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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I agonized over picking my favorite only to feel personally attacked by my results 😅

Screengrab of a funny "quiz" that asks "What your favorite obsolete English letter says about you" options: Thorn, Eth, Wynn, Yogh, Ash, Insular G, Long S - results: all of them say "You are a nerd"

fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I try to share the travel but have a few that come on basically every trip. This is Parsleigh, I got her at a craft fair.

photo of a crocheted snail with a mushroom for a shell looking at a book 'Les plantes aromatiques de la maison'

photo of a crocheted snail with a mushroom for a shell sitting on a tree stump by a lake

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

same! (here at the ancient amphora factory museum and archaeology site Amphoralis inn Salleles-d'Aude FR )

photo of a plushie smiling in front of a display of many gallo-roman amphorae

photo of a plushie in front of a diorama showing how ancient gallo-roman amphora were fired in a clay brick kiln

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

our adopted son, who blew in on a storm and has stuck around

photo of a gray pigeon with iridescent neck ring of green and purple sitting on a wooden door in front of a stone building

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

cat tax #cats (not my cat, she's feral, but likes me for some reason - ie snacks - despite the fact I had her fixed and had to lock her in the bathroom for a week while she recovered)

Photo of a black cat burled up sleeping on a human's lap with a view of a sunny field beyond

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also, this li'l friend was ready to FIGHT me for my patio chair #spiders #entomology

Photo of an orange-tan coloured jumping spider

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Much-needed day of reading under a tree with a sleepy cat on my lap and wind-bathing. Three chapters in so far and very much enjoying it #books #reading #BookSky

Photo of the book "Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire" by Eve MacDonland with a sunny field visible in the background

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

chaos sketching with whatever I found lying around just to try to MAKE something #opossumposting because my sis and I are working on a book that features an #opossum (kinda)

rough colored pencil sketches of opossums in various poses

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I got labeled drug seeking for telling my doctor I did NOT want opioids 🙃

screen cap of a comment reading: "'drug seekin' as a patient label one of the most dogshit stupid concepts of all time. fuuuck everybody look out this guy came in here expecting medical treatment. better watch out in case he goes to a restaurant and starts food seeking"

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I immediately thought of this news story from a while back 😂 Really lovely door, though

photo of a "bump" warning painted on a road incorrectly, thus reading "BMUP"

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I just learned that there's a hashtag to share my weird hobby of oogling old floor tiles 🤩 #TilesonTuesday Not a great photo but the first one I found in my camera roll, from the 12th c. église Saint-Géraud fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89g...

photo of floor tiles, the first area is grey diamonds laid in the shape of 8-pointed stars, with black rectangles and squares on a white background; second area is harder to see but dark colored more curved, intricate geometrical shapes on white background

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Found this poor bat in the barnyard, probably looking for water. It's incredibly hot and dry. The local bat rescue came and took it for some TLC 🥺 (and then nerded out about all the bat droppings in the barn)

photo of a grey long-earned bat clinging to a woven run thing

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

sorry for terrible edit job but I immediately thought of something like this 😆

an edited image showing part of an old portrait of someone wearing a Elizabethan ruffled collar, copied twice to match the two pigeons

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Just a plant sale in medieval castle 💚

photo of the coutryard of a small medieval castle with a plant sale therein

photo of a 14th century church (with 18th century bell town under repair)

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

a teeny tiny moth I saw (smaller than my fingernail!)

photo of a small brown moth with orange spots on its wings sitting on vegetation

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Sunset on my friends' farm 💚

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I got fan art, too! 😭

A sketch of the ordinary fae princess Sarah

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Heck yeah! I mean, they might be rubbish at rescuing me, and not sure how resurrecting Mick would work, but I'd be so starstruck it wouldn't matter. (forgot alt text)

TV title image of the "Time Team" programme, featuring Helen Geake, Tony Robinson, Mick Aston, and Phil Harding

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

#booklust Heures à l’usage de Coutances, from Normandie, ~1420-1430 (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Photo of a medieval book open to a richly illuminated spread; the left-hand page is a painting of Joseph leading Mary and baby Jesus on a donkey; the right-hand page is text with a very large illuminated letter

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I took a picture of someone's front door. I'm guessing this is Medusa because of the snakes? But I am no expert.

Photo of an elaborately carved door panel featuring Medusa's face surrounded by intertwined snakes. Around that is a carved wreath. The door is painted red.

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Same bird watching/fog watching trip as previous photo (I did end up seeing a lot of bald eagles and snow geese)

Photo of a small tree-covered island poking out of a layer of fog above a brown marshy foreground

Photo of a spiderweb covered in droplets of water hangs from a knot in a log

A photo looking up at a bald eagle sitting in a tree, which is looking down at the camera

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Fog is technically water, too?

A marshy waterway shrouded in heavy fog with a line of decomposing wooden posts sticking out

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hello new plant friends. Here is a very lovely tree from my borrowed front yard

Photo of a large oak tree standing in a field; it has green leaves and is backlit by sunlight

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

And one nice photo with out of the water 🪶

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

More flamingos 🪶 Nobody tells you when you go looking for flamingos that they spend most of their time like this (or asleep)

A flock of flamingos with their heads underwater

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I did some bird watching over the weekend + bonus Camargue ponies 🪶

An awkward photo of a backlit egret dangling mid-air

A white gull flies over a marshy background

A white egret taking off from a rocky marsh

4 Camargue ponies grazing in a marshy field

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Apparently it's #FlamingoFriday and since I happened to see flamingos today...?! 🪶 (Not the best photography but I was delighted to see them.)

A white gray and black juvenile flamingo wading in water

A pink and black flamingo flies above water where 7 pink flamingos and 1 egret are standing; one white egret if flying above

A pink and black flamingo landing in a body of water

A pink and black flamingo flying low over a body of water

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My humble #borb in the snow contribution 🪶

A very round fluffy blueborb perched on a bird feeder

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I ended up going down a Botany in a Day rabbit hole, but it works because I am trying to get better at plant ID, but these are the books I got

3 books: Botany in a Day by Thomas Eipel, Guide photographique des fleurs sauvages, and Guide pratique des insectes

a sketchbook page with sketches of various caryophyllaeae plants (mostly based on guide book images and wikipedia)

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Here is a truly terrible photo of it 😆

Photo of a page from a guide to the wildflowers of France, showing Caryophyllaceae

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I'm cheating and re-posting this photo I took because it's one of my favorites 🪶

a small bird sits on the corner of a sign that reads: "Big Cypress National Preserve - Wetland Restoration in Progress" in front of a background of thick green foliage

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Truly delighted today to see these orchids while tromping across a field today (which was full of flowers and herbs and smelled just so, so good), didn't even mind sinking knee-deep in mud and having to fight to get my boot back. Also, I saw a green woodpecker.

a burnt-tip orchid peeking up through a field

a green-winged orchid in a field with some sky and greens on the hilly horizon

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

I dunno if this counts, but this fish looks pretty goofy...

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Oh hey. Me-n-my-sister's shop is open for about a week and we brought back our "Fluffle of Bunnies" sticker and stationery pack while the supplies for it last #BSNM #BlueSkyNightMarket nerdycute.com/product/bunn...

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

I saw a whole flock of black vultures doing their thing and recycling a dead alligator. It was quite a thing to behold. (This was taken in the Everglades National Park) forgot to add 🪶

Two black vultures sit on a dead alligator in a swamp

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

Black vulture patiently waiting to tear all the rubber off the car.

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Sadly, no stickers left. I think it was back when we were making them at home! I found the art for them (and winced... it wasn't as good as I remembered it being) (also also NerdyCute was the artist alley thing I made with my sister)

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Squeaking in some beach finds for #InverteFest 🌊

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

I found this oceanic disco ball washed up on New Year's day - anyone know what it is? 🌊I have a couple ideas but the location would be unusual. @rosieriots.bsky.social can you help? Also, #InverteFest

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fred @fredwanders.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Oh hey. My sister and I draw animals (bunnies + wildlife + science) and make stickers and stuff. Our shop is nerdycute.com/shop/ #BSNM #BlueskyNightmarket

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