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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 14h

Interesting article with many beautiful fall prairie photos
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/08/a...

Autumn on a small northwest Iowa prairie remnant

Bruce Morrison shares images of fall colors on his prairie remnant and explains how they approach autumn burns and seeding.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 3d

Wheel big, which is a kind of assassin bug

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 3d

Don't have the right equipment to capture this either visually or auditorily, but starlings starting to flock up again.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 3d

Complained about the drought yesterday and we got some rain, so this is me officially complaining about the drought again today.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 4d

She had been married to Daniel Moder for the past 22 years.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 4d

As did Julia Roberts

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 4d

Officially back in drought. Blerg

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 6d

Good idea

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 6d

Haven't had time to bird, but I can tell migration is underway because the local ponds have more herons and egrets showing up.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting tidbit from our weekly anti-Trump protest in my small, red KS town. Starting to harvest corn, so 4 grain trucks drove past us. All of them gave us long, enthusiastic honks of support.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 6d

Ordered sneezeweed seeds & the company accidentally sent me the wrong species. They quickly fixed it, but now I have 6 packets of Helenium flexuosum that I can't use because it's not native to my chunk of KS. Does anyone know of a restoration that would want them? Seeds from MO. #nativeplants

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 6d

New savanna habitat open to the public next to Sleepy Hollow State Park in Michigan.
www.mlive.com/environment/...

Clinton County gets a new nature preserve with conservancy donation

The new Kindell Natural Area is just north of Sleepy Hollow State Park.

www.mlive.com

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

Chickweed Geometer moth. Geometer means Earth measurer because their caterpillars are inchworms.

Close up of yellow moth with red stripes on a white pebbled background.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting that Trump's corruption extends down to the tiniest corners of government. Fired a museum director who refused to illegally give Trump a sword gifted to Eisenhower.
www.kansascity.com/news/state/k...

Head of Kansas’ Eisenhower library forced out over Trump demand for museum sword

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Pr...

www.kansascity.com

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 8d

Chlorophyllum molybdites at the park. Falling back into drought, but a spate of rain has brought out the fall fungi. My ID book says this is a common cause of poisonings because it looks like it should be yummy m

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 10d

Stalk borer moth. Think maybe an ironweed borer or northern burdock borer.

Close up of brown moth with white circle markings on a white pebbled background.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 10d

Grey treefrog with maybe not its best attempt ever of matching color with the background.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 11d

Johnson grass starting to go dormant, so time to start switching over to pulling winter creeper in wooded areas along streams. Too bad we're tipping back into drought, making the ground hard.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 12d

Do you know if any organization has had both their clubs get spooned in the same year?

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Julie Campbell @momrunninglate.bsky.social · 12d

#vaccines #vaccinesavelives #rfkjr #measles #publichealth

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 13d

Must be some kind insect hatch because there were 5 or 6 nighthawks circling the park while I walked the dogs. At least one chimney swift, too .

ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 13d

I'm no good at moth identification, but here are some cool ones I've seen this fall along with one thing trying to eat them.

Close up of black and yellow garden spider suspended from a web against a white pebbled background.

Close up of brown striped moth on a white pebbled background.

Close up of brown speckled moth on a white pebbled background.

Close up of speckled brown moth on a white pebbled background.

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 13d

I worry that Trump is over extending the military as I understand he is now ordering troops to Grover's Mill, NJ on reports of objects falling from the sky .

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 13d

Holding penalties the only consistent #kufball defender today.

ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 13d

New issue of Hogan's Alley just arrived.

Magazine cover with cartoons of Charlie Brown, Bob Hope, the Yellow Kid, a woman pilot from the 30s, and Jiggs who is a character from an old comic strip

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