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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, hi, palmetto. Yes, you’re there, ok. Hi. #nativeplants

The long spiked leaves of a palmetto fanned out seemingly to wave “hi” and blocking the scenery.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 6h

The finest bogs in the country!

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WhatABeautifulWorld @abbphotos.bsky.social · 9h

Photo a Day - Day 280: A pair of soggy Sandhill Cranes. #photoaday #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 12h

Aug - Singing insects. Sept - Unpopular birdsongs. Contemplate death. Oct - Be spooky. Rot everywhere. The birds all bolt. Glorify death. Nov - Die. Dec - Organize files.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 12h

Jan - Pretend it’s spring. Feb - Oh, it’s spring all right. March - Work on life. Skunk cabbage. Flood the forest. April - Unleash the frogs. May - The birds are back! Try not to creep them out. ***Family friendly*** Be very composed swamp, nice. June - Jungle swamp. July - Evaporate. ⬇️

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 12h

The swamp is a seasonal swamp in New England, which is quite different from the Hollywood-style swamps of the south. In case you’re just tuning in and don’t realize what you’ve signed up for, here’s roughly what you can expect from the swamp annually. #nature ⬇️

The swamp in winter. Deciduous trees, winterberry, and eastern hemlock are covered in snow. A fallen tree rests in the center, partially buried by snow.

The swamp in spring. The same scene as before. The snow has melted. The floor of the swamp is a thick layer of swamp muck covered in a layer of fallen leaves and leafed out skunk cabbage as far as the eye can see.

The swamp in summer. Same scene. The deciduous trees are fully green and leafed out and the floor of the swamp is filled in every corner with lush ferns, skunk cabbage, jewelweed, and all the plants.

The swamp in autumn. The green is fading, the mucky floor of the swamp is cleared of plants and is visible again, and trees are turning a rainbow a yellows, oranges, and red. The swamp muck is decorated with freshly fallen leaves with hues of red and purple.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You know what this place needs? MORE MOSS. #mossy #peatland

A mixed deciduous and coniferous peatland swamp completely buried under a thick carpet of sphagnum moss.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are few things in life more beautiful than seeing your dismembered limbs rotting on the floor. #FungiFriends

Bright turquoise tiny cupped-shaped fungi, likely green elfcup, Chlorociboria aeruginascens, growing along a dark brown fallen tree limb. A clump of green moss grows alongside them in the autumn leaf litter of damp swampy woods.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The swamp wishes to express its love to you all by sharing its vomit. Please accept this deeply wonderful and thoughtful gift. You should feel grateful and honored to receive such a thing from a swamp. 🖤 #nature

A pale yellow crusty dried up weird powdery substance known as dog vomit slime mold. It's on a dead rotting tree and is in the shape of a heart.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And it mis-ID'd a worm-eating warbler as a chipping sparrow! Pfffft, typical!

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SWAMP WINS! Merlin also missed a downy drum.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Current game: Who can identify all the species of birds in a 30 minute long recording faster? Merlin loading the file or Swamp?

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well, of course! They need some place to store their pantry! Otherwise they would surely starve to death in the winter when they're mostly asleep in their lairs 10 feet underground.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why is the angry chipmunk horny in your garden?! Perhaps you mean hungry.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It looks so happy to be there in its natural(?) habitat.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Attempting engagement. Please do not add to bot label lists for unusual activity or else the swamp will start posting pictures of its nature vomit in revenge.

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E.B. Greene @eb-greene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Memento Amori. Remember Love

Blurry photo of a deer skull nestled at the base of a silver maple tree trunk

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This looks like it should be on a horror movie poster. Really it’s just the left behind exoskeleton of a damselfly (I think) when it emerged from the creek. #SpookyNature 🌿 #invertebrates

Black and white photo of a creepy creature with big eyes and lots of legs looking towards the camera.

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Nature By Michelle @nature-by-michelle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Early signs and symptoms of Fall 🍁 (2/6) #photography #autumn #spiderwebs #dewyspiderwebs It's a full house 🕸🖤

A dried prairie plant covered in dewy spiderwebs 🕸

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Magnificent oak, covered in moss, tangled branches reach out. #ThickTrunkTuesday

a huge ancient oak tree fills the frame of the photo in a dense wood. massive branches are covered in moss. sun shines through the leaves up high. bracken and bramble down low.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Chipmunk translator: Chip = terrestrial predator, usually you. Cluck = Aerial predator, including airplanes. Twitter = Game over, the elusive mystery bird has evaporated and will not reappear again until the shadows of the nearest witch hazel are angled at precisely 12 degrees.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The swamp is about to reveal the deepest darkest secret of the forest…brace yourselves. Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Twittterrrtwitteringluliloo! … 🎶 THIS! This is the bird you can’t figure out. 🪶🌿

A smug looking eastern chipmunk poking out of its hidey hole in the ground in the woods debating if it should begin its neverending incessant alarm calls.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fall is weird bird song season. 🪶

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What do you think? Is the lichen supposed to be disguised as a gray treefrog? Orrrrrr is it a sweet tiny littlest baby cute PUMPKIN WOWWWWWWW #herps #cuteanimals #fungifriends 🌿

A small colony of brown fairytale-looking gilled mushrooms, probably ink caps, in leaf litter at the base of a tree with bark covered in green moss. Resting against the top of one of the mushroom caps is a tiny treefrog dressed in its bright aqua lichen garb and looking exceptionally quaint. This is a gray treefrog, Dryophytes versicolor.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Almost time to die. Again. Almost time to die. Again. Almost time to die. Again. Almost time to die. Again.

A young tree's trunk speckled with orange fungus. This is chestnut blight.

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Erin 🍂 fall is fall 🐦‍⬛ @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Plants I learned about in the western Adirondacks this weekend, part 1 🌿 #nativeplants 🌎 #ecoregion58aa #ADK ^ that's the acid-sensitive Adirondacks!

Broad-leaved hellborine, a temperate climate terrestrial orchid, growing among fallen leaves next to a small wooden footbridge.

Dewdrop leaves, looking an awful lot like violets but actually a bramble.

Mountain woodsorrel and firmoss. You should look up mountain woodsorrel flowers. You'll be glad you did.

Threeleaf goldthread, looking like a shiny strawberry plant amidst fallen leaves.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Birds have all packed up and have been leaving in droves, leaving the swamp alone in its thoughts. … Is it almost time to die?! #nature #fall

The swamp has lost its jungle aesthetic and is beginning to lose its lushness with greens fading to yellow. The ground is also visible, though there are still some ferns remaining, most of which are still green.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hmmm…don’t know this species, don’t know, what is happening… Know what, Erin! It’s possible you need more plants! 🌱🎄🌴🌼🍃🌵🪴

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The swamp is officially fed up with all the chipmunk birds and katydid frogs on iNaturalist and decided to quit! Humans, humans, humans! Will you ever listen? Terribly sorry to turn dull to the few who might follow. All projects and observations will soon be transferred over to the swamp's witch.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Native to the eastern US and Asia, it is reportedly uncommon, which doesn’t explain why they seem to be everywhere?! Go somewhere wet with oaks and look down and you’re bound to find them staring at you with their bloodshot eyes, watching you everywhere you turn. All right then, sleep well! 🖤

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This curious fungus species resembles gelatinous alien eyeballs from your worst nightmares. Or a weird boob. ⬇️

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October has arrived, which means Spooooky Swamp is here to delight you all with the most colorful, most whimsical, most completely hideous monsters in the whole forest! These are Calostoma cinnabarinum, common name stalked puffball-in-aspic. #FungiFriends #nature #spooky ⬇️

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any of you old timer swamp friends ever wonder what happened to the swamp log? Well, it has these puffballs all over it now and the puffballs have a growing ant community. #FungiFriends #ento 🌿

Round light tan ball-shaped fungi growing on top of a moss-covered log, likely Apioperdon pyriforme.

There’s an ant with a long narrow body crawling on one of the puffball mushrooms.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is that who's been sneaking around pilfering the swamp's maitake hoard?! Was beginning to feel impressed by the springtails' appetite... Swamp witch, should have known.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You also have some form of extremely high-pitched cricket chirping. Is it hot?

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lycogala something, better known as Wolf’s Milk, is a species of slime mold that is now a few dozen species. #slimemold 🌿

A colony of round hot pink balls are seen through a magnifier growing on a log covered in green moss and lichen.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/

Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.

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RaphMikeyTurtle @raphmikey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#photography #beachlife #nature #flowers 😁🙏🌹 Return of the Bogong moth. 😁

Several Bogong moths feeding on the yellow blooms of a Grevillea

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A quote from the dramatic brain rot version: "I had one fly into my hair...I haven’t found it yet, but I’m sure it died from my screams."

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Australians along the east coast are reporting many sightings of endangered bogong moths as the insects continue their long migration towards the country’s alpine regions.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Answering an FAQ: "swamp, what phone do you use to record, your audio is excellent" An iphone 17 Pro! It sounds like this.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Answering an FAQ: "Swamp, what app do you use to identify crickets?" Do you younglings not know about the state of the art app called Praat?! You can download it for free: www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ Then you can just open the file and read what it says! #bioacoustics #fieldrecording

Spectrogram that reads Neonemobius palustris, Neonemobius cubensis, Allonemobius tinnulus, Eunemobius carolinus, Oecanthus pini, Oecanthus nigricornis, Neoxabea bipunctata, Oecanthus niveus, Oecanthus fultoni, Oecanthus exclamationis.

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Spooky Swamp @swampvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

More ghost pipe for your viewing pleasure. #nativeplants 🌿

A cluster of ghost pipes poking out of fallen pine needles and ferns. The bell-shaped flowers and stems are pure white.

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