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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cornus kousa ‘Satomi’ dogwood is known for its spring flowers, but it also puts on a fall show.

Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An inch of rain yesterday, big amanitas and some other fungi today. Can't swear they weren't there before, but the timing is probably not coincidental.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pileated woodpeckers have discovered @bbharrell.bsky.social's suet feeder and the nearby post, so I'm posting the post and the woodpeckers too.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We grew the mother of all cucumbers.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Induction range liberates us from direct use of fossil fuels. Still need to get our electric utility to clean up the remaining half of its act.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Once-a-summer treat. Red huckleberry pancakes courtesy @bbharrell.bsky.social

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Serviceberry or Saskatoon (Amalanchier alnifolia) has a short but spectacular bloom.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Spring quartet, clockwise from upper left: Western skunk cabbage (Lysichiton americanus), western white trillium (Trillium ovatum), salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis), red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum).

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) in emerging Philadelphus lewisii (mock-orange) branches lives up to his name.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Thousands of Bellinghamsters turned out today.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It's hard to capture photographically these busy critters at their nest construction, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) in Red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum)

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Interesting trends, from Inside Clean Energy: Gas is down (good), coal is up (bad). Nuclear is flat (showing its long lead time), and renewables are way up, though not up enough.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The herons have returned to Post Point.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Islands and fog (and a ship) from the Fragrance Lake trail viewpoint today:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Squalicum Harbor on a bright last day of 2025:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, LAST DAY: Forests through the seasons: Fungi, January and October

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, LAST DAY: Forests through the seasons: Pearly Everlasting, July and December.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, LAST DAY: Forests through the seasons: Whatcom Falls, August and December

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 364: Through the dead of winter, kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, or Beargrape beargrape) stays a very saturated green: One day to go...

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 363: This is the time of year when red alder (Alnus rubra) shows both old female and young male catkins.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 362: The magic of telephoto--now I that my camera is fixed and I'm not limited to iPhone photography. Golden Ears (left) and Robie Reed (right) loom above Squalicum Harbor and the urban forest along West Holly St, seen from Boulevard Park.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 361 Winter maple is a silhouette and a promise.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It was even bigger on Christmas Day:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 360 All the years walking in Whatcom Falls Park, I never noticed spruce before:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 359: Someone used pickings from the forest to make an impromptu #Ornament on the fence by the catwalk above the drainage ponds. How many species can you identify? And Merry Christmas, someone!

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, day 358: By Christmas Eve, the windstorms had finally blown the alders bare.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 357 Licorice ferns are at their happiest in winter:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 356: Still adorning our clearcuts at almost-Christmastime. You can tell you pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) got its name:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 355: In snowy places, they have mud season when the snow melts in spring. On the Samish Crest trails, we just have mud season all winter.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

And there is another one just upstream!

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

#Bellngham #Forests 2025, Day 254: Whatcom Falls is thunderous after all the rain:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 353: What remains of last summer's rushes

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 351: The look of mixed forests in winter: bare alders against dark evergreens.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This little critter has been hanging out most of the day so far. Looks undersized, so I wonder if it’s lost its mother, but on the other hand looks very healthy.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 350: More irruptions from the hidden third kingdom.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 349: Upside-down forest to commemorate an upside-down year:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 348: This guy seems to be pointing the way for 2026.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 347: Lakeside alders are now bare. And on a dry day between two atmospheric rivers, the whole town is out:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 346 This birch always seems to be the last tree to drop its leaves. Maybe because it's under a street lamp?

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 345: The creek had already crested when I got to our bridge this afternoon, but two logs that lay across it last week lay along it today.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 344: Yikes, it's so warm this winter that the thimbleberries (Rubus parvifolium) appear to be growing again:

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 343: Noticed a lot of this invasive Clematis vitalba (Old Man's Beard or Traveler's Joy) along N. State and in Boulevard Park today.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 342: It's been such a mild winter so far (only 6 barely frosty nights, no snow, a lot of warm rain threatening to flood) that the red huckleberries (Vaccinium parvifolium) haven't even lost all their leaves yet. Bizarre.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 341: West Cemetery Creek is already running high, and the atmospheric river hasn't hit yet. Watch this space in a couple of days.

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 340: Red alder (Alnus rubra) reveals its male catkins when its leaves fall off

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Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

#Bellingham #Forests 2025, Day 339: When the leaves are off, it’s easy to tell how Cornus sericea got its name “redtwig dogwood”

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