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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist

@rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social

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I am a Master Naturalist, nonfic writer, nature educator, tour guide, and all-around nature nerd who spends too much time in front of screens. Author of "The Everyday Naturalist" (Ten Speed Press, June 2025). PNW. AuDHD. She/her. RebeccaLexa.com

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · Feb 26

My sample paperback of #TheEverydayNaturalist arrived yesterday from Ten Speed Press! Check out the cover/interior art by Ricardo Macia Lalinde! Preorder signed copies at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #books #NaturalHistory #animals #plants #fungi #SlimeMolds #FungiFriends #Nature #wildlife #authors 🌿

A photograph of a book called The Everyday Naturalist resting on a green cloth. The book has a dark blue cover with an array of colorful plants, animals, and fungi framing the front cover.

A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about slime mold, with illustrations depicting two different types of slime mold growing on logs, one that looks like a huge, sprawling pretzel, and the other like swaths of brown hair.

A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about identifying animals by both visual and tactile textures, and a colorful illustration showing a pair of antlers, a salamander, and a horseshoe crab all wrapped in greenery.

A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about how to identify plants by size and shape, and with an illustration of the trunks of Sitka spruce and western hemlock trees.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, I forgot to add tags. If you like these things, check out what this is a reply to! It is, in fact, a very happy skeet! #Denver #Colorado #books #bookstores #BookSigning #authors #nature #NaturalHistory 🌿 💙📚

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Denver showed UP tonight!!! Tattered Cover sold out of more books than you see here, and has to order a bunch more that are already spoken for. Thank you, everyone--St. Joseph, MO is next on Oct. 11!

A group of people of various demographics sitting in a few rows of chairs in a bookstore. Many are holding the same book as the author, who stands smiling in the middle of them.

A stack of books with dark blue spines and green text that says The Everyday Naturalist, Lexa. They sit on a brown wooden table in a bookstore.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

A few photos I took while driving through the #WasatchMountains from #SLC to #Denver yesterday. My book signing is at 6pm tonight at the Colfax Tattered Cover location! You can see all my #BookTour dates and locations at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #Utah #Colorado #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿 💙📚

A photo of two large rock hills next to each other, studded with scrubby bushes, with a blue sky and puffy white clouds overhead.

A landscape with scrubby bushes and trees, with a large brown outcropping of rock rising from the ground, and a blue sky overhead.

The sun shining brightly through a crevice in a dark stone cliffside. The sun's beams almost obscure a small waterfall trickling down the side of the rock. The sky is blue.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

I have a birdwatching field class through Portland Community college every semester except winter. We went a couple weeks ago, and we got to see one of these guys, though not doing acrobatics. Great look at their gorgeous color scheme, though!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! I love herons (green herons are my favorite 💚)

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 2d

#SaltLakeCity has an impressive #bookstore culture--and that's coming from someone who live in #Portland! Spent the past couple days exploring the #bookstores here, but today I drive to #Denver for my 10/07 6pm #BookSigning at the Colfax Tattered Cover. #nature #nonfiction 🌿 💙📚

A picture of a Caucasian woman with light brown hair, a gray t-shirt with herons on it, and a gray skirt and brown purse with mushrooms, standing in front of a tall bookshelf full of books on nature. She holds a copy of a book called The Everyday Naturalist, and she is smiling happily.

A close-up photo of a book called The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go, written by Rebecca Lexa. It has a dark blue cover, green text, and the border is full of brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms. It sits on a bookshelf with its cover facing out, flanked by the spines of neighboring books.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 3d

Oh cool!!!! Thanks for this!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 3d

Just a few people trickling through my #BookSigning in Salt Lake City, but the #Nature Center at Pia Okwai has given us lots of great flora and fauna to talk about!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 4d

Lovely, rainy day in #SaltLakeCity and parts south. #Bookstores and great scenery, plus my first western asters (Symphyotrichum ascendens). Tomorrow's #BookSigning featuring The Everyday #Naturalist is at the Bird Blind at bsky.app/profile/trac... #Nature Center at Pia Okwai, 11am. #Utah #books

A line of dark, deeply grooved mountains, with gray clouds shrouding their peaks, as seen from a city street.

A room whose visible walls are completely covered in a green flush of healthy houseplants. A sign at the top of the wall says Planted in Pages.

A book being pulled from a shelf. It has an aged cream colored cover with no pictures. The text says The Naturalist's Field Journal: A Manual of Instruction Based on a System Established by Joseph Grinnell, by Steven G. Herman.

A close up of a plant with dark green, slender leaves that grow densely on the stems, and flowers with yellow centers around which a single ring of lavender slender petals grow.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 5d

A few pics from last night's #BookSigning at Rediscovered #Books in #Boise, plus a lovely visit to Celebration Park & its #petroglyphs. Heading to #SaltLakeCity today for Sunday's event; #BookTour dates/locales at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #nature #Idaho #Utah #SnakeRiver #author 🌿

A photo of three Caucasian women in casual clothing; the center one has her arms draped over the shoulders of the other two, and all three are smiling. They are standing in front of the Science and Nature shelves of a well-lit bookstore.

A wooden bookshelf with an array of books on stands, plus metal mugs with plants on them. Many of the books have mushroom themes, and the center book is The Everyday Naturalist by Rebecca Lexa.

A photo of a wide blue river lined with willows and other small trees in the foreground. On the far bank is a large hill covered in brown grass. The sky is blue overhead with white clouds accenting the color, and the sun shines brightly.

An etching carved into one of the rocks. It is a long, uneven line with four smaller lines growing off of it in two pairs, like a very simple outline of an animal with four legs, a head, and a tail.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 8d

Also, since I'm doing this whole book tour on my own initiative, if you want to help me a bit with travel costs, there's a tip jar at ko-fi.com/rebeccathena..., or my Venmo is @Rebecca-Lexa.

The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go - Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist

This is the official author's page for the book The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants and Fungi Wherever You Go!

TheEverydayNaturalist.com

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 8d

I'm busy getting packed to leave tomorrow morning for my Big Fall #BookTour (details at TheEverydayNaturalist.com ) Want a copy of The Everyday #Naturalist and can't make it to a signing? You can order from the website, too. #wildflowers #OregonSunshine #Asteraceae #BloomScrolling #books 💙📚

A photo of a thick cluster of bright green plants with sunny yellow round flowers.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you ❤️

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 9d

Quick reminder for my #Portland area folks--I'll be teaching this awesome #Owl pellet class in November! Who wants to sip & dissect with me? Space is limited, register at www.experimentpdx.com/event-detail... #PDX #Oregon #PNW #birds #nature #bones #science #Owlpellets #SciComm RS OK 🌿🦉🦴

An image with a light brown background, and a green rectangle featuring white line art of an owl. The text on the image reads Dissect & Sip: Not Your Kid's Owl Pellet Workshop!

It's time for a treasure hunt--and the treasure is BONES! Join us for a 21+ only dissect and sip, where you can enjoy an adult beverage while tearing into an owl pellet to find out what sorts of critters these nocturnal birds have been eating. You'll also get to learn cool facts about owls, how to tell one tiny bone from another, and take home the bony booty (no, not THAT kind of booty!) you've unearthed. All materials for dissection included in the workshop fee; beverages available for purchase on-site. Led by naturalist and author Rebecca Lexa. $35 per person. When and where: 14 November 2025, 6pm - 8pm, at Experiment PDX, 1421 Stark Street, Portland, OR

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 9d

PS: if you’re looking for something EVEN MORE helpful, why not snag a copy of my Extremely Accurate Birds calendar?? Tasteful, educational, and 100% accurate.

www.tommysiegel.net

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 10d

My sad little tomatoes had to go to the chloropyll afterlife, so I scootched my Chrysanthemum next to the Celosia in their place. I'll miss my #garden while I'm on the book tour, but glad everyone else here gets to enjoy it in my stead. #ContainerGarden #flowers #BloomScrolling #gardening #plants

A photo of two pots sitting on a balcony with a black metal railing. The one on the left has a plant with dark green and purple leaves and wild vertical magenta flower tufts. The other is a large rounded hemisphere made of yellow and red disc-shaped flowers with many petals.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 10d

Oh, that one's great 🤣

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you! I've been trying to create a fun collection.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 10d

The Semi-Annual Removal of the Old Peeling #BumperStickers and Placement of the Shiny New Bumper Stickers is complete! I only had to remove two, but I added nearly a dozen! The delightful little line of banana #slugs is trooping along the rearmost driver's-side window. #animals #wildlife #nature 🌿

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 11d

A little #GoodNews: I re-adopted my beach on #SauvieIsland & did my first cleanup in 8 yrs! Got plans for blackberry removal and #NativePlant #HabitatRestoration with SOLVE's help. Lots of folks like me out there making things better even if we don't make the news ❤️ #Oregon #volunteering #HopePunk

A photo of a sandy beach along a wide river lined with green trees on both shores. The sky is blue with ample lines of white and gray clouds hanging low.

A strand of green plant with skinny stems and feathery clusters of leaflets.

A white plastic bag with a pizza box and other garbage tucked into it.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 12d

It’s #TellAFriendFriday! Please enjoy this photo of Fuligo septica (the metal post is 3/4" in diameter). Then RS or send RebeccaLexa.com to someone who may like my #NaturalHistory work & my book The Everyday #Naturalist. #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes #SlimeMolds #Myxogastria #FungiFriends #plasmodium

A close-up photo of a dull gray circle of metal embedded in dark brown, well-worn wood with scattered conifer needles on it. Around the metal is a pale yellow foamy substance.

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 14d

I leave a week from today for my #BookTour! I still have a lot of preparation to do, so wish me luck over the next few days. In the meantime, if you know folks in any of these places, please give them the heads-up that I'm coming through town with #books! #nature #animals #plants #FungiFriends 🌿

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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 14d

So, I found out that it's actually caused by the larva of the fly Chirosia betuleti, and is called "knotting gall". Pretty cool!

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 15d

Weird mutation (disease? genetic?) in a spreading wood #fern (Dryopteris expansa) at Cape Disappointment in SW #Washington. Blade never unfurled but produced pinnae and sporangia. #ferns #plants #botany #nature #PNW 🌿

This and all other photos depict various angles of a fern that, instead of unrolling, instead stayed curled up like a fiddlehead, but produced leaves which now stick out from it in all directions. You can still see the stem wrapped around the outer part of the cluster, and a few of the leaf undersides display pale green dots full of spores.

Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist @rebeccanaturalist.bsky.social · 15d

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