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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 4h

Eee! One of my skunk/opossum shorts on YouTube just hit 100,000 views 😳😃

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do slug eyes reflect a trail camera light??? #invertebrates #slug

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HELP, Plant people! 🍃 My gardening group is telling me that this is kudzu, but iNaturalist says it's eastern poison ivy.

Underside of the leaf, which is covered by dirt, but I'm not about to brush it off.

Three leaves, middle stem is longer than the other two, pointed tip, two top leaves show thumb shape. Middle where the 3 stems connect is red.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jane is ready for the Tennessee game! 🪿

A porch goose wearing an orange and white checkered dress and head bow

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Facebook peeps are saying my poison ivy is NOT poison ivy but rather ginseng, kudzu, or box elder. 😳😄😳

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dang it! First in my woods. 😡

Poison ivy photo showing typical three leaves and “mitten thumb”

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pages 5-8 of my Nature journal. 🐛 🪶 🌱 🦊 #art

Say's phoebe, Fireweed, Bird's foot trefoil, Grass skipper, Pearly everlasting, Bittersweet nightshade, Red-bellied sapsucker, Parnassius clodius, Common selfheal, unidentified water frog, Tree swallow, Mountain quail, Purple martin, Violet-green swallow, Barn swallow, St. John's wort.

Red-breasted nuthatch, Paddle-tailed darner, Mouse-eared bat, Fox sparrow, Common goldeneye, American wigeon, Barrow's goldeneye, Western tanager, Tundra swan, and Purple finch.

Downy woodpecker, Black-capped chickadee, Great horned owl, Douglas squirrel, Rufous hummingbird, Cedar waxwing, Pine siskin, Gray jay, Bald eagle, and Band-tailed pigeon.

Red-winged blackbird, Bonoparte's Gull, Belted kingfisher, White-tailed deer, Nutria, Barred Owl, Rock wren.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

During a torrential downpour last night, I heard the calls of killdeer at 10pm through my open windows at home. Very odd. 🪶

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stumbled across a youtube video today of a bear mauling a baby deer. What is wrong with you people!? Now I need a brain cleanse ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ☹️

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

😡 WHY IS THIS SQUIRREL EATING MY CONCRETE WORM'S EYE?!!??!?!!? 🐿️ 🦊

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Frog startles skunk! At least, I think it was a frog! 🦨 🐸 🦊

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wassup little meadow katydid! 😂 🐛

Closeup of the face of a green insect with large eyes and what looks like an open mouth

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As we near the end of the season, I have to say I’m really happy at how well all the plants did in our new raised beds. Some of them became enormous in just four months. All but the mums (the ones in containers) are native plants. So many pollinators took advantage of the bounty. 🌱🌸🌹🌺🌻

Before and after of two garden beds showing impressive growth

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Skunk party! 🦨 They were eating mealworms I had put out for the crows earlier in the day. 🦊

Three striped skunks all lined up in the same pose next to each other

Five striped skunks at the forest edge searching for mealworms

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pages 1-4 in my nature sketchbook. I thought I'd upload some of the pages every now and then. 🪶 #art I started this in 2002, so these pages will show my early scribblings. 🤣

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Red-lipped Green Lacewing! Not a great photo, but enough to see the silly "lips". 🐛

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can I get a little space?! 🦨 🦊

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just finished a 21-year crocheted temperature blanket. Each strip is one year. Each 6-stitch row in each strip is one day. Colors are max temperature for each day. We lived in 4 different US states. This commemorates our married years so far. 🧶

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lots going on here! What is Happening? You Decide! youtu.be/KhOaO_zZapI 🦨🦊

youtu.be

What is Happening? You Decide!

YouTube video by Wild Maven

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My husband brought in our trail camera to charge the batteries and he picked off it what he thought was a leaf. “Bug” he shouted. Lesser angle-winged katydid male. They hear with little openings on their front legs! Brown spot indicates a male. They make a “Ttttt…tttt…ttt” sound. 🐛 Safely released.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What th' heck, little one! 😂 🦨 🦊

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apparently I found a pretty rare moth this morning. Gold moth, Oak Ridge TN. It was clinging to the window of the diner I was at for breakfast. 🐛

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My porch goose tribute to Dolly Parton

A porch goose statue is dressed in a sparkly pink skirt, polka dot top, pink cowboy hat and crocheted golden curled hair. She is holding a microphone in one wing and raising up the other in a wave.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mostly enjoyed just watching the moon last night with the hubby, but I did manage one shot with my camera, since it was the first lunar eclipse he's seen. Not the cleanest, but still fun to capture. #astrophotography

An almost blood red moon with a slight white crescent at the very top as the majority was eclipsed.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today's sunspots. 300mm lens with solar filter, cropped image, 1/2000sec, f/7.1, ISO 100. ***DO NOT TRY TO PHOTOGRAPH THE SUN WITHOUT A SOLAR FILTER*** #astrophotography

A black and white image of the sun, showing multiple sunspots lower right.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Last night's skunks picked up by the trail camera! 🦨 🦊

This is a composite image showing nine different skunks, all with varying stripe patterns.

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Two-lined spittlebug, also known as a froghopper for its leaping ability. 🐛

A black bug with two orange lines crossing the wings sits on a leaf

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spider on the camera lens! 😂 🕷️ 🐛

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today I watched a tufted titmouse sit on a branch, then it leaned its head really far back. Next thing I see is the rest of its body following until it was hanging upside down from the branch. It spread its wings wide, holding that position for a couple of seconds, like some crazy tufted bat. 🪶

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Wildmaven @wildmaven.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s a milkweed bug party on my butterfly weed!