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loriweidenhammer.ca
beespeaker
@loriweidenhammer.ca
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Writer, artist, and advocate for native bees in British Columbia. Author of the revised edition of Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide for Saving the Bees.
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Hold your loved ones close to your heart today and all days. Look to nature to comfort and soothe your soul. Let kindness bond us together and heal each other's wounds.
women walking a path together between a row of trees
February 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Can you spot the river otter? So delighted to see a pair on the Kettle River yesterday with my walking group! #WestbridgeBC
A river otter perches on a log on the shore of the Kettle River
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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adencrossing.bsky.social
Took a little road trip. I forgot how beautiful the foothills are. They are way too dry but the ground was at least moist. I came home to high winds and reports of several grass fires.
Car on a road running straight through the foothills with the Rocky Mountains in the distance. There is a dairy farm on the left side of the road. There is almost no snow left.
February 8, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Advance praise for Backyard Alchemy from Lori Weidenhammer:

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Advance praise for Backyard Alchemy "Backyard Alchemy is a poetic diary revealing the writer's intimate relationship with the land they labor over, one handful of soil at a time. With a botanist's passion, they forage, prune, seed, and unearth truths and histories with long and tangled roots, each with their own ghosts clinging to them. J.D. Ho is writer as alchemist— taking the things we love to hate: rusted nails, stink bugs and invasive plants, and transforming them into a bold tapestry that is illuminating, soulful and ultimately hopeful." Lori Weidenhammer, author of Victory Gardens for Bees
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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This book is transformative. Order it now.
riverriverbooks.bsky.social River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 9d
GOOD MORNING, COVER REVEAL! Our final spring cover is here! Nonfiction & so striking. Welcome to Backyard Alchemy, on life with other creatures in a time of salvage by J.D. Ho, design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social. @nematode.bsky.social 📚💙🎉

You can preorder here: riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...
Book cover: black background with a rusty fish can, the kind with a key on the top you roll back, opened. Title font and author name in gradient white font. A light striking the can and font.
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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We have a few red-breasted nuthatches this winter and the yard is filled with their nasally beeps.
But there is occasionally a slightly louder nasally beep and it belongs to this guy!
This male White-breasted nuthatch was in today checking out the spruce trees for snacks!
#Birds 🪶
A male white-breasted nuthatch clings to the side of a spruce tree trunk. The background is a warm orange brown of some out of focus branches. He has a very dark black cap and necklace (shows he’s a male) and a beautiful blue/grey back. We can just see the rust coloured feathers on his rump.
February 2, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
🌿
A close-up of a porcupine walking right to left across a snowy field.
February 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Who needs a few seconds of peace? Here's a burrowing owlet watching the sun go down with me. 🪶
January 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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Snow-laden branches bear their weight with grace.
The burden transforms as light makes it luminous.
The breeze sways, air soft and breathable.

We endure the weight of a relentless storm. Exhaustion heavy. Yet your resilience warms us, Minnesota.
We're with you, Minnesota. 🤝🙏
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Good morning! 🪶
Two burrowing owlets playing.
January 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Walking #Birds 🪶🦢
On the road to nowhere .
Mute Swan walking on the ice .
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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kwiaht.org
Some of what we're working on to support food security, cultural landscapes, and agricultural biodiversity in the islands.
January 23, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
The invasive spotted lanternfly is a prodigious producer of honeydew, a sweet, sticky substance that attracts such a variety of arthropods that it may rearrange local food webs. A new study finds arthropods in 35 families feeding on SLF honeydew, including ants, wasps, katydids, and more.
Sugar Rush: Spotted Lanternfly Honeydew Attracts Variety of Fellow Insects
The invasive spotted lanternfly's copious production of honeydew may rearrange local food webs, with arthropods in at least 35 taxonomic families feeding on it, per a new study.
entomologytoday.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
loriweidenhammer.ca
@dragonbyte.ca rockin' the homemade wontons!
January 21, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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You know you're living rural when . . .
January 21, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Wonderful walk with my crew today!
January 21, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
Berry Inspection Crew is ready to get to work
(Bohemian Waxwings #birds 🌿)
A group of 10 elegant grey and peach birds with black bandit masks and head crests is perched close together at the top of a bare tree against a blue sky.
January 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Fun ways to celebrate Dark Sky Week, green hair salons, spa treatments for whales, and peatland restoration: EcoWest News, January 13, 2026
EcoWest News, January 13, 2026
Fun ways to celebrate Dark Sky Week, green haircare, spa treatments for whales, and peatland restoration: EcoWest News, January 13, 2026
ecofriendlywest.ca
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
loriweidenhammer.ca
I managed to break two teeth over the holidays. Strewth! Anyway, got one looked after today and the reward was a nice stop at Vaseaux Lake. Saw about forty swans a swimming.
Shoutout to Dr. Jung at Enamel Dental Centre in Penticton. Awesome dental team: professional, caring, and efficient!
A white dot on the lake which represents one of the swans we saw. a duck rising from the sunlit lake one of the many signs depicting the wildlife on the lake
January 8, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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we need this, but bug wings
kristalerista.bsky.social Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · Jan 6
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶

So pretty!

www.featherbase.info/zh/home
A picture of green jay feathers (Cyanocorax luxuosus). They are all lined up and organized: primaries, secondaries, coverts, tail feathers. Most of the feathers are gray with a green tip.
January 7, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FoodFinds (a bird with food in its mouth) and this Common Loon (in winter plumage) has found a green crab for breakfast.

#birds #photography #marinelife
A common loon in its dull grey and white non-breeding plumage is swimming on the ocean with a small green crab in its mouth.
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
“I am penguin"
#birds
Small grey sparrow with white belly and pink beak is standing on one foot on a little mound of snow. It is not a penguin; it is a Slate-coloured Junco.
January 7, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Interesting glow this morning
Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
A male Phidippus audax, aka a bold jumping spider. "Audax" means bold; I don't know if it refers to the spider's color pattern or its behavior. Honestly, it could be both. This handsome one posed nicely for me exactly seven years ago today, 1/6/2019.
A macro photo looking straight into the face of a jumping spider. The spider is standing on a yellow leaf with a few patches of red and green. The spider is mostly black with white bands of fuzzy hair on his legs and palps. His chelicerae (mouthparts that end in the fangs) are a brilliant metallic blue-green. He is cute.
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM