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Get To Know Nature
@gettoknownature.bsky.social
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Fascinated by nature: birds, frogs, beach, sky & more. All media by me w/ a long lens. Family friendly (ish) nature stuff here & on YouTube & Patreon. (In PA, USA)

Mini nature documentary every Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/gettoknownature
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · Dec 31
All you Bluesky people are thoroughly lovely. Thank you for hanging out and sharing birds, bugs, sunsets and more together.

An absurdly adorable Tufted Titmouse to wish you a Happy New Year

#birds 🌿
A small gray bird with a gray crest and a white belly stands on the side of a wood bird feeder looking excessively cute
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More blending in. They were made for this environment!

(American Robin) #birds 🌿
The top half of a gray and orange bird is visible among many fallen brown and leaves.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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An American Robin fully blending in with the fall leaves

#birds 🌿
A gray and orange bird stands on the ground among fallen leaves and branches, its colors making it blend in beautifully.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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If you see this, post your bird art.

A lot of my art is bird art, but this is one I don't post often. #art
A digital painting of raven flying overhead. It is clasping elderberry branches and multi-coloured yarn with beads on the end in its claws.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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We’re snail posting, post your snails!
Photo of a hand holding up a small risograph print of a cute illustrated pink and green snail on a lime green background. The snail looks happy with sprouts around it and bubble letters that say "keep going!" above it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Amusingly, my photos program thinks these Barn Swallow fledglings are snails! Lol. I was looking down on them from a boardwalk as they waited to be fed.

#birds 🌿
Two bluish gray birds seen from above as they sit on a large green leaf.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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We’re snail posting, post your snails!

#invertebrates 🌿
A snail peeks over a blurry brown leaf in the foreground. Its shell is orange and its fleshy antennae are translucent.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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*mumbling groggily*

It’s Monday. Have the very best day you can

(Sanderling) #birds 🌿
A brown and white speckled bird dozes on a rock in front of calm blue water in the background. Its head is turned around and its beak tucked along its back between the folded wings. Eyes are mostly closed.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Rare right side up White-breasted Nuthatch. Usually they're defying gravity.

#birds 🌿
A gray bird with a white face, neck and breast stands on a bare branch with some green and yellow leaves blurry in the background.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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STAY. AWAY. FROM. WILDLIFE. Keep your trash locked up. Do not feed wildlife or otherwise encourage it to hang around human habitation.
beckyhammer.bsky.social Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently missing out on some exciting rabid fox neighborhood drama

Got this photo via two different group chats
Fox trying to attack a dog through a glass door
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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The same view as below, 9 days later. I love the warm tones!

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Trees with red, brown and yellow lean over a foggy, leaf strewn creek.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Fog at the creek again today. Making fall look extra good

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Green, yellow and red trees line a creek and fog hangs just above the water in the distance. The dark trunks make interesting patterns against the colors and the fog.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Drew a Least Weasel because the name always makes me chuckle...

"Thou art the very least of weasels!"

Yet ounce per ounce, probably one of the most vicious and terrifying predators on the planet (but also deadly cute!)

#art #SciArt
Digital painting of a Least Weasel standing amidst some purple and white crocus flowers which are nearly as big as it is. The weasel is mostly covered in reddish brown fur with white under its chin and along its chest and belly. It has a bit of black at the very tip of its tail. It looks alert and ready for action.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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A beautiful sunset over Hudson Bay last night. This never gets old.
A dramatic sunset over a large bay that is very slowly icing in. Snow and blocks of ice are in the foreground and are interspersed with water, reflecting the slate gray clouds and orange sky above.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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American Oystercatchers taking a stroll. I don’t have a single favorite bird but these are Top 10 for sure

#birds 🌿 🥕
Four black and white shorebirds with long red beaks strut along the beach with the ocean waves blurring in the background.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Two minutes of peaceful fall beauty! With birds and deer and even some bees and flowers still hanging around!

#birds 🌿
November: Beautiful or Gloomy? (Spoiler alert, it was beautiful)
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
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November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Two minutes of peaceful fall beauty! With birds and deer and even some bees and flowers still hanging around!

#birds 🌿
November: Beautiful or Gloomy? (Spoiler alert, it was beautiful)
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
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November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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Even more fall goodness

#NativePlants 🌿
Reddish brown leaves hang against a blurry background of other leaves and blue sky.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I love when the Eastern Towhees pass through during migration. They distract me and lure me outside with their piercing “treeeeat” call!

#birds 🌿
A brown, orange and white bird stands on a chain link fence looking round and serious as it glances towards the camera.
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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photographing a nuthatch is a race.
#WorstBirdPic #PhotoFailFriday #birds
the side of a trunk of a tree, with a blurry nuthatch tail exiting the lower left corner of the photo.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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#photofailfriday
guys a quick pic before you have to head off for winter? no? wow ok it’s fine i get it you’re eating…
lwo ducks submerged underwater avoiding the fall paparazzi interviewing any ducks i see about their winter plans
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Or dis dawg? 🦑🌿
A manatee stops for a breath with its nostrils above the surface
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I love when the Eastern Towhees pass through during migration. They distract me and lure me outside with their piercing “treeeeat” call!

#birds 🌿
A brown, orange and white bird stands on a chain link fence looking round and serious as it glances towards the camera.
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I have become thoroughly overwhelmed trying to reply to every wonderful rec here. Thank you so much to everyone who replied. I will have enough books for Months! Years even!
gettoknownature.bsky.social Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 6d
Bluesky readers, I need books please. Here are authors I love. Can you recommend anyone similar?

Fantasy: T Kingfisher, VE Schwab, Katherine Addison

SciFi: Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie

Romance: KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Courtney Milan

Here’s an enchanting scene to say thank you!
A path lined with wooden posts and covered in fall leaves leads off into a clearing. Trees surround it in green, yellow and red fall colors.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all about #Fighting birds and the Alternative Bird is #Chaffinches.
#birds

A tough situation here:

Blue Tit - Eurasian Nuthatch
(both could escape unharmed)
A fight over sunflower seeds on a tronc. Blue Tit has the head against the wood, you can only see btit's back side, dominated by the nuthatch. Its beak is touching the Tit's side and Nuthachts left claws are wide open against Bluetit's head
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM