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Wandering the mountains, lakes, trails, & waterfalls of NE Georgia...soon.

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When seasons collide. 🍁❄️ #Bloomscrolling

📸 Photo of Cosmos spp. flowers taken by the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC (just across the NE Georgia state line)
Orange flowers dusted with snow.
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Because bsky can always use more #herps...

This guy is dressed in his finest duckweed for the upcoming holidays.
conniemenefee.bsky.social Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 1h
Elegant bullfrog of the day!
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025
Sitting on pond muck margin, small bullfrog in profile with brown, green face, and some nicely placed duckweed
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
When seasons collide. 🍁❄️ #Bloomscrolling

📸 Photo of Cosmos spp. flowers taken by the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC (just across the NE Georgia state line)
Orange flowers dusted with snow.
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Is it #TitmouseTuesday, or is it #TuesJay, or is it #TwosDay? So many choices. 🤔
I guess there's no reason why it can't be all 3. 🤷‍♀️ #Birds 🪶

📸 Tufted titmouse: Baeolophus bicolor
📸 Blue jay: Cyanocitta cristata
📸 House finch: Haemorhous mexicanus
Northern cardinal: Cadinalis cardinalis
A tufted titmouse facing the left on a whitish brown perch of the cam bird feeder. A blue jay facing left and looking back over its shoulder while perched on the bird bath in the late afternoon sun. A pair of birds facing the camera while perched on the edge of the bird bath in the late afternoon sun. A house finch is in back and to the immediate left of a northern cardinal standing in front of it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Because bsky can always use more #herps ...
conniemenefee.bsky.social Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 1d
Bullfrog of the day!
Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025
Wall to wall duckweed with a bullfrog peeking out
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Because bsky can always use more #herps ...

I went back in my archives to pull up this cute little corn snek we found in our ferns. Keep on getting those mice/rats, little dude (or dudette). We live near water so there's plenty of food supply for you.

📸 Corn snake: Pantherophis guttatus
An orange or brown bodied snake with large red blotches outlined in black down their backs is curled up around a beige gardening glove and checking a watch on a person's wrist to see what time it is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
I've told that raccoon it's ok to use our bird bath, but he must poop in the neighbor's yard, not ours. He didn't listen. #Mammals #WatchYourStep #WildlifePresents
One of the neighborhood raccoons crawling up to get in our bird bath. A pile of raccoon scat in our backyard. That's a no-no.
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
Here’s Mr Eastern Towhee looking just as gorgeous

#birds 🌿
A black bird with orange sides stands on a branch, his long tail on display.
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
This new paper documents a tenfold increase in research papers using community-collected iNaturalist data over just five years: tr.ee/89Ot3I

According to the study, here are four key ways that iNaturalist data directly powers science 🧵⤵️
July 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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gabrownie.bsky.social
What a great pic to start the weekend. My one, and only, pic of a kingfisher. She and her mate were chattering up a storm near the trout hatchery at the terminus of a creek that empties into Lake Burton. I'm betting that meals are an easy treat there. #Birds 🪶

📸 Belted kingfisher: Megaceryle alcyon
A female belted kingfisher sits in the dead branches of a tree.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
What a great pic to start the weekend. My one, and only, pic of a kingfisher. She and her mate were chattering up a storm near the trout hatchery at the terminus of a creek that empties into Lake Burton. I'm betting that meals are an easy treat there. #Birds 🪶

📸 Belted kingfisher: Megaceryle alcyon
A female belted kingfisher sits in the dead branches of a tree.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
It's #Fall y'all. We spotted this bucolic scene on the back road to Glen-Ella Springs Inn and Restaurant (listed on the National Register of Historic Places & a great place to stay and/or eat) last year. We love traveling along the back roads. #NEGA #Georgia #Wanderlust
A large tree with reddish brown leaves and a barn located on a small hill behind a wooden farm fence.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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toddwoody.bsky.social
Breaking: As the US moves to license deep sea mining, new research finds that extracting critical metals from the seabed generates waste that endangers tiny marine organisms that form the basis of a vast food web, threatening fisheries people depend on. Free link.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Seabed Mining Disrupts Fisheries, Researchers Find
Scientists analyzed data from a test mining operation to document threats to small marine organisms key to the health of commercially valuable seafood like tuna.
www.bloomberg.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Sorry, mom. I have so much bark butter in my beak that I can't chew with my mouth closed. #BirdOfTheDay #LunchTime 🪶

📸 Red-bellied woodpecker: Melanerpes carolinus
A juvenile red-bellied woodpecker with his beak crammed full with bark butter at the feeder cam.
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
I love my red-bellied woodpeckers. Those red patches on this one's head are fabulous. #WoodpeckerWednesday #BirdOfTheDay #CloseUp 🪶

📸 Red-bellied woodpecker: Melanerpes carolinus
A red-bellied woodpecker hanging from the feeder munching on some cranberry suet.
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Sliding Rock Cascade on Wildcat Creek is a short hike up a closed road from a parking area. The water is cold and refreshing - and the sliding is outstanding!

#WaterfallWednesday #NEGA #Georgia
Water slides down the face of a rock into a pool below. The area is surrounded by trees and bushes.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Moon rising over the creek even at 5:30pm EST. It's still a pretty chilly wind out of the north. #SkySky
The moon is rising over a creek to the east as the sun sets in the west.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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gabrownie.bsky.social
A closeup of an Eastern brown pelican for #BirdOfTheDay. #LongBeak #Birds 🪶

📸 Eastern brown pelican: Pelecanus occidentalis
A close up of a pelican showing the graceful curve of its neck and head as well as part of its long beak and pouch.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
Oops. The shuttle at Brasstown Bald (the highest point in Georgia at 4,784 feet above sea level) was closed until further notice yesterday due to snow and icy roads making the road dangerous. Be careful out there. #NEGA #Georgia

📸 Brasstown Bald, Fall 2022
From the top of Brasstown Bald, Georgia's highest peak, looking west in late November 2022
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
From #herps to #insects, #birds, & #mammals, the leaf layer is more than just nature’s carpet - it’s a sanctuary, food source, & protective shield. These critically important pieces of microhabitat are entirely removed when we throw away our yard leaves. #LeaveTheLeaves

📸 @xercessociety.bsky.social
A picture with a background of various colors of fall leaves by @xercessociety.bsky.social with the words: Leaves are not litter. They're food and shelter for butterflies, beetles, bees, moths, and more. Tell friends and neighbors to just #LeaveTheLeaves. xerces.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
gabrownie.bsky.social
A closeup of an Eastern brown pelican for #BirdOfTheDay. #LongBeak #Birds 🪶

📸 Eastern brown pelican: Pelecanus occidentalis
A close up of a pelican showing the graceful curve of its neck and head as well as part of its long beak and pouch.
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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emilybloch.com
We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA. Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
gabrownie.bsky.social
We loaded up our vehicle this morning with all the food we collected for our neighborhood food drive and dropped it off at a local food pantry. Our donation weighed in at 171.3 pounds - one of the largest the food pantry had received to date. Way to go neighbors! ❤️

#NeighborsHelpingNeighbors
gabrownie.bsky.social GA_Brownie @gabrownie.bsky.social · 10d
Passed out a Food Drive flyer to some of our neighbors last weekend and boy did they come through today. My 6' dining room table is jam packed with food for a local food pantry - and food is still being dropped off at our house. #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors
A 6' dining room table filled with boxes and bags of food for a food drive to help replenish a local flood pantry.
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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laurelgale.bsky.social
I'm a big fan of close-up portraits, but I also got some captures with this beautiful red-breasted sapsucker fully in frame. It was a very cooperative woodpecker!

laurel-gale.pixels.com/art/sapsucker

#birds #nature #wildlife 📷
A photo of a red-breasted sapsucker clinging to the side of a tree. The soft pinkish background complements the woodpecker's red head and breast. A vertical photograph of a red-breasted sapsucker clinging to the side of a tree. The woodpecker has a red head and breast, with black and white feathers on the back, belly and tail.
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM