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DiRebecca @direbecca.bsky.social · 10h

California Wild Rose (Rosa californica) with Masked Bee (Hylaeus sp.) pollinator for #WeekPforPink. 💚

Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Rosa-califor...

#AlphabetChallenge #Bees #CaliforniaNativePlants #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱

Close-up of small pink wild rose bloom, with a small black bee in the yellow center. There are serrated green leaves surrounding the bloom.

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eddiephotos.bsky.social @eddiephotos.bsky.social · 14h

A butterfly with it's initial on it, with it's white legs and those Jaggard edges. It must be the comma butterfly feeding on blackberries.

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Eric Kilby @saintnick912.bsky.social · 14h

We were lucky enough to find an aardwolf roaming around just after sunset outside the gates of Makgadikgadi National Park.

These small, nocturnal cousins of hyena subsist almost entirely on ants and termites.

#photography #wildlife

flic.kr/p/2rzhmtx

An aardwolf standing in tall grass in the dark.

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@amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amyb8888.bsky.social · 13h

A fungus photo a day: Crepidotus applanatus. I never get tired of all the gill formations I find.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 14h

Glamorous garden visitor, the Black-Billed Magpie. This is one of a local family that nested nearby #birds

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 14h

Look at this handsome boi

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Ken Hartley 🌱🏋️‍♂️ @milhart66ken.bsky.social · 1d

After a very quick trip into Cromer we headed to another favourite North Norfolk National Trust property Felbrigg Hall to enjoy the walled garden which was looking fab tbh. Well done the team. (4) #gardening #gardeninglife #nationaltrust #Norfolk

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Jenny Hendy 🌱🪲🍄🦋🐾🌳🐦🐳🌼 @hendygardenlove.bsky.social · 10h

All grown up! Some kind of inkcap I think

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 1d

Blackberry Bumbles

Happy Monday x

#watercolour #blackberry #bumblebees #watercolor #hedgerows #watercolourpainting #berries #foraging #art #bees #artist #painting #autumn #painting #paint #Devon

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Mike in Oly @mikeinoly.bsky.social · 2d

'Confetti', a rosy plicata from 1949, makes a lovely clump of blooms.
#iris 🌱

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Jenny Hendy 🌱🪲🍄🦋🐾🌳🐦🐳🌼 @hendygardenlove.bsky.social · 1d

Thank goodness 👍🌟

GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 2d

Goodemorning Gonzobongos! Nevar feare, I am stand guarde aginst tha jerkfasces of tha werld, yu can take an rest

Orange and white cat, alert, aware, alive. He says, "Good morning Gonzobongos! Never fear, I am standing guard against the jerkfaces of the world, you can take a rest.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 2d

Squadron of sandhill cranes putting their landing gear down, all in perfect formation! 🪶

Six sandhill cranes flying in a vertical pyramid shape, getting ready to land.

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Tim Knight @timknight.bsky.social · 2d

Steller’s Jay

#birds #jay #birding #corvid

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 2d

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”
― Criss Jami

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

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🩷🕊 Sara Flacci @saraflacci.bsky.social · 1d

Mountains are silent teachers
and make silent disciples [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
🖤 #ClassicMono
#MountainMonday #Alps
Happy new week 🍀

Black and white photo. View from the village of Echallogne (Arnad) over the central valley.
In the foreground, meadows and a mixed forest of chestnut and oak trees. In the background, mountains with a haze below.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 2d

This one was a bit confusing at first. A hybrid White-rumped x Dunlin from Cape Sable Island NS. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #shorebirds

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 2d

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 1d

#MushroomMonday I think these are burgundydrop bonnets found over the weekend, I knew they were bonnets but note the pinkish brown stem plus the 'blood' droplet under the cap. #Fungi #RHSBridgewater #mushrooms #Manchester

Mirror out again! Burgundydrop bonnets have a pinkish beige stipe (stem) and 'bleed' when the flesh is damaged, you can see the dark spot in the gills

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 2d

"It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine."
– A. A. Milne.

A beautiful rose like this one could stand in for the sun. 🌞

Wishing you a beautiful evening and a great start to the new week! 🌹

#SundayYellow
#stunday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

A yellow and pink rose, green leaves, and soil.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

Septemeber 2025. From a neighborhood walk.

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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 1d

Bramble associated species: Food plant for the micro moth Stigmella aurella. Leaf mines very common. Mines are long and serpentine and can cross veins and the mid rib. One part of the mine typically has broad line of frass (distinguishing it from S. splendidissimella).

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Colleen Miller @colleenmiller.bsky.social · 2d

Rainy day flower

Orange flower with raindrops. Some darker flowers behind

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 2d

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Nicole Adams 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 ❌👑 @blathin384.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning Folks ☀️

A Fox in the rain
Bombay Hook NWR - 11 October 2025

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #wildlifephotography
#wildlife

A photo of a red fox or just staring into the grass looking like it’s ready to pounce on prey.

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