#SilentSunday #nature

I gotta say, I wasn’t one of those ‘interested in nature and science since I was two years old’ types (I work with loads of people like that). But their enthusiasm for marine life is contagious. Now I’m fascinated too.

Here’s a sea angel, a type of sea snail that doesn’t have a shell

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sea-angel

#Marine #Ocean #SeaAngel #Slugs #Nature

Purple donkey orchid (Diuris punctata) still flowering in mid-November on the edge of Croajingolong NP, VIC. Lightly blotched forms are possibly hybrids with Diuris meridionalis ms (blotched donkey orchid) but still haven't sighted this rare species at this location.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland

I knew Klee's grandmother, #RobertaBlackgoat -- and supported her with #MutualAid and telling her side of the story in the early days of the web. Rest in Power, Klee!
💔

#KleeBenally 'Carry On'

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, April 9, 2024

"Klee, discussing resource extraction, and how the #NavajoTribalCouncil was created to sign #oil and #gas leases, quotes our friend, the gentle, soft-spoken farmer from Shiprock, who received his doctorate degree before passing, Larry Emerson.

"'There is no point in trying to #decolonize the Navajo government -- it was not right for us from the start. Its structure and process is a replica of the American system, and the American system appears to be edging toward the possibility of failure like the great #RomanEmpire.'

"Writing on these monsters, oil and gas extraction, and coal mining, Klee quotes #LouiseBenally of #BigMountain, his aunt, whose family spent their lives resisting coal mining, #ForcedRelocation, and the machinery of the tribal government.

"Louise said, 'The natural laws and the Indigenous Peoples were already here in a good relationship before the coming of the #colonial society who draws laws and boundaries. However, we #IndigenousPeoples will always have ties with these lands, we will continue to live that way with #nature and we will carry on.'

"Klee shares the words of his grandmother, Roberta Blackgoat, who never gave up the fight. 'The Coal they strip mine is the Earth's liver."
Although many have passed, and too many have died from broken hearts, there are those who live on, carry on.

"Klee writes, 'The remaining resisters to forced relocation have outlived the monster that was consuming our lands, stealing our water, and polluting our lungs.'

"Before passing, Klee described the monsters, the rage against the machine, and the ways of restoring balance and harmony. Klee Benally's book, 'No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in the Defense of the Sacred,' can be ordered at: https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred
at April 09, 2024

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/klee-benally-carry-on.html

#PeabodyCoal #BigMountainResistance #LandBack #LandBackNow #IndigenousPeoples #Dineh #NoUraniumMining #DefendTheSacred #EnvironmentalRacism #CulturalGenocide #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #BigOilAndGas #RageAgainstTheMachine #IndigenousAnarchy #EarthDefenders #WaterIsLife

Phys.org: Heart cockles have windows in their shells to let in light for symbiotic algae

Amazing! #nature #Science

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-heart-cockles-windows-shells-symbiotic.html

'Scotland’s tired landscapes declared hidden ardour in the sun. Brown became bronze, yellow turned to gold, and rust to shining copper.'

#Photography #Nikon #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Scotland #Perthshire #Trees #Forest #Nature #NatureWriting

Cause and effect?

#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics

by @naturebydanielrosengren
"A Julia Butterfly sucking the sodium rich tears of a Yellow-spotted River Turtle.
Photographed in Lago Sandoval in Tambopata National Reserve, Peru."
#Photography #Photographie #Fotografie #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

"Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar of red hot poker flowers"

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-sweet-tooth-ethiopian-wolves-nectar.html

"New findings, published in the journal Ecology, describe a newly documented behavior of Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis)."

#NATURE #AFRICA #PRESS

Here's an autumnal flock of sheep to wish you a peaceful day.

#Photography #Landscape #Farming #Autumn #Nature #Sheep

#WildlifeWednesday

While waiting for the ferry, I spotted this gull eating a starfish, looked like chocking at first…

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#Wildlife #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Photography #Washington #PNW #Seattle #Artprints #WallArt #HomeDecor #Lifestyle #Puzzle #GreetingCards #Gifts #FediGiftShop #Giftideas #Christmas #Holiday #Thanksgiving #WomensArt #MastoArt #FediArt

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The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies
Credits: Howard Trottier
#nature #space #astrophotography

We have a pair of jays busying themselves in the garden. They’re enjoying the easy meal of fat balls in the feeders, but are also retrieving acorns that they’d buried in the lawn a few months ago. They must have good memories. Fascinating to watch.

#Birds #Nature

Copper beard orchid (Calochilus campestris) variations north of Mallacoota, VIC. Good numbers of this widespread and variable species out in roadside heathland at the start of November - with a nice range of beard styles on show!

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland

A yellow-rumped warbler, on a cloudy autumn evening, San Jose, California, Nov 2024
#inaturalist #birds #birdsofmastodon #warbler #nature #wildlife #SanJose #California #sfba #ALT4you

I submitted the manuscript for my next book!

It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.

It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 😄

#nature #animals #bookstodon #books #AmWriting

« Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. »

— Rollo May

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734275441325752320/joy-rather-than-happiness-is-the-goal-of-life

#quotes #RolloMay #joy #happiness #goals #life #nature #purpose

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#Washington #Oregon #PNW #GreetingCards #Nature #Landscape #Wildlife #Moon #Music #Lighthouse #Waterfall #Seattle #Flowers #Trees #Christmas #Gifts #Giftideas #FediGiftShop #WomensArt #ArtForSale #Photo #MastoArt #FediArt #Lightning #Gratitude #ArtPrints

Moin, ihr Lieben! 👋 ☕ Es ist #Sonntag, und das Wetter zeigt sich heute von seiner grauen Seite. Doch lasst euch davon nicht die Laune verderben – die liegt ganz in unseren Händen!

Es gibt so viele kleine Dinge, die uns glücklich machen können: ein gutes Buch, ein gemütliches Treffen mit Freunden, ein Spaziergang in der Natur... Selbst der Herbstnebel hat seinen eigenen Zauber, wenn man genau hinsieht. 🌫🍂

Also, lasst uns den Tag genießen, lachen und die schönen Momente im Alltag schätzen. Denn Lachen ist nicht nur gut für die Seele, sondern auch für das Immunsystem. Bleibt positiv und macht euch einen wunderbaren Sonntag!🤗 🍀

#fotografie #nature #landscape #nebel #wald

#SilentSunday
#nature #photography #michigan #sunset

birds globally weigh in on Israeli genocide

#birds #nature #antigenocide #CEASEFIRENOW #Israeli #Flags #Genocide #Gaza

#Introduction

Chef de projet informatique avec une expérience variée (#PO, #PM, #dev, Resp. informatique), je suis passionné par la #technologie et l’#innovation. J’accorde une grande importance au design #UX/#UI, à l’#accessibilité et à la #sécurité.

En dehors du travail, j’adore partir à l’aventure, et pq pas à #vélo dans la #nature et les villes.

Entre deux #voyages ou projets, je bidouille des choses que j’oublie de #documenter et de #partager dans mon #blog (#jekyll #staticpages)

Hakai Magazine, based in #Canada, is joining another independent #journalism publication, bioGraphic -- part of the 171-year-old California Academy of #sciences
As non-profs, they need support.
Here is more about the magazines.
https://www.biographic.com/hakai-magazine/?c_src=em-nov15-sos&c_src2=hakai

And, do read some of the amazing stories Hakai Magazine has published.

@hakaimagazine #magazine #journalist #nature #oceans #marinelife #culture
https://hakaimagazine.com/

This morning I watched a crow chase a rat down the street.
I don't know what that means 🤷‍♀️😄

#nature

This dreamy pool is Australia’s first mixed-gender ocean pool https://www.timeout.com/sydney/news/this-stunning-pool-one-of-sydneys-oldest-is-the-top-ocean-pool-according-to-this-water-lover-111524

I used to swim here often, but the parking is now atrocious.

#Australia #Sydney #Nature #AboriginalLand #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #History #Leisure #Relaxation #Swimming #Exercise

A beautiful piece of street art by Hannah Bullen-Ryner.

#Birbs #StreetArt #Nature

"In some corner of the sunless sea, passing through waters cold and dark enough to keep us at bay, there moves a beauty and a strangeness that rivals the unicorn."

from 'Narwhal', a chapter of 'The Golden Mole and Other Living Treasure', by Katherine Rundell

#Bookstodon #Nature #Oceans

Wild rose

#BloomScrolling #Photography #Nature

« The land knows you, even when you are lost. »

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742159075655172096/the-land-knows-you-even-when-you-are-lost

#quotes #RobinWallKimmerer #nature #interbeing #DivineIntelligence #unity #oneness

« Book Of Life » by Nicholas Roerich

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742077010256510976/book-of-life-by-nicholas-roerich

#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #NicholasRoerich #books #nature #life #interbeing #unity #oneness

« The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742077072175972353/the-story-of-our-relationship-to-the-earth-is

#quotes #RobinWallKimmerer #nature #interbeing #land #earth

" ... there in the mist behind the sky

dolphins and porpoises leap
in rings around the island
birds call to the hours
there is music somewhere playing
silently ... "

from 'Voyage', by Zoë Skoulding

#Poetry #Nature

Sick cockatoo sightings spark psittacine beak and feather disease warning #nature https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-09/sick-cockatoos-spark-psittacine-beak-and-feather-disease-warning/104577296

Morning 👋🥰

"Earth may be alive, not as the ancients saw her - a sentient goddess with a purpose and foresight - but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil, using sunlight and water and nutrient minerals to grow and change, but all done so imperceptibly that to me the old oak tree on the green is the same as it was when I was a child."

~ James Lovelock

#ClimateCatastrophe #Trees #Nature

Caught a glimpse of a #kingfisher on the #Connswater #River in East #Belfast this morning.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #bird #waterbird #water #NorthernIreland @RSPB

dzięcioł duży / great spotted woodpecker / Dendrocopos major
#ptaki #birds #birdwatching #nature

A giant fungi in our woods yesterday 😲
Can you imagine the size of the pixies and fairies et all... 😳
(Phone pic)

#Wildlife #art #Photography #Forest #Wood #Wild #summer #loch #history #scotland #fungi #mushroom #wild #nature #PhonePic #nightphotography #phonephotography #night #mycology

Birdfeeder Raider

Here is an eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) doing its best to maintain balance while eating at a bird feeder.

I don't post all of the photos that I post here to my Pixels gallery, but I post the photos I like best. Some don't make the cut. I usually wait a couple of days and see how I feel about it then.

You can check out my gallery at:

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #EasternGraySquirrel

Sparrow and Blue Sky

This is a chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) one of the species that I photograph the most.

I've had several inquiries about how to get a print of some my photographs. This is a hobby for me, so I haven't been equipped to handle those requests. But I enjoy what I'm doing and want to share my photographs.

So, I set up an account and website with pixels. My website is:

swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

If you want a print of one of my photographs, you can get it there, If I haven't loaded it, let me know which one it is, and I'll gladly load it there for you.

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #ChippingSparrow