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Cos
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My main account is c0s.bsky.social
This second account is for posting photos of birds, bugs, fish, corals, cats, street art, and more - a possible replacement for my instagram (c0s_)
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A rock pipit on the beach, Dingle peninsula, Ireland. They seem to like to flit about from rock to rock at the edge of the water.
#birds #wildlife
October 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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On the same walk at Nisqually, a bullfrog and a Puget Sound garter snake. #wildlife
Backlit bullfrog head and upper body poking ave the water with lilies and sunlight on the water Garter snake, black with light blue stripes along the length of its body, swimming just above and below the pond surface (with head above the surface), lots of algae and leaves poking up from the pond and glinting in sunlight.
October 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Some swallows from a visit to Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in 2018, my second time there but my first visit there with a camera that has enough zoom to photograph swallows.
Two tree swallows (one on the gray side, the other shiny blue) and one barn swallow. #birds #wildlife
Close up of tree swallow on a thin branch with out of focus leaves in the background. This tree swallow has a mostly gray back with only a little blue showing. Tree swallow with shiny blue color, facing towards the camera, on a lichen-filled thin branch, with out of focus leaves in the background. Small barn swallow on wood deck panels.
October 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Graffiti alley today #CambridgeMA #streetart
October 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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A couple of cats appeared at graffiti alley this weekend #CambridgeMA #streetart
September 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Graffiti Alley this evening
#CambridgeMA #streetart
August 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Diving in Gloucester MA this morning, I saw this pair of moon snails looking very coupley
#marinelife #scubadiving
July 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Graffiti Alley this weekend
#CambridgeMA #StreetArt
Large caricature face in profile which large blue cap, painted on wall Art painted on wall, white shape that looks like a sideways H with an eyeball on top, outlined in back, on reddish-brown background Wall spray painting of human-ish badger face with arms up as if cheering, with Boston Bruins B logo above Spray painted tag on wall, large stylized lettering with blue & black gradient designs inside. "One Love" painted lower left.
June 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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A northern mockingbird I saw catch a grub in our neighborhood park
#CambridgeMA #birds
Northern mockingbird perched on branch, looking towards frame-right, with grub in its mouth Northern mockingbird perched on twig, facing almost at us
June 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Recent paintings and tags at Graffiti Alley earlier this week
#CambridgeMA #StreetArt
Art on city wall - big yellow stylized lettering/shapes Painting on wall of white head with long thick red hair and large black eyes Misc paintings and text tags on wall, looking up towards skylight Red-headed woman in flowing black skirt spray painting on a wall with misc art and text on it
June 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Yellow warblers are back in town!
#birds #wildlife
Male yellow warbler (songbird) looking up, perched on a small branch with red flowers at its end.
May 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Some art currently at Graffiti Alley in Central Square
Graffiti art on wall - smiling sun, monochrome bunny, and more Graffiti art on wall - stylized colorful letter-like shapes Graffiti art on wall - outlined abstract heads with faces on green & blue background with colorful shapes below
April 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Years ago in Seattle I got pics of this bushtit that caught some grub. #birds #wildlife
Small gray bird (bushtit) on a branch with a green grub in its beak, background of out of focus leaves and sky Small gray bird (bushtit) on a branch with a green grub in its beak, background of out of focus leaves and sky
April 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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www.instagram.com/onlybugzzz/ spotted this mining bee (genus Andrena) this weekend - first bee I've seen around here this year!
#bees #wildlife
Close-up of Andrena bee on bark of tree
March 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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It looks like something from Ghostbusters attacking Boston
Giant pink figure climbing a tree in the fog in downtown
March 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Yesterday a Cooper's hawk hung out for over an hour by our deck, but the screen door got in the way of taking good photos. It was so close I didn't want to move the door and spook it. So here's one from a couple of years ago that I got good pics of, on a branch a few feet further. #birds #wildlife
Front view of Cooper's hawk perched on tree branch, chest towards the camera and head facing right. Close-up of Cooper's hawk torso and head, looking up and to the left.
March 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Some of the new art this week at graffiti alley
Blue/yellow/red stylized text graffiti Blue/red stylized text graffiti painting Person with people hat and robe painted on the walkway bricks Wall painting of expressive purple face
March 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I don't usually post food pictures but these stuffed tapioca balls call for an exception
Six shiny food lumps in three different colors on a long plate with orange garnish bits on top
March 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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20 years of living in the area has not erased the joy that coming out of a tunnel to see this view brings me every time.
March 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Yellowhead wrasses have goth-looking eyelash marks. Here's one terminal phase (which means it changed from female to male earlier in its adult life) I saw on the Florida Keys reefs a few years ago. #nature #coralreef #fish
Narrow yellow fish (yellowhead wrasse) with blue markings, rocky background
February 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Intrepid-looking black-capped chickadee at the suet feeder.
Lower-left half of hanging suet feeder, with chickadee hanging off the bottom corner, facing left
February 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Bee on a flower in the Middlesex Fells last spring. I think it's some sort of halictid bee but nobody else on iNaturalist has confirmed or narrowed that down yet: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #bees #nature #wildlife
Close-up of halictid bee on the florets in the disk of a flower.
February 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Nearly 5 years ago I got this close-up of a crown-of-thorns starfish on a Maui reef; they're nocturnal and tend to hide, lucky to see it in the open in daylight. They eat coral but in small numbers they help maintain the balance of coral species. Their pretty spikes are venomous. #coralreef #nature
Close-up of one arm of a crown-of-thorns starfish on corals
February 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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On a stop at Niagara Falls a few years ago, I followed some gulls with my camera as they flew over the falls and got this. #birds #wildlife
ring-billed gull over the edge of Niagara falls
February 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM