@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
Very close photo view of the head of a yellow Tiger Swallowtail butterfly feeding on a pink bull thistle flower.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on Bullthistle. North Haven, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #butterflies #Butterfly #Lepidoptera #Papilionoidea #macro #insects #flowers
Not so long ago, a few millimeters either way in mapping hardly mattered. Now it's crucial. The U.S. Atlantic Coast isn't a measurement problem, because we've watched every millimeter for decades, and we're now gaining a solid foot every decade due to SLR. [Gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...
A detailed trail-side interpretive sign explaining the various engineering and habitat planting to control stormwater runoff from a new housing development in western New York State.
An interpretive and explanatory sign for a stormwater control project. A volunteer project for a friend.
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #stormwater #raingardens
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.
youtu.be/QEwyiiRTsy8?...
Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...
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“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!
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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
alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/the-geomet...
Thank you! :-)
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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
