A.Zimmer

Step-by-step collage titled "Construction of a hibernaculum at Nobody Nursery"

A hibernaculum is a comfy place for animals to hibernate, and here at Nobody Nursery I’ve built one for reptiles and amphibians, with a rock garden on top of it.

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Correction: they went *looting* for dinosaur bones.

Birdhouses shouldn’t have perches!
They don’t really use it, having a perch by the entrance just leaves a handhold for predators.

A dead adult male Anna’s Hummingbird, lying on a crumpled brown napkin, beak facing left with wings against his side. His coloration is mostly dark iridescent green and black, with some rumpled gray of the downy edges that stick out between his wing and neck. The iridescent purple of his gorget is slightly visible from this angle.

A front facing view of the male Anna’s hummingbird, still on the brown napkin, but showing a brighter angle of the iridescent purple feathers of his gorget.

Donated an Anna’s Hummingbird to the Natural History Museum at University of Puget Sound yesterday!
Poor guy hit one of the big ground floor windows of the science building. Now he can help their collection of knowledge.

Burrowing owlet standing in the shade and winking. He is holding his wings away from his body to cool off.

Good morning! 🪶

It would take longer, but would a seed-starter heat mat work?

And 250.15 Kelvin!

To the “or just use Waterfox” crowd: lots of necessity sites (employment/education/payroll/etc) aren’t compatible or optimized for many alternative browsers, so this fix is still awesome if you need to use Chrome sometimes.

Oh my lol

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A small, old house (circa 1903) white with green trim, with two windows on either side of the four-column porch, surrounded by a small picket fence and vibrant pink roses.

The old keeper’s house can be rented!
3 bedrooms, 250/night

It’s cute!

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Wide shot of the water at the Browns Point Lighthouse Park. The lighthouse is a tall, angular, white building with windows just below the lamp, surrounded by a metal fence at the base, and to the right of it in the foreground is a figure (my spouse) standing on the divider between the beach and the sidewalk running towards the lighthouse.

Spouse and I visited my childhood beach hangout today to take pictures for @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s lighthouse photo submission call!

So nice to see it after all the renovations, the tide was in but the weather was perfect for just sitting and enjoying the view.

My fingers holding a tiny skull bead, colored black with bright pink eye/nose/teeth

School barely started and already losing our heads

What a thing to wake up to at 4 am.

I worked on New Year’s Day, and people jumping in the icy water for our annual polar plunge filled the morning litter picking run with curses and screams.

Seemed appropriate!

Happy New Year 🐴

In middle of a graceful, fibonacci-curved spring tomato leaf sits a large green caterpillar in side view, its front curled as if in prayer, in an ethereal soft light, slightly backlit.

My best photographs of 2025, a short thread.

A tobacco hornworm on one of its favorite foods, a garden tomato plant (Texas, May 2025). This one makes the cut because it is more aesthetically pleasing than I was aiming for, somehow.

I wish, it looks incredible!

Was about to get up from a nap and the cat asks to snuggle under the covers.

Can’t get up.

Now he’s purring. Send help.

I drew him!

Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close

@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article

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Heads up to anyone who still have images or artwork on Twitter/X.

Apparently Glaze and Nightshade don’t prevent this either.

It was knocked out of a tree during a windstorm, I found it in the leaf litter under a bigleaf maple with a big hanging widowmaker branch.
Lots of people on iNaturalist are IDing it as a Western Tiger Swallowtail!

A large Lepidoptera chrysalis held in my hand, mostly bright green with black bands and spotted markings. It has two points on its “head” and a tapered end.

Found a kakuna at work the other day!

That’s absurd!

Seriously?
How long ago did you post your art?

Illustration of four fleas wearing Santa/party hats and pulling a cracker, surrounded by streamers and confetti. Caption reads ‘Fleas Navidad’.

Fleas Navidad.

We’re lucky to be on high ground too.
I’d kiss the dirt if it weren’t so full of lead.

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🎨 Paleoart deadline extended! 🎉
We’re happy to announce that the paleoart submission deadline is extended to January 14!
🖌️ You can submit up to 3 artworks (they don’t have to be original or unpublished).
Come share your work with the VCWAP community!