Sandy B.

Golden Eagle - that wingspan was far too large for me to capture #birds

Wow! Gorgeous shots! Leucism is so fascinating.

Infographic depicting the planetary alignment of Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, and Mercury in an arc above the horizon. The moon is on the left and each planet is labeled with an eye for visible (Mercury & Venus), a binocular symbol (Jupiter & Saturn), or a telescope symbol (Uranus & Neptune) to indicate how best to view them.

This weekend, don't forget to check out a rare 6-planet alignment shortly after sunset on Saturday, February 28. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus will be visible from our vantage point here on Earth - although you will likely need a telescope for Uranus and Neptune. 🔭🌏

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Mummy of a hawk (Asyut, Late Period (722-332 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Mummy of a hawk (Asyut, Late Period (722-332 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

A small bird with a light belly, dark back, and dark eyes, with patches of white among the dark feathers.

A small bird with a light belly, dark back, and dark eyes, with patches of white among the dark feathers.

A small bird with a light belly, dark back, and dark eyes, with patches of white among the dark feathers.

A small bird with a light belly, dark back, and dark eyes, with patches of white among the dark feathers.

I think this is a leucistic dark-eyed junco. It’s been hanging around my backyard all season with a flock of standard-color juncos. These photos are from December 21 and February 22.

Low image quality because I have to sit still and zoom in all the way with my phone. The juncos scatter if I move. 🪶

The bright sun came out unexpectedly yesterday so we stopped by Commonwealth Lake on the way to the grocery store. Thrilled to see these three Double Creasted #Cormorants !

#birds #birding #birdphotography #pdx #WestCoastKin #photography #art #wildlife #urbanbirding #Portland #wildlifephotography

Banger cormorant eye footage today 🪶

Rediscovered audio captures eerie humpback whale call from 1949 Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a humpback whale

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a humpback whale

And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply

pale blue dot photo

On this day, Feb 14, in 1990, Voyager 1, then 6,055 million kilometers, (3,762 million miles) from Earth took this photo.

And Carl Sagan wrote some beautiful words (rest of thread).

This movie is a dear friend of mine.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Vivian Pickles was perfect👀

This ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poop Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

Post a tree(s) you photographed

The 🌰 behind my house 🤍

That is sublime.

#sandhillcrane
#milford, #MI

#birds
#photography
#birdphotography
#BirdWatching
#birdsofbluesky
#nature
#wildlife
#wildlifephotography

This red tail hawk perched on deck close to kitchen window. I feed the birds year round. He was looking for easy prey. When I shooed him, he made this quuzzical look.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

A brown owl with bright yellow eyes and white facial markings perches on a mossy branch against a blurred green background.

I heard that it's #SuperbOwl Sunday so here's a very judgy Spectacled Owl at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #owls #nature

A group of black and white birds perched on a natural rock ledge on sea cliffs.

Guillemot colony at St.Bees Head.
#SuperSeabirdSunday

That's a Giant Kelp holdfast or base clinging to rocks on a shallow part of a reef. The mass migration of urchins seeking food is called an "urchin stampede". The holdfast is only a fraction of the mass of a kelp stand so this behavior is very destructive. This happens when their predators are gone.

"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read." Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

"a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.

Birds of a Feather ???

Have you ever seen a stranger flock?

#DEI
#SandhillCranes
#CanadaGeese
#OddFellows

#birds #birdsinflight #birdwatching #ornithology #ornithologie #birding #pnw #wildlife #Geese #Cranes #vögel #oiseaux

Yes.
Absolutely yes.

Every sailor swore he saw it once, but not a second time.

Absolutely gorgeous! Your photos really capture the glory of this place. Love those mountains, sea & sky so much.

Wildlife teams are working to save cold stunned sea turtles affected by this unexpected cold wave. They're housing the turtles in a convention center as a temporary recovery space until the waters warm enough for safe release back into the ocean.