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Beth Surdut

@bethsurdut.bsky.social

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Professional #wildlife artist, writer, environmental educator, creator of the multi-platform Art of Paying Attention #nature series heard and seen on #NPR, and Listening to Raven--drawings and true stories, winner Tucson Festival of Books nonfiction award.

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · 1d

Priceless #roadrunner

Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · 12d

Birthdays are better with Roadie
#roadrunner #birthdayparty #birds

Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Sep 22

Sunday morning with Roadie, waiting for rain. I sing, bird listens. I know he doesn't understand the words, but I think he gets the good vibrations. #Roadrunner #birds #interspeciescommunication #singalong #serenade #monsoon

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · Sep 17

in the clearing
dharma becomes
dragonflies
#zen #haiku #poetry

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Anna @downmydirtroad.bsky.social · Sep 18

From the past couple of days
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#Butterflies

An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on a pink zinnia.

A Painted Lady on a pink zinnia. A blurred metal flower spinner in the background.

A Pipevine Swallowtail on a dark pink zinnia. In the top and bottom right corners are other pink zinnias and the background is a combination of cosmos plants and a few pale pink cosmos and grass.

A Gulf Fritillary on a yellow zinnia with the green leaves in the background.

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IrishLisa @irishlisa.bsky.social · Sep 14

A moment of peace
Better than a day of fear
Live inside that breath

#Emoetry #Calm #Haiku #Poetry #Writing #Nature #BlueskyPhotography #Skyscape #Clouds #Stillness
#PictureAndAPoem

Fluffy afternoon clouds, in a blue sky, framed by green trees

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Photography and Art Gallery @u42.co · Sep 13

#Narbonne with a very old 1884 lens from when photographers needed to be half artist and half chemist. Exposures were made on rigid glass plates. Chromolithography was used for the colour then, much easier with digital!

Taken in #France using vintage lenses in 2025 by #©SteveC #Photography #notAI

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · Sep 13

Starry night cracker 🦋😍
#butterfly

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · Sep 12

Nothing like a big wolf smile to start your Friday morning.😁🐺 #TGIF

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⋆｡˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚｡⋆ @tregallery.com · Sep 13

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Shikantaza

Truth within dewdrops
Observes the gift of silence
Unwritten proverbs

#BlueSkyArtShow #Home
#EastCoastKin
#inkMine #Truth

#haiku #俳句 #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Macro #Bloomscrolling #Wolftwin

Orange Daylilies remind me of home. We've always had them in the front yard, and loyally, they bloom every Summer. This is a macro nature photo I took of water droplets along one of the green buds, facing an open lily. Within a lower drop, the flower can be seen, magnified, highlighting details blurred by the bokeh.

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Sep 13

I've been photographing Burrowing owls for a few years this framed trio just flew to a client in MA. #birdart #owls #desertlife #nature #wildlife #adorable

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Sep 7

Is that a yes? #roadrunner #interspeciesfriendship #birds #birding

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · Aug 28

"In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing" — T. S. Eliot

grasses in front and behind water in the wetlands with mountains in the background and tree branches on the upper right.

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you.

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Tomás @303tom.bsky.social · Aug 14

drought
in the desert
i dream of being soaked
in your
soft rain

#dailyhaikuprompt #tanka #5lines #haikufeels

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · Aug 20

midday heat-
dragonflies stitching
the air shut
#haiku #poetry

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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social · Aug 23

newborn cicadas
sing to me the song they sung
to my ancestors

#haiku
#HaikuSaturday

Photo of cicada on tree trunk by fanfandu7-2@pixabay.

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · Aug 26

warm wind-
a lark sings higher
than my worries
#haiku #poetry #birds

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Aug 27

Face to face with a young #coyote this morning, I forgot to be quiet and said, "Hello, beautiful." End of conversation. #interspeciescommunication #desertlife #wildlifeartist #songdog

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Aug 26

For @nytimes.com Magazine, I visited the Palisades burn scar to write about fire and resilience www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/m...

In the Scars of L.A.’s Wildfires, Ecological Lessons Bloom

www.nytimes.com

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Lesser-long nosed bats are in town, which means every morning the sugar-water feeders are slurped dry, so I fill them for the daytime crew of hummingbirds and Gila woodpeckers. That's 32 cups a week!
#livingartist #birdlife #woodpecker #hummingbird #OpenHouse #bats

Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Aug 24

When you go shopping, the whiptail lizards know that it's always good to park in the shade.
#visitarizona #herps #heat

Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Aug 23

"When hummingbirds build a nest, it is compact, dense, designed with tensile strength and lined with soft materials. Clearly, the doves didn’t get that memo." White-winged dove, art/story by Beth Surdut. radio.azpm.org/s/38024-the-...
#artforsale #livingartist #wildlifeart #birdart #storyteller

Drawing of a white-winged dove nesting in a Tamarisk tree, Southern Arizona by wildlife artist Beth Surdut

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⋆｡˚☆⋆Tré⋆☆˚｡⋆ @tregallery.com · Aug 23

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Skyline

Tawny breath of dawn
Lifting whole worlds by their sails
Skyline enfolds me

#BlueSkyArtShow #Skyline
#EastCoastKin
#BSPP 31 Skies

#Haiku #俳句 #Micropoetry #Sunset #Photography #WolfTwin #BlueSkyPoetry

A seascape photo I took in St. John. The orange dawn woke me from Caribbean dreams. Sheer clouds veiled the sun, casting on the island's ochre mountains below. Silhouettes of ships, gulls, buildings, a lighthouse, and jetties dot and frame the glistening ocean. A blazing column of golden light dazzles the surface of the sea, announcing the suns ascension.

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Beth Surdut @bethsurdut.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's not just what you give, it's how you give--Roadrunners offer each other presents with their beaks. They don't just throw the goods on the ground. Roadie prefers treats from my thumb and forefinger, my surrogate beak.

#mindful #interspeciesfriendship #roadrunner #birdlife #desertlife

roadrunner buddy questioning why I did not stay longer

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