Jamspangle
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Look at these guys 🪶🌊

Long-billed Curlews, San Simeon CA, September 2025
My hawk is back and you're gonna be in trouble

If you're a small mammal better leave here on the double
Call it vismig it sounds cooler
Great game - would recommend.
Pine martens. Surprisingly common in Ireland.
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Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
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You're in the right place anyway
The Tiger Who Came to Tea prequel
Applies to bigots of every stripe
Thomas the bants engine
When I was a student I did zero research for a single essay online. All actual books. Didn't have internet in our shared house, no smartphones. The biggest revolution back then was texting.
It's mid October and I've seen butterflies and even dragonflies on the wing today. It's fierce mild.
Thank you. Have an otter I saw this week.
Unexpected item in the birding area - beach Pheasant. 🪶
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Pleased to spot a lively Jack Snipe today at RSPB Conwy from the Foel Fras screen. It turns out another one was being watched at the same time from the Carneddau hide. Videos don't do it justice as it was quite distant and in poor light. #birdingwales
and sometimes you're the little dude

Or possibly

everyone is someone's little dude
Why isn't it called 'Accident and/or Emergency'? A&OE.