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A red panda (Ailurus fulgens) walking around their enclosure. They’re walking towards the camera and toward the bottom right of frame

Happy Saturday
Red #panda - Ailurus fulgens
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🐼🦝🦊 #photography #animal #mammal #zoo #cincyzoopic

A Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) coming into frame from the left to show off their enormous crown and deep red eyes contrasting with their dark blue and purple feathers

Happy #flyday
Victoria crowned #pigeon - Goura victoria
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🐦🕊️ #photography #animal #bird #zoo #cincyzoopic

A macro shot of a four-spot orb weaver; it looks as if it's carrying around a button on its back...IMO

#InsectThursday
#orbweaver
#spider
#naturephotography
#insects
#macrophotography

Four-spot orbweaver, Araneus quadratus.

📸 Nicholas Galley
@nickgalley.bsky.social

#ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #Macro #Macrophotography #InsectThursday

One from the archive to add a wee bit of colour to a very dull and rainy February😁

A dragonfly perched on knapweed enjoying the nectar.

A dragonfly at the peak of summer.

Without insects, our ecosystem will begin to crumble.

#UKWildlife #InsectThursday #Dragonfly #Nature #Photography

A tachinid fly (family: Tachinidae) on a wild flower with their abdomen up and head down

#insectthursday
Tachinid #fly - family: Tachinidae
(Shot near Cincinnati 9-8-2023) 🪳🪲🪰 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #insect #bug #bugsky #ento

A close up of a black and orange warbler facing directly at the camera. Stiff, specialized, hair-like feathers are seen at the base of a bird's bill, they act as sensory, tactile receptors similar to mammalian whiskers

Rob’s chosen #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown (birds looking at you) (Alt theme is #Gulls) @robcrank68.bsky.social - This is one of my favorites, a Blackburnian Warbler from our banding station in the Florida Keys back in 2003. Check out those rictal bristles! #birds #warbler

Some kind of warbler (family: Parulidae) perched on a bare winter branch facing the left of frame. The bird is all puffed up and has a mostly drab pattern with some yellow highlights

#warbler - family: Parulidae
(Shot near Cincinnati 2-9-26) 🐦🐦‍⬛ #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #bird

A young American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) facing the left of frame. They have a bit of yellow to their legs

American #bullfrog - Lithobates catesbeianus
(Shot near Cincinnati 9-8-25) 🐸 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #nature #herps #amphibian #frog

Face-on view of a male mallard, his head turned to the right so he can fix us with one eye. He's standing in snow in front of a pond in which several other mallards are swimming.

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #staredown. This mallard was definitely looking at me when I took this photo, although it's more of a shy sideways glance than a stare.
🪶 #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography #BlueskyMonday #MallardMonday

A duck with a green head is in the foreground. He floats in a creek with snow falling down around him and two more ducks blurry in the background.

Ducks in the snow for #MallardMonday

#birds 🌿

A male wood duck (Aix sponsa) swimming from left to right

Not a #mallardmonday
Male wood #duck - Aix sponsa
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🦆🐦 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #bird #waterfowl #zoo #cincyzoopic

The beetle hobby is calling to you lol

Two tiny Burrowing owls are standing at the entrance to their home in the desert. Behind them is dry sandy desert soil. The owls have large yellow eyes.

It’s #SuperbOwlSunday! 🪶

A hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) underwater and facing the left of frame

Happy Sunday
#Hellbender - Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 12-31-25) 🦎 #photography #animal #herps #amphibian #salamander #zoo #cincyzoopic

A barred owl (Strix varia) in an evergreen tree during the day looking straight at the camera

Happy #superbowlsunday
Barred #owl - Strix varia
(Shot near Cincinnati 3-12-25) 🦉🐦 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #bird #raptor

A very orange baby roughskin newt (Taricha granulosa) is walking over a compact tuft of green moss on a rain-wet grey rock. The baby newt's eye gleams gold on its top half, and black beneath. The baby's orange body is partially transparent as it is backlit by the low winter sun, so various innards show as black blobs inside the newt's abdomen. In other newts this life stage is called an eft, but none of my guidebooks use this term for roughskin newts, I wonder why?

A baby roughskin newt on moss; an old photo. One of many moved off the road over the years, as they migrate from natal ponds to the winter forest to forage. Somewhere I have a video of this little one's climb from my hand up the rock to this summit.
#moss #bryology #newt #taricha #herps

A Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) walking majestically up hill from right to left in profile. There is a light dusting of snow on the ground

Happy Saturday
Mexican #wolf - Canis lupus baileyi
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🦊🐺 #photography #animal #mammal #dog #zoo #cincyzoopic

A Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) perched on a branch in their zoo enclosure facing the left of frame.

Happy #flyday
Nicobar #pigeon - Caloenas nicobarica
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🐦🕊️🦤 #photography #animal #bird #zoo #cincyzoopic

A male brown anole (Anolis sagrei) on thin leaves with his beaded pointed towards the bottom right of frame and just a little bit of dewlap in the shadow of his chin

Brown anole - Anolis sagrei
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🦎 #photography #animal #herps #reptile #lizard #zoo #cincyzoopic

2 black vultures (Coragyps atratus) on the ground with their backs to the camera as they look cautiously around them

Black #vulture - Coragyps atratus
(Shot near Cincinnati 1-16-26) 🐦🦅 #photography #wildlifephotogeaphy #wildlife #nature #animal #bird

A young American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) being held in a hand with their face pointing to the right of frame

American #bullfrog - Lithobates catesbeianus
(Shot near Cincinnati 10-3-25) 🐸 #photography #wildlifephotography #macrophotography #wildlife #animal #nature #herps #amphibian #frog

A close up shot of a salamander crawling across the rocks from left to right. They got some mud stuck to them

#macromonday
#salamander - Order: Urodela
(Shot near Cincinnati 5-16-25) 🦎 #photography #macrophotograpgy #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #amphibian

I also get excited about off color pigeons

They’re really up there for me too. I hope I get to see one in the wild some day

A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortix mokeson) curled up among the twigs and rocks in their enclosure

Happy Sunday
Northern copperhead - Agkistrodon contortix mokeson
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-10-26) 🐍 #photography #animal #herps #reptile #snake #nature #zoo #cincyzoopic

An alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) swimming from left to right in profile

Happy Saturday
Alligator #gar - Atractosteus spatula
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-10-26) 🐟🐠 #photography #animal #nature #fish #zoo #cincyzoopic

A macro photo of a butterfly roosting on desert sand, seen from the side and framed with all but the back 1/4 of the wings visible. The butterfly is white with yellow and black scales on the hind wing veins. It has pale blue eyes, and dark blotches on the forewings.

When I photographed this butterfly (I think a checkered white, Pontia protodice) last weekend in the desert, the air was about 40 degrees F. But the sand was warmer, and that's probably why the butterfly was on the ground and reluctant to fly, even when I got close. Love the blue eye! #BugSky 🌿🐙📷

Facts

A scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber) on the ground walking towards the camera but looking towards the bottom left of frame

Happy #flyday
Scarlet #ibis - Eudocimus ruber
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 1-1-26) 🐦🦩 #photography #animal #bird #zoo #cincyzoopic