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Nicola Finch

@nkwala.bsky.social
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Picture taker, bird lover, death talker, pathwalker, writer, reader.

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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
End of June in the chilcotin Forest
Wild rose bud graceful cinquefoilTree swallowFledgling tree swallows
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
In Praise of this Place open.substack.com/pub/nkwala/p...
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In Praise of this Place
A good place to be in troubled times
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
These pictures are a poem open.substack.com/pub/nkwala/p...
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These pictures are a poem
and between the lines
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Make Me Good Soil sophiestrand.substack.com?utm_source=n...
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Make Me Good Soil | Sophie Strand | Substack
Ecology, Storytelling, Myth, and Science. Click to read Make Me Good Soil, by Sophie Strand, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Love notes from the Meadow
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Our burnt and ravaged forest was looking especially beautiful in the hoar frost today. 2017 Wildfire.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
November!
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
NYNY🎉 celebrating in the Chilcotin Forest, BC Canada
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Maja Mielke (she/her) @maja-mielke.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
15 out of 22 #albatross species are threatened with #extinction. To raise awareness of this #conservation crisis, we celebrate #WorldAlbatrossDay on June, 19th. On that occasion, I share a great science fact about albatrosses in my latest newsletter. 🪶🧪 beaksandbones.substack.com/p/albatross-...
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Albatrosses listen to the ocean to find their way
Albatrosses follow infrasound signals from the ocean to find feeding grounds and optimal flight conditions.
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Akhila Ramnarayan @akhilar.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So happy my (sort of) review essay on Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social is out in the world! scroll.in/article/1082...
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‘Is a River Alive?’: Radical resistance and solidarity between humans and the natural world
Robert Macfarlane’s new book is a tripartite ecological-literary tour de force.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hang on
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Every nest box occupied
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Studies for a series of images I’m making called ‘On my Knees at the Bridge’. Small framed stories from the Creek.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Lesser than who?
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
#nomorewar #dandelionsanddogs #letsgetagrip
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
So many beautiful tree swallows. Every one of our 50+ nesting boxes claimed!
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
First Up
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hiding. Looking.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Sandhills are back!
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Andrea Ducas @andreaducas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is how you write a headline. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Moon and Swallow
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A photo I took in 2019. I love the background.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ah, here comes spring
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
First tree swallows today!
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A cradle of crows in the snow.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Late March on the meadow. Our resplendent Redwing Blackbirds
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This sweet young Fir broken in a recent March wind/snow storm. We will stand her up with a prosthetic trunk and tender her recovery. We have other trees who have recovered this way.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Keep on digging there, PP.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Harland Miller. Another Classic.
Penquin Book art. Harland Miller, 2011
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
hahaha
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Lifting the lid
The other day.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Gate.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.facebook.com/100000939282...
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Fred Wah
"I just learned of this petition, which is sponsored by NDP MP Charlie Angus asking Parliament to revoke Musk's dual Canadian citizenship. I've signed. If you're so inclined, please sign. Startied....
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
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Ban X/Twitter in Canada
I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=f...
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Spring rains are coming
Mushroomed:
After a rain mushrooms appear on the surface of the earth
as if from nowhere
Many do so from a vast underground fungus that remains invisible and
unknown
What we call mushrooms, mycologists call
the fruiting body of the
larger, less visible fungus
(Uprisings and revolutions are often considered to be spontaneous)

from Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Right?!
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Sunday, late February. Sunny, windy and so warm!
Late winter forest and Creek snow covered. Bare trees. Shadows. Blue sky with wispy clouds.Snow covered trail leading to wooden gate. Two posts at either side of the trail, one attached to tall, bare aspen treePortion of Old corral on right. Casting shadows. Snow on ground, late winter, forest with tiny cabin nestled in the trees.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Let’s just do a pretty purple moment.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“Let the Raven call you Home.” youtu.be/m7UaCJtRm1M Again. With love. Soundtrack: Spell Songs, The Lost Words Blessing Images: my pics.
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Introduction Auguries and Orisons
YouTube video by Nicola Finch
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Morning has broken.
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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Canada recognizes Aboriginal title over Haida Gwaii off B.C. in historic agreement vancouversun.com/news/canada-... via @VancouverSun #Haida #HaidaGwaii #HaidaTitle #Indigenous #FirstNations #Canada
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Canada recognizes Aboriginal title over Haida Gwaii off B.C. in historic agreement
This is the first time the federal government has recognized Aboriginal title through negotiations
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Red breasted Nuthatch
Red breasted nuthatch ( a small blue, black and tan songbird) on old branch of a honeysuckle. Winter.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
First letter ever carried by dog sled! How cool. Thanks Saskia and Jochen 😘
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Community Deathcare @communitydeathcare.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Honestly, we just want to post grief-poems and teach you how to shroud a body. But social justice, equity, quality of life, and mutual aid are under our purview. *puts on boots with a heavy sigh*
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A cold full moon day with the willows lit up in anticipation of spring.
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Nicola Finch @nkwala.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A Wednesday wander after a cathartic meltdown of cursing and crying.
Snow drifts and shadows with weeds poking through the snow.
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