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Possibly the Pacific Baza was more tolerant of people as it was busy hunting frogs. I didn't even know they did that. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Pacific Baza on a branch with a small frog in its beak.

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 6h

Cleaning stations are a great place to hang out and watch things happen. This is a clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum) getting serviced by a much smaller bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) #MarineLife #Wildlife 🐟🌿

Two fish at a cleaning station. The cleaner is a small cigar-shaped fish; it is white, becoming blue at the tail, with a black stripe down the length of its body.

The larger fish is black, with a yellow ring around its mouth, a white stripe across its face, and striking white patches on its belly. It also has a white bar across the tail and a yellow mottled pattern on its back. It hangs in the water with its mouth open to allow the cleaner wrasse access to its mouth and gills.

Another view of the same two fish. This is taken more from the side of the larger fish so we have a better view of it, but the smaller one is just emerging from its far side and is half-hidden.

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Dan Kinghorn @dankinghorn.bsky.social · 5h

SE Idaho is a dream land to live on. Here you have the largest of the North American waterfowl. The Trumpeter Swan! 🤓✌️🪶🦉 #Nature #Photography #Birds #Flyingbirds #Swans

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 9h

Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]

Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 10h

How do you like being a land baron?

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Mark Coupe Photography @mcoupephotography.bsky.social · 14h

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdSupermodel. Any bird looking like it's posing for a magazine cover. I think this Northern pygmy owl qualifies. #birds #owls #northernpygmyowl #mcoupephotography

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Chris S @enraptored.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning, Wendy & owls! I’m excited to share this pic of my first Monarch butterfly caterpillar in years, who’s apparently been living for weeks on a native milkweed with a million aphids! 🐛🦋😍

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Gwen 🌈🌺📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning! 🪶

A downy woodpecker is finding bugs in a dead broken branch

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 14h

There are only about 20 species of whip-lash squid. Each keeps two very long tentacles tucked in sheaths on its biggest pair of arms, then unrolls them to hover head-down and fish the seafloor like flypaper. The name comes from those whip-like tentacles. 🦑 🧪 #marinelife

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 14h

Good morning!

Grackle puffing up on a bird feeder pole. It’s banded and has a peanut in its mouth.

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 18h

I sat near this green heron for the better part of an hour and watched it hunt bugs and poke around the ponds at the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. It thankfully tolerated my camera and me, even walking toward me on several occasions. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Earth-kun, the Tokyo Sewerage Bureau mascot, is a globe with a manhole cover hat.

A smiling globe mascot with widespread arms and a manhole cover hat stands on a pavement in front of some trees.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also see: small Phidippus audax lass on sundial lupine, which is double the fun #EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Little black jumping spider on a tower of pink lupine blossoms, peering up at you. Seen through a wide-angle lens from the top down so the characteristic sun-burst leaf clusters of the plant are visible

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iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mr Red-shouldered Hawk would like a word. Always with the complaints with that species! 🪶

A Red-shouldered Hawk shouting at the photographer.

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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The cockatoo waspfish, so called because cockatoos also strongly resemblance to a piece of dead seagrass according to someone

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Disdain would be putting it mildly, lol.

Angry burrowing owl peeking out from behind a wall.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OMG, I have friends that win all kinds of photography contests by oversaturating and covering everything with a yellow haze. Judges seem to love it, sadly.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pointy Harris Hawk

An angular brown hawk with a hooked yellow beak and long legs perched on a stump

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I use an AI program, Topaz, to take out noise but if my stuff ever looks over-processed please let me know!

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Frauke Adrians @frauke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In little Carowline's nightmares, there were evil Owls creeping out of a dark Burrow, not making a sound. They were crawling toward her. They were coming to get her... And then, Mom softly took her in her wings, and cooed to her. "Don't worry, little chick, it was only a bad dream. Mommie's here..."

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw several flying fish, but they were too fast.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sax-Zim bog in Minnesota this past February. What a cool bird!

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good morning! ‘Damn, that’s the stuff with hot pepper!’

Female fox squirrel stretches across a bird feeder.

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love.

sidewalk chalk drawing of a muskrat with coins at her feet playing a cigar box banjo. She is singing, and may or may not be jinging the jango.

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Rob 🇨🇦 @rockinbones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Arachtober #Spider #Inverts Crab Spider waited for something smaller .

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 05/10/2026

An unbelievably cute crab I found on the rocks 🦀 It has such beautiful polka dots. Its eyes look sparkly at first, but when you zoom in they look totally wild because of the false pupils✨️ 【YouTube】https://youtube.com/shorts/QHS7NXundI4?si=ZaPQ345j2lR2nLiE

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No wonder! That song about turning Kermit into froggy hash has stayed in my head all these years.

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The Frog Prince: Sweetums

YouTube video by Muppets Rule!

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Semi-feral Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(soundtrack from The Exorcist playing in the burrow)

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Got your nose.”

Harris’s Hawk perched on a pole with its left talon making a fist

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J S MLS @fishiejs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I WILL DIE HAPPY now that I have seen Pika in the wild 😭😭😭🥰🥰 Yellowstone NP! @banditelli.org

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wilson’s warbler #birds

A bright yellow Wilson’s warbler in a dark green tree

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026

Slow motion pelican coasting above the coast bliss. 🪶

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Hurricane Girl @hurricanegirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My Raven family is 80 plus birds. They hang out regularly and protect our property from hawks and eagles.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can never get shots of them, and this morning I saw two separate families. They are such exquisite creatures.

Raven facing the sun, standing on a wooden frame.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Omg, I got off the boat yesterday afternoon, couldn't believe how hot it was in Mission Bay!

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ms. belted kingfisher hanging out over a canal this morning. 🪶

Dark blue and white bird sitting on a rail that says "Plum" on it.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arizona political signs are off the hook! They're just bonkers!

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Parsingphase @parsingphase.dev · 02/10/2026

Took the camera beyond the backyard for the first time in 6 months, as our post-surgery recoveries continue. We were pleased to spot a few very busy fall warblers gleaning insects in the trees (plus guest Downy). #birds @avesparatodos.bsky.social