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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
The Odd Couple 🪶 (ID in alt-text)
Common Raven & Cooper’s Hawk
December 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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nickraschke.bsky.social
Good morning.
Ibis, a few days ago.
These birds get a hard time here, but I like them.
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 14
They are one of the tiny little birds that stay with us year round. In the winter they are especially busy, constantly foraging and talking.
This red-breasted nuthatch has just plucked a small nut from a spruce cone and will either eat or stash it for later.
#birds 🪶
A red-breasted nuthatch in a spruce tree with a small spruce nut in its beak. It has a blue-grey wings, an orange tummy, and black eyeliner through its eye.
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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wa-orchids.bsky.social
Utricularia tenella - the Pink Bladderwort

Growing in winter wet areas, this delicate bloom is the flower of a carnivorous bladderwort endemic to southern parts of Australia. Like other species in the genus, it has a bladder-like trap.
#ozflora #wildoz #fierceflora #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
Picture of a pale pink flower which has the appearance of having a single lower petal divided into three distinct lobes. The flower has three small yellow bulges in the central part
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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skriley.bsky.social
The Celestial Emu proudly watches over Australia.

#DarkEmu #MilkyWay #Emu #Astronomy #Australia #NightSky
‘Referred to as Gawarrgay in language of the Australian First Nations Kamilaroi people, the Celestial Emu describes how many First Nations people viewed the Milky Way—and how it was part of their way of passing on knowledge of the land and sky through many generations. In the early part of the Milky Way Core season, the Emu rises from the horizon, standing proudly in the sky, as in this image. In the later part of the season, the Emu lies on its back, resting. The Emu’s head is the dark region of the sky, near to the Southern Cross, known as the Coalsack Nebula. In this image, the Coalsack Nebula is near the top right, with the body of the Emu extending towards the horizon in the bottom left, near the windmill.’ Image and text by Des Paroz (@desparoz.com on Bluesky). Created near the township of Nimmitabel in southern NSW, Australia in May 2024.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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cormacscoast.bsky.social
A Sea bean!!
A seed from the Monkey-ladder plant - commonly found in Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Sea currents and winds occasionally push them on to Irish shores and I've been told that these seeds are sometimes still viable even after such a long journey.
December 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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cormacscoast.bsky.social
Stormy days whipping up seafoam and throwing rainbows around. 🌬🌊🌈 🌈
County Clare, Ireland.
December 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
Metallic Shield Bug.
#bugs #insects
Photograph of a large true bug on a machined wooden surface. The bug is multicoloured in iridescent green, gold, and orange, with two alrge glossy orange spots as as orange trim on its thorax. Same subject, lower angle with a shallow depth of field. The bug's face is still the focus, but its underside is also visible: glossy orange with dark stripes.
December 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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cormacscoast.bsky.social
Goniatite fossil in a large eroded concretion. The shells of these extinct relatives of Squid and Octopus would have been scattered all accross the sea floor that existed here over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.
December 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar
I spotted this lovely Great Horned Owl while driving, pulled over & used the railing on a bridge to steady my camera. You can see the sunrise in its eyes… 🪶 1/80, f/6.3, ISO 1000
Great Horned Owl in the blue hour
December 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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skriley.bsky.social
Meanwhile, Christmas in the Australian Outback 🎄

#HappyHolidays #Australia #Summer
'Cool-down in outback inferno' When the Christmas Day sun beats down on drought-ravaged outback Queensland, sending the mercury past 40C, and the nearest beach is more than 600km away, relief has to be found in unusual places. For Andrew Gimm, Kimberly Rice and daughter Dakota, who live on a station at Boulia, a cattle trough, filled with 1000 litres of bore water, was their Christmas sanctuary. Image Source: The Australian
December 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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wa-orchids.bsky.social
Caladenia cairnsiana - the Zebra Orchid

Seen in the Stirling Ranges National Park near Albany in Western Australia at the end of September. The Zebra orchid has a distinctive, red-striped labellum with two central rows of deep red calli.

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
Picture of an orchid flower that has the labellum in focus. The labellum has red stripes along it and deep red calli in two lines down the centre
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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awlandscapesa.bsky.social
Scaly Sunday
A sleepy lizard in the dunes along the Yalata coast. Also known as pine-cone lizards, stumpy-tailed lizards, bobtails and double-enders, these large skinks are the largest members of the blue-tongue family. They are one of very few lizard species that are monogamous. 

#wildoz #lizards
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 13
A male common grackle in mid display trying to impress the females.
I think he may have achieved peak iridescence!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
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A male common grackle in a spruce tree displaying. His feathers are ruffled out and show vivid iridescent purple, blue and bronze colours!
December 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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jeffhubbard.bsky.social
Cantil, CA from a few years back.
December 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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amarhss.bsky.social
Kingfisher Blues (the blues that don't get you down)
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #Ipoh #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife
December 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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teamswiftparrot.bsky.social
Creaky door vibes from this gang gang
December 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
Brown Cuckoo-dove in our persoonia.
#birds
Photograph of a small pigeon with a long tail perched in a persoonia tree. The bird is shades of brown, orange, and cream, with red and blue rings in its eyes. The tree has short spikey leaves with clusters of small yellow flowers.
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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guyverkroost.bsky.social
2040 #cassowary #birdphotography #birding
#NaturePhotography #nature #bird
December 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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nickraschke.bsky.social
Good morning.
December 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 12
Dee Dee Dee! Black-capped Chickadees stay with us all year round, and don’t seem to care about the cold at all. This little one was busy foraging in the frosty trees!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
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A black-capped chickadee with its black cap and bib, white cheeks and tummy, tan sides, and tiny little beak, sits in a frosty spruce tree.
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
Black-faced Monarchs! This is only the second time I've seen them in my garden, so it was exciting.
#birds
Photograph of a small passerine bird perched on a bare branch surrounded by leaves, ventral view. The bird is grey with a vivid orange belly and a black face wings. It has black eyes, and a grey beak. It is looking to the side. Same species (possibly the same individual, I lost track), but closer with a shallower depth of field, and closer to the bird's eye level. It is looking at the viewer with cautious interest.
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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angrywagtails.bsky.social
nstructions on making frogge hotels

www.abc.net.au/gardening/ho...
Hop-in Hotel - Gardening Australia
Josh gets creative and boosts his backyard biodiversity by showing us how to make a couple of “frog hotels.”
www.abc.net.au
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Carved by ancient glaciers, and today by the Kings River, Kings Canyon is one of North America's deepest canyons - deeper in spots than the Grand Canyon! The 50 mile drive winding through the canyon is demanding, but nearly every turn reveals a postcard-worthy view. #Photography #ArtAdventCalendar
A photo taken along the Kings Canyon Scenic Byway in California in which a road bracketed by green trees winds down into a valley, with massive gray, pointed cliffs in the distance and a mostly cloudy sky overhead. On the road's right is an orange, rocky cliff. Several rocks have fallen and lie on the road's surface.
December 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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cormacscoast.bsky.social
Just found one of the "Ghosts" from Pac-Man. 🤣

This is a Hagstone with holes bored by Common Piddocks (Pholas dactylus).
County Clare, Ireland.
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM