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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A very small frog eating aphids. 🐸

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Bruno is fascinated by bubbles like he was watching the aurora borealis or something. #herps

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Metamorphosis! Both legs have burst forth and the right arm is about to pop. 🐸

A tadpole in a tank with some gravel and duck weed. It is a very tiny animal going through a big change.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Meanwhile Bruno and Brunette are thriving. I haven't seen any babies yet this year but I don't really know what is going on in that cave. (I don't even know which one is Bruno and which one is Brunette) Happy little critters tho. 🐸

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@pogue.omg.lol A few frog eggs avoided getting eaten by newts. This lucky tadpole is about to sprout legs. They will burst thru his skin fully formed and his tail will shrink and then he's a frog. He's tiny. 🐸

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

That handsome buck from last fall is back now, looking a bit worse for wear. He still has his harem of four ladies so I assume he won all his fights. Hopefully the girls are all pregnant. #PNW #photography #deer #alphamale

The stag is all beat up, skinny, and missing chunks of fur. His antlers are gone. He looks pathetic.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Poor Bruno! His true love is hiding from him. Brunette pops her head up for a gulps of air when he isn't looking. #herps #newts 🦎

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Bruno and Brunette eating fruit flies. #herps 🦎

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Another baby newt has lost his gills and started breathing air through his tiny lungs. Young newts may spend several years wandering around in the forest before returning to the water to breed. #herps 🦎

A baby newt looks like a small damp lizard. It's standing on a little bridge in an aquarium.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Bruno and Brunette are getting lovey-dovey again. These two reproduce prolifically. #herps 🦎

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A flock of mourning doves was startled by an eagle. #photography #pnw #birds

The birds lift off in a scattered flock doing acrobatic moves in order to confuse predators. They are flying over a a marshy area on an island in the Columbia river.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Morbidly obese tree frog taking a bath. She will be leaving captivity soon to breed in the pond. I'm sure she will attract lots of boyfriends because she is thicc. #frog #herps 🐸

The frog is about 1 inch long and 3 inches around. She is green with dark gray spots.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Look how precious this baby newt is! I don't usually handle them but today is moving day. He is ready to get out of the water and walk on land. I am putting him in the isopod tank. #herps #newt 🦎

The baby newt looks like a wet lizard with a big head. He is sitting on my hand. He is about 2 inches long.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This baby newt has recently lost his gills and now he is breathing with his little lungs. I will move him to a new habitat soon. When all the baby newts have left the water, I will put the parents back in the tank to produce more baby newts. #herps #newt 🦎

A newt resembles a damp lizard. He has a lightbulb-shaped body and stumpy legs and a paddle-shaped head with bulging eyes. This one has yellow under his chin and on his belly. Some of them have red bellies. His skin is lumpy. It secretes poison. He is sitting on some plastic leaves in an aquarium.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Eagles surveying nervous waterfowl at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. #photography #wildlife #nature #pnw #birds

A foggy background with blue sky breaking through. Two eagles above and a shallow lake below. Many ducks and swans are swimming in the lake.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Tundra swans arriving at their winter destination in Ridgefield, Wa. They are thirsty from their journey so the first thing they do is drink water. #nature #photography #waterfowl #winter #migration

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Animal tracks and scat on the dike near the sewage treatment plant. #pnw #photography #fallcolors

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

24-hour time-lapse of the cooling pond at the former Trojan nuclear power plant. #pnw #park

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We had four inches of rain in three days. #pnw #weather

Morning sun breaking through clouds and shining on wet trees, grass and landscape.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The sky above the Ridgefield wildlife refuge is agitated by the approaching atmospheric river. After the rains come, the fields turn into shallow lakes inhabited by massive flocks of waterfowl. Today I saw about a dozen sandhill cranes, six swans and one eagle. #pnw #photography #weather #birds

Agitated clouds above an expansive green field at the Ridgeway National Wildlife Refuge.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

A lot of drama in my yard today. There's a buck wandering around being horny and a small flock of does trying to avoid him. #nature #photography #pnw

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Columbia River 24-hour time-lapse.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I see no ships at the grain port in Longview. That's sad. It's harvest time, and the grain elevator should be busy. Mt. St. Helens in the background currently has no snow, but don't worry, we are not having a drought. It's been an excellent growing season. #pnw #photography

Blue sky, mountain, hills, industrial zone, river.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A magnificent black-tailed deer strutting around my yard looking for love. #pnw #nature #photography

A nice big fat male deer with 4 points on his antlers. He was not afraid of me at all and I walked past him quite close. He probably grew up in the yard and has been watching me for years. I wouldn't be able to recognize him now if I saw him as a fawn.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

On the left, fancy white-tailed deer at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-tailed Deer. On the right, ordinary black tail deer in my back yard. 🦌 #deer #nature #photography #pnw

A doe and a fawn eating blackberries in a field.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It's kind of a weird place to see pelicans because I did not think we were on their migration path, but this is the 3rd year I have seen them on this little lake near Ranier, Oregon. #birds #nature #migration #pelicans

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A flock of crows eat peanuts, drink water out of a fountain, and slide down a roof. #birds #crows #murder #nature #pnw

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

One time Greebo and Marv stared down a bobcat. Words were exchanged. The bobcat retreated. #cats #barncats #caterday

A black cat and a gray cat calmly standing very close to a young bobcat on a lawn with a paved path. Picture taken from an upstairs window, so there's a bit of a glare.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Are they cute? These brothers are mountain barn cats. They patrol the forest and keep pests away, including large predators. They are 9 years old, gray and battle scarred, with no desire to retire and live in the house. They threaten to kill me every time I suggest it. Meet Marv and Greebo. #cats

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

At 3 weeks old, the baby newts are still transparent, but they are starting to develop their characteristic red bellies, an important defensive signal that lets predators know they are poisonous. #herps #pondlife

A baby newt looks like a fish with feet.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Working and playing on the Columbia River. #pnw #photography

A tugboat pushes a gravel barge past people sailboarding and kiteboarding.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

So far, my lovey-dovey newts have produced at least 6 healthy offspring. I set up a bubbler system to breed baby brine shrimp, and Bruno watches it like it's TV. #herps #newts #nature

An aquarium with plants and gravel and a bewt.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

At first, my newts did not seem to like each other, but over time, they became attached, and now they show a surprising level of affection for cold-blodded critters. They sleep with their heads cuddled together. #herps #newts #pnw #pets

Sleeping newts in an aquarium with their heads together.

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Baby newts have transparent bodies with black and yellow spots on their skin. They walk over gravel on teeny tiny toes. #herps #newts #babyanimals #aquarium

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Diana Gruber @digruber.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Newts make very amusing pets. They seem to do quite well in captivity. They have cute personalities. Meet Bruno and Brunette and their brand new eft, Bam-Bam. #herps

Two newts in an aquarium with rocks and plastic plants

A very tiny newt in the larvae stage. It is nearly transparent. It has gold eyes and tiny toes and frilled gills.

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