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Inish View @inishview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lovely view from the beach at Five Finger Strand in Donegal.

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A reminder from nature to pause, breathe, and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us while seeking a perfect balance in life... like this gorgeous male Southern Hawker! 💙🫶📷 Happy Monday everyone. Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead. 🕊️🌿 #MacroMonday #Nature #Invert #Dragonflies #UKWildlife #ECK

A close-up photograph of a vibrant male Southern Hawker dragonfly (Aeshna cyanea) resting vertically on a stalk of purple toadflax flowers.
The dragonfly is positioned head-up, with his long, segmented abdomen extending straight down the flower stem. His thorax is a bright apple-green color, accented by two prominent yellow-green oval patches on top. His abdomen features a pattern of dark brown, black, and bright green spots, transitioning into vivid blue segments at the very tip of his tail. The Southern Hawker has large, shiny compound eyes separated by a bright golden patch on the top of his head. Four translucent, glassy wings are spread fully open and flat to the sides, revealing an incredibly dense, delicate, dark-veined net pattern across their entire surface. The background is completely out of focus, filled with a soft, bright green and yellow bokeh effect created by sunlight filtering through garden foliage.

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Babs @readingtrees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Celebrating bounty and beauty: where does your food come from? Farms cited in Alt.

A 1/2 bushel bag of apples from Morrison Hill Orchard PYO; parsley, 1 bulb of garlic next to plum tomatoes and colored leaves on a teal blue plate, and red onions in a bowl are from Rustic Roots farm CSA, 1 jar of tomatoes from Nezinscot Farm CAA.

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Babs @readingtrees.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chai: my first cup ever! Drank it with lots of honey. No wonder it’s so popular: spicy and very warming. Thanks to Rosemary Gladstar recipe! See Alt for ingredients.

Two mugs filled with brownish tea; one with cream. A stainless pot and small strainer with ingredients: black tea, fresh ginger, black peppercorns, cinnamon stick, coriander, and cardamom-broken up a bit with a coffee grinder.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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julielfrost.bsky.social @julielfrost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Lincoln's sparrow passing through on its migration journey. A lucky find as they are known to skulk low in dense brush and thickets. #Birds #SparrowSunday #Wildlife #Nature #BirdSky #Sparrow #Sparrows

A Lincoln's sparrow is perched on a branch, with blurred branches int eh background. The bird is passing through on its migration journey and was a lucky find as they are known to skulk low in dense brush and thickets. It is notable for its buffy chest band with sharp black streaks and a chestnut-colored crown with black streaks.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." — Henry David Thoreau

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Tree had the Moon in her sight On a beautiful, star-laden night While declaring her love For Luna above She bathed in her warm, glowing light #stupidpoem #nature #goodmorning #nokings #photography #maui #moon

Single old, bare tree reaching out over the incoming waves of the ocean. The pred-dawn sky is filled with moonlight that is reflecting on the ocean. The muted sky colors are blues and pinks.

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No Planet B Photography @noplanetbphoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Earlier this summer, I got to spend sometime with a Northern Gannet breeding colony or several thousand #seabirds #BirdoftheDay #birdphotography #birds #bird #nikon #birdlovers #birdlife #photography #art #animal #🪶 #ukbirding #ECK #noplanetbphotography #Scotland www.noplanetbphotography.art

Large seabird of the Atlantic with long, pointed bill, wings, and tail. Adults bright white with cream-colored head and black wingtips. Takes several years to reach adult plumage; juveniles are all sooty-brown and slowly acquire more white as they mature. Nests in enormous colonies on cliffs in the North Atlantic. Spends most of its life at sea, although often fairly close to land, so they are often visible from shore or on whale watching boats. Dives torpedolike into the ocean for fish. Gathers in large feeding flocks, but sometimes solitary.

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Babs @readingtrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s apple day! She shares her love, healing, and peace.

A countertop covered with green and red apples and dessert making ingredients. A red tea towel under a bamboo cutting board.paring knife. Old fashioned apple coring tool.

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This morning's moon Good Saturday morning Wishing you a day of subtle energy and peaceful vibes...

The full moon against a black sky.

📷 Dreamcatcher

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Monarch Butterfly The umiverse is constantly collaborating, finding new ways to show us the goodness of life and our world...

A Monarch Butterfly is resting on a pink and yellow flower. It is surrounded by blurry flowers of many different colors.

📷 Dreamcatcher

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Lisa Shambrook @lisashambrook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Crystal Grid celebrating Mabon for the Abundance of Nature and Harmony. Mabon brings in the Autumn Solstice and the balance autumn carries during nature's transition.

Crystal Grid on a pale wooden background. Ocean Jasper sphere in the centre. Two oval moss agate stones above and below it. And two Pyromorphite raw stones either side of the sphere. They are surrounded with peridot stones radiating outwards, with tiny herkimer diamonds here and there.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿

Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” -- Rosalia de Castro

A path curves around grasses and trees in an area I fondly refer to as juniper hill. It is a wonderful place for hiking and the smell of juniper.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

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Jim 🇺🇦 @pom137.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm seeing lots of large bees right now. I'm attempting cell phone shots with no zoom, so I've bumped into quite a few bees and the large ones are very forgiving. This is a male eastern carpenter bee on a horsemint flower. #bees 🐝🌿 #pollinators #bugsky #insects #ECK #nature #wildlife #nativeplants

A large mostly black bee with a fuzzy yellow back and also dusted with grains of pollen on it's wing. It is sitting on spotted beebalm (Monarda punctata) The bee is an Eastern Carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica)

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pinecliffwoman.bsky.social @pinecliffwoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Miniature cosmos Daily joy from me to you 💕

Miniature pale pink cosmos flower with yellow center in a September garden. In the blurred background are red and orange marigolds and fading greenery.
🌱🌿🍃🐬🩷

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Babs @readingtrees.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

About to broil some tomatillos I harvested for a salsa verde. Will go out and pick cilantro and chop onion. Bring out the chips!

Yellow and green tomatillos, red pepper, and garlic cloves on a metal pan, ready to blister!

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do not bother me I am in my litte boat. This is my little boat do not bother me.

A ladybug minding her own business in a green leaf shaped like a little boat with some yellow flowers beside

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Bernard Doucette @bdoucette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy Thursday! It's goldenrod season (with a sprinkling of ironweed). #ColorADay #YellowThu

Field of gold stretching to the forest line with some ironweed interspersed.

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Catherine Gulsvig @crgulsvig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two weeks ago but I remember the dramatic light vividly #InsectThursday #ColorADay #YellowThu #Naturephotography

Close-up of a large yellow butterfly with black stripes getting nectar from the purple blossoms of Joe Pye Weed. We see green meadow and blue sky in the background.

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The atmosphere, the earth, the water & the water cycle-those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them." -Wendell Berry #RIP

Tall slender moss covered trees on a misty morning with filtered sunlight. Bramble covers the ground and there is no trail...smack dab in the middle of the forest

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@mariasteuer.bsky.social @mariasteuer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Open Arms…. Objects Of Desire… Awaiting Patiently…. Ready To Devour….

A Praying Mantis On A Wall Facing Downward, Behind Marigolds With Greenery

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Babs @readingtrees.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why not wear your own coat of many colors, in honor of dear, sweet, talented Dolly. We will miss her kindness.

Orange sun sets behind tall, dark trees. The evening sky is layered in color from lavender, to pink, and then peach.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Face to face with a honeybee on echinacea purpurea 🌱🐝 #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #UKGardening #nature #wildlife #RedWed #ColorADay #ECK

Face to face with a honeybee on the lunious red/orange centre of a purple coneflower, echinacea purpurea.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ironweed marks a threshold of seasons shifting in my heart.

Small purple, rounded puffy flowers and elliptical to lanceolate shaped leaves

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Red fox zoomies! These two kits were having a blast outside their den on the tundra the other day. 🦊🌿

One female red fox is hot on the heels of her brother who is running ahead of her on the short tundra vegetation.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thistledown, ready for distribution to the four winds 🌱 #MacroMonday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #nature #UKWildflowers

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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Black bears enjoying the wild blueberries in #AlgonquinPark. So good that the berries are now protected and reserved in the park for wildlife not humans to eat. #mammals #wildlife #bears #blueberries #nature #naturephotography #Ontario #Canada

Black bears eating blueberries in Algonquin Park

Black bear eating blueberries in Algonquin Park

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Puffins in a line! 🥰 This one is especially for the Puffin lovers amongst my followers, I know there's one or 2 of you... 😉😁🐦😍

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Greater white-fronted geese (aka white-fronted geese) for the #CirclesAndSpheres theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social #birds #moon #nature #photography #ECK

Four geese flying away with the moon in the background.

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Babs @readingtrees.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hello! From the cool mountain river Abby invites you to breathe……… We are sending love to all who are suffering from dreadful heat, fire, flood, pain, fear, loss….

A yellow lab; pink nose, stares from a river bed. Sunlight sparkles on the ripples and the water is rust colored from recrnt rain. She wears an orange collar and a blue and black harness. Her tail sticks straight out.

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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Even when torn and troubled, beauty still shines through...

A yellow and black butterfly is resting on a light purple flower. The butterfly is missing parts of its back wings. The background is blurry green.

📷 Dreamcatcher

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SpellFire @spellfire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good Morning Witches! We got all the things happening today! *Parade of Planets *New Moon *Solar Eclipse *Meteor shower Hope you make today magical, and do something special. We are part of the cosmos and it's cycles are within us! Happy New Moon!