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Spooky Swamp 🎃

@swampvids.bsky.social

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A sentient swamp is here to chill you out with original nature videos and field recordings, or as the kids like to call it, "Swamp ASMR". The swamp's bluesky includes unfinished work, musings, experimentation, and photography. linktr.ee/SwampVids

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 45m

Welcome to bluesky! Nice to see you recognizing the expansion of North Korean style propaganda as an essential service during your shutdown. Woke swamp here. Been trying to get on your domestic terrorist watch list but your sign-up form on your website appears to be a dead link. Please add! Thanks!

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 12h

Found the goldmine video. Here. Bookmark this. Any time you are sad or anxious, you must listen to these little gremlin muppet sounds.
youtube.com/shorts/VPo2S... 🪶 #crows #babybirds #cute

Hand Feeding A Baby Crow

YouTube video by Whispering Willow Wild Care

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 12h

Important: If you have a goldmine video of baby crows eating and you politely share it with the world online and you put music over the sound, you just broke the whole video, seriously, why would do that? Why?

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Street Biologist @streetbiologist.bsky.social · 23h

#BirdOfTheDay for Saturday, 18 October 2025.
Theme: #Black.
A Raven perched on the crown of a spruce tree.
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #EastCoastKin #Albertabirds #Canadabirds #photography #NikonZ9 #nikonphotographer #birdsofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost pipe coming next week. It's taking a while to write.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

After ovipositing, she wraps her eggs in a silken blanket which she carries around in her jaws like a bundle of kittens until they hatch.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

This particular species is more likely to cannibalize PRIOR to mating. Once she's mated, she chills out and goes back to eating fish. So...it might just be related to mate choice. Yep, sorry guys, you're not tragic heroes, you're just food.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

And the males are lured straight into the sea witch's trap and that's where things get awkward, because there's a 60% chance she will try to eat him. Another one of those weird and beautiful tales of self-sacrifice to nourish the young spiderlings, right? Not so simple.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

The males have an exciting life because the females will place a spell on top of the water in the form of pheromones. "Please, come closer! Closerrrr!" speak the pheromones.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

Dolomedes scriptus, the striped fishing spider, a giant as far as New England arachnids go. They walk on water! They dive underwater! They eat fish! Yes! Great, ok. Moving on. ⬇️
#swampspider #arachnids #bugsky #weirdnature #spookyswamp

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Mark Hawkes @grafhamwbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to find this Jack Snipe at Grafham Water this afternoon (only the 5th time I’ve seen this species here). Also happy to find 5 Common Scoters @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirding #cambirds

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 1d

What is it about our eastern climate that ranges from temperate to tropical with generally consistent rainfall and few extreme environments is so inhospitable to non-native plants?

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 3d

A cute springtail hangs with its white-footed slime mold friends

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 640
Stack of 9 images
8/29/25
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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A nearly microscopic bug that has a bulbous body, an ant-like head, and two long antennae crawls on a thin piece of wood which has a slime mold growing on it. The slime mold has a short white stalk and the top is a long cylindrical-shaped, reflective thing. It looks like a small bean but reflects a faint blue, green and purple in the light.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 2d

What would you like tonight? Fishing spiders or ghost pipe vid?

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

First one to name all the warblers correctly can have the swamp.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 3d

The swamp may have unintentionally managed to start a flamewar over warblers. Are you impressed?

Internet...blessed internet...you are so unique. And important.

Anyway, maybe it's time to go back to making videos! Chill out and enjoy a bird pile. 🪶 #naturevideos #calm #warblers #timelinecleanse

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 5d

Please, everyone, get rid of your bird netting and decorate your windows immediately.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 5d

Why is there no "mute all dead wood thrushes" filter on inaturalist? Completely archaic, disturbing website. You're all about to have a trauma case swamp.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 5d

Bravo callback!

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 5d

Swamp update: It’s raining!!

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6d

Ready to have your mind-blown? These are the SAME species. #birds #herons #babybirds

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, the oversized chick

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6d

PRECIOUS. #birds #acornwoodpecker

Acorn woodpecker atop its granary with an acorn in its beak.

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6d

Trying to create a project for bird undersides on inaturalist but apparently you need 50 observations before you're deemed adept enough to start such a project.

You're supposed to record each individual as a separate observation for science on that site, correct?

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Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6d

Ruby-crowned kinglet butt for your viewing pleasure. #fallmigration 🪶

Human's eye view of a ruby-crowned kinglet perched in a tree. You can only see its underside with tail pointed up.

Spooky Swamp 🎃 @swampvids.bsky.social · 6d

The ruby-crowned kinglets have returned. #birdcount