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Here is one of my egret friends in my NW corner.
Clean water is life - protect it.
🌊🌊

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if Mother Nature had wanted us to be dumbasses, she wouldn't have given us brains.

Great egret nestlings begging for food, Ocean City, New Jersey
#birds #wildlifephotography

Mine came this week, they're even more beautiful IRL.

Giant Pacific octopus shoots video of itself after claiming camera from B.C. divers - BC News When it comes to cinematography, a giant Pacific octopus that borrowed a camera from two divers earns a solid "10 out of 10."

Giant Pacific octopus shoots video of itself after claiming camera from B.C. divers #VancouverIsland

A Windf*cker perches atop a small branch at the top of a tree with a blue sky backdrop.

I was today-years-old when I learned that Kestrels were called Windf*ckers in Medieval times, and therefore that will be the name I whisper henceforth whenever I see one of these majestic, mini, murder birds.

a pelican flying with a little gold hue

dinosaur at golden hour #birds

As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.

Andrew Cuomo mangling a banger from one of the most famous athletes of all time: "Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

Man, don't ruin lepidopterans and hemipterans like this, I don't want to think about your inability to remember one of the most famous bangers of all time every time I see a resin bee

An illustration of a mascarene parrot - Mascarinus mascarinus - extinct circa 1834. A robust parrot with a cherry red beak, a grey head with a black mask, an ochre belly and a chocolatey brown back.

Bird Book of the Dead no 55 - Mascarene Parrot

We return once more to Réunion in the Indian Ocean for a parrot species of somewhat mysterious taxonomy where despite itsproximity to Africa, is believe to be more closely related to Asian parrot species.

A Sparrowhawk perching on top of a fountain with green foliage in the background.

Morning Sprawk

Octopus locomotion 🐙

We believe this warty deep-sea octopus to be in the Graneledone genus of octopuses, and ROV pilots collected this footage in the #MarDelPlataCanyon in Argentina.

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That Donald Trump broke his promise to fund IVF is no surprise. The man is a shameless liar who sees his own voters as idiots. (Fair!)

I dig into the situation deeper. Project 2025 is using this as an opportunity to blame infertility on birth control.

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Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

An illustration of a Tahiti Rail - Hypotaenidia pacifica, extinct circa 1930. A dumpy, largely black rail with a bright red bill, a rust red patch on the back of its neck and a white throat and stripe above the eye. Its shoulders and wings also have some subtle white streaking.

Bird Book of the Dead no. 54 - Tahiti Rail

Perhaps of all groups of birds, rails are one of the most prone to extinction - on the one hand this is largely because they are efficient colonisers of islands which speciate ready into forms adapted to their new homes - being also prone to flighltessness

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

I'm gonna go to sleep now and dream of mouth eyelashes, which may be an improvement over whatever I would have dreamed about had this not been the last thing I read....

Which side of the security checkpoint is the crab on? (I have a layover at BWI in a few weeks, would love to see it in person!)

😂🤣😂

Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.

A small red hermit crab poking out of a shell that is way too large for it. The crab has black eyes and is sitting in the sand.

This hermit crab may have been a bit ambitious with the choice of shell. #hermit #crustacean #invertebrate #Indonesia #Komodo 🦑 🦀

Oh, please do!

Tiny orchid with reticulated leaves

Three years ago today 🌿

Goodyera repens, our Lesser Rattlesnake Plantain, blooming above Palmer Lake Number 2 #orchids 🌱 This tiny plant isn’t even two inches tall. The leaf reticulation is distinctive. Barb showed me where these are otherwise I never would have found them. #nativeplants

A black colored mammal Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) handmade watercolor painting, mostly green, purple, blue fur on the head, dark brown eyes, light yellow ochre and brown nose and mouth open, eyes looking straight at the viewer. Right foreleg forward, left foreleg resting on the light brown bolder. Long black fur, hind legs stationary on the bolder. My fingers holding a brush, black bristles, silver holder and black handle. My signature on the left-hand corner. Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) from Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India. Watercolor and Gouache on Fabriano Watercolor 300 GSM Paper One of the watercolor paintings from my completed Wildlife Corridor of Karnataka project for HNF(NCF) India. Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) Title: Penance_38! Watercolor and Gouache on Fabriano Watercolor 300 GSM Paper 15x11 inches Reference: Own image Location: Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India Duration: 60 Hours November 05th, 2024 Another client approved work.

Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) from Nagarhole National Park, India.

Watercolor/Gouache on Fabriano Watercolor Paper

One of the watercolor paintings from my Wildlife Corridor of Karnataka project for HNF(NCF) India.

#art #sciart #scientificillustration #traditionalart #watercolor #scicomm #bear

Photo of the Milky Way above a stand of Joshua Trees in Death Valley

Got another Death Valley Milky Way shot edited. #Astrophotography #Photography

Looking forward to it!

Watercolour painting of rocks and fossils found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England - bivalves, ammonites, crinoids, calcite-veined mudstone, Gryphaea, banded limestone, ironstone and a mix of marine fossils in limestone.

Redcar rocks and fossils - though it’s only a few miles south of where I live, the geology of Redcar is completely different, and younger; Jurassic marine fossils are ridiculously easy to find lying on the beach.
(Watercolour; others still on show at Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery)
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#art #nature

Mollusques méditeranéens [!] Gènes: Impr, des sourds-muets, 1851. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831

Mollusques méditeranéens [!] Gènes: Impr, des sourds-muets, 1851. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831) #nature #illustration #art

iPhone.

Museum dioramas. Just the dioramas. History of dioramas. A home for historic dioramas that other museums didn't want because they were out of date, out of scope, inaccurate, needed too much restoration, whatever.