@patrlynch1.bsky.social
Artist, photographer, and author of 12 books from Yale University Press, on the natural history of the Atlantic coast. Latest book: "A Field Guide to the Connecticut River." More personal stuff on facebook.com/patrick.lynch1
Drawing of a pollinator flower garden, featuring an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
Pollinator Garden. From a possible children's book project I never managed to finish. 🧪🌿🌎 🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #pollinators #gardens
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Detailed close-up of a bee feeding on Salvia flowers.
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
– Bertrand Russell
Wool Carder Bee.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #insects #bees
Profound stuff, at a time when we're all trying to figure the human place in a post-truth world of a billion bots and AI overlord-overloads. 🧪🌿🌎🐡
www.honest-broker.com/p/the-real-s...
A brightly-patterned orange butterfly perched on a violet Buddleja flower.
After the 89 days of February, here's a little blast of summer: Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele). Derby, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #butterflies #Lepidoptera #macro
On the Snowy Owl:
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/snowy-owl
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicom #owls #SnowyOwl #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz
"He explained to the American people — whose sons will fight and die (six so far) in Operation Ego Stroke — to say how seriously proud he is of the gold drapes he picked out. So thanks, Mr. President, for meeting this moment with the solemnity it deserves." open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...
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Bruno Liljefors
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🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #WildlifeArt #art #wildlifepainting
The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #dinosaurs #paleontology open.substack.com/pub/alwaysso...
Please permit an old man a brief rant about the mediocrity of today's "Audubon" magazine, compared to what once was...
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/when-audub...
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #Audubon #AudubonMagazine #scicomm #wildlife #NatureArt #NaturePhotography #Conservation
Important. We're about to lose another major news organization — CNN — to the Epstein Class and the broligarchs.
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Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...
26.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."
26.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 122 🔁 61 💬 6 📌 5Thank you, Helen!
26.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An appreciation of one of my favorite trees, the rugged Pitch Pine, a keystone species of the northeastern U.S. Atlantic coast.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #PitchPine #PineBarrens #CapeCod #CapeHenlopen #JerseyPineBarrens #LongIsland
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/pitch-pine...
A close view of the face and eye of a Brown Pelican, done in colored pencil.
Some birds just look like old souls. Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), colored pencils on Canson pastel paper.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #birdart #birds #ColoredPencil #drawing
Head detail of the colorful Wood Duck drake.
Wood Duck drake (detail, Aix sponsa). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ducks #LongIslandSound #birds #BirdArt
Drawing of a Brown Pelican adult in flight.
Brown Pelican. From my book A Field Guide to The Mid-Atlantic Coast, Yale University Press, a.co/d/6rKgbMQ
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #pelicans
Drawing of the head and shoulders of a large eagle.
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) drawing.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #Eagles
An appreciation of one of my favorite trees, the rugged Pitch Pine, a keystone species of the northeastern U.S. Atlantic coast.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #PitchPine #PineBarrens #CapeCod #CapeHenlopen #JerseyPineBarrens #LongIsland
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/pitch-pine...
My new book PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, comes out March 10, 2026.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #SciCom #Ponds #Freshwater #Lakes #Limnology #marshes #swamps #Wetlands
Thank you! I love his work. :-)
23.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Title frame graphic for my forth coming book on ponds, shipping soon...
Curled up with a warm computer, creating a video for PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, shipping March 10th.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #Ponds #Freshwater #Lakes
Winter scene in a Japanese woodcut print, showing a temple courtyard in snow.
Zojoji Temple in Snow, Kawase Hasui (1883–1957).
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Natural and engineering evolution, as sources of beauty.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #evolution #beauty #ornithology
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Thank you! :-)
20.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pencil drawing of a Barn Owl in flight, done on gray textured Canson pastel paper.
Barn Owl (Tyto alba) study. Colored pencils on Canson paper.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlifepainting #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm
A common honey bee gathering pollen and nectar from a bright red Helenium (Sneezeweed) flower.
Good morning, honey. European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on Helenium, North Haven, CT, Aug. 2025.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #bees
Narrow column widths in page layout project well onto the most high-resolution section of the retina, the macula. This enables quicker scanning of text lines, without having to engage your eye muscles to move the eye back and forth while you read.
Why narrow column widths match the capabilities of our visual system. From my—now ancient—Web Style Guide, 4th ed., 2015. See the alt text for more info.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #illustration #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #scicomm
Great paper! Perhaps some resonance with a thing I just wrote about wildlife in artwork: alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/art-and-th...
20.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The best American wildlife artist is probably someone you've never heard of:
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #birds #birding #birdart #CapeCod #wildlifeart
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