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Tall pine trees ascend up the side of a mountain, disappearing into dense low clouds
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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First-winter Mule Deer fawn resting at our old house, November 2018
A young mule deer rests on a grassy patch of a yard in the midday sun, partially shaded by nearby trees. The fawn is looking to the right in the photo, showing its relatively short snout
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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scene report from this weekend
The bright afternoon light shines through the tall trees on a small rocky stream, covered in freshly fallen golden yellow cottonwood leaves. The leaves fill the banks of the stream, some are floating in the clear water, some have come together to form small dams along the stream's course. The huge trunks of the cottonwoods overlook the scene
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Seen any good jellies lately?
A closeup photo of a very vibrant orange cluster of jelly fungus growing from the cracked gray bark of a log. A small piece of wispy bearded lichen is sticking out of the side of the jelly
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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getting in to Moss Season!
Macro photo of a colony of moss growing on a large downed log. The moss is bright green, with many small stalks of blunt-tipped leaves
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Dipper in the river 🥰
A small, plump, stone-grey bird rests on a rock in the middle of a mountain river, the sunlight glistening off of the rumbling water. It has light grey legs, and a small, pointed beak with a black eye.
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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A large green praying mantis hangs upside-down from the thin green stems of a Queen Anne's Lace plant. Its long, slender body has a brown stripe along its side/wings, and a bit of brown on its sharp forearms. Its long antennae are hanging down, and long angular legs grasp the stem
September 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I saw some gray whales this weekend!

Lifer cetacean #3
The hump of a gray whale pokes up out of the endless waves of the Pacific, showing the patchy white blotches on its back
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A bright orange, nearly full waxing gibbous moon hangs against the black night sky, colored by the smoky haze in the air
September 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A small, hairy bee collects nectar and pollen from a pale purple flower the bright late afternoon sunlight. The bee's face is covered in long, pale yellow fuzzy hairs, and its eyes are a greenish color. Its body is similarly covered in many yellow fuzzy hairs
September 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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An intricately patterned spider covered in small hairs hanging upside-down from the seed head of a stalk of grass. Its large abdomen is a burnt orange, its cephalothorax is a bit of gray-brown, and its long legs are alternating stripes of brown and white
August 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A vibrant orange and black butterfly with white spots on its hindwings rests on the seed head of a stalk of grass. The color brown, dry grass fills the blurry background
July 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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July 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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July 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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White-breasted Magpie-jay from Costa Rica, 2023
A large blue and white bird sits perched in a bare tree, looking intently. It has a very long white tail, and a very long white and black crest of feathers on its head, curling forward, high over its large black beak. Its face and belly are a clean white, outlined and necklaced in black, with a light blue on its crown, back and wings
March 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ponderosa Pine

#bark #trees
A closeup, full frame photo of the bark of a Ponderosa Pine tree. The bark peels away in layers, shifting gradually from a light gray to a deeper and deeper reddish brown
March 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Steller's Jay enjoying some of the seed we put out. Starting to get some more visitors now that the cold and snow have really set in

Love those eyebrows!
A full-frame photo of a large songbird resting on a snowy deck railing. There are a few flecks of black in the snow -- sunflower seeds. The birds is mostly dark blue on its back, with deep blue wing and tail feathers barred in black. Its head is solid black, with crystal blue "eyebrows" above its eyes. It has its head turned so that only one side faces the camera, it's black bill facing right and its black crest feathers springing up to the top-left
December 2, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Some of the couple thousand Snow Geese that flew by a little while ago
Hundreds of white geese streak across the gray sky, dots forming multiple flying Vs that converge into one larger V formation
November 23, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Barrow's Goldeneye at the lake a few days ago

#birds #birding
A small duck with an iridescent blue-green head, bright yellow-gold eye and black and white body (the top black except for a series of white spots on the wing, and the bottom clean white) floats on clear blue water in bright sunlight.
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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October 22, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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A mountaintop full of tall, conical conifers looks icy and covered in a dusting of snow shines in the sun against the still-green trees framing it in the foreground
October 19, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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oh hell what y’all doin
A large sunflower growing in a yard, with several unopened buds on the plant nearby
June 29, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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A small turtle with a green head with yellow-green and red stripes rests on a log floating in water
February 7, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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A small green and white lizard hangs from the stem of a plant, its face lit up in the bright early evening sunlight
September 1, 2023 at 1:04 AM