Elan Cooper

#Autumn 🌱

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Pond dock encompassed by the shadows.
#scape #landscape #pond #docks
#forestfriday #bluesky #autumn #fall #photography #eastcoastkin

Mute Swan at a local lake this afternoon

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Getting ready for #SundayYellow

Or is it #Swanday #Yellow?

#birds #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #photographer #photography #autum #fall #yellow

A drake Mallard with its wings extended.

A Mallard for your timeline cleanse.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin

A spider "falls" to the ground on its web, just like Tom Cruise in his original Mission Impossible movie.

A spider that was dropping down in my front porch. Anyone know what variety this is? Seek gave me the ever useful "spider".

#Insects #Macro #Spiders #Arachnids #Nature #Wildlife #Nature #MacroPhotography #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin

A red male Cardinal is perched on a branch. He is facing away from the camera. The background is blurry green.

Male Cardinal

What's it all about anyway?

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Good morning🌞 It's a gorgeous & brisk #TulipTuesday 🌷 Perfect for cozying up with your favorite hot beverage and #bloomscrolling while you wake up☕

#flowers #photography #plants #Gardening #Gardens #flowerfeed #gardensky #EastCoastKin #DailyFlowers #OnlyBeautifulThings

Noted 🤔

A cluster of salamander eggs that look a bit like large tapioca pearls from some very muddy boba tea.

Eggs of marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) under a log in our little neighborhood wetland today. The eggs are laid on land beside a vernal pool, and they’ll hatch when winter rain submerges them. #herps 1 of 3

A small Goldcrest bird, with its olive-green and yellow feathers and distinctive striped head, is perched in the dense, dark green needles of a coniferous tree. Bright sunlight illuminates the bird as it looks up, making its tiny form stand out clearly against the rich, natural background of the foliage.

This image shows a close-up of the bright, fiery orange and yellow foliage of a tree, likely a Japanese Maple, during the autumn season. The leaves are sharply lobed and densely packed, catching the sunlight which highlights their vibrant color and creates shadows underneath.

This image shows a green finch perched on a bare-branched tree against a clear blue sky. The tree's branches are dotted with brown, dangling catkins or seed pods, indicating a late autumn or winter setting. The bird is facing to the right in profile.

This is a bright, low-angle photograph of a tree with vibrant yellow and gold autumn foliage, backlit by the sun. The tree's canopy fills the frame with glowing leaves, and its dark trunk is visible in the center, surrounded by a forest floor covered in fallen yellow leaves. The overall mood is sunny, warm, and autumnal.

Some pictures from a beautiful autumnal walk around westonbirt arboretum today.
#birds🪶

#autumn #trees
#NatureTherapy

This image is a close-up photograph of a rook perched atop a decaying tree stump. The bird, facing away from the viewer but looking to the right, is predominantly captured in shades of dark gray and black, contrasting with the surrounding monochromatic forest background of branches and twigs.

Something a bit different for
#ThursJay
The Rook taken at WWTslimbridge.
#birds🪶 #Halloween

#Naturephotography
#NatureTherapy

No astronomy per se in this week's issue of @science.org, but there is a fascinating study by Pavia et al. that uses cosmic dust to trace sea ice coverage in the Arctic. 3He from micrometeorites records when the ocean was ice free, over the last 30,000 years. 🧪🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Perhaps

Birth of Planets: JWST Spots Hot Mineral Condensation in a Proto-Stellar System

In a recent episode of SETI Live, SETI Institute Deputy Director Dr. Simon Steel spoke with astronomer Dr. Melissa McClure of Leiden University about a groundbreaking discovery: the earliest stages of planet formation caught in action. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Learn more: www.seti.org/news/birth-o...

A fine black toad with bright white fingers, toes, and lips, and brown pustular blobs along its legs, resting on a dark green leaf.

A black and white toad on a green fern frond. The head and limbs are grey, and the body black.

A toad looking at the camera over a brown leaf, its black body splotched with yellow and white. It is very Halloween-core.

A black toad with huge yellow glands on its legs, head, arms, and parts of the back. Jack Skellington himself could hardly have painted a more Halloween-flavoured toad.

Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...

well, I might as well offer up more #dahlias from the #DahliaDell for #Stunday since I got them
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#JBCFlowers #flowers #garden #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #DailyFlower #EastCoastKin

Beautiful autumn leaves

Quite cool 🧐

An American Robin enjoying the fruits of a Hawthorne tree, with a bright red haw berry in its mouth.

I may rustle up enough photos for a weekly festive Robin if I’m lucky.
I am very much enjoying the postings from the other side of the pond. #DailyFestiveRobin
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This is a photo of four Sandhill cranes. Nikon Z5, 600mm, f/6.3, iso400, 1/400s

The Sandhill cranes are eating in the chopped corn fields during the day and then roosting at the Sherburne Wildlife Refuge at night.
📷🌿 #birds
#nature

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Close up of top of barrel cactus and a rock

Very close up of top of barrel cactus

Good morning 🌱🌵🪨

A bloom of 'Sweet Mademoiselle' rose, many layers of pinky peachy apricot petals, covered in raindrops.

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday 🌱
#RoseWednesday

A mix of scorpion peppers, ghost peppers, jalapeños, and Aji mangoes in two containers. Green tomatoes sit behind the two containers of peppers.

Let’s get saucy! 🌶️🫑🍽️🍜