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otterbeth.bsky.social
Beth Winkler
@otterbeth.bsky.social
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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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unfamiliararts.bsky.social
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.
A photo of two tiny ceramic ermines. One is sitting calmly and the other is standing with its tail upright and back arched.
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
otterbeth.bsky.social
Bella is sharing a blanket on the couch with me. I love her puppy snores.
Close up of a sleeping grey pittie/staffie mix nestled in a blanket. She is cozy and softly snoring.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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blueasterstudio.bsky.social
We just finished printing some creatures of the night on this Halloween... 🎨🐡
A table of fresh screen printed artwork of an opossum walking across a fence at night. A rabbit and luna moth are in the yard below.
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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batcon.org
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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oliviawhen.com
Doggust 31: Shelties. Summer Cafe. 🌻🥐
#doggust #doggust2025
A little modern coffee window, with red wood frame, and lighter wood counter, window, and stools. Inside a dark brown sheltie works a bright blue espresso machine. She's holding the portafilter willed with ground coffee in her mouth. Outside the window, a lighter brown sheltie in a blue apron holds a plate with a croissant in her mouth (amazing self control), offering it to a french bulldog patron. Foliage is reflected in the windows, and casts light blue shadows on the wall. To the left is a potted lacy tree philodendron on top of a cinder block.
September 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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papertigress.bsky.social
#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.
Sketched as if the bats are three scoop of ice cream in a waffle come, in a digital colour pencil style
August 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
otterbeth.bsky.social
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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herorats.bsky.social
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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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
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. 🌿🦊
A curious river otter pokes its head out of the water to check out the kayaker behind the camera.
June 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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papertigress.bsky.social
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.
Illustration of a Pied Butterfly bat on a slice of rainbow cake
June 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Happy #Pride everyone. Nature is infinitely diverse.
A rainbow made up of different Manitoba wildflowers. The red on the left end is a three-flowered avens (lantern-shaped flowers), orange - wood lily, yellow - goldenrod, green - green bog orchid, blue - lungwort (little blue bells), purple - iris.
June 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
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. 🧛‍♂️
A first edition of the novel Dracula A photograph of Bram Stoker A section of Bram Stoker's notes where the name Wampyr is crossed out and replaced with Dracula
May 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
otterbeth.bsky.social
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 !
A small sculpture of an orange ceramic fox sits on a card. Part of the card text reads: “Your Tea Friend was made by Shirley Jackson” A closer view of a small orange ceramic fox that stands with tail held up in a jaunty way.
May 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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lizaadamczewski.bsky.social
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 🤞
Holly blue butterfly with early purple orchids Orange tip butterfly with bluebells
May 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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lasrina.bsky.social
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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greenleejw.bsky.social
Drawing some sea monsters today, and finding just the right home for them on the map.
A red sea serpent with little wings or fins. He might be a stupid dragon. His long, long tail curves several times before vanishing into the water behind him. You can't tell where in the world we are, as there are no landmarks. The serprent's tongue is yellow, like he's just popped a banana slug into his mouth. His expression kinda looks that way, too. His eyes are wide and his maw is open in something that looks like surprise. Like someone just pinched his butt in the middle of his quarterly earnings presentation. His name is Speril, and he is an only child. A green sea serpent curling around an old-timey sailing ship and chomping down hard. The ship is probably screwed. The serpent -- her name is Marmalayda -- is not. Her eyes are wide with anger and her thick body is likely to crush the ship. All of this is happening just of the coast of S. America, and Marmalayda's tail is arching over Patagonia before vanishing into the Pacific.
April 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
otterbeth.bsky.social
Tea pets! Friend shaped. #ceramic #sculpture #teapet
shing.bsky.social shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · Apr 29
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
a bug lump out of speckled clay by me, shing yin khor A camel by Thanate, modeled after a figure from Khotan, c 100-200 CE a delightful tiger by Shirley Jackson a wooly cow by Brody Scotland
April 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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kness.bsky.social
Not ai, only side eye
Snow leopard mug
March 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
otterbeth.bsky.social
Post a warning.
A sign shows a person sitting on an elephant with a red circle crossed out overlay. Words beneath read “Please do not touch, nor sit on the elephant.” (The elephant in question was a statue.)
March 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
otterbeth.bsky.social
Vintage #MightyMustelids and friends!
lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · Mar 8
These lovely and stylish endpapers were created by Eileen Mayo in 1949 for Pleiades Books.

‘Larger Animals of the Countryside’
A stylised illustration of a forest showing deer, trees, pine marten, rabbits, foxes and a cut-through of the soil showing a badgers curled up in the set
March 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
otterbeth.bsky.social
Black-footed Ferret recovery program in peril. #ESA #Ferret #WildlifeBiology
benjij.bsky.social Benji Jones @benjij.bsky.social · Feb 26
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
otterbeth.bsky.social
Happy Bellantine’s Day! We adopted Bella on Valentine’s Day four years ago. She is a sweetheart. 🩷 #dogsofbluesky
A grey pitbull/staffy mix dog looks up at the camera earnestly. She has white markings on her feet, cute flopped ears, and is wearing a reddish sweater.
February 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
otterbeth.bsky.social
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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nhm-london.bsky.social
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. 🦡
A photograph of a Eurasian badger walking in the street at night. It looks up at a white wall, on which there is graffiti of a badger standing up on its back legs and holding two guns. On the left hand-side of the wall, there is a sign saying ‘Keep access clear at all times’.
February 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
otterbeth.bsky.social
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
A life-size bronze statue of a Golden Retriever sits on a brick pedestal. It is a spring day and the good dog looks as if they were content to sit and watch over the Scottish estate where their breed originated.
February 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM