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Beth Winkler
@otterbeth.bsky.social
Interested in wildlife, especially mustelids. Bat admirer. Erstwhile keeper of ferrets. Now caretaker for an eager Pit Bull/Staffy dog. Reader of books. Copy editor by trade. She/her
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A pair of extra tiny ermines will be in this shop update! These two were super fun to make, but I might make them a little bigger next time. They will be available this Friday, November 21st at 8pm Eastern time.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Bella is sharing a blanket on the couch with me. I love her puppy snores.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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We just finished printing some creatures of the night on this Halloween... 🎨🐡
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I have eaten
the figs
that were on
the fig tree

and which
you would've probably
given
me anyway 🥺

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so sweet
🍈

✍️ William Carlos Williams
🦇 Peter's tent-making bat
📸 Norbert Wu, Minden Pictures
September 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Doggust 31: Shelties. Summer Cafe. 🌻🥐
#doggust #doggust2025
September 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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#fatbatfriday with three sweet scoops of microbats - aiming for that Neapolitan look with a Honduran white, Chocolate wattled, & Eastern red bat in a waffle cone (stacked by average max weights).
If you need the reminder: have a drink of water, have a snack, and take a long, slow & deep breath in.
August 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Take a break. Enjoy the sunshine with the flowers and the bees. #calm #pollinators #garden
July 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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May your coffee be strong and your Monday as productive as our #HeroRATs! Here's to starting the week with purpose and positivity. ☕🐭

#MondayMotivation #AfricanGiantPouchedRats #PositiveVibes #APOPO
June 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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One of my river otter escorts from the other evening on the kayak. They're always so curious, but I'm glad we manage to keep a safe distance between each other. Taken with a long lens. 🌿🦊
June 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The semi-anagram within my Pied Butterfly bat from fatbatweek 2022the did not register until just now.
I purposefully picked rainbow cake to celebrate queer diversity (along with 2023's Golden Gaytime + Gold tipped bat). Biodiversity and Social diversity - both matter immensely.
June 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.
June 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today is #WorldDraculaDay because Bram Stoker's classic novel was first published #onthisday in 1897. It's also worth remembering that if Stoker hadn't come across the name Dracula in a book while researching in a LIBRARY the main character was going to be called Count Wampyr. 🧛‍♂️
May 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
My #Tea4T pet arrived! This lovely little friend was made by Shirley Jackson. Thank you @lioninthetrees.bsky.social and thanks to organizers @shing.bsky.social and @leslielevings.bsky.social !
May 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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It’s been a good start to the season for #butterflies here. Lots of orange tips & yesterday my first blue of the year. Uplifting after last year’s washout and fills me with hope that things could recover 🤞
May 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Happy My Good Friend Jonathan Harker Has Written Me A Letter Day to all who celebrate.
May 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Drawing some sea monsters today, and finding just the right home for them on the map.
April 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Tea pets! Friend shaped. #ceramic #sculpture #teapet
Tea4T is live! Adopt a tea pet and help a bunch of ceramic artists raise money for the Trans Youth Emergency Project!

Tea pets are sold blind-box style, but here are some of the remarkable pets that may land in your home!

tea4t.bigcartel.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Not ai, only side eye
March 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Post a warning.
March 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Vintage #MightyMustelids and friends!
These lovely and stylish endpapers were created by Eileen Mayo in 1949 for Pleiades Books.

‘Larger Animals of the Countryside’
March 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Black-footed Ferret recovery program in peril. #ESA #Ferret #WildlifeBiology
Staff cuts and funding freezes have upended one of the country’s highest profile conservation projects — a nationwide effort to breed, clone, and release endangered black-footed ferrets, among the rarest animals in the world. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.
Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.
www.vox.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Happy Bellantine’s Day! We adopted Bella on Valentine’s Day four years ago. She is a sweetheart. 🩷 #dogsofbluesky
February 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The 2026 Olympic mascots are stoats! (Have they been training at @campmustelid.bsky.social?)
#mightymustelids
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Tina & Milo | The Official Mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026
YouTube video by MilanoCortina2026
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February 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Huge congratulations to Ian Wood, who has won the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award! 👏

In his perfectly timed photograph, Ian captures the surreal moment an ambling Eurasian badger looks up at graffiti of a badger in St Leonards-on-Sea, England. 🦡
February 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
February 3 is National Golden Retriever Day! This is reason enough to share this statue of a very good dog that I photographed near Tomich in Scotland. Dudley Marjoribanks (aka Lord Tweedmouth) was the first to breed Golden Retrievers in that area in the 1800s. #GoldenRetrieverDay
February 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM