Paul Foth
@paulrfoth.bsky.social
Sparrow, lichen, music fan account
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
Today's news:
The main winter songbirds have arrived: Bohemian Waxwing, Redpoll, and Pine Grosbeak. I have an eye out for Northern Shrike.
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The main winter songbirds have arrived: Bohemian Waxwing, Redpoll, and Pine Grosbeak. I have an eye out for Northern Shrike.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Today's news:
The main winter songbirds have arrived: Bohemian Waxwing, Redpoll, and Pine Grosbeak. I have an eye out for Northern Shrike.
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The main winter songbirds have arrived: Bohemian Waxwing, Redpoll, and Pine Grosbeak. I have an eye out for Northern Shrike.
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#Lichens form their complex thalli through a partnership involving at least a fungus and an alga. But can these living structures be rebuilt in vitro? For more than a century, people have tried. With @spribille.bsky.social we revisited 150 years of #lichen #resynthesis to ask: has anyone succeeded?
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
#Lichens form their complex thalli through a partnership involving at least a fungus and an alga. But can these living structures be rebuilt in vitro? For more than a century, people have tried. With @spribille.bsky.social we revisited 150 years of #lichen #resynthesis to ask: has anyone succeeded?
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Ramalina thrausta, or Angel's Hair lichen.
Near Lac la Hache, BC
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Near Lac la Hache, BC
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Ramalina thrausta, or Angel's Hair lichen.
Near Lac la Hache, BC
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Near Lac la Hache, BC
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I just found out someone I used to know died by suicide in 2013. I was looking him up because he was a great songwriter and I wanted to know if he had any music. He was a really sweet guy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I just found out someone I used to know died by suicide in 2013. I was looking him up because he was a great songwriter and I wanted to know if he had any music. He was a really sweet guy.
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Pumpkin Spice Lutfisk
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Pumpkin Spice Lutfisk
Great albums with lower Pitchfork scores:
Anathallo - Floating World: 2.7
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft: 5.0
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit: 4.1
Tool - Lateralus: 1.9
Anathallo - Floating World: 2.7
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft: 5.0
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit: 4.1
Tool - Lateralus: 1.9
A few months ago Indigo De Souza called Pitchfork “internet bullies” over a 6.6 review of her new album and asked her fans to tell the publication it was “whack”: “why not ONLY write reviews about art you LIKE?”
Last night she wore a shirt featuring the review onstage at Pitchfork Music Festival.
Last night she wore a shirt featuring the review onstage at Pitchfork Music Festival.
Indigo De Souza Played Pitchfork Fest In A Shirt Featuring Their 6.6 Review Of Her Album
Indigo De Souza released her new latest album Precipice back in July, and some drama ensued shortly thereafter. Stereogum contributor Grace Robins-Somerville reviewed it for Pitchfork and gave it a 6....
www.stereogum.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Great albums with lower Pitchfork scores:
Anathallo - Floating World: 2.7
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft: 5.0
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit: 4.1
Tool - Lateralus: 1.9
Anathallo - Floating World: 2.7
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft: 5.0
Pedro the Lion - Winners Never Quit: 4.1
Tool - Lateralus: 1.9
Here's Tuckermanopsis platyphylla, or Broad Wrinkle lichen.
108 Mile Ranch, BC
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108 Mile Ranch, BC
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November 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Here's Tuckermanopsis platyphylla, or Broad Wrinkle lichen.
108 Mile Ranch, BC
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108 Mile Ranch, BC
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Darn it! I meant to post this on Hallowe'en - a huge lichen with a sinister expression! At Esquimalt lagoon, 3ft from the high tide line, next to the invasive green crab ID sign. I like its jaunty toupée.
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Darn it! I meant to post this on Hallowe'en - a huge lichen with a sinister expression! At Esquimalt lagoon, 3ft from the high tide line, next to the invasive green crab ID sign. I like its jaunty toupée.
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
Hypogymnia wilfiana is probably my current lichen favourite. I like the little floral lobes with apothecia. Not too uncommon in the more mature forests nearby.
Near 100 Mile House, BC
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Near 100 Mile House, BC
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November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hypogymnia wilfiana is probably my current lichen favourite. I like the little floral lobes with apothecia. Not too uncommon in the more mature forests nearby.
Near 100 Mile House, BC
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Near 100 Mile House, BC
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I'm a Yes Album-Fragile-Close to the Edge Yes fan, but the only really positive thing I have to say about Tales From Topographic Oceans is that De La Soul sampled it on The Grind Date. Which is a great song and album.
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I'm a Yes Album-Fragile-Close to the Edge Yes fan, but the only really positive thing I have to say about Tales From Topographic Oceans is that De La Soul sampled it on The Grind Date. Which is a great song and album.
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Pumpkin Spice Basil The Great
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Pumpkin Spice Basil The Great
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I been trying to negotiate peace
With my own existence
She got a stockpile full of weaponry
She breaking every cease-fire agreement
Oh, the whole thing is full of decay
As sure as I'm made of dust
And into rust I know the beast is falling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tugi...
With my own existence
She got a stockpile full of weaponry
She breaking every cease-fire agreement
Oh, the whole thing is full of decay
As sure as I'm made of dust
And into rust I know the beast is falling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tugi...
Vigilantes Of Love - 1 - Welcome To Struggleville - Welcome To Struggleville (1994)
YouTube video by Strip Cycle Christian Music
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I been trying to negotiate peace
With my own existence
She got a stockpile full of weaponry
She breaking every cease-fire agreement
Oh, the whole thing is full of decay
As sure as I'm made of dust
And into rust I know the beast is falling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tugi...
With my own existence
She got a stockpile full of weaponry
She breaking every cease-fire agreement
Oh, the whole thing is full of decay
As sure as I'm made of dust
And into rust I know the beast is falling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tugi...
Details: It was great!
Another birder woke me up from a rare nap this morning to tell me GREG was hanging out at the nature centre. My first for the local region.
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Another birder woke me up from a rare nap this morning to tell me GREG was hanging out at the nature centre. My first for the local region.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Details: It was great!
Another birder woke me up from a rare nap this morning to tell me GREG was hanging out at the nature centre. My first for the local region.
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Another birder woke me up from a rare nap this morning to tell me GREG was hanging out at the nature centre. My first for the local region.
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Check out this cow
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November 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Check out this cow
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I saw a Great Egret. Details to follow.
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I saw a Great Egret. Details to follow.
You know, just textin' old friends about Evanescence
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
You know, just textin' old friends about Evanescence
So how is the basketball world cup going?
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
So how is the basketball world cup going?
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Salmon return to Okanagan Lake after nearly a century
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMt...
#envhist #britishcolumbia #indigenous #salmon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMt...
#envhist #britishcolumbia #indigenous #salmon
Salmon return to Okanagan Lake after nearly a century
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Salmon return to Okanagan Lake after nearly a century
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMt...
#envhist #britishcolumbia #indigenous #salmon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMt...
#envhist #britishcolumbia #indigenous #salmon
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Here's an old July view of the field looking south from Duck Lake
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Here's an old July view of the field looking south from Duck Lake
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Always fun to see what falls from the canopy. It’s another world up there.
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Always fun to see what falls from the canopy. It’s another world up there.
California Gull gets it
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October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
California Gull gets it
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Bad news folks.
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Bad news folks.
One of my favourite things about birding is learning to be a subspecies birder. Flickers, Juncos, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Red-tailed Hawks, White-crowned Sparrow and Finch vocalization types. There is fantastic variation within a species.
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It's been Juncopalooza in my yard these last few weeks. We normally only get the slate-coloured variety, but I did get one two-tone J. h. cismontanus subspecies, which usually live west of here. #birds 🌿
October 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One of my favourite things about birding is learning to be a subspecies birder. Flickers, Juncos, Yellow-rumped Warblers, Red-tailed Hawks, White-crowned Sparrow and Finch vocalization types. There is fantastic variation within a species.
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Anyone in Canada with some insights or perspectives on the NDP leadership candidates? My knowledge of the four who have announced their candidacy is pretty cursory.
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Anyone in Canada with some insights or perspectives on the NDP leadership candidates? My knowledge of the four who have announced their candidacy is pretty cursory.