Jen Cross
banner
jencross.bsky.social
Jen Cross
@jencross.bsky.social
Engineer by day | Nature & landscape photographer | Birds, bugs, spiders | Friend of animals that scare people | Be decent & kind | she / her | IG heyjencross
📸www.jencrossphoto.com
Pinned
Hello new followers! I drag around a camera and take lots of photos. I love learning new techniques and tend to post lots of bugs and birds, but nothing is off limits.

Eastern Bluebird, Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, Glacier National Park landscape, Puffins floating on the ocean
Reposted by Jen Cross
Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!
February 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Reposted by Jen Cross
trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
🌿
February 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Image taken in Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴 just few days ago.
January 30, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds
January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Pyrrhuloxia singing under gray skies 🪶
January 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
#Bobcat video no. 4 for the week. The "sniff and spray" caught on #cameratrap.
January 29, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
January 29, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
This might be my favorite shot of that night. #aurora
January 27, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Coates is great here, as always. He provides history and context to better understand our present moment.
January 26, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
For every screenshot of a donation you make in honor of our upcoming wedding, I’ll share a marine biology fun fact!
We're trying to use the happy occassion of our upcoming wedding to spread some good news around to a world that really needs some.

Please consider donating in our honor to one of these great science, education, or conservation charities.
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Paddling, birds standing in water
Bristle-thighed Curlew: Look at the base of the legs and you can even see the bristles of this very local bird. Anchor River, #Alaska 🪶
January 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:

“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish.

.

🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...
January 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM
OG angry bird probably wondering when the white stuff will stop falling and temps will warm up.
Northern Cardinal, PA 🪶
January 25, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Some fun snowflakes from the #winterstorm today.
January 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Well I was not expecting to see one of these guys today. What are you doing here now?? Cape May Warbler. 🪶
January 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Sorry not sorry.

Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍

*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Sagebrush, Snow & Sunrise
January 23, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Folks, I'm getting married! Next weekend!

I'd love to spead the good news around. Here's a list of science, conservation, and education charities I love, and instructions on how to donate in our honor if you're so moved.

Please share!
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Frosty faces on the chickadees today. These tiny birds maintain a body temperature of 40C - that's a 70C gradient across only a few centimeters from the outside air to the bird's core! These little guys blow my mind. #birds 🌿
January 23, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Hi! 👋 I'm Shayne, an amateur bird/wildlife photographer based in Washington state. Here's a Pacific wren actively listening for the call of its people in between bouts of singing. One of the very first bird photos I took that turned out well! #addBirder #birds
January 22, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
Bearing up under the difficult conditions found on the 403 trail above Crested Butte #nativeplants

#Botanizing #Colorado #RockyMountains

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 22 🌿
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Jen Cross
I fucking did it
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I’ll take that wasp slot machine.
Wasps make me happy! #inverts

Eastern Cicada Killer, Ichneumonid Wasp, Umbrella Paper Wasp, Parker's Thread-waisted Wasp
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM