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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 1h

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from is #Dawn. White pelican on the Mississippi River near Muscatine, Iowa. Aug 3, 2018

White pelican holding its place in the current of the Mississippi River in the early morning light.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 7h

Sometimes you just feel like screaming #SciArt #Whistober

Digital drawing of a cicada perched on wood. The cicada has a mostly black body with pea green, mustard, and burgundy highlights. Its wings have touches of a bright green near the body and are mostly transparent. The insect's shadow is being cast behind it onto the wood.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 5h

They all walk up and down on trees! TL - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker TR - Red-bellied Woodpecker; below him is the Brown Creeper Bottom row - Red-breasted Nuthatch; Downy Woodpecker; White-breasted Nuthatch 🌿 🪶

Collage of six birds going up and down tree trunks

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 2h

Fall is when all the work and all the planning comes together for Beaver. #mammals

A beaver swims towards the camera in calm waters.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 2h

Just a month away for the peak of the rut for Mule Deer. This is just one of the four bucks that were hammering this chokecherry to get their antlers ready.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 6h

Mr. Gadwall F. Duckington, at your service. Sackville, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2026 📸 #birds #duck #GADW #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Very close vertical image of the head and breast of a brown mottled/barred duck looking very handsome with his black bill partially open, showing the brownish-orange interior.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 2h

Some especially spectacular times between the hours of 4 and 5 AM Hawaii time, scroll back.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 2h

It’s been a little longer than the last fountain episode, but it’s going for today! LIVE www.youtube.com/live/6IaMqot...

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🔴 Live Now: 24/7 Kilauea Volcano Livestream in Hawaii (Cam B)

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 16h

Allen's Chipmunks (Neotamias senex) are one of a few North American chippies who pack on the pre-winter lbs. They chonk up to as much as 20% more than normal weight. This chubby cutie def read the manual & is following instructions! 🤣 (srsly chunkiest chip I've ever seen) #mammals #becurious

Photo of a chubby chipmunk sitting on mossy lava rocks. they are have their paws to their mouth packing a black oil sunflower seed into already very full cheek pouches.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 19h

Amazing find on our bird surveys this morning, a White-winged Crossbill wandering out on the plains! At least the House Finch flock made them feel welcome.

Juvenile white-winged crossbill grayish with darker streaks, and a small crossed beak.

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AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

They've finally arrived in #VC55. Firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus: www.naturespot.org/species/fire... #Bugs #Hemiptera #Pyrrhocoridae

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Gwen 🌈🌺📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Good night. Red-bellied Woodpecker 🪶

A red bellied woodpecker is looking up on a diagonal branch with autumn leaves in the background.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

True. If Sandy Hook couldn’t move the needle. Heartbreaking. I’m sorry.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Nothing’s really changed since Columbine.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This isn’t by accident, this is on purpose. So that people become dependent on services consolidated into the hands of big corporations. Towns stretched to the max have to turn to AI corporations to provide any semblance of service to their residents. And the untaxed corporate heads profit more.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Last two years: not only about the targeted destruction of federal government, but also the destruction of local government. By destroying local sales tax revenues, this cuts off local services and eliminates public servants that help maintain parks, streets, electricity, water, sewers, etc.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Please pause your scroll for this spectacular weevil. You're looking at one of the first two iNaturalist records of Systaltocerus platyrhinus, shared just in the last month!

A black beetle with silver markings, a red head, and a very long snout rests on a white wall.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER in the yard! On the deck even. Tricky to get good photos but yay warbler! Many bugs were munched as I watched #birds 🌿

A brown and white streaked birds with a patch of yellow on its side perches up in a tree in the shade.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Although I work with all wildlife and ecology, it’s really hard concentrating on multiple species as a municipal biologist. I have to remind myself even at this late point in my career that my strength will always be birds. It’s OK to be a specialist in an ecological field.

An adult bald eagle flying against a blue sky with a few sparse clouds.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

These CA darners were all over the estuary this morning. Dozens. The pattern is exquisite when they sit still long enough for you to see it . 🌿#invertebrates

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Not exactly 😉 I’ve heard or seen that many species from my yard (flyovers, birds across the way in the common area) I’m in a townhouse. I guess I should say it’s the number of birds I’ve detected from or in my yard. And all heard or seen by me, so it’s organically correct.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 13/10/2026

Folks this takes less than 30 seconds to sign. It's incredibly important to stop this.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our long dearly departed dog Tommy has a cameo in this photo.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian friends!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Autumn always brings some melancholy. The symphony of buzzing and chirping grows quiet; the light is thinner. Made me happy today to see one of my favourite trees - a big old Aspen on the other riverbank. Tough to pick out in summer, conspicuous white trunks in winter, and now... look at her glow!

View across a smooth river to the opposite shore, which has a slope covered in low shrubs in fall colours. Near the edge of the river is a large, very vibrant yellow tree.

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Marina Mueller 🇨🇦 @marinamueller935.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Little treasures on the ground

A nice cone lying on a bed of dry pine needles

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My coworker had a similar experience on a rabbitbrush shrub out on Sandstone Ranch open space east of Longmont.

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Andrew Warren @andybugguy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Monarch Butterflies were busy tanking up on rabbitbrush nectar today to fuel their trip south into Mexico… I haven’t seen this many late-season Monarchs in Colorado maybe ever…!

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A few minutes earlier, I knew the squirrel was around because I found where it had clipped off the pine needles at the tip of a branch and had eaten the bark off the twigs holding the needle clusters on the pine.

Twig ends from a ponderosa pine. They have been stripped of the nutritious bark by a squirrel. Leaving two tiny little twigs on the forest floor that have no bark.

Nipped off pine clusters at the tip of a branch. One of the best nature signs for an Abert’s squirrel.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I had the joy today of running into an Abert’s Squirrel. Intimately tied to Ponderosa Pines, it eats the cambium of the new spring growth at the tips of branches. The trees counter using bitter terpenes to reduce squirrel herbivory. Thus the squirrels have favorite trees that have less terpenes.

A black furred squirrel with long ears, the ears are tufted with black fur.

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Great Basin Bird Observatory @greatbasinbirds.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yellow Warblers were, by far, the most abundant bird we found along this transect high in the Pine Forest range of northwest Nevada. #MountainMonday #YellowWarbler #NevadaBirdCount

aspen-lined stream thru sagebrush, up mountain

aspen-lined stream thru narrow drainage of sage and rocks

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh boy, I’ll go out sit on the porch!

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’ve been seeing a lot of subadult red-tailed hawks, this one popped up right above my head.

A sub adult red tailed hawk soaring against a clear blue sky.

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Jim 🇺🇦 @pom137.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A hard to miss plant when in bloom, Chapman's fringed orchid, an endangered species. I've found this in the same location (a roadside ditch) annually at this time of year. #nativeplant #nature #bloomscrolling #orchid #wildflower #ECK 🌿🏵️ #woodland

Two plants with orange fringe blossoms with a woodland background

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The #Birdoftheday theme is #green Here's a calliope hummingbird showing off his gorget!🪶

Green hummingbird with a white chest and long, magenta gorget feathers.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You know you’re dedicated when you count the extremely long Common Grackle flock that takes 25 minutes to pass. I estimated over 8000 birds.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Yard” number 115 arrived today! Uncommon in Colorado, a White-throated Sparrow. I heard it first, and then it popped up eating assorted seeds and insects.

A gray sparrow with a bright white throat and black and white striped head. It has bright yellow spots between its eyes and beak.

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hawk today:

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Marina Mueller 🇨🇦 @marinamueller935.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Windy day on Lake Ontario 💨💨

A person standing on a sandy beach, looking out at a choppy lake.

Lake Ontario, looking West, from Darlington Provincial Park.

Lake Ontario, looking East, from Darlington Provincial Park.

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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Spent the morning in the company of Townsend’s Solitaires. These birds sing throughout the winter to maintain territories separate from each other around Rocky Mountain Junipers laden with berries, their primary food in the winter. Solitary life. 😉

A pearly gray bird with a long tail and a white eye ring sitting on a dead juniper twig.

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Fiona Cross @drspidernz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today, October 10, is International Jumping Spider Day, and it is also #Arachtober! I thought I'd mark the day by sharing this photo of a little Portia africana male on my hand. These little spiders have touched my life in so many ways 🕷️ #InternationalJumpingSpiderDay

A small fluffy brown spider walking across the palm of my hand

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