Nola Wilken
@restoringbikes.bsky.social
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Exploring nature by bike and on foot. Science, please. Active transportation, gardening, photography, birding. Vintage cycling enthusiast. www.restoringvintagebicycles.com
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What a fabulous tree! 🌱🪾 #trees #maples #nature
A sweet white crowned Sparrow for today’s #BirdOfTheDay #BirdInABush 🪶 #sparrows #birds #nature
The last water lily. 🌱🌿🪷 #PNW
Late season white water lily blossom.
#birdoftheday is a Great Blue Heron and its reflection. #LongNeckedBirds #birds #herons🪶
Came across a flock of Goldfinches having a seed-fest. They are in their non breeding pale plumage. #goldfinches 🪶 #birds #nature
Mallard with an opinion. 🪶 #birds #wildlife #ducks
Mallard duck swimming in duckweed.
A pair of Gadwalls preparing to gad about. 🪶 #birds #nature #ducks #wildlife
Male and female Gadwall ducks standing on a log in a wetland.
Great Egret out for a stroll. 🪶 #birds #nature #photography #egrets
A great egret walking through a wetlands.
Sandhill Cranes stop off at Sauvie Island on their way down south for the winter. This group was on a private cornfield so couldn’t get any closer. Fun to observe and listen to their eerie calls. 🪶 #birds #nature #birdmigration
A group of Sandhills cranes in a cornfield.
Good morning, Bluesky☀️ #sunrise #landscape #nature 🌱
Western pearly everlasting. Another crazy plant name! In the Aster family, native, leaves are edible when cooked. #nativeplants 🌱🌿 #asters #nature
Meant to say orange crowned warbler!🪶
Yellow-crowned warbler feasting on Dogwood berries. 🪶 #birds #warblers #nature 🌱
Yellow crowned warbler perched sidewise on a dogwood branch.
Field of rusted dreams? #vintagecars #landscape #photography
Pacific Chorus Frog, tiny but mighty. 🐸 #frogs #amphibians #treefrog #nature
A pacific chorus frog looking at the camera.
Rose spirea, Watercress, Nodding Beggarticks, Bird’s-foot-trefoil. Such fun plant names. #nativeplants #wetlands 🌱🌿
Adorable Downey Woodpecker. Vocal and busy. 🪶 #birds #woodpeckers #nature #photography
A female Downey woodpecker searching branches for insects.
How Blue are you? California Scrub Jay shows off its colors. 🪶 #nature #birds #photography
Blue jay seen from behind with vibrant blue coloring.
Another tiny Tree Frog 🐸. This one was relaxing on a walkway near a wetlands. 🌱 #frogs #amphibians #nature
Pacific tree frog resting on walking deck.
Yellow-Rumped Warbler. Although they are common here I rarely get to see them. #birds 🪶 #photography #nature
Wooly Bear caterpillar! It will become an Isabella Tiger moth. In folklore, the width of the orange band indicates winter weather with a narrower band indicating a harsher winter! 🐛. 🦋 #caterpillars #wildlife #nature 🌱