Marlee Fuller-Morris 🏳️‍🌈

A close up picture of a snapping turtle’s face featuring a black and brown striped eye, pebbly chin, and scaly front leg.

Would anyone like to join a Snapping Turtle Appreciation Club with me? Just look at how cool that eye is! 📷🌿 #reptiles #wildlife

The illustrations are really wonderful! And leopard is JUST scary enough for her. :)

The front cover of the picture book Our Tree by Jessica Meserve. The illustration shows a red squirrel looking at a tree with a face, surrounded by leaves and other little critters.

An illustration from the picture book Our Tree by Jessiva Meserve. The illustration shows many small green leaves in various shades and lots of little critters hiding on them lol insects, bats, and a gray squirrel.

The front cover of picture book Agent Unicorn by Jenny Alvarado. The illustration shows a unicorn in a detective hat and trench coat looking up at purple bird hanging upside down from the top of the book.

An illustrated page from the picture book Agent Unicorn by Jenny Alvarado. The illustration shows a unicorn with blue mane and tail cleaning Agent Goats detective agency and a little purple bird walking down the street outside the office. The text reads: someday I’ll be… a real agent.

The recent #picturebook hits in our house have had one thing in common: hidden details!

Check out the super detailed end pages of Our Tree by Jessica Meserve and the “lost” bird in Agent Unicorn by Jenny Alvarado! Both toddler approved! #pb #kidlit

A brown and white bird of prey stands in shallow water on a beach with waves crashing in the background.

Even Osprey need a beach day sometimes!

Virginia Beach, VA. #birding #wildlife 🌿📷🪶

Definitely! They never sit still! A common vireo trait I think. 😂

Great pictures!! They are so skulky I find it really hard to get a clear shot!

Several small bright orange mushrooms growing over green moss on the forest floor.

Found some gorgeous mushrooms while birding this morning! Maybe red chanterelles?

New London County, CT. 🌿📷

A gray and yellow bird with a distinctive white eye perches on a branch and hold its beak open.

An unusually cooperative White-eyed Vireo. And an unusually accurate bird name!

New London County, CT. 🪶🌿📷

An illustration of three gentoo penguins diving under turquoise water with white ice behind them. The penguins have smily, friendly faces.

It's #kidlitartpostcard Day again!
I'm Dani, an illustrator and writer from North West England. I have a background in zoology and science communication so I draw a lot of animals and love natural history picture books.

Thank you! This was definitely my closest encounter, before I had only seen them way out on the ends of rock jetties!

Thank you, that’s very kind!

I couldn’t believe it! Of course it flew off immediately, never to be seen again… but I had a good 15 seconds with it! 😂

Agreed!

Thank you!! It’s my favorite hobby!

A small songbird with a bright orange face, black face stripes, and black and white body perched on a small twig against a dark green and brown background.

Decided to check out a new birding spot today. I only managed photos of one bird… but it was a pretty good bird!

Blackburnian Warbler. Windham County, CT. 🌿📷🪶

I have no words for this. Nature is so weird. And awesome.

I think this may be the only clear photo I’ve ever gotten! They are so small and move so fast it’s impossible to get a good look!

Same!!!!

Thank you! It was all luck!

A small blue-gray songbird sits in a cup-shaped camouflaged with lichen and holds a fuzzy bit of plant material in its beak.

Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, one of the many nest camouflage experts!

Taken with a zoom lens and cropped. Virginia Beach, VA. #wildlife #birding 🌿📷🪶

A young crown-tipped coral mushroom grows in a dense cluster of tightly branched arms ending in tiny little crowns. It grows in a mossy log in a green late-spring forest. All photos by me

Here is a nice mushroom

Thank you! The whole family didn’t seem to mind my hanging out quietly nearby. 3 fledglings and one very busy parent!

A floofy black and white bird with a small beak grips a brown branch in front of a bright green leafy background.

The roundest chickadee fledgling I’ve ever seen. 😍😍

Black-capped Chickadee. New London County, CT. 🪶📷🌿 #babybird #birding #wildlife

Oh my gosh!!! Good job robin!!!

Always here for a good robin parent!!

A wet sparrow holds a bug in its beak while perching on a tall grass tuft in front of a green background.

Rain or shine, the work never stops for a sparrow parent!

Song Sparrow. New London County, CT. #wildlife #birding 🌿🪶📷

A close-up photo of a blue and orange swallow perched on a dead twig.

A very accommodating Barn Swallow!

Fairfax County, VA. #birding #wildlife 🌿🪶📷

A slender shorebird stands on a seaweed covered rock in front of a blurry, grey ocean.

Just a little bird in a big world.

New London County, CT. 🪶🌿📷

A cluster of bright Wild Pink flowers over deep green leaves.

Round, purple chive flowers nestle into green mint leaves.

Dropping pink Bleeding Heart flowers against a cluster of fringed green leaves.

An orange and yellow marigold flower over dark brown dirt.

Some flowers to brighten a rainy day! 🌿

A bright yellow songbird pulls at some dried grass with its beak.

A Yellow Warbler on the hunt for nesting material!

New London County, CT. 🌿🪶📷 #warbler #wildlife