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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What a handsome creature! We got a visit from this dapper fellow about a week ago, one of their canine cousins: #WorldWildlifeDay

A fluffy red fox in a suburban backyard with flagstones and buffalograss, contemplating his imminent jump over the wooden fence to the left

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed 🪶

The flat arid grassland of southeastern Colorado, with the sun setting behind distant mountains. The sun is reflecting off of the heads of blue grama grass in the foreground.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Backlit on a late afternoon with a mostly gray sky, three hairy woodpeckers perch on the railing of a tall gas storage tank, with a tall bare tree in the distance.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Oh, the disapproval of young Cooper’s hawks! Snapped a pic of this one through a window - she was probably asking to speak to a manager.

A juvenile Cooper’s hawk sitting on a wooden fence, in mid-call, looking off to the side with a grumpy expression

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Did eventually get a marginally better pic of the bald eagle at the tiny lake, who it turned out had a companion in a nearby cottonwood tree. So not a total loner, I guess :-)

A (backlit) bald eagle silhouetted in a huge bare cottonwood tree.

A bald eagle standing at the near shore of a tiny lake

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Hmm, I cropped a version to look a little better but didn’t attach it. In any case, the funny thing was that an hour before, in the absence of the eagle, the enormous flock of geese had been right where the eagle was in this picture:

A tiny lake with a bald eagle standing at the far left shore. Part of an enormous flock of Canada geese is on the far right shore, across the water from the bald eagle.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

In my area, there is another spectrum of winter birding - loner vs. massive horde. A (terrible, sorry) pic from today shows both ends - note the crowd of Canada geese on the opposite shore from the bald eagle:

A blurry phone camera picture of a tiny lake, with a single bald eagle standing at the left shore and part of an enormous flock of Canada geese across the water at the far right shore.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Ooh, great pictures! They remind me of another magical mass encounter - swarming caddisflies! For only a couple of nights this June, they were so thick over a local lake at night that you could see the breeze blow eddies in them.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Cool! I’d never been before visiting for the birding festival this year. Also, apparently bald eagles don’t exactly need a *lot* of water as I observed with this epically crappy photo by a tiny lake:

On the shore of a tiny lake, a large bird with a white head can be seen standing in the distance

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Hi, just followed! I love to walk around in Colorado and take crappy pictures of the local wildlife with my phone :-) (Have some white pelicans)

A pair of white pelicans gliding together on a very small Colorado lake.)

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Our household decided at the last minute to put out a container, so I picked these up at the grocery store for something like $10 for two. So far kids have only taken the candy

One of a set of two Rubbermaid “take longs” bowls with lids. The bowl is a serving bowl size (15.7 cups)

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

A grumpy juvenile Cooper’s hawk - well, she was *trying* to be scary, anyway

A juvenile Cooper’s hawk perched on a wooden fence. She is looking to the side and obviously mid-squawk.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

A hollyhock that was growing alongside a drainage ditch by the side of the road in Erie, CO :-)

A hollyhock with lots of round green leaves at its base and a tall stem with a bright pink flower

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

They are! This was the moth, just resting (I saw him hovering around the Daphne blooms later that evening)

A white-lined sphinx moth seen from the top, resting on a straw mat

The resting white-lined sphinx moth, seen from the side. It has coral patches on the undersides of its wings and on its abdomen.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I might give up on the water plants and just use the rocks stacked in the basin for giving the toads something interesting. But it’s a funny thing about the toads - they won’t trigger our trail cam at night, but if something else triggers it, they can show up (note the little guy in the “pond”)

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

(Our own dapper little visitor:)

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

OK, this was a funny sequence on my timeline:

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I went out to check my trail cam one day in May and found this little bold jumping spider on it! Just barely had time to snap his picture before he jumped onto my phone :-)

A bold jumping spider, Phidippus audax, on the plastic back of a trail camera. The spider is no more than 1 cm long, fuzzy, and black with a couple of yellow marks on its abdomen.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Not very new, but just posted this pic elsewhere and thought it apt! From earlier this summer, a local bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens):

A bicolored striped sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens, flying toward light pink bell-shaped flowers. Its head and thorax are bright iridescent green, and its abdomen is black and yellow striped.

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Beth Meyer @drbethmeyer.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Oh, what lovely little guys and fantastic photography! While I cannot hope to match the quality of your images, I just have to share our fancy local bicolored striped sweat bee:

A bicolored striped sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens, flying toward pink bell-shaped flowers. It has a bright iridescent green head and thorax, with a black-and-yellow striped abdomen.

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