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Steven
@rauwst.bsky.social
Elder millennial. Photographer. Banjo player. Probably in a swamp somewhere.
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📸: Nikon D7200/Tamron 150-600mm G2
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This is red wolf 2191M, the breeding male of the Milltail pack. USFWS just released some great news: his mate 2503F just produced a litter of 8 pups!

Taken with a telephoto lens and cropped

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
March 21, 2025

#wolf #redwolf #wildlife #mammals #endangeredspecies
August 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A barred owl was resting on a branch when a grackle came out of nowhere and decided absolutely not. The grackle harassed the sleepy owl for about five minutes before finally giving up.

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025

🪶 #wildlifephotography #nature #animals #photography #birds #owl
August 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A tree can be a great place to nap if you're a bear.

American Black Bear
Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025

#bears #wildlifephotography #nature #animals #photography #mammals
June 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
June 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
June 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Serene like a mirror

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025

#alligator #reptiles #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #obx
June 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Let's chill with a barred owl for a brief moment

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025

🪶 #wildlifephotography #nature #animals #photography #birds #owl
June 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Frog legs are back on the menu

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025
#otter #riverotter #mammals #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #obx
June 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"Clever girl"

This is about as far north as gators go. There's a small group living at Merchants Millpond State Park about an hour northwest, which is the limit of their range.

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5th, 2025

#alligator #reptiles #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #obx
June 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
An osprey nest along the road. There were several nests along this road. There was a second osprey in the nest that would occasionally pop up, so I suspect they have eggs or babies in there.

Coinjock, NC
June 6, 2025

🪶 #wildlifephotography #nature #animals #photography #birds #osprey
June 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
When you got an itch, you gotta scratch

Male American Black Bear
Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025

#bears #wildlifephotography #nature #animals #photography #mammals
June 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A juvenile barred owl taking flight

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
June 5, 2025

🪶 #wildlifephotography #nature #animals #photography #birds #owl
June 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
April 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
March 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Krasnov and his lackeys are incompetent boobs
March 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A trio of river otters ran across the road and dove into the ditches in the fields next to the road. The last one turned around to chuff at me a few times before swimming away

Alligator River NWR
East Lake, NC
March 21st, 2025

#otter #mammals #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #northcarolina
March 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
His name is Robert T. Cat. But all his friends call him Bob.

March 21st, 2025
Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
North Carolina

#bobcat #cats #mammals #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature
March 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity, and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them."
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
March 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are you deliberately being useless? It seems hard to be this incompetent by accident.
March 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
A reminder that the EPA was created by Richard Nixon, approved by the Senate unanimously & the House 375-1. There's no chance in hell Republicans today would have voted for that and it shows just how much they've lost their goddamn minds. Anyone who says the Dems are the extreme ones is full of shit
March 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
February 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Fuck it,
January 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Thanks, Donald.
January 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM