An egret fishing on a submerged log in Lake Henshaw, San Diego County, California.

#blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #monochrome #birds #minimalism #sandiego #california #nature #naturephotography #lake #photography #photographie

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A black and white photograph of an egret standing on a submerged branch in a lake. Heavy monsoon clouds rain over mountains in the distance. This was taken in San Diego County, California.

#deer #nature #photography

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Deer hiding in the grass

Plant fruit trees. Protect the ones we already have. 🌳🍊 Fruit trees feed families, support wildlife, cool our communities, improve air quality, store carbon, and strengthen food security for generations. Every tree saved or planted is an investment in a healthier future. #PlantFruitTrees #ProtectTrees #FoodSecurity #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #GreenFuture #climatechange #climatecrisis #climatejustice #afforestation #environment #nature #deforestation #foodforest #agriculture #agroforestry

Over the past few days, a few crickets have made their way into the house.
Whenever I can, I guide them back outside so they don't land on us during the night.

This morning, I was mowing the lawn a bit - not much, just as much as needed, before the rain - and there were plenty of them in the garden.
A neighbour, as often happens, suggested I cut it shorter "to drive the crickets away". I looked around: all my neighbours' lawns are kept extremely short, and the surrounding countryside is completely plowed.

"And where are the poor crickets supposed to go?"
"They'll find somewhere else."

I put the lawnmower away and decided that, in my garden, they are more than welcome.

#Gardening #Nature #Summer

A Spotted Sandpiper between rocks in Lake Superior

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The bird is just above and left of the middle of the photo.

Two White-tailed Deer fawns.

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One fawn is just below the middle and the other fawn is one quarter from the lft of the photo.

I'm happy that my acrylic painting "On a branch sits a sparrow one" won third place (tied) in the "Make A Statement About Nature, Painting" contest and second place (tied) in the "Gallery of Masters Logo" contest on Fine Art America in July 2026.
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On a branch sits a sparrow one is a hand-painted acrylic painting in portrait format by the artist Karen Kaspar. A female sparrow is perched on a branch, looking curiously to the right. The background is abstracted in soft pastel colours and suggests the branches of a bush.

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take it down.

A University of Delaware study analyzed nearly 14,000 insects killed by zappers over one summer. Mosquitoes accounted for less than 1%. The other 99%? Moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and other beneficial insects.

It's even worse than it sounds: mosquitoes find you by carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your zapper is completely invisible to them.

Meanwhile it's running all night massacring the pollination night shift.
#Nature #Insects #Bugs #Pollinators

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Photo of two bug zappers hanging from a tree branch

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When you use these bug zappers you are taking food away from birds, bats, spiders, amphibians, reptiles and fish Insects and wildlife are already suffering Image of a bug zapper with a red arrow pointing to it and the word "BAD" written in red below it.

A Greek cyclamen growing wild in the Peloponnese area of Greece.

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A Greek cyclamen growing wild in the Peloponnese area of Greece.

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

#quote #life #water #nature

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Water spilling over a stone shelf with some green moss cover. There is some leaf litter caught beside rocks along the very shallow stream. Leaves of a nearby tree border the top of the frame. The water surface is reflecting the blue sky overhead.

Blue Jay against a blue sky

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The head of the bird is in the middle and just above the middle of the photo.

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#birding #photographie #nature

Panasonic DC-G97
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Vogel im Flug am Meer

#fotovorschlag #nature #photography #silentSunday

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Midden in de stad Nijmegen zag ik deze plataan, met erboven mooie wolken.

A young hawk getting the message

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The wings of a juvenile white-morphed Red-tailed Hawk are nearly vertical in the clear blue sky as it tries to lose an attacking male Red-winged Blackbird.

🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1002

Water lily

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A vibrant, fully bloomed water lily floating in a calm pond, surrounded by lily pads. The water lily has layers of pointed, radiant magenta petals. The center of the flower reveals a bright orange and yellow core, creating a vivid contrast. Numerous flat, round lily pads float on the water's surface. They vary in color and maturity; some are a fresh light green, while others show signs of aging with brownish-purple undertones, speckles, and small imperfections.

#SilentSunday #nature #rainbow

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A photo of a rainbow taken from our garden. Rainbows are usually in a different spot, so this one surprised me and I didn't really think of the aesthetics of the shot - we were out with Kitty-Boo, and she was dragging me away. In the bottom half of the photo a bit of our house and the garage are visible. The stony etrance to the cellar can also be seen. The rest are some coniferous trees growing around the house. The top half of the photo is taken up by the sky, which is mostly covered by whitish clouds, with some light blue peeking from among them. In the centre, on the blue sky backdrop, is a rainbow. It dissipates as it goes up into the clouds, so only a part of it is visible. Below the rainbow and mostly covered by a big spruce, is the church spire. From a better vantage point, the rainbow would be seen arcing above the church.

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Plumeria

#photography #silentsunday #nature #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening

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photograph of pink plumeria flowers

#SilentSunday #Photography #Nature #Landscape #River #Reflection

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Photo of a bend in a river flowing through a valley. Trees are growing on both banks and the nearby hills which are reflected on the calm surface. There is a small stream flowing into the river close to the camera.

Pink hair

#photography #nature #plants #summer #silentsunday

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A close up image of many of pink topped thistles growing in a meadow.

8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?

Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.

Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.

The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.

Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.

A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ten-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-184204801.html

#Butterflies #Science #Nature #Memory

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Photo of a smiling boy holding two black and white-coloured butterflies A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognise him. He spent two years designing an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not erase memories formed during the caterpillar stage.

The flowers are attracting the bumbles in larger #'s. This is my favorite time of the year in the garden when the blooms bring in bunches of bugs 👍.

#bees #insects #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #AltText

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Closeup photograph of a brown-belted bumblebee atop the red and orange florets of a purple coneflower with an out of focus opening purple coneflower and stem in the foreground and vague greens in the background. The out of focus purple coneflower bud and stem take up most of the left frame. The bee is facing left in the right frame, and the view is looking down at the bee's head. This species of bumblebee has a black abdomen covered in fine black hairs, a "belt" of fine brown hairs where the abdomen meets the thorax, a thorax covered in fine golden yellow hairs, a black head covered in fine black and yellow hairs, two large compound eyes and three, small simple eyes, two short antennae, large mandibles, and six legs with long hairs on the hind legs used to store gathered pollen.

The state of the world summarized in two news headlines. 😔

#news #GlobalWarming #environment #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #ClimateAction #pollution #future #nature #Earth #world #international #humanity #science

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Two news headlines. The first headline reads "Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling." The second headline reads "'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix."

"The Greenland shark is the planet's oldest vertebrate, reckoned to be somewhere between 272 and 512 years old. They are slow, as befits a fish so venerable. They live deep-down and secret lives.

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don't have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful. They will see us pass through whichever spinning chaos we may currently be living through, and the crash that will come after it, and they will live through the currently unimaginable things that will come after that: the transformations, revelations, the possible liberations.

That is their beauty, and it's breathtaking; they go on. These slow, half-blind creatures are perhaps the closest thing to eternal this planet has to offer."

from 'The Golden Mole and Other Hidden Treasures', by Katherine Rundell

#Nature #Bookstodon #Oceans #Poetry

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Picture of a Greenland shark

Early #SilentSunday

#Photography #Mosstodon #Nature

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Photo of concrete outdoor stairs going up a small hill with thicket of tall grass and trees on both sides with the steps overgrown by moss.

New Zealand photographer takes stunning photos of tiny mushrooms. 🍄

More here: https://www.instagram.com/cyanesense/

#mushrooms #photography #nature

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A two tiny glass like looking mushrooms

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Microscopic mushrooms near a regular sized finger.

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Three small, mushroom-like structures with yellow and black textures are depicted against a blurred background. They have thin, elongated stems and appear to be growing from a moist surface.

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Microscopic mushrooms near a regular sized finger.

Thrasher flight

#birds #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #photography

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A Brown Trasher, wings spread, glides across a clear sky.

📷 Dragonfly, July 17, 2023.

#FediversalPictures #Nature

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A dragonfly with transparent wings and a brown body perches on the end of a thin, bare branch against a softly blurred blue sky with faint clouds.

Smoke on the water
And fire in the sky
#sunset #photography #nature

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A sunset over the lake seen through hazy smoke and a towering orange cloud over the horizon.

Polyphemus moth
#Mothtadon #photography #nature

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A large tan moth with distinctive black and white markings on its wings, resting on a textured asphalt surface.

#photography #nature #fensterFreitag #windowFriday #windows #castle #netherlands

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Op de foto kasteel Stapelen in Boxtel, Neserland. Met op de foto ook nog water en groen.

Do you love sunflowers?

Check out my album with sunflower paintings

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Collage of nine handmade paintings of sunflowers with bright yellow and orange petals, by Karen Kaspar

A Blue Jay calling out.
Hey stop that!

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Roter Mohn, gelbe Rudbeckien, rosa Lupinen, blaue Glockenblumen und viele mehr wachsen nebeneinander in bunter Harmonie und ergänzen einander mit ihrer leuchtenden Farbigkeit.

Viel Spaß mit meinem handgemalten Acrylgemälde - Bunter Blumengarten
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Bunter Blumengarten ist ein Acrylgemälde im Querformat handgemalt von der Künstlerin Karen Kaspar. In einem Blumenbeet blüht eine bunte Vielfalt von Blumen in kräftigen Farben mit satten Rot-, Gelb- und Violetttönen. Blumen wie roter Mohn, gelbe Rudbeckien, rosa Lupinen, blaue Glockenblumen und viele mehr wachsen nebeneinander in bunter Harmonie und ergänzen einander mit ihrer leuchtenden Farbigkeit. Das üppige Grün und die vielfältigen Blüten sorgen für eine lebendige und fröhliche Atmosphäre.

Kite in the Blue

I spotted this Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) circling overhead, and I’m pretty sure it spotted me right back. They’re relatively small raptors, built for high, effortless soaring, and this one seemed unusually interested in my backyard. Mississippi kites don’t typically go after other birds, but with all the anoles skittering around the house, it may have been scouting for a quick snack.

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"A Mississippi kite in flight has a kind of quiet elegance, and this image captures that feeling with real clarity. The bird is suspended against a clean, cloudless blue sky, its wings stretched wide in a smooth, confident glide. The wings form a gentle crescent — long, narrow, and slightly curved — with the darker upper feathers creating a soft contrast against the lighter underside. Its body is slim and tapered, giving the impression of a creature built for effortless movement. The head is small and rounded, angled just enough to suggest awareness and purpose. The tail fans out behind it in a neat triangle, subtly forked, acting like a rudder guiding its motion. The overall impression is one of calm mastery: a bird that doesn’t fight the air but belongs to it. The sky around it is empty, which makes the kite feel even more solitary and serene — a single shape etched against a vast backdrop, gliding with the kind of grace that seems almost weightless." - Microsoft Copilot

Revealed: how #Europe’s most powerful #farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticide law

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #lobbying #nature #biodiversity #agriculture