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Full moon rising over pine trees and houses in a not-quite-dark sky.

Stunning #fullmoon #coldmoon rising this evening.

A vase with three orange daisy-like flowers and a bud.

Going down to 5 deg F tonite - thought I'd better pick these. Not bad for early December!
#gardening #bloomscrolling #calendula

In a comic strip panel, person in a red shirt walks through a sunlit forest. The text says "Sometimes I go looking for a tiny part of the universe." "This part only takes up as much space as: half an apple, a salt shaker, or 2 ping pong balls." Each of these items is shown. Galaxies and stars swirl as the text says "But somehow, in an unfathomably huge universe," and then there's a complex mess of forest leaves, with one tiny Wilson's warbler in one corner, and the text says "this one tiny part". There's a close up of the warbler, blazing yellow against a sparkly yellow background, and the text says "can fill up my whole heart."

Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.

Coyote
Canada Jay (feeding by hand)
Barred owl
Monarch butterfly
Tiger swallowtail butterfly

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Apple trees, blue sky and puffy clouds with two people's shadows projecting in the foreground.

Apple orchard and shadows, New Salem, Mass.

When I was a kid I learned that some rehabbers raised Chimney Swift babies by having them cling onto a vest (they usually cling to the inside of chimneys, the bats of birds). I wanted to be that person so bad

These swifts are safely warming up after their home was wrecked, and I love that so much.

They are the cutest! I've been lucky to see them get banded in Massachusetts.

One of my favorite varieties! They are still being grown at farms here in Massachusetts.

I saw one the other day hanging out on the patio with a couple of mourning doves. And I heard a white-throated sparrow singing while walking the local rail trail.

Wow, I've seen the state quarters but I didn't know there was a National Park series . . .

Pic 1: Patio birds: 2 mourning doves hanging out and a newly arrived dark-eyed junco.
Pic 2: Autumn day on the Assabet Bluff trail.

Nice! All the way from the NH mountains, maybe.

GBH Staff's Eight Book Recommendations for Fall (with Program Pairings) Eight GBH staff members share some of their favorite books and recommend some related programs to watch and listen to.

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social GBH in Boston picked your book Annihilation as a fall book recommendation: www.wgbh.org/foundation/h...

Moonrise in the White Mountains,NH, October 3.

Yep, it's that time of year (entry from my nature calendar for Sep. 28).

Yay! Can't wait!

Song, because I love their song.

Me too! I think ours may already be gone in Mass.

Hurray! I knew they would!

Love that you got the tongue!

Reminds me of the folk remedy cure for human urinary infections: cranberry juice, which is also acidic.

data geeks

Yeah, my chickadees and titmice love to drink out of the ant moat also. I suppose the water might be cleaner and more protected than a ground water dish.

Skinks in Chicago? How wonderful!

Nice trick and video!

I'm a piker: N,E,W,S: Woodstock, New Brunswick (visiting from Baxter State Park in Maine on a rainy day).

Looks like blue-headed vireo, but that's an Eastern bird.

Congratulations! Not a sure thing these days . . .

Could be Spica in Virgo.