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This is an image taken in the North Cascades National Park this past summer. Miss that weather! #Photography #NationalPark #Washington #Nature 📷

December 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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Get To Know Nature

@gettoknownature.bsky.social

The remains of the Ironweed flowers, still looking lovely.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#BloomScrolling #NativePlants 🌿

Dried brown flowers on a thin stem looking sculptural and still very pretty.

December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM

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Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

Where a love
of natural beauty
has been cultivated,
all nature becomes
a stupendous gallery.
~Horace Mann

🌿❄️🦌❄️🌿

#Scape 🍃
#ForestFriday 🌲
#GetOutThere 🧭
#GreenTherapy 💚
#WeekendVibes 🌿
#EastCoastKin ☮️
#LookingAtYou 👁️
#Photography 📸
#Landscape 🖼️
#Snowscape ❄️
#Mammals 🦌

A serene Mule Deer is looking back at you from a snowy knoll out of a Bob Ross painting, naturally framed by Ponderosa Pine trunks, Scrub oaks, and snow-covered boulders in afternoon light.

December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM

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Dreamcatcher

@dreamcatcher01.bsky.social

Song Sparrow

Belting out a tune...

December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM

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Rob Crank Photography

@robcrank68.bsky.social

Time for #3sDay so i'm going with Grey Seals at Donna Nook, captured on a very cold morning in November.

#mammals #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #naturetherapy #PhotographyIsArt #GreySeals #Wildlife

December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM

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Guzz

@guzz.bsky.social

To the left.

December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM

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Steve McKerrall

@photosteve.bsky.social

Look who’s hiding in the tall marsh reeds
(Mule Deer)
#mammals #deer

A mule deer barely visible peering out of thick marsh reeds

December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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Nature Art by Gibson

@azgibsonz.bsky.social

The four faces of #Hummingborb... 🤘🫠

...also this morning! Today's #birding! #BorbAlert Pt. 2 🪶

📸 Calypte anna #borb

#Hummingbirds
#TheLittleThings
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#yimby 🌿

It was chilly this morning, and my borby Anna's male was willing to let me stick my lens in his face while he warmed up on the feeder. First, the innocent look...

Then the surprised look...oh, you're taking pictures???

Now he's getting angry, how dare you take my picture when I'm so round...

...and the finale, the face on gorget flare from a borb Anna's so you really feel his vibe this morning.

December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Janet Hill

@saskajanet.bsky.social

Chickasquee
#birds 🌿

Ridiculously adorable puffball of a bird with black cap and white cheeks is perched on the tip of a bare twig. It’s real name is Black-capped Chickadee.

December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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betsy cooley

@betsycooley.bsky.social

Black-crowned Night Heron with neck extended standing in mud on shoreline of San Francisco Bay, Emeryville, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Medium-size shorebird with white feathers on body and face, dark blue on top of head and part of neck, orange eyes. Pale blue water with small area of reflection of setting sun.

December 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM

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Daniel Bastaja

@kupac1.bsky.social

One of the highlights of today's birding was this Australian Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus).. a small, dainty nightjar with a big head and huge eyes. It is Australia's smallest nocturnal bird. #BirdingAustralia #nightjars #BirdingSouthAustralia

December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM

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toritori

@toritorihkd.bsky.social

Round and feathered, they carry warmth where the cold forgets 😊🪶
本日はよくばり盛り盛りタグ祭りにします‼️ #モフ曜日 #ふくふく鳥選手権 #ムチムチの鳥をミチミチに収めるさあ、どっからでもかかってきなさい😎
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #EurasianNuthatch #ゴジュウカラ #birds #野鳥

A close-up of a Eurasian Nuthatch perched on a pebble-covered ground. The bird is slightly puffed up, showing its soft, dense winter plumage. Its head is tilted upward, revealing a black eye stripe and a pointed beak.
小石が散らばる地面にとまったゴジュウカラのクローズアップ。鳥はふっくらと羽毛を立てており、冬の密な羽毛の質感がよくわかる。頭を少し上げ、黒い過眼線と尖った嘴が見えている。

December 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM

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Daniel Bastaja

@kupac1.bsky.social

Bound to run into my first wild Koala & today it happened. Photo a little dark because it was before sunrise. Surprised at how they sleep all day in very exposed positions. Apparently their diet of eucalyptus leaves makes their flesh so unpalatable that many predators won't touch them. 😂 #koalas

December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Sue

@cameratrapsue.bsky.social

Furnando, the grey fox, out and about in the snow last night. I think one of the reasons this area is so popular with the local wildlife is that it's quite protected from the elements and lets them root around in most weather. #mammals

A black and white night photo showing a grey fox, broadside to the camera with his head towards the right of the frame. His large, bushy tail is close to the camera. His ears are alert and we can see the black area of his muzzle. He is a magnificent fox.

A night photo from my camera trap showing part of my garden with small landscaping rocks on the ground, shrubs and plants are dotted around in the background. There is some snow on the plants and in the background. A grey fox is on the right side of the frame, his head looking towards the left. His ears are alert and we can see the black area on his muzzle. The black tip to his bushy tail is just visible.

The same area of the garden as the other two photos, this photo shows Furnando, the grey fox, entering the protected part of the garden. He's walking in snow that is only a couple of inches deep. There is snow on the plants in the background as well.

December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Peter Clayton

@petermclayton.bsky.social

Tufted duck on the Somerset levels #birds

December 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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Daniel Bastaja

@kupac1.bsky.social

Female Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris). I think the genus name translates as "thick head" 😄 Definitely has a big head relative to the body. #BirdingAustralia #BirdingSouthAustralia #whistlers

December 4, 2025 at 10:08 AM

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Jamara

@jamara33.bsky.social

Drool

#Nikon #photography #PhotographersUnited #ClassicMono #monochrome #nature #EastCoastKin 📷 #scape

December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Wendy Miller

@burrowingowl.bsky.social

Good morning! 🪶

Three fuzzy burrowing owlets in front of their burrow.

December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM

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Erin Spencer, PhD

@etspencer.bsky.social

Very cool new paper: Scientists observed a whiplash squid covering itself in mud, the first time this behavior has been documented for squid. They suspect the squid was arranging its tentacles to look like the stalks of a sponge or worm 🦑🌊🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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Jerod Poore

@jerod23.bsky.social

#TeamOrca #GuillotineWatch #CompostTheRich

Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 13h

good reminder that larry ellison had a hoop on his yacht and then had a guy in a speedboat behind to pick up all the balls that fell off

luxurylaunches.com/transport/04...

Not wanting to pollute the ocean, Larry Ellison employs a man who follows his $160 million superyacht in a speedboat. This person's sole job is to retrieve the basketballs that go overboard while the ...

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December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM

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Paul Gundlach

@paulsgundlach.bsky.social

Happy Thursday! We're almost through the week! We had a quiet but pretty sunrise this morning with some textured clouds and blue skies complementing the yellow sun at the horizon. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!