - Study in transience - Oysterling, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Surrounded by the decaying remains of other specimens sits a somewhat irregularly shaped beige-orange mushroom with gills radiating towards the cap's undulating white fringe. There is a small fluffy ball of fungus below, and in the upper left corner, a tiny millipede scurries among the wrinkled dead mushroom bodies.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Paarse dennenzwam van onderaf - Trichaptum abietinum - seen from below, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Waves of brown to purplish, white-edged shelf caps with a few bright green algae surfaces, stacked on a dead conifer tree.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

O dear, just in time for #SuperbOwlSunday: stoic face of a young barn owl ready to get ringed. Down feathers awkwardly sticking out everywhere, it may also be the embarrassed avoidance look of a not so self-confident adolescent. Odoornerveen, #Drenthe, the #Netherlands.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

#Slijmzwam Physarum polycephalum (?) op onderzijde polypore paddenstoel - Slime mould Physarum polycephalum on the underside of a polypore mushroom, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland the #Netherlands, field of vision approximately 12x6 mm #SlimeMoulds #SlimeMouldSunday

Network of shiny yellow-orange veins with multiple blobs, spreading from the bark of a dead birch tree over the white tissue of a console mushroom's underside.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Vandaag eens wat #geologie / Let's do some #geology today at #SedimentSaturday or #SandSaturday! Granaatzand / garnet #sand, Waddenkust / Wadden coast #Wieringen, the Netherlands. Field of vision approximately 7x4 mm. Details in alt-text, also in English.

Granaatzand, goed gesorteerd, matig grof (ca. 220 - 230 micrometer), natuurlijk concentraat, Rinkeweelsdijk, Waddenkust Noordburen - Wieringen, 16-09-2006. Afgezet tijdens een aantal nagenoeg windstille dagen waarin bij hoogwater laag-energetische golfslag met kleine amplitude onder aan de dijk het zand uitspoelde en een band zware mineralen van soms meer dan een centimeter dik achterliet. Roze tot oranje zandkorrels: granaat, zwart: magnetiet en ilmeniet, groengeel: epidoot, kleurloos: kwarts.

'Garnet sand', well sorted, medium coarse (ca. 220 - 230 micrometer), natural concentrate, Rinkeweelsdijk, Waddensea coast at Noordburen on the former isle of Wieringen, the Netherlands, 16-09-2006. Deposited during a couple of almost windless days, on which at high tide low-energy, small amplitude waves washed out the sands near the foot of the dyke, leaving a layer of heavy minerals, at places more than a centimeter thick. Pink to orange sand grains: garnet, black: ilmenite and magnetite, yellow-green: epidote, colourless: quartz.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Nog eentje dan maar / One more for #FungiFriday then: the portal to another world... Waaiertje - Schizophyllum - Gillies, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Stack of finely lobed, split-gilled mushrooms seen from below, rusty brown at the centre radiating to light beige at the caps' edges, with a clear white, undulating rim.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Gewone glimmerinktzwam - Coprinellus micaceus - Glistening inky cap / shiny cap, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Two almost egg-shaped beige caps with stems barely visible in the lush green moss, and two pebble-like, still developing ones with no stems visible in front.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Vermiljoenhoutzwam - Pycnoporus cinnabarinus - Cinnabar polypore, Drents-Friese Wold #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Two strikingly orange console mushrooms on grey birch bark with patches of green algae.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Nog meer escapisme dan maar: Fopelfenbankje - Trametes betulina (Lenzites betulina) - Gilled polypore / Birch mazegill, ca. 7x3 cm, #Fochteloërveen #Friesland #Drenthe, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Console-type mushroom, at first sight similar to a Turkey tail, approximately semi-circle concentric structure, slightly hairy surface coloured in shades of green by algae, attached to a fallen birch branch.

Underside distinctly different from a Turkey tail polypore: a structure of radiating gills with only a few splitting, forming a more maze-like structure. A few concentric lines of growth disturbance add to the appearance of a maze.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Oorzwammetje detail - Crepidotus sp. - Oysterling detail. Drents-Friese Wold #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands ##FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography ##MushroomMonday. Field of vision approximately 10x4 mm

Whitish mushroom tissue in many intricate folds radiating from a centre, from which also a small spinelike structure projects towards the bottom left (actually the vestigial stipe of the mushroom).

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Geen #fungus, maar een slijmzwam dit keer / technically not a #fungus, but a slime mould: Troskalknetje - Badhamia utricularis, Drents-Friese Wold, the #Netherlands, #NaturePhotography #FungiFriends #Fungi #SlimeMoulds #SlimeMolds #SlimeMouldSaturday, field of vision ca. 9x5 mm

A semisphere of tiny blue-grey, slightly elongated balls reminiscent of blue grapes or blueberries, hanging from brown stalks that attach to a transparent slimy substrate that is mostly out of focus. In the dark background other groups of balls can faintly be seen.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Mos (Brachytecium sp.?) ingekapseld door Kruipend waskorstje (Sebacina incrustans) - moss (Brachytecium sp.?) encapsulated by fungus (Sebacina incrustans); field of vision ca. 30x15 mm, Drents-Friese Wold #Drenthe #Friesland the Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #Mycology

Some light green moss branches on the dark wood of a dead tree, are covered in white, waxlike blobs that still faintly preserve the shape of the moss leaves.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Paarse korstzwam, vroeg stadium, onder losse bast van dode den - Chondrostereum purpureum - early stage, under a piece of loose pine bark, field of vision approximately 7x12 mm, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

More or less rounded patch of intertwined short veins with small spaces in between, pinkish, white and purple, with a distinct purple zone towards the edge, followed by a white fringe. Towards the bottom of the photograph a second thallus is partly visible, and on the left is the slightly curved brown scimitar-like shape of a pine needle, partly overgrown by the fungus.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Groen viltmatje onder de bast van dode berk - Trichoderma viride under the bark of a dead birch - Oosterwolde #Friesland, the #Netherlands. Field of vision approximately 12x20 mm. #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Blue-green dome surrounded by a fringe of fluffy white mold like a fur collar. The mold also covers the surface of the dome, but less densely. Some small patches of white mold are attached to the front. It all sits on a substrate of light red-brown rotting wood.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

De wereld is gek geworden, daarom iets moois: Rood bekermos - Cladonia coccifera - Madam's cup #lichen, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #Lichens #Fungi #FungiFriends #LichenLovers #NaturePhotography #VandaagGemaakt

A grey-green, powdery stalk of approximately 2 cm tall, forked at the top into several cups that are capped with a shiny red bonnet. In the foreground and background other lichens can be seen, slightly out of focus.

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Bert de Vries @bertdevries.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Plooivlieswaaiertje - Plicaturopsis crispa, syn. Plicatura crispa - Crimped gill / Crispling, Drents-Friese Wold, #Drenthe #Friesland, the #Netherlands #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography

Cascade of shelf mushrooms, fan shaped, slightly wobbled surface coloured in zones ranging from dark brown close to the substrate they are growing on (a dead birch tree), through various shades of beige, to clear white at the edge. They are sharing their habitat with lush green mosses.

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