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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Another weekend, another hike. This time we found a black and gold flat millipede, bane berry, a toad, and chicken-of-the-woods.

A black and gold millipede perched on a rock.

Green berries turning white, with little black spots that look like pupils.

A dark brown toad held by a white child.

Lots of gorgeous chicken of the woods. A small child examines a broken piece.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Another hike this weekend. Saw a tiger beetle, jack-o-lantern mushrooms (they glow in the dark at night!), cardinal flower, and a wasp nest.

An emerald green beetle scurries over dead leaves.

Brilliant orange mushrooms grow on the roots of a fallen tree.

A stalk of red tubular flowers on a background of green grass, dead leaves, and logs.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

On Sunday, we went for a 3 mile hike up and over rocks & ridges, across meadows & creeks, looking out for copperheads & frogs (depending where we were). Little V told me “it was the best weekend ever.”

A white child wearing a blue tee and a cap crouches over a trickling stream in the woods.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Over the weekend I took my child “camping.” We went canoeing on Saturday, & we saw osprey, green herons (2!), turtles, swans, fish, & blooming lily pads. Then we “camped” in a tent in the backyard. We counted bats & fireflies, & roasted marshmallows. Then we hooted w/ the nearby barred owl.

A green heron stands a bit of dead brush over the water.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Four mile hike up and down hilly, rocky terrain. Lots of fun mushrooms and beautiful shady, mossy places.

My child standing atop a mossy rock, wearing a white tee and pink shorts, holding her walking stick.

A tiny brown toad held in the small white hands of my spawn.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I didn’t read Jane Eyre until I was in my thirties, but oh boy had I wished I read it sooner. What a story! Beautiful words & dynamic, interesting protagonist.

The Penguin Classics copy of Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte, with a sketch of a fair-skinned woman with a plain hairdo.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I did not need daytime television with this book. The drama is incredible & the art fantastic. One of my favorites as a Greek myth kid.

An illustration of three ladies wearing pearls in their hair. It’s the cover of the illustrated book of Robert Graves’ Greek Myths.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

It took me six months to finish reading The Mists of Avalon because I would get so incensed I’d throw it across the room & let it sit there for a week or 2 before commencing.

The cover of Marion Zimmerman Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. A woman on horseback carries a sword, a swan gliding beside them.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Look at my new friend. She’s the cicada killer that’s been tunneling next to my patio. She’s resting on the head of a giant marigold, so do not be fooled by the size here. She’s a big bug. #invertebrates #invertes

A black and yellow striped wasp sits on a golden yellow marigold bloom.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My broody hen looks sleepy in this photo but I promise you she is glaring at me for daring to poke around underneath her.

A reddish brown hen speckled with white sits in a nesting box, feathers all ruffled.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Turns out it’s a cicada killer! I love these wasps. Their size is intimidating but they’re hardly interested in people. They bury cicadas in their burrows for their young to feast upon. The adults eat nectar and sugary sap and such.

A black and yellow insect with reddish legs walks across the soul like.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Something was digging around my pepper pots and adding dirt to my patio. It didn’t look like a chipmunk’s burrow leavings, but I did find out who lives here.

Three potted plant bracket a pile of soil on the edge of a stone patio.

A close up of the pile of soil framed by some greenery.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We have progress! Sadly, one chick/egg seems to have gone missing. I looked below for any possible shell or chick, and didn’t see a thing. #birds

A fuzzy pink baby robin with sealed eyes nestles beside a blue egg.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Look at this cutie on a sunflower leaf. Some kind of leafhopper that I am unable to identify at the moment. #invertes

An orange and yellow insect rests on the half-eaten green leaf of a sunflower.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Only got one photo, but the child found this live cicada nymph in the soil. He or she is lying on their back in this photo. Wish I had taken more photos! #invertes

A soil-encrusted cicada nymph with red eyes lies on a white woman’s palm.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I’ve been waiting for a monarch to appear at my milkweed. I don’t get as many as I used to. But three great spangled fritillaries hung out for a few days, and they were absolutely delightful to watch. #invertes #butterflies 🌱

Beautiful orange butterflies speckled with black sit on the pink flowers of milkweed.

Beautiful orange butterflies speckled with black sit on the pink flowers of milkweed. Side view.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

14. This is the love of my life.

Ada, an Australian shepherd with a red Merle coat, rolls around on the sofa messing up all the blankets.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

6. I keep chickens and ducks and a single goose. They make me happy to see them waddling about being birds.

A blue-grey chicken in the foreground, a brown duck behind her.

Me carrying my rooster, who is ruffed and proud.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A red-spotted purple resting on the leaves of a pagoda dogwood. This butterfly species mimics the poisonous pipevine swallowtail. #invertes #butterflies #lepidoptera

Dark-winged butterfly with orange-red and blue spots along the wing’s edges sitting on the tear-dropped shaped leaves of the dogwood tree.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I’m ill today and I need entertainment, please and thank you 👻

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Sleepy carpenter bee on the agastache. #invertes

A large black and yellow bee on the green leaves of agastache foeniculum.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A few years ago, I planted pearly everlasting in one of the pollinator gardens. Despite its name, it did not last. But a couple years later, I noticed it growing in the cracks of my patio. So I let it. This year, it’s getting a little bushy & producing flowers. And I have visitors! #invertes

A bristly black caterpillar with parallel white dots on its black sits on the narrow leaf of a plant.

A bristly black caterpillar with parallel white dots on its black sits on the narrow leaf of a plant. This one is chonky.

A bristly black caterpillar with parallel white dots on its black sits on the narrow leaf of a plant. This one shows some reddish orange speckling on the underside of the caterpillar.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I’m a little late in the season, but I’ve been super busy. Today I’m seeding sunflowers. I’ll rip off the bottom of these pots when I put them in the ground to help them stretch their roots. I still have to pull all the weeds from the intended plot, but I can’t wait!

16 peat pots full of soil, each one with a popsicle stick labeled in black marker with the varieties. They sit on a green nylon tray.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A field of wine caps and creeping Charlie.

Old wine cap mushrooms flare in the sun, surrounded by the e purple blooms of creeping Charlie.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

There’s a week’s growth difference between these two. Amazing how fast ducks grow.

Two Indian runner ducklings, one a head taller than the other, standing on a wood floor. They still have yellow fuzzy down.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A beautiful morning post showers. Ada’s sniffing around in the yard.

The sun peeks through the trees. Everything is wet after a rain shower. A dog sniffs in the yard.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Yarn bowl 2 & 3 have been thrown and yarn bowl 1 is in the kiln for its glaze firing. 💪🏻 I’ve never thrown anything this large so I’m quite proud. #Pottery #Clay

Two clay bowls each sit on a black disc on a white wire shelf.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I removed Chinese privet and Japanese barberry from a shady area and now purple trillium is growing! #SpringFlowers #NativeNewEngland #Plants 🌱

A three petaled maroon flower with large green leaves emerges from a leafy ground.

A clump of purple trillium growing in brown leaves.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Look at this maple spanworm beauty. She appeared pink in the light. I had to take the photo before turning off the porch light.

Maple leaf shaped moth on yellow siding.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The ten minutes back featured some of the same birds, and some new ones, like the Canada geese that have settled at a neighbor’s pond, & the northern parula. #Birds #Birding #Merlin 🪶

Merlin app screenshot showing northern cardinal, chipping sparrow, American goldfinch, brown-headed cowbird, tufted titmouse, hermit thrush, house finch, and Canada goose.

Merlin app screenshot showing song sparrow, American robin, eastern phoebe, Carolina wren, dark-eyed junco, fish crow, house wren, and red-bellied woodpecker.

Merlin app screenshot showing white-throated sparrow, red-winged blackbird, hairy woodpecker, & northern parula.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I did a ten minute walk in one direction, stopped the recording, & then walked ten minutes back to my house. In that time, the composition of the audioscape changed somewhat. These are the first ten min. 🪶 #Birding #Merlin

Merlin app screenshot showing Great crested flycatcher, song sparrow, red-winged blackbird, wood thrush, tufted titmouse, American robin, ovenbird, and white-throated sparrow.

Merlin app screenshot showing American goldfinch, brown-headed cowbird, blue jay, house wren, northern cardinal, house sparrow, gray catbird, and chipping sparrow.

Merlin app screenshot showing pine warbler, fish crow, dark eyed junco, American crow, and house finch.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I finally blocked this hat I made using the Knitrino app. Super cute! #KnitSky #Knitting

Knit beanie. It shows rows of red hearts on a tan background, with a matching red brim.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I up-potted 100 seedlings—tomatoes, peppers, flowers, herbs, celery (homegrown celery tastes better), and tomatillos. Hardening off begins tomorrow. #GardenSky #Gardening

Several trays of small green plants at a sliding door. The rug to the right is multicolored shapes on a black background.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

✨quote repost with your art that has stars✨ #gouache #art #birds

A painting of a black crowned night heron standing in reflective water. Above are stars, with a crown of stars touching the very top of the heron’s head. The wooden panel sits on a table. You can see a glimpse of a palette containing gouache.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is a wood frog in incandescent light. Wood frogs may use this bioluminescence to communicate with others of their species, but we’re not entirely sure about that. 🐸

A brown frog on gravel and leaf debris. The frog has striations of darker brown on their legs, and light brown eyes with wide dark pupils.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

So I didn’t see any salamanders in my neighborhood, but neither did anyone else in my office in theirs. But we’ll try again on the next rainy warm night! However, I did see the eyes of wood frogs fluoresce in UV light.

A frog sits in the middle of eerie blue light. The eyes of the frog glow like pale green orbs.

A bird’s eye view of a frog in eerie blue light. The pale green glowing orbs of its eyes can be seen.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Please meet Hannibal. He’s a goins kingsnake and they eat other snakes. 👀 #Smol #HannibalTheCannibal #ILoveHim #SnakeSky

Tiny snek who is black and orange held by a white woman’s hand. (It’s me, I’m the white woman.) The snake curls around my fingers.

Tiny snek traversing a hand and onto the arm of a white woman (me again). The snake is still orange and black but now you can see some of the white underbelly starting at the chin and going down the throat.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

One of these is not like the other. Happy #SuperbOwl Day!

A great horned owl with a big yellow eye on a person’s glove. Background is blurry.

A Eurasian eagle owl with oranges eye on a handler’s glove. Lots of striking plumage.

A red tailed hawk showing off her wings and her “crest”—raising the feathers long her head. It gives her an owl-like appearance, but she is not an owl.

An eastern screech owl on light brown turf. He’s a grey phase with grey eyes and little pale feet.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I love our bats. They’re adorable and a great way to teach people about bat ecology.

A brown bat (of the big brown bat species) is gently held by a white hand with black nail polish. You can see a little hint of teeth below is adorable upturned nose.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“Your last-saved celebrity pick is your new therapist.” I think I can count on this guy.

It’s a mock poster of the movie Nosferatu. The count from Sesame Street stares out at the viewer. His muppet skin is purple and he wears a black cloak. The title “Nosferatu” sits at the bottom of the poster.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Another thing I love: my flock. Chickens, ducks, and a single guard goose.

A triad of photos: one yellow fluffy chick in a white hand, in a second photo there is one teenager chick with some wing feathers, and in the third is a fully grown hen with a feathery bearded muff and eyes directly at the viewer.

Some huddled chicks—the foremost chick is light brown. The chicks behind her are black. They’re standing on chopped hay.

A flock of chickens in a mossy clearing in my back yard with trees in the background.

Chickens and ducks eating dried mealworms scattered in the snow.

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Vulpes ✨🦊✨ @vdewolfe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I also work with red-tail hawks. These two big beauties are very different in temperament, but they’re both wonderful to work with. Hawks are incredibly important for the ecosystem! 🪶#BirdSky #HawkSky

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