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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝
@fishsqueezer.bsky.social
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Biologist in Idaho, lover of nature, taking pictures, books, family, art. Politically active & outraged, but that's not why I'm on Bluesky. Views my own.

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fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Wow! Wolves are raiding crab traps for fish by pulling the buoy line until the trap comes ashore and then shredding it.

Someone still needs to teach these proto-tool users how to repair, maintain, and deploy the nets, but they have the critical step down! 🦊🐟🌎

www.nbcnews.com/world/canada...
Video shows a wild wolf stealing fish in a first possible tool use
The wolf “appears to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the multi-step connection between the floating buoy and the bait within the out-of-sight trap,” scientists said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
It's been extremely warm recently so despite the wet weather there is no snow in the mountains. On the bright side, there are 100 mushrooms. Look how festive!

#wx #MushroomMonday 🍄📷
A conifer with a star on top and some lights down the sides is surrounded at the base with a fairy ring of large brown mushrooms. Some mushrooms that look like nipples growing from mossy grass. A cluster of mushrooms that look like a pile of dinner rolls or pączki. A zoomed out photo of the pączki mushrooms showing multiple clusters of dozens of mushrooms growing out of some grass that is littered with fallen leaves.
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
This is fantastically nerdy - check his blog for how he samples/cultures insect pupae for a YEAR to find out if they've been parasitized (including protecting the host walnuts from angry squirrels). I love it when people fall completely & unapologetically down science rabbitholes. #invert 🦊
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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mariannedenton.bsky.social
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
theycantalk.com Three panel cartoon. A catapillar and a worm looking at a butterfly flying. Catapillar: “i can't wait to turn into a butterfly” Next panel: earthworm: “yeah. me too” Final panel: caterpillar side eying the earthworm
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Awesome shots, happy falconry day!

ALT image 1: a fierce brown buteo with feathers raised. Common buzzard maybe?

2: a black Harris hawk looks to the left. It has a yellow cere.

3: A wedgie closeup? A formidable looking raptor at least

4: a pale morph goshawk?

@tinylongwing.bsky.social plz help
phazonharbinger.bsky.social Cain Eyre @phazonharbinger.bsky.social · 3d
Happy #WorldFalconryDay to all my fellow falconers and austringers, and everyone else. #falconry #birdsofprey #raptor #birds
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I made a fun food for the kid's birthday party yesterday: toad in a hole! 🍜 I think it's just normal British food, but it was new for us.

He loved it, although I just made plain brown gravy instead of the onion marmalade gravy (wtf is onion marmalade? WW2 starvation food?) for obvious reasons. 🤮
Me posing in front of a muffin tin full of puffy golden pastries and a little pot of brown gravy.
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I love this uplifting story about American crocodiles in south Florida benefitting from ESA and warm water discharges from a nuclear power plant. I would absolutely pay to go net these sweet little babes for science, although the colorblindness wouldn't help. 🐍🌎🧪

www.biographic.com/the-comeback...
The Comeback Croc - bioGraphic
American crocodiles are booming in Florida, thanks to a little help from a nuclear power plant.
www.biographic.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Fascinating & foreboding that the mammal-contagious variant of bird flu that's killed thousands of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere hasn't made its way north yet. I guess birds aren't carrying that strain & the tropical oceans are a mammal migratory barrier? 🦊🪶🧪🌎

www.latimes.com/science/stor...
Bird flu slams seals and sea lions at the bottom of the world but spares Pacific Coast so far
The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
My almost eleven year old wants to have a magical/wizard themed birthday party this Saturday and so I made him this wand for candy balloon darts. 1/3
A magic wand made of a European bird cherry branch where the handle retains bark around excised knots and is bordered by black electrical tape. The other slightly more than half of the wand has been carved down to raw wood.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
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A view looking straight upward into the branches of a conifer tree where each limb has been completely coated in moss. They look like giant, furry corndogs.
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Some members' #orchids from last night's club meeting. One of the best show and tells we've had for a long time. Also a wonderful guest lecture about terrarium orchids and companion plants by Michael from Mizu Mori Tropicals and great snacks and treats. 10/10 evening overall. 🪴🌱
Cycd. 'Leopards Gold' has huge, waxy yellow flowers with maroon (?) spots and large, curve pendulous column.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
A rope swing below Mooney Falls...
Me swinging off a rope from a tree into a pool of water before a ~2 meter travertine waterfall. In the distant background is another waterfall a couple hundred feet tall.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I've never ridden on a real train before, but I'm taking the Amtrak down the Columbia River Gorge to Portland right now in the 43rd year of my life. This is a very different, pleasant vibe. Also watching across the river at a freeway packed with long distance drivers & just...wondering.
A view of the rising sun over the water of the Columbia River from my spacious seat on the second floor of a rail car.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Finally reading Braiding Sweetgrass (thanks for the book, @saimihanma.bsky.social). 🌱 #nativeplants

"Wild strawberry shortcake was the best possible present...it was a gift that could never be bought."

That line particularly touched me & reminded me of this gift from my son:
A boy's hand with 8 small wild strawberries, not all of which are completely ripe.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I caught a cute little stickleback in a dipnet! I've never seen one even though they're native to the Inland Northwest because I'm rarely mucking around in the little backwater swamps that they prefer, but it made me feel like I found a little gold nugget. 🐟
A spearhead-shaped stickleback fish with a speckled brown back and a golden belly lies on a net over my hand. It's really cute!
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
A gorgeous, calm autumn day in the Selkirks.
Tall conifers reflecting in the calm water of a stream. There are accent logs and fall colors in the brush as if it is a carefully curated scene.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I had a terrible wild mushroom season this fall after the Inland Northwest had the driest summer in recorded history, but I sometimes like to look at this picture from a couple years ago to remind myself of how beautiful the fall mushrooms can be.

📷 #FungiFriday
A pile of mushrooms of various colors and textures ranging from white and cream through red, purple, and blue. There are classic umbrella shaped mushrooms, scaly vase mushrooms, and coral/icicle mushroom shapes.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Someone asked me for a time series of the Monstera I just rehomed, so I made this. Not sure how Bluesky is going to handle the photo format, but 🤷.

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A sequence of 12 photos showing a Monstera deliciosa plant growing from a little baby in my hand with three heart-shaped, whole leaves to a giant 3-meter tall plant in my front yard with leaves larger than my torso that have dozens of dissections and fenestrations.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Which newly described froglet factory are you? I'm Udzungwa glandular tree toad.
markscherz.bsky.social Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 13d
Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
A fine black toad with bright white fingers, toes, and lips, and brown pustular blobs along its legs, resting on a dark green leaf. A black and white toad on a green fern frond. The head and limbs are grey, and the body black. A toad looking at the camera over a brown leaf, its black body splotched with yellow and white. It is very Halloween-core. A black toad with huge yellow glands on its legs, head, arms, and parts of the back. Jack Skellington himself could hardly have painted a more Halloween-flavoured toad.
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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citymousegarden.bsky.social
This is how we do bird feeders in our small #UrbsInHorto #Chicago garden.

#gardening #NativePlants #birds #ecosystem #GrowYourOwn 🌱
Aralia racemosa with its deep wine colored berries hidden among clusters with bare ends that have already been picked clean by our resident and migratory bird visitors.
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
They've got amazing flowers if you can manage to get your Echeveria to try it. 🪴🌱
A couple of stems with fiery orange barrel-shaped flowers opening at the bottom, and conical buds waiting to open next.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I went to the local park to visit the (probable) tallest American chestnuts on earth. The city recently installed a barrier to reduce foot traffic, but they're also inexplicably raking all the leaves and detritus away without mulch replacement. I wish they wouldn't.

🌱🌿 @tomkimmerer.bsky.social
The trunks of three large American chestnut trees are visible inside a chain circle where the ground has been raked smooth of fallen leaves, burrs, flowers, and other detritus. I do appreciate the placard so people know why these trees are special.
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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tanukisrevenge.bsky.social
Rise and shine! It’s time for whimsy!
#WhimsyWednesday
The sun rises and shines through some beige mushrooms growing from a tree
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Hahaha, this moth made me laugh out loud. I didn't know a bug could sploot, it's SO ADORABLE.
bugmom.bsky.social molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 14d
@bogenbroom.bsky.social you are the Yellow Furry-Legs Slug Moth
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
In 2022 our first freeze of the year came astonishingly late, on Nov 4th during a snowstorm. None of the trees were dormant & my apricot tree was obliterated. That was the first year I had harvested any apricots from it. I've replaced the tree but the new one hasn't ripened any fruit yet.🤞for 2026🌱
A young apricot tree lies on the ground with snapped branches and a split trunk because of the weight of wet snow.
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM