Sandy B.
@nestquester.bsky.social
Bird friend, smitten w/cetacea•seabirds•coastlines•canines•collective nouns•co.kerry•poetry•
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It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
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Snapped this one of the Gaviota Coast tonight at #sunset. #Photography
December 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Snapped this one of the Gaviota Coast tonight at #sunset. #Photography
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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For the ultimate in end-of-week Zen, here is a video of the firefly display tonight at the massive multi-acre Gardens Aglow holiday lights exhibit on Cape Cod. Tap and turn horizontal for full-size. I hope you have had a great day!
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For the ultimate in end-of-week Zen, here is a video of the firefly display tonight at the massive multi-acre Gardens Aglow holiday lights exhibit on Cape Cod. Tap and turn horizontal for full-size. I hope you have had a great day!
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Pink-footed shearwater, California.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
#SuperSeabirdSunday
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pink-footed shearwater, California.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍
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Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
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November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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From our travels in Redwood Country: A gathering of elk in Orick, or waiting to audition for the role of Santa's reindeer.
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
From our travels in Redwood Country: A gathering of elk in Orick, or waiting to audition for the role of Santa's reindeer.
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A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Researcher cries after finding rare flower in Indonesia
A team of researchers describe the "magical" experience of finding a rare species of flower in bloom deep in the Sumatran rainforest after a 23-hour trek.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Incredible✨
Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey talks about the Klamath River’s amazing progress 1 year after the world’s largest dam removal project. This fall, for the first time more than a century, chinook salmon made it to all the major tributaries that were previously blocked
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Incredible✨
What a loss. This gorgeous painting belongs in a museum. Not hidden in some billionaire’s bunker.
Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction
Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction
A painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m (£179.7m, A$364m) with fees, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the most expensive work of modern art sold at auction.
The six-foot-tall painting, titled Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, was painted by the Austrian painter between 1914 and 1916 and shows Lederer, a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons, draped in a Chinese robe. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
What a loss. This gorgeous painting belongs in a museum. Not hidden in some billionaire’s bunker.
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Black-browed Albatross #FalklandIslands
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Black-browed Albatross #FalklandIslands
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Another beautiful leaf at the tail end of a beautiful Fall in Portland, Oregon - everyone’s favorite he’ll hole. #Photography #Flora #WashingtonPark #Portland 📷🐸💕
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Another beautiful leaf at the tail end of a beautiful Fall in Portland, Oregon - everyone’s favorite he’ll hole. #Photography #Flora #WashingtonPark #Portland 📷🐸💕
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November 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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A little early morning Sandhill Crane love in south #CorpusChristiTX. #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A little early morning Sandhill Crane love in south #CorpusChristiTX. #Birds
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The wary waddle.
A Magellanic penguin making sure the seals were asleep before walking past them..
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The wary waddle.
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These rare whales had never been seen alive.
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
These rare whales had never been seen alive.
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Then a team in Mexico sighted two.
The search for a gingko-toothed beaked whale had taken 5 years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all.
🧪🐳
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Relatedly, this is your reminder that if a food pantry would help you, you should definitely go to one.
Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.
Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.
SNAP recipients told to buy shelf-stable food or go to food banks as funding deadline looms.
There might be claw-backs of any saved funds on Nov 1.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
There might be claw-backs of any saved funds on Nov 1.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
SNAP recipients told to buy shelf-stable food or go to food banks as funding deadline looms
People who rely on the federal food assistance program might not receive their benefits for the month of November because of the ongoing government shutdown.
www.nbcnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Relatedly, this is your reminder that if a food pantry would help you, you should definitely go to one.
Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.
Food pantries, like libraries, keep numbers of how many people they help. Numbers help them get funding. You are not taking from anyone; you are helping the food pantry exist.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... They were the very first to kayak the entirety of the mighty river in more than a century.
One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’
The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... They were the very first to kayak the entirety of the mighty river in more than a century.
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Imperial cormorant, sound asleep..
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imperial cormorant, sound asleep..
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Heh
Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves
A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...
www.rawstory.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Heh
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We now have the privilege once more of being serenaded nightly by his hoots from the nest he shares with his mate in the oak tree outside our house. One of the most surreal yet worthwhile commitments I’ve ever made.
If this folklore malarky ever falls through, I think I might have found my calling…
If this folklore malarky ever falls through, I think I might have found my calling…
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We now have the privilege once more of being serenaded nightly by his hoots from the nest he shares with his mate in the oak tree outside our house. One of the most surreal yet worthwhile commitments I’ve ever made.
If this folklore malarky ever falls through, I think I might have found my calling…
If this folklore malarky ever falls through, I think I might have found my calling…