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Sign: "ICE melts under pressure"

Large knitted sign, "fuck ice"

A couple of signs from the #Boston anti-ICE march from Copley. It was cold so I mostly kept my gloves on and didn't take a lot of pictures.
#resist #ICE

MLK appeared at Graffiti Alley this weekend
#CambridgeMA #streetart

Usually I see gadwalls in the water, but the rare times they come up really close to me - like this occasion at Fremont Canal in Seattle years ago - is when I can see how beautiful they really are.
#birds #ducks #wildlife #Seattle

Father finch feeding fledgling at the feeder.
#CambridgeMA #birds #wildlife

I think this one may be boulder brain coral, Colpophyllia natans.
Off the coast of Belize.
#nature #marine #coralreef

Close-up view of the polyps of my favorite species of stony coral, mountainous star coral. Off the coast of Belize.
#nature #marine #coralreef

A rock pipit on the beach, Dingle peninsula, Ireland. They seem to like to flit about from rock to rock at the edge of the water.
#birds #wildlife

That really looks computer generated to me, and not like a photo.

On the same walk at Nisqually, a bullfrog and a Puget Sound garter snake. #wildlife

Close up of tree swallow on a thin branch with out of focus leaves in the background. This tree swallow has a mostly gray back with only a little blue showing.

Tree swallow with shiny blue color, facing towards the camera, on a lichen-filled thin branch, with out of focus leaves in the background.

Small barn swallow on wood deck panels.

Some swallows from a visit to Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in 2018, my second time there but my first visit there with a camera that has enough zoom to photograph swallows.
Two tree swallows (one on the gray side, the other shiny blue) and one barn swallow. #birds #wildlife

Graffiti alley today #CambridgeMA #streetart

A couple of cats appeared at graffiti alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #streetart

Graffiti Alley this evening
#CambridgeMA #streetart

Diving in Gloucester MA this morning, I saw this pair of moon snails looking very coupley
#marinelife #scubadiving

Large caricature face in profile which large blue cap, painted on wall

Art painted on wall, white shape that looks like a sideways H with an eyeball on top, outlined in back, on reddish-brown background

Wall spray painting of human-ish badger face with arms up as if cheering, with Boston Bruins B logo above

Spray painted tag on wall, large stylized lettering with blue & black gradient designs inside. "One Love" painted lower left.

Graffiti Alley this weekend
#CambridgeMA #StreetArt

Northern mockingbird perched on branch, looking towards frame-right, with grub in its mouth

Northern mockingbird perched on twig, facing almost at us

A northern mockingbird I saw catch a grub in our neighborhood park
#CambridgeMA #birds

Sure! I haven't posted any birds in recent weeks but I will post some more soon.

Art on city wall - big yellow stylized lettering/shapes

Painting on wall of white head with long thick red hair and large black eyes

Misc paintings and text tags on wall, looking up towards skylight

Red-headed woman in flowing black skirt spray painting on a wall with misc art and text on it

Recent paintings and tags at Graffiti Alley earlier this week
#CambridgeMA #StreetArt

Male yellow warbler (songbird) looking up, perched on a small branch with red flowers at its end.

Yellow warblers are back in town!
#birds #wildlife

Graffiti art on wall - smiling sun, monochrome bunny, and more

Graffiti art on wall - stylized colorful letter-like shapes

Graffiti art on wall - outlined abstract heads with faces on green & blue background with colorful shapes below

Some art currently at Graffiti Alley in Central Square

Small gray bird (bushtit) on a branch with a green grub in its beak, background of out of focus leaves and sky

Small gray bird (bushtit) on a branch with a green grub in its beak, background of out of focus leaves and sky

Years ago in Seattle I got pics of this bushtit that caught some grub. #birds #wildlife

Close-up of Andrena bee on bark of tree

www.instagram.com/onlybugzzz/ spotted this mining bee (genus Andrena) this weekend - first bee I've seen around here this year!
#bees #wildlife

Giant pink figure climbing a tree in the fog in downtown

It looks like something from Ghostbusters attacking Boston

Front view of Cooper's hawk perched on tree branch, chest towards the camera and head facing right.

Close-up of Cooper's hawk torso and head, looking up and to the left.

Yesterday a Cooper's hawk hung out for over an hour by our deck, but the screen door got in the way of taking good photos. It was so close I didn't want to move the door and spook it. So here's one from a couple of years ago that I got good pics of, on a branch a few feet further. #birds #wildlife

Blue/yellow/red stylized text graffiti

Blue/red stylized text graffiti painting

Person with people hat and robe painted on the walkway bricks

Wall painting of expressive purple face

Some of the new art this week at graffiti alley

Six shiny food lumps in three different colors on a long plate with orange garnish bits on top

I don't usually post food pictures but these stuffed tapioca balls call for an exception

20 years of living in the area has not erased the joy that coming out of a tunnel to see this view brings me every time.

Narrow yellow fish (yellowhead wrasse) with blue markings, rocky background

Yellowhead wrasses have goth-looking eyelash marks. Here's one terminal phase (which means it changed from female to male earlier in its adult life) I saw on the Florida Keys reefs a few years ago. #nature #coralreef #fish

Lower-left half of hanging suet feeder, with chickadee hanging off the bottom corner, facing left

Intrepid-looking black-capped chickadee at the suet feeder.

Close-up of halictid bee on the florets in the disk of a flower.

Bee on a flower in the Middlesex Fells last spring. I think it's some sort of halictid bee but nobody else on iNaturalist has confirmed or narrowed that down yet: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #bees #nature #wildlife