EarlyFrost

A sanderling peers into a tidal pool

Sanderling Narcissus 🪶

Little bonus fungus photo today, not a great photo because they are so tiny (note pine needle size for perspective) and my phone just can’t quite focus, but such a pretty color. Atheniella. Top of cap photo below. #fungusfriends #forestfloor

A Eastern Blue Bird puffed sitting on our porch railing. #birds #nature #bluebirds #wildlife #photography

Life as a microscopy enthusiast in medicine:
"Ohhhh cute lil blue cells with chubby nuclei- ... oh gods, they're all blasts."

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography #chickadee

A bird with orangish feathers on the belly and brown on the head and back. It is standing on a a rock with green grass in the background.

Antpittas are generally thought of as sneaky forest birds, but on one trip high in the Andes this little potato just came wandering out of the scrub. Per Birds of the World, "Among a family of notoriously skulking species, the Tawny Antpitta is the exception."
Otavalo, Ecuador

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#oc + #illust + #art

Pre-dawn on-call vibes.

... the contents of this cup (coffee~☆) is the only thing keeping me off the floor right now.
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A Witch pouring a potion into a receptacle and is surrounded by plants, oils, bottles, candles, mortar and pestle and other witchy items.

What Are Your 5 Must Have Tools For Your Craft and Practice?

Items that you absolutely need to have on hand. (tangible items only)

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#WitchSky
#WeCoWitchSky
#Witchcraft

A hummingbird with metallic green head and neck and a white belly flecked with green. It has just visible yellow wing pits. The bird is perched on a pale dead branch with dark vegetation in the background.

Bufftail Coronet, a species of hummingbird, at Guango Lodge near Papallacta, Ecuador. If you look closely there is a little blep. 🪶

This is exactly right. No one's existence should be predicated on the whims of politics. 🏳️‍🌈

不望高居不下，
不求萬眾寵愛。

在此舞池角落，
只望接受寬容。

畢竟只是塵世萬物中，
盲目遊走的寂寞步伐。

#photography #nature #bird

Good morning! Happy Sunday! 😃

I hope you all have a very peaceful day! 💙

Absolutely Stunning Photography

A topical #FoxOfTheDay captured in the snow in Yellowstone National Park.

"When a Fox pounces it's a spectacular sight, as they leap very high in the air in order to build enough momentum to plough deep into the snow" ~ Max Waugh

Credit: @maxwaughphoto.bsky.social

female eastern bluebird perched on branch eating berries.

Lady Eastern Bluebird With Berry
I know it's been a lot of bluebirds pics lately, making hay while sun shines as they are particularly active this time of year.

🪶 #birds #bluebirds #easternbluebird #ornithology #wildlife #photography #glynncounty #mhbenton

With this move to a new social media platform, I really should consider what it is that I want to do with Bluesky.

A new avenue of self-discovery, I suppose, about the nature of my public persona.

Certainly not a question for when I'm on-call and running almost exclusively on caffeine...

❤️🪶 Bird on a Wire. I love seeing Eastern Bluebirds throughout the woods & wetlands of South Carolina.
#birds #bluebirds #photography #nature

i first met her in a dream

For a resident doctor (UK) and not an endocrinologist, I'm entirely too knowledgeable on common hormone therapy medications.

Especially the ones I see in my current Urology job, given how often prostate cancer pops up.

Decapeptyl? Yeah I know about it. Not 'bout to explain why tho~~
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A red bird with a black mask. He is standing on a wooden railing. There is warm brown in the background.

Lil red dude to brighten up the day.

Northern Cardinal, PA

Head shot of a deep blue Steller's jay with a fine crest, sitting on a mossy branch.

Full body shot of a deep blue Steller's jay with a fine crest, sitting on a mossy branch.

Other corvids are nice too. 🪶

A bird with its back to the camera. It has bluish-gray on the head, rusty orange on the chin and flanks, and back and bright blue tail feathers. The bird has its head turned to the right and perched on a bare branch. There is warn sunny brown in the background.

Good morning all. The forecast today is sunny with bluebirds.

Eastern Bluebird, PA

"EarlyFrost arrives upon Bluesky." - fitting, as the first storm of this winter arrives upon UK.

I've been terrible at diary-keeping of any sort: my Twitter was chronically silent, and Mastadon was really more Masta-don't.

Maybe third time is the charm - so once more, with feeling~~
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