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This cute little roan colt was with a family band in the Little Book Cliffs HMA, when I visited in 2024
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A close-up, zoomed-in image of roan colt with a fuzzy light colored coat over a black base; his face has shed out to black while his body remains fuzzy and almost white. his mane and forelock are black. He is facing the camera with his head turned looking towards the right side of the image, and we can see two out of focus bay horses in the background, grazing among the sparse green shrubs. In this second image we see the same colt, upper body and close-up, looking relaxed and curious as he gazes straight at the camera. The shrub-dotted wall of a canyon rises in the background.
February 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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One of Sable Island's famous ipswich savannah sparrows: wayyyyy out in the North Atlantic, this island is critical for breeding and nesting. #photography #birbs
Against a soft green and beige backdrop of out of focus dune grasses, a small sparrow perches on a braided wire fence cable. The bird has a light brown mottled plumage and a small bill, and is sitting in the left side of the frame looking towards the right.
February 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Stallion colleagues at McCullough Peaks HMA sharing a little moment of communications
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Against a backdrop of distant mountains and a stormy looking sky, two stallions stand together in the center of the image. One is a black pinto, the other a bay. Both have scuffs, scars, and a bit of mud in their coats. The bay horse is leaning his face against the pinto's butt, and the pinto is stomping a front hoof, the image catching him with his right front hoof raised and outstretched as he looks at the bay with some mild vexation. Second image in this series, the bay horse is looking calm and almost sleepy, while the pinto is beginning to turn towards him, his neck arched. In this third image in the series, the bay horse still has his four feet planted, relaxed, as the pinto stretches his neck around so they can almost snuffle each other's muzzles. The pinto has gone from "grrrr" to "what ya doing." The two horses now step off in a walk side by side, looking purposeful
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Today in #tardigrade news
www.earth.com/news/scienti...
Scientists rediscover 'water bears' off the coast of Malaysia after 50 years
Scientists rediscover marine tardigrades, or "water bears," in Malaysia after 50 years, and describe a new species hidden in coastal sand.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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#Caturday with one of the Sweetwater Wetlands bobcats
#photography #wildlife
a cat's-eye view of a wild bobcat who is walking at a right-to-left oblique angle generally towards the camera. she is caught in a walk stride with her left front paw lifted and she is focusing on something on the ground ahead of her, out of frame off the lower left side of the image. Her setting is desert-wetlands vegetation and shrubs.
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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A few of the birbs of Whitewater Draw in southern Arizona:
🐦‍⬛ a black phoebe who seemed captivated by the sight of hundreds of sandhill cranes taking flight at once
🦆 a pintail duck
🐦sandhill cranes
🦅 a coopers hawk

#photography #birbs #wildlife
a black Phoebe is perched in a cottonwood tree in fall yellows and browns; we can see blue sky through the branches, and the bird is sitting in the right side of the frame, looking towards the left. A pintail duck is flying right to left in the frame, approaching a landing with wings upswept and landing gear beginning to come down. We can see brown marsh vegetation out of focus in the bottom strip of the image and the sky is a dull light blue-gray. Two sandhill cranes glide side by side in a clear blue sky, and coming down to land such that we see both of their wings stretched straight out side to side and their legs and feet swinging downwards. A head and shoulders portrait of a coopers hawk who is sitting in a fall-colors cottonwood tree, surrounded by twigs and yellow leaves, with blue sky peeking through. The bird takes up the right-center of the frame and she is looking downwards towards the lower left corner of the image.
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Assateague Island National Seashore: N09O-J Dewey, N2BHS-CK Johnny's Star, and N2BHS-CKW Peytona Star are a little family band together. Dewey seems like a great stepdad to Peytona Star! #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A pinto pony walks towards the camera atop a windswept sand dune with tall grass. The pony has a crooked blaze and blue eyes and his forelock, mane, and tail are flying in the wind, with a light blue cloudy sky in the background. A bay pinto two year old pony walks over the top of a sand dune among high dune grass, with a line of tall pines in the distance, under a cloudy blue sky. The pony's mane and tail are blowing a bit in the wind. A bay pinto pony mare is standing and looking intently towards her bandmates on top of a sand dune among grasses and other plants. While her body faces left-to-right, she is craning her neck around to look over her left shoulder towards the right side of the frame. Her tail lifts in the wind and the sky is cloudy.
February 6, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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For Foal Friday: this Salt Wells Creek family is so adorable - mare, foal, and yearling, all variations on a theme!
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A spirited looking bay mare and her two kids - a yearling and a foal - walk closely together. They each are bay with stockings and blazes, you can tell they are related! Their setting is arid sagebrush and grassland, a gulch behind them with low bluffs in the background.
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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I just watched the Starfleet Academy ep “Series Acclimation Mil” and OH MY GOOD GRAVITATIONAL SINGULARITY. What a bunch of dingdang treats!
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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From a few years ago, the Theodore Roosevelt National Park stallion Arcola, bopping around his badlands home
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A medium gray horse with a blaze and hind stockings walks from right to left in the frame, looking slightly towards the camera with some curiosity. His setting is a short grass prairie hillside that slopes up behind him. In this next image the same stallion is walking purposefully with a big stride, right to left in the frame. Here, the horse has come to a stop and is facing slightly away from the camera but looking back at it over his left shoulder, ears pricked forward. It is a wider angle image that gives us a view of rolling grassy hills and badlands formations in the background.
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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During my brief visit to the Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma City last month, I accidentally stumbled across Bath Time For All Robins. Bunch of birbs splashing around in this little creek, it was really cute. #photography #wildlife #birbs
A zoomed-in shot of two American robins in shallow creek water, which is reflecting the brown of the surrounding fallen leaves. The robins are bathing, both facing the camera, and the image catches them wiggling their bodies in the water and flapping their wings. Little drops of water fly through the air. The next image in the series, in which the robin on the left is dipping its breast feathers into the water, and the one on the right is looking at the other bird. Another moment, both birds caught in a moment of stillness, still sitting in the water. In the final image of the series, the bird on the left is giving its wings a vigorous shake as the bird on the left gives its butt a good wiggle.
February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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I need a print of this so bad
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Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish
February 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Ozark National Scenic Riverways: a wee foal pokes around the Shawnee Creek meadow with mom. This tyke will grow out of that dark coat as she ages; it's likely underneath she is a combination of gray and appaloosa like most of the horses in the Shawnee Creek herd. #photography #wildhorses
In a green grassy summer meadow ringed by an oak and hemlock forest, a dark brown foal with a star marking on her face walks carefully, head down, through the grass. Just behind her an older gray mare with mottled pink skin on her muzzle and a long tangled mane follows.
February 3, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Two besties in the White Mountain herd
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A buckskin mare and a chestnut mare are standing close together, both facing straight at the camera. They are alert but unafraid, with ears pricked forward towards the photographer. They are standing in almost knee-high sagebrush and grass, a very gentle slope rising behind them to a background of a clear light blue sky.
February 3, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Yellow-rumped warbler chips and chirps are the winter soundtrack of a lot of North American habitats! This one is the Sweetwater wetlands in Arizona. #photography #wildlife #birbs
In a tangle of mesquite tree branches and twigs, with patches of blue sky showing, a small yellow and gray warbler perches on a small branch in the right side of the frame, looking towards the left.
February 3, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Sable Island: a band stallion is beyond exasperated as he tries to move his mares away from the other bands nearby.
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
in almost chest-deep grass and a sand dune setting, a liver chestnut stallion is galloping with his head forward and ears pinned back. Ahead of him two darker liver chestnut mares are running. One has a blaze and one a small star and snip marking. The mares look mildly irritated and the stallion has HAD IT.
February 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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February 2, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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A black tailed prairie dog in South Dakota's Black Hills peers around, checking on whether the US Congress has grown a spine and decided to defund and dismantle ICE.
#photography #wildlife
The setting is a closeup in short grass prairie as a prairie dog sits up on her haunches, with her upper body visible above the grass. She is in the right side of the frame, facing and looking towards the left side with her front paws relaxed down in front of her.
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Bandmates scratching each other's backs, in the absolutely gorgeous landscape of the Green Mountain HMA
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A gray adult horse and a black yearling stand alongside each other face to face so they can mutually back-scratch with their teeth. They are in rocky sagebrush hills and a large stark-looking mountain rises in the background alongside a cloudy blue sky.
February 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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Black vultures are particularly delightful tree ornaments! Assateague Island National Seashore
#photography #wildlife #birbs
In this vertically oriented image, the top of a dead tree trunk, bark mostly stripped off, rises in the center of the image with a clear light blue sky background. Two black vultures perch on the tree - one on top and one on a knot just below the top bird.
February 3, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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An Onaqui Mountain HMA bachelor stallion on a pretty late-spring pre-dawn morning #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
With a background of a pink-orange cloudy pre-dawn sky and a snow-capped mountain peak, a stout dark bay horse stands in the lower right corner of the image in a right-to-left oblique angle to the camera. We can see the small star marking on his face. He is standing amid sagebrush and tall grass.
February 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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A wild burro in her rocky domain up on Box Springs Mountain in Riverside County California #photography #wildburros #bonkersforburros
In a foggy scene, a wild burro with a standard gray coat is standing in the lower left corner of the image, looking to the right side of the frame. The landscape is arid, with sparse short vegetation; there is a mountainside covered in light brown boulders riding in the near background.
February 3, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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If you are far from Minneapolis you can donate on Venmo or Paypal: @powwowgrounds
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February 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM