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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝

@fishsqueezer.bsky.social

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Biologist in Idaho, lover of nature, taking pictures, books, family, art. Politically active & outraged, but that's not why I'm on Bluesky. Views my own. Profile photos ALT text: pfp: 4-frame collage with spouse, horse, Monstera, fish banner: beaver pond

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 8h

Somebody did a smash and grab and completely cleaned out my favorite chanterelle spot, but I bet I still got better pictures than them.

I've never seen a mushroom growing from a mossy rock in the middle of a river before. I can't imagine what it's eating. 📷🍄

Brightly lit moss and an out of focus conifer forest behind a large brown mushroom with yellow pores under the cap.

A tiny orange mushroom grows from some moss in the middle of a river.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 8h

but at least they destroyed a little bit of the climate in the process

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 22h

The egg was a gesture of love

a man in a suit and tie is saying can i offer you a nice egg in this tryin time

Alt: Danny Devito in a suit and tie is saying "can i offer you a nice egg in this tryin time".

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm convinced we all had a Vitamin C deficiency as children. I just CRAVED the stuff.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta just use a spoon like a fancy person.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my gosh...so the chickens roost in the rafters inside the top of the coop. My 4 year old came with me tonight to feed/water/gather the eggs. One of the chickens laid an egg from the roost and nailed him right on top of the head! The funniest thing I have seen in a long while, hahaha. 🌱🪶

A blond child whose distraught face is covered with white privacy squiggles has egg white in his hair and egg yolk on his shirt and arm.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief, that's a LOT of sugar, hahaha

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

I like to eat frozen orange juice concentrate straight from the tube and pretend that it's just strong sorbet withn extra vitamins.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

what does that even mean

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Curse them! Sneaky little hobbitses.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes they give up. Sometimes they "shortstop", which is what biologists call it when they're forced to spawn further downstream in worse habitat. Sometimes they make it through with persistence, but they waste energy that could have been better spent on spawning.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

That's tough to arbitrate, because if there's a pipe, sometimes structures like that are the only source of water for under-served households and communities. I don't always know the right answer. But if someone's doing it recreationally like the people at this state park, then definitely eff off.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Where I grew up by Sedona, sometimes creek beds were so littered with tourist cairns that not a single moveable rock had been left in its natural position. Catastrophic for invertebrates and juvenile fish.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

In my experience, beaver dams are much more complex. They are sinuous with little cascades & rivulets on the sides & all around, & the water usually flows over the top so trout can wiggle over/through. These rock dams force the stream to flow in the hyporheic zone, which is impassable to large fish.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

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Made it to the natural migration barrier at the end of my survey. Thanks for accompanying me on my journey. Struck out on bull trout, but the day wasn't without its pleasures. 🐟🪶🦊 #nativeplants

A double waterfall cascades past large boulders in a conifer forest.

A great horned owl stares back at me from the branches of a tree.

Some kind of riparian blueberry bush in full fruit.

A worn, shed whitetail antler lies on a sandbar next to a log in a riparian area.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone eventually dies, so I wouldn't be mad if it came a little early to certain people, but I'm not going to call anybody out specifically, haha.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also against cairns unless they're built with non riparian rocks on private land, in which case I don't have an opinion. But I'm definitely not a fan of cairns on public land. In either situation, they're nowhere near as destructive as a channel spanning rock dam.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Oh gosh, it's getting worse. Also, I lost my phone in the creek while disassembling this rock dam, thank Cthulhu I was able to find it.

An even taller rock dam blocking the path of a creek.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

I say this every year during bull trout spawning season, but please don't build rock dams across streams with migratory fish (especially during a record drought). 🐟🧪

Somehow the world must figure out how to survive the loss of your artistry when you die, so you mind as well help us by stopping now.

A boulder and cobble dam built across a stream at low water, blocking the surface flow of the water.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 2d

I will admire the spooky owls and there's several things you can do about it but I hope you don't.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I totally get the nickname now, those males are quite the body mutilation freaks.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 2d

I was equally astonished.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 2d

Disco rice hahahahork

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, yeah, this was in a bear kitchen so it got waylaid by a daggum mammal before the capitulation of its journey.