Nola Wilken
@restoringbikes.bsky.social
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Exploring nature by bike and on foot. Science, please. Active transportation, gardening, photography, birding. Vintage cycling enthusiast. www.restoringvintagebicycles.com
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Good morning, Bluesky☀️ #sunrise #landscape #nature 🌱
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Western pearly everlasting. Another crazy plant name! In the Aster family, native, leaves are edible when cooked. #nativeplants 🌱🌿 #asters #nature
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Meant to say orange crowned warbler!🪶
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Yellow-crowned warbler feasting on Dogwood berries. 🪶 #birds #warblers #nature 🌱
Yellow crowned warbler perched sidewise on a dogwood branch.
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Field of rusted dreams? #vintagecars #landscape #photography
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Pacific Chorus Frog, tiny but mighty. 🐸 #frogs #amphibians #treefrog #nature
A pacific chorus frog looking at the camera.
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Rose spirea, Watercress, Nodding Beggarticks, Bird’s-foot-trefoil. Such fun plant names. #nativeplants #wetlands 🌱🌿
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Adorable Downey Woodpecker. Vocal and busy. 🪶 #birds #woodpeckers #nature #photography
A female Downey woodpecker searching branches for insects.
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How Blue are you? California Scrub Jay shows off its colors. 🪶 #nature #birds #photography
Blue jay seen from behind with vibrant blue coloring.
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Another tiny Tree Frog 🐸. This one was relaxing on a walkway near a wetlands. 🌱 #frogs #amphibians #nature
Pacific tree frog resting on walking deck.
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Yellow-Rumped Warbler. Although they are common here I rarely get to see them. #birds 🪶 #photography #nature
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Wooly Bear caterpillar! It will become an Isabella Tiger moth. In folklore, the width of the orange band indicates winter weather with a narrower band indicating a harsher winter! 🐛. 🦋 #caterpillars #wildlife #nature 🌱
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Not bad for an iPhone photo!
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Good morning, Bluesky! Crescent Moon, Venus, and I think Regulus🌕🌘🪐🌠 #nightsky #moon #planets #stars
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Cyclamen, Anemones, Asters. Fall is on the way. 🌱🌿 #gardening #PNW
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Somewhere beyond the sea… 🌊☁️ #nature #pacificocean #photography #seascape #driftwood
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Young female Red Breasted Sapsucker visiting today. 🪶🌱 #birds #wildlife
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Borbish and FAAAT baby Song Sparrow. 🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
Immature Song Sparrow with short tail feathers perched on a branch.
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End of the growing season. The Anaheims and Jalapeños will be seeded, chopped and frozen for winter soups. 🌱🌶️🌿 #gardening #PNW
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Native Jewelweed. It’s an annual that disperses its seeds using a coiling valve mechanism. Thus also known as “touch-me-nots”. #nature #nativeplants 🌱
Jewelweed flowers are bright orange amongst lush green foliage.
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Black angel of death? No, just a wood duck coming in for a landing while his mate observes. 🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife
Black and white silhouette of a wood duck landing on water.