Naturalist Nick

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I've been mostly doing concert photography lately prioritizing my Instagram so come give me a follow on there to see most of my content! Meta does suck but that's where all the bands and booking companies are. I am still doing nature photography so expect to see some of that mixed in!

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Baby swans sleeping

Babies 🪶📷

Hell yeah man keep it up

A baby common gallinule calling for food

Momma feed me! 🪶📷🌿🌱

Cliffs books downtown 📷

A fluffy baby bird in the water eating a dragonfly while it's Mom watches

A baby common gallinule being fed a dragonfly by its momma
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Chilean ska is my new thing now, Skaldik is amazing
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A girl in clown attire lit from above

Great light at the goblin market
📷👺 #photography #clowns #portrait

A little blue heron shaking its body dry

Silly little little blue heron 🪶📷🌿

A flower covered human shaped mannequin with a small plaque on it that says "I know I'm beautiful but please don't touch me"

This applies to so many of you 📷🌼🙂

I went another month without editing photos and now I have hundreds of edits I don't want to do lol

Hello princess 🕷️

Really interesting colors on this painted bunting 🪶📷🌿

A turkey vulture perched on top of a palm with a red bellied woodpecker sticking it's head out of a hole in the palm tree underneath the vulture

Two redheads hanging out 🪶📷🌿

Two reptile eggs in the dirt

Signs of spring 📷🌿🥚

An awesome wood stork seen on a hike in Florida. 🪶📷🌿

Netted pawpaw starting to bloom 🌼🌱🌿📷

A dolphin playing around at sunset. 🦊📷🌿

A board is missing from a wooden boardwalk with a rusty nail head sticking up in the middle of where the board was

Watch your step
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A gopher tortoise eating plants

Happy gopher tortoise day 🐢📷

They really are cool looking. I have a picture I'll eventually finish editing that I just took of one of these dinosaurs, they are so photogenic

Florida prickly pear 🌱📷🌿

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I can't stop myself from pronouncing medick like a raunchy leprechaun every time

Two skipper butterflies perched on a cluster of vivid purple and orange flowers, likely a Buddleia. The left butterfly is angled slightly toward the camera, revealing fine details of its hairy body, curled proboscis, and patterned brown wings. The second skipper, more golden in hue, is slightly behind and to the right, creating depth. The background is a dreamy blur of purple and green.

A close-up macro photograph of a vibrant orange skipper butterfly perched on a flowering plant. The butterfly’s wings are partially open, revealing dark spots against the orange. Its proboscis is curled forward as it feeds on small white and lavender flowers clustered in a dome shape. The background is softly blurred in shades of green.

The field of #entomology gets to claim a lot of animal "bests" here's another.
According to Sreekumar et al. 2009, skippers #Hesperiidae exhibit extraordinarily fast visual startle responses. Amongst the best in all animals. 🌿🧪
doi.org/10.1653/024....
#insect #macrophotography #science #lepidoptera

A ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) walking off with it's stolen bait shrimp 🪶📷

An old any acu jacket with a large frame from the JoJo manga sewn on the back

JoJo's bizarre military adventures #anime #punk

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