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If you like a photo feel free to do with it as you may. The birds let me take their picture, so it's not mine.

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Today's light was at an ideal angle. Cedar Waxwing #birds
December 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Great Blue Heron was Merlin's Bird of the Day. The Little Patuxent River Council, Beaver Run Chapter came out in force. #birds
December 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Hooded Mergansers #birds
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Cedar Waxwing #birds
December 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Over the Little Patuxent this morning. Belted Kingfisher #birds
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Golden-crowned Kinglet #birds
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Northern Cardinal Triptych #birds
December 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Reposted
Polar night vs. midnight sun in early/mid-December...

Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; 🌙) and South Pole (right; ☀️) over a 24-hour period.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hooded Mergansers on the Little Patuxent #birds
December 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Golden-crowned Kinglet #birds
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Everybody loves the big birds, but the small ones are the most challenging to get just one good shot. Ruby-crowned Kinglet #birds
December 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Turning it up to 11 will always be classic, but the set-up contains the just-as-good, just-as-versatile, "Don't even look at it." #SpinalTap
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
December 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Great Blue Heron #birds
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Great Blue Heron flying over the Little Patuxent River #birds
December 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Red-shouldered Hawk #birds
December 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Pileated Woodpecker along the Little Patuxent River #birds
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's either a Carolina or House Wren of the nth generation to take up residence in our garage. #birds
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today's Great Blue Herons #birds
December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Belted Kingfisher #birds
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Red Fox #foxes
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Great Blue Heron #birds
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Cedar Waxwing #birds
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Mallards in a row #birds
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just because it's not being reported does not mean it isn't happening. #ClimateChange #Arctic #NYT
And now we know that the volume of #Arctic sea ice also dropped to a record low in October (zacklabe.com/archive-2025/).

It's been a historic fall in the #Arctic, which is already a season of rapid climate change. Not good.
October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...

#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM