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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝
@fishsqueezer.bsky.social
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Biologist in Idaho, lover of nature, taking pictures, books, family, art. Politically active & outraged, but that's not why I'm on Bluesky. Views my own.

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Finally reading Braiding Sweetgrass (thanks for the book, @saimihanma.bsky.social). 🌱 #nativeplants

"Wild strawberry shortcake was the best possible present...it was a gift that could never be bought."

That line particularly touched me & reminded me of this gift from my son:
A boy's hand with 8 small wild strawberries, not all of which are completely ripe.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I caught a cute little stickleback in a dipnet! I've never seen one even though they're native to the Inland Northwest because I'm rarely mucking around in the little backwater swamps that they prefer, but it made me feel like I found a little gold nugget. 🐟
A spearhead-shaped stickleback fish with a speckled brown back and a golden belly lies on a net over my hand. It's really cute!
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
A gorgeous, calm autumn day in the Selkirks.
Tall conifers reflecting in the calm water of a stream. There are accent logs and fall colors in the brush as if it is a carefully curated scene.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I had a terrible wild mushroom season this fall after the Inland Northwest had the driest summer in recorded history, but I sometimes like to look at this picture from a couple years ago to remind myself of how beautiful the fall mushrooms can be.

📷 #FungiFriday
A pile of mushrooms of various colors and textures ranging from white and cream through red, purple, and blue. There are classic umbrella shaped mushrooms, scaly vase mushrooms, and coral/icicle mushroom shapes.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Someone asked me for a time series of the Monstera I just rehomed, so I made this. Not sure how Bluesky is going to handle the photo format, but 🤷.

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A sequence of 12 photos showing a Monstera deliciosa plant growing from a little baby in my hand with three heart-shaped, whole leaves to a giant 3-meter tall plant in my front yard with leaves larger than my torso that have dozens of dissections and fenestrations.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Which newly described froglet factory are you? I'm Udzungwa glandular tree toad.
markscherz.bsky.social Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 4d
Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸

vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
A fine black toad with bright white fingers, toes, and lips, and brown pustular blobs along its legs, resting on a dark green leaf. A black and white toad on a green fern frond. The head and limbs are grey, and the body black. A toad looking at the camera over a brown leaf, its black body splotched with yellow and white. It is very Halloween-core. A black toad with huge yellow glands on its legs, head, arms, and parts of the back. Jack Skellington himself could hardly have painted a more Halloween-flavoured toad.
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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citymousegarden.bsky.social
This is how we do bird feeders in our small #UrbsInHorto #Chicago garden.

#gardening #NativePlants #birds #ecosystem #GrowYourOwn 🌱
Aralia racemosa with its deep wine colored berries hidden among clusters with bare ends that have already been picked clean by our resident and migratory bird visitors.
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
They've got amazing flowers if you can manage to get your Echeveria to try it. 🪴🌱
A couple of stems with fiery orange barrel-shaped flowers opening at the bottom, and conical buds waiting to open next.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I went to the local park to visit the (probable) tallest American chestnuts on earth. The city recently installed a barrier to reduce foot traffic, but they're also inexplicably raking all the leaves and detritus away without mulch replacement. I wish they wouldn't.

🌱🌿 @tomkimmerer.bsky.social
The trunks of three large American chestnut trees are visible inside a chain circle where the ground has been raked smooth of fallen leaves, burrs, flowers, and other detritus. I do appreciate the placard so people know why these trees are special.
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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tanukisrevenge.bsky.social
Rise and shine! It’s time for whimsy!
#WhimsyWednesday
The sun rises and shines through some beige mushrooms growing from a tree
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Hahaha, this moth made me laugh out loud. I didn't know a bug could sploot, it's SO ADORABLE.
bugmom.bsky.social molly @bugmom.bsky.social · 6d
@bogenbroom.bsky.social you are the Yellow Furry-Legs Slug Moth
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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In 2022 our first freeze of the year came astonishingly late, on Nov 4th during a snowstorm. None of the trees were dormant & my apricot tree was obliterated. That was the first year I had harvested any apricots from it. I've replaced the tree but the new one hasn't ripened any fruit yet.🤞for 2026🌱
A young apricot tree lies on the ground with snapped branches and a split trunk because of the weight of wet snow.
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Update: things are getting crowded in the orchid terrarium. 🪴🌱🟢

bsky.app/profile/fish...
A view of glistening plants growing in a terrarium. They have many different sizes, shapes, and colors of leaves, and include four taxa of jewel orchids, a variated vanilla orchid, a Paph orchid, a couple Bulbos, a Phalaenopsis, and some other teeny orchids way in the back. There are also few air plants, pings, and lots of moss.
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
A haiku inspired by this festive fall scene.

yesterday falling
feeds today's decomposers
while tomorrow waits

🍄📷
Some shelf mushrooms growing from the base of an old rotted stump, with fallen leaves all over everything.
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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iand777.bsky.social
Parasites? pah!....
Here the bunnies have proper enemies, from the Wild Wood - stoats, weasels & crows.
And decent parents - kind, rural country folks, who look out for their kits and who do their best by them.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Finally brought the rest of the tender houseplants inside from the greenhouse. Some of them were secretly beautiful! The only things left outside are things that need a cool winter rest like Dendrobium & Cymbidium orchids, jungle cacti, Hippeastrum, & Clivia. Fingers crossed for spring blooms! 🪴🌱
A white llama planter sitting on a shelf has 20 or so spiky, cylindrical green stems sprawling off of it. It also has a star-shaped cream flower with a circular center and dense dark brown freckles.
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
A hole in a bedrock stream deep enough to hide who knows what...but probably westslope cutthroat trout.

🐟 #hydrology
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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@cageyratfish.bsky.social How are you doing? We've missed you...
a woman is sitting in a rocking chair talking to a little girl and says " you is kind you is smart you is important "
Alt: A Black woman in a maid's outfit is sitting in a rocking chair talking to a little girl and says "You is kind, you is smart, you is important" because her own mother doesn't provide her the reassurance she needs.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I love a bedrock stream. Imagine taking what is already the most beautiful part of a landscape and magically infusing it with whimsy and architectural zen. #hydrology
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Does anybody need a lucky rabbit's foot?

Make sure you choose the right costume this Halloween or climate change means your pelage phenology will be mismatched and the boogeyman will find you.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN CREEPERS 🦊🌎
The remains of a snowshoe hare on the forest floor along with some small plants and mushrooms and twigs.
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I learned a new word today from this spooky @biographic.bsky.social article: inquiline

It describes organisms that are squatters; not quite parasites, but camp out in someone else's niche (e.g., spiders that intercept insects lured by plants)

www.biographic.com/a-novel-demi... #nativeplants #虫 🌎🐍
A Novel Demise - bioGraphic
Although we’ve marveled over carnivorous plants for centuries, the plants’ penchant for vertebrate flesh has been largely overlooked.
www.biographic.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I love autumn larches because they make it feel sunny even when it's not.

Truly a tree to live by.

#nativeplants 🌱🌿
A forested hillside rises into the clouds above the calm water of a lake. The forest is studded with yellow from larch and a few aspen.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Looking at the figures, it appears big ass homes with lavish landscaping are the main drivers, which makes sense.

I wonder how rich people feel about these data, though. Is there a correlation between income and invertebrate tolerance?

#invert 🌎🌱
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
Cold brewed mushroom and redcedar tea, nature style. 🍄📷
A mushroom with upturned, ruffled yellow edges has a deep reddish brown center that has filled with rainwater and a frond from a western redcedar tree. It is growing out of the surface of a log next to a smaller mushroom of the same species.
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I found you a little snowy sphagnum moss spring.

#nativeplants #hydrology
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM