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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The bacon chambers of Allston?

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Last weekend, in the woods, saw a rosy maple moth! #bugs #wildlife

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I joined a birding walk this morning. When we saw some double-crested cormorants, someone remarked that cormorants aren't very photogenic, and in defense of cormorants I immediately thought of this photo I took in the Everglades years ago. #birds #wildlife #Everglades

Double-crested cormorant (a large dark bird) viewed at an angle from the rear, sticking its neck up and holding wings out to dry. Background is clear blue water, no ripples, with bits of trees and clouds reflected.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This morning at graffiti alley in Central Square #CambridgeMA #streetart

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Tobaccofish one of my favorites to see, and they were more common in Belize than most anywhere else I've gone diving. They're a small seabass, in the same family as groupers - you can see their seabass-style pointy pupils. #marine #coralreef #nature #scubadiving

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I don't see spotted trunkfish on the reefs often, and when I do it's usually just one, hiding. But on a snorkel in shallow seagrass near the reefs in Belize, there were several of them, in good light! I love them, they're beautiful! #marine #coralreef #nature

Spotted trunkfish, an oddly shaped kinda boxy fish, white textured background covered entirely in small black circles. Out of focus seagrass in the background.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A few more signs from #maydaystrong at the Boston Common #resist

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

BABAM performing at the May Day rally, Boston Common #resist

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

At Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common - one today's May Day rallies #resist

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

One repeated theme (of many) that I saw at #NoKings #Boston was references to the Epstein files.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

They were reading signs from the crowd over the PA system at #NoKings #Boston, and this is one of the signs they read out loud. I wonder if that's what inspired this change to the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkt... - did they plan that in advance, or improvise because of this sign?

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

@dropkickmurphys.com at #NoKings #Boston with "a special 'fuck ICE' edition' of Shipping up to Boston, "Let's Ship Them Out of Boston" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkt...

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Dropkick Murphys at No Kings Boston - Special "Fuck ICE" edition of Shipping Up to Boston

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

@dropkickmurphys.com playing a set at #NoKings #Boston, starting with the song they debuted at the Hands Off protest in Boston last April

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Cats return for #NoKings #Boston again! Here's my thread of cat signs from last June's protest. Respond with pics of any No Kings cats you see today.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#NoKings #Boston rally starting with a crowd larger than I can fit in the frame from standing on the hill above the field

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

People streaming to the rally from Park St and Downtown Crossing #NoKings #Boston

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Talking with a friend this evening about past birding reminded me of this beautiful spotted rail I saw in Guanacaste, Costa Rica thanks to www.instagram.com/christhiam.c... #birds #wildlife

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I didn't see a lot of blennies on our trip with the New England Aquarium dive club last month, but here's a saddled blenny I got a nice picture of. I love blennies! #nature #coralreef #wildlife #scubadiving

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

MLK appeared at Graffiti Alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #streetart

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Usually I see gadwalls in the water, but the rare times they come up really close to me - like this occasion at Fremont Canal in Seattle years ago - is when I can see how beautiful they really are. #birds #ducks #wildlife #Seattle

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Father finch feeding fledgling at the feeder. #CambridgeMA #birds #wildlife

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I think this one may be boulder brain coral, Colpophyllia natans. Off the coast of Belize. #nature #marine #coralreef

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Close-up view of the polyps of my favorite species of stony coral, mountainous star coral. Off the coast of Belize. #nature #marine #coralreef

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A rock pipit on the beach, Dingle peninsula, Ireland. They seem to like to flit about from rock to rock at the edge of the water. #birds #wildlife

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

On the same walk at Nisqually, a bullfrog and a Puget Sound garter snake. #wildlife

Backlit bullfrog head and upper body poking ave the water with lilies and sunlight on the water

Garter snake, black with light blue stripes along the length of its body, swimming just above and below the pond surface (with head above the surface), lots of algae and leaves poking up from the pond and glinting in sunlight.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Some swallows from a visit to Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in 2018, my second time there but my first visit there with a camera that has enough zoom to photograph swallows. Two tree swallows (one on the gray side, the other shiny blue) and one barn swallow. #birds #wildlife

Close up of tree swallow on a thin branch with out of focus leaves in the background. This tree swallow has a mostly gray back with only a little blue showing.

Tree swallow with shiny blue color, facing towards the camera, on a lichen-filled thin branch, with out of focus leaves in the background.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A couple of cats appeared at graffiti alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #streetart

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Diving in Gloucester MA this morning, I saw this pair of moon snails looking very coupley #marinelife #scubadiving

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A northern mockingbird I saw catch a grub in our neighborhood park #CambridgeMA #birds

Northern mockingbird perched on branch, looking towards frame-right, with grub in its mouth

Northern mockingbird perched on twig, facing almost at us

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Recent paintings and tags at Graffiti Alley earlier this week #CambridgeMA #StreetArt

Art on city wall - big yellow stylized lettering/shapes

Painting on wall of white head with long thick red hair and large black eyes

Misc paintings and text tags on wall, looking up towards skylight

Red-headed woman in flowing black skirt spray painting on a wall with misc art and text on it

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Yellow warblers are back in town! #birds #wildlife

Male yellow warbler (songbird) looking up, perched on a small branch with red flowers at its end.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Some art currently at Graffiti Alley in Central Square

Graffiti art on wall - smiling sun, monochrome bunny, and more

Graffiti art on wall - stylized colorful letter-like shapes

Graffiti art on wall - outlined abstract heads with faces on green & blue background with colorful shapes below

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Years ago in Seattle I got pics of this bushtit that caught some grub. #birds #wildlife

Small gray bird (bushtit) on a branch with a green grub in its beak, background of out of focus leaves and sky

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

www.instagram.com/onlybugzzz/ spotted this mining bee (genus Andrena) this weekend - first bee I've seen around here this year! #bees #wildlife

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It looks like something from Ghostbusters attacking Boston

Giant pink figure climbing a tree in the fog in downtown

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Yesterday a Cooper's hawk hung out for over an hour by our deck, but the screen door got in the way of taking good photos. It was so close I didn't want to move the door and spook it. So here's one from a couple of years ago that I got good pics of, on a branch a few feet further. #birds #wildlife

Front view of Cooper's hawk perched on tree branch, chest towards the camera and head facing right.

Close-up of Cooper's hawk torso and head, looking up and to the left.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some of the new art this week at graffiti alley

Blue/red stylized text graffiti painting

Person with people hat and robe painted on the walkway bricks

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I don't usually post food pictures but these stuffed tapioca balls call for an exception

Six shiny food lumps in three different colors on a long plate with orange garnish bits on top

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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 02/03/2025

20 years of living in the area has not erased the joy that coming out of a tunnel to see this view brings me every time.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yellowhead wrasses have goth-looking eyelash marks. Here's one terminal phase (which means it changed from female to male earlier in its adult life) I saw on the Florida Keys reefs a few years ago. #nature #coralreef #fish

Narrow yellow fish (yellowhead wrasse) with blue markings, rocky background

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Intrepid-looking black-capped chickadee at the suet feeder.

Lower-left half of hanging suet feeder, with chickadee hanging off the bottom corner, facing left

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Bee on a flower in the Middlesex Fells last spring. I think it's some sort of halictid bee but nobody else on iNaturalist has confirmed or narrowed that down yet: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #bees #nature #wildlife

Close-up of halictid bee on the florets in the disk of a flower.

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Nearly 5 years ago I got this close-up of a crown-of-thorns starfish on a Maui reef; they're nocturnal and tend to hide, lucky to see it in the open in daylight. They eat coral but in small numbers they help maintain the balance of coral species. Their pretty spikes are venomous. #coralreef #nature

Close-up of one arm of a crown-of-thorns starfish on corals

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Cos @cospics.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

On a stop at Niagara Falls a few years ago, I followed some gulls with my camera as they flew over the falls and got this. #birds #wildlife

ring-billed gull over the edge of Niagara falls

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