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Bluethroat in classic Shetland fence post habitat #UKbirding

Large white shorebird with yellow beak standing near the edge of a lagoon. Large rocks, grass, shrubs and trees in the background. Water is green with a partial reflection.

Great Egret at Berkeley Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Mt. Hood. Dark conifers with a thin layer of gray clouds above the tree line, snow covered illuminated mountain surrounded by pale blue sky,scattered dark gray clouds above.

Morning shot of Mt. Hood. October 2024. 🩶🤍💙

A Canadian flag 🇨🇦 on a swim raft on a lake in The Great White North.

A breezy cool day in the Algonquin Highlands of The Great White North 🇨🇦

The Milky Way stretches vertically into a starry sky. A silhouetted pine. The same sky you’re under. Photo: Bill Dunford

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.
— Annie Dillard

Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer

A hummingbird nest built on top of a bare branch which runs diagonally from upper left to lower right. The nest is comprised of white, cottony-looking material and lichen. The female rub-throated hummingbird is sitting in it, looking to the left, with her tail sticking up on the right.

If you don't like hummingbirds, tune me out for the next week or so! I was lucky to be tipped off on the location of a ruby-throated hummingbird nest. I will be posting a series of shots taken over about two and half weeks, starting with this one of momma sitting in her nest on June 16th #birds

Barn Owl over the Somerset levels #birds

A view of an ornate ceiling and two pigeons looking a the photographer. Caption reads: The photographer was lying on the ground, trying to shoot this ceiling. The pigeons were concerned.

Good morning, we saw lots of butterflies in the Ivory Coast, but I only managed to capture one of them in the Banco national park ☺️

This is a forest grass yellow (eurema senegalensis) and it really popped against the tree bark and the green moss 🥳

Have a good Thursday 🙏

Large white shorebird in the air with wings spread in flight. Black legs and feet extend out the back and there is a slight reflection in the water below. The water is light blues.

I was about to take a photo of another bird when this Great Egret crossed in front of my lens so I shifted to the left and ended up with this instead.

#birds #nature

Parkour!

📷: Green Heron

Let's lay our eyes on the unique core of this 30 million light-years distant galaxy's called NGC 1512.

The core is remarkable for its stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters, called a "circumnuclear" starburst ring.

Credit: NASA

A surfer in Jordan River, BC, backlit by the sunrise on Jan 21, 2024.

I deleted Instagram. Can we post photos here?

Me

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Incredible

Close up view of Jupiter CREDIT: NASA

Me

Followed all

Good step

As the Aurora was calling it a day on the 4th, Orion, Jupiter and the Pleiades were rising in the South. What stunning skies we have here. strathlenehouse.com
#Jupiter #darkskies #astro #astrophotography #Bluesky #darkskiesscotland #canon_photos #nightsky #nightskyphotography #Scotland #photography

A moss speckled log is covered in rosy false turkey tail mushrooms

Here are some nice mushrooms

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The clarity is absolutely spectacular…..The Pillars of Creation by the James Webb Space Telescope 💫😲💫✨💫💙💫

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: ✨We are all stardust.✨

Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born.

Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr

The birth of a star captured by JWST 💫✨💫😲💫✨💫

The Whirlpool Galaxy

NASA

A nebula with stars. Dense clouds of dust and gas cover the left-hand side and a filament crosses the centre horizontally. Billowing streams of gas and dust in various colours emerge from around the centre. The very centre of the image is permeated with glowing orange regions. Many blue stars with cross-shaped spikes lie in the foreground, and small point-like stars are visible beyond the clouds

thinking about this hubble image again it’s so beautiful

image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan