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#Autumn at Akron State Park, NY for #BlueSkyArtShow
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November 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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#NaturePhotoOfTheDay: Common wood-pigeon, not remarkable to people in Europe, but I had never seen one before. Glasgow, Scotland, 10/23/24.
A common wood-pigeon, a bulky gray and white pigeon, foraging in grass and dead leaves.
November 10, 2024 at 2:19 AM
e-van-every.bsky.social
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay A couple of killdeer, which is a type of plover. Very common across the U.S. but can be skittish, so this photo was a good "get" for me. Cape May Point State Park, NJ, 2/15/2013.
Two killdeer, medium-sized plovers (a type of shorebird) with long legs, straight medium-length bills that are blunt at the tip, and brown and white coloring with two black bands around the neck and upper chest. They are standing in the tracks of a vehicle left on a sandy beach.
February 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Snow volcanoes on Lake Ontario. I liked how the opening is perpendicular to the water. #naturephotooftheday
Snow volcano on Lake Ontario. A snow volcano is a temporary outcome of a partially frozen lake.
February 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
e-van-every.bsky.social
Now that I'm home from Scotland and have downloaded all my photos, let's get back to #NaturePhotoOfTheDay. These are deer we spotted from the road on the way from Isle of Skye to Oban. I hope they are red deer but it was dusk so the light is bad and I can't say for sure. Also, there's a story.
Two female deer, with what appears to be a young-of-the-year fawn between them, stand in a field; the stag stands several feet behind them. These may be Scottish red deer but I am uncertain due to low lighting that affects the color. The female deer and fawn from the previous photo are moving off camera into a protective thicket, and the stag is now looking suspiciously at the photographer as he follows the other deer.
October 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
e-van-every.bsky.social
Oh goodness, I haven't done a #NaturePhotoOfTheDay in a while and then a memory feature reminded me of photos of this northern water snake! It was so exciting to see this snake and it wasn't fazed by my presence, though it didn't hang around. Cape May Point State Park, NJ, April 21 2012.
A fairly close shot, from above, of a northern water snake, a colubrid with a small, narrow head and horizontal banding in shades of light and dark brown. This snake is swimming in shallow, fairly clear water; debris and plant life in the water are visible.
April 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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February 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Well I am SUPER bad at remembering to do things consistently, but my archive reminded me of photos from years past on this date, and some EXCELLENT nesting osprey shots from Forsythe NWR in Galloway Twp NJ. #NaturePhotoOfTheDay
A platform nest with osprey in it: One adult watching diligently over three chicks, which are mostly feathered in but still kind of floppy and helpless.
July 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
msmolly27.bsky.social
Perfect little footprints! #naturephotooftheday
Bird footprints in the snow
February 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
e-van-every.bsky.social
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay: Roosevelt elk, Forks WA, October 2021. This was at the airport--those patches of grass along the runway and the limited access provided a convenient and fairly safe place to graze.
A group of elk of various ages resting and grazing in a patch of grass next to a runway on a very rainy day.
November 18, 2024 at 7:19 PM
e-van-every.bsky.social
I got out of the habit of #NaturePhotoOfTheDay due to lots of life-stuff; today is a good day to start again. I'll post new going forward, but on David Lynch's birthday, sharing this again this feels like the right choice. (The reason why is in a reply to the original post.) bsky.app/profile/e-va...
e-van-every.bsky.social Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · Nov 15
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay: A seasonal choice today: Varied thrush. These lovely birds are related to American robins. They engage in altitudinal migration: they spend the breeding season in the mountains, and migrate to lowlands for winter. Photo taken from our balcony in Seattle, November 2019.
Varied thrush standing on a utility wire, with its back to us, but its head turned in profile. This bird has dark bluish-black body plumage with some orangey stippling, and orange head and neck head with bold bluish-black eyestripe and crown stripe. Its shape is a little like an American robin.
January 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Entourée de lumière ✨ / Surrounded by light ✨
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📍 Massif de la Chartreuse, France
📸Nikon Z5
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August 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
e-van-every.bsky.social
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay: A very picturesque Eurasian blackbird, Culloden, Scotland (yes, the battlefield). These are not related to N American blackbirds; they are thrushes and more closely related to American robins (which are NOT related to European robins). Taxonomy & species naming are fun. 😛
A black bird, in profile, with a yellow eyering and bright yellow bill sits in a slender tree amidst fall leaves and bright red berries. Despite the coloring the bird bears a resemblance to an American robin.
October 29, 2024 at 8:10 PM
msmolly27.bsky.social
I’m going to try something new. A daily nature photo to bring some beauty to the timeline. #naturephotooftheday
Red holly berries in the snow
January 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Le saut du Cabri 🦘🐑
The Cabri jump 🦘🐑
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📍 Massif de la Chartreuse , France
📸Nikon Z5
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May 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Dernier Bivouac hivernal 🏔⛺❄
Last winter bivouac 🏔⛺❄
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📍 Massif de Belledonne, France
📸Nikon Z5
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May 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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A different perspective. #naturephotooftheday
Snow covered pine tree viewed from below.
February 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
e-van-every.bsky.social
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay: In honor of the day, an owl, specifically a barred owl, though I don't find these especially spooky. Seward Park in Seattle, November 2017.
A barred owl, a large owl with a rounded head and strong brown barring in its feathers, sits on a tree branch among fall foliage, looking off to the left.
November 1, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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#NaturePhotoOfTheDay I was EXTREMELY excited to see this little bird while we were on a nature walk in Inverness, Scotland: a European robin! I thought they were migratory & I wouldn't see any in October; but they are not, and we were fortunate to see it & get a couple of quick, not-the-best photos.
The important part of this photo is a small songbird at a bit of a distance, sitting on a fence in front of a forested area. The bird has a brown back, bright reddish-orange face and breast, and pale, lightly mottled underparts; it has the narrow, straight beak of an insect-eating bird, a dark eye, and a somewhat inquisitive expression. This bird is a European robin.
February 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
e-van-every.bsky.social
I need to get back in the #NaturePhotoOfTheDay habit. Here's a yellow-crowned night heron at dusk. Taken in the salt marsh at Anchorage Point on Great Egg Harbor Bay (across from Ocean City) in New Jersey, June 2011.
A yellow-crowned night heron standing on a broken dock post at the edge of a salt marsh. The bird has a long, thick black beak, a head with bold white and black colorblocking, an orange eye, and a body feathered in shades of gray.
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
e-van-every.bsky.social
Trying yet again to get consistent with #NaturePhotoOfTheDay and a memory feature brought this: happy 5-year anniversary to the luckiest bird photo I've ever taken, all the more because it was in my own neighborhood. American crow hassles osprey that was trying to eat, Seattle, WA, 6/1/2020.
An osprey sits atop a utility pole against a clear blue sky; not visible in the photo is the fish the osprey had caught and came to the pole to eat. On the right side of the photo, an American crow in flight is pulling on the osprey's tail feathers, hoping to distract the osprey enough to be able to grab some of the osprey's fish.
June 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
msmolly27.bsky.social
A leftover hydrangea poking out of the snow. A Valentine from nature. #naturephotooftheday
A hydrangea bush poking through deep snow. One brown bloom is shaped like a heart.
February 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
e-van-every.bsky.social
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay In honor of #WorldWildlifeDay *and* our national parks, and by request of @secondnaturemb.bsky.social, some critters I photographed at Mount Rainier NP, August 2019:
Wild forget-me-not moth
Canada jay
Sooty grouse
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Wild forget me not moth: a medium-sized moth with a black body, orange on the face, and wings with intricate patterns of black and white. It is feeding on an aster-like flower. A Canada jay sits on the end of a conifer branch peering at someone below. It's a small corvid with white body, gray cap and wings, and a fairly small, pointed bill, as well as a lively black eye. A male sooty grouse crouches under some low trees with a cranky expression. It's a medium chicken-like bird with ashy gray plumage marked with white, a beak like a chicken, a yellow-tan eye, and a bright golden eyebrow that is a field mark for male birds. A golden-mantled ground squirrel sits in profile at the edge of a gravel walking path by some grasses and flowers, holding some seeds in its paws and either eating them or storing them in cheek pouches. It looks a lot like a chipmunk, but its head is bigger and its tail is longer and fluffier. Most of its fur is golden brown, and there are alternating dark brown and white stripes running vertically down its back.
March 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
e-van-every.bsky.social
#NaturePhotoOfTheDay: Jackdaws! I was also very excited about these raucous little corvids, until I'd spent a couple days around them. They're like if you crossed European starlings with crows and ended up with the worst traits of both. 😜 Pitlochry, Scotland.
Two smallish black birds sitting on the roof framing of a stone house: a couple of jackdaws.
November 7, 2024 at 4:43 AM
lheurettephoto.bsky.social
La montagne au loin ⛰🌅
The mountain on the horizon ⛰🌅
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📍 Luberon , France
📸Nikon Z5
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#montagnes #mountainpeak#paysagesetperspectives
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June 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM