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Rachel Burch

@rachelburch.bsky.social

Happy Alban Arthan or winter solstice (and summer solstice in the southern hemisphere). The light starts to return soon.
The actual event when the earth’s axis tilts furthest from the sun is 3.03pm today.
After this in the northern hemisphere the days gradually become longer. #wintersolstice

A collage of five wintry images and including a robin and holly berries

December 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM

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Paula ⚪️

@paulaflucas.bsky.social

Happy Winter Solstice folks❄️
Here’s to lighter times✨
#Yuletide

Looking through dark bare frosted branches to the orange glow of the sun setting behind trees in the distance and in the low haar over a field.

December 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM

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Tony Clark

@informative.ink

The light in the desert after a storm and with a spottily clouded sky is wild.

Photograph in the Sonoran desert of saguaro and other kinds of cactus on the desert floor, stretching away toward a series of seemingly overlapping hills in the background, all in mottled light and shadow, with colors ranging from pale to dark green, tan to dark brown, and blue and slate and white.

December 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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Christine E 🇨🇦

@binkysmum55.bsky.social

thunderstorm
#photography #SookeHills #ThunderAndLightning #WestCoastKin

Foreground: coniferous trees in black silhouette, background: dark grey rolling hills, with a peach coloured sky above. Blue-grey jagged clouds above.

December 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM

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Pat Lillich

@quietlynow.bsky.social

a garden finch in fall garden for #Stunday #Birds #Photography #Garden #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky

a lesser finch (small grey and pale yellow bird with black and white markings) sits on a branch of berries in my backyard. The background is mottled brilliant gold leaves from a smoke bush and red leaves from a threadleaf japanese maple.

December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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Jeff Hamilton

@jeffhamilton.bsky.social

big lake

December 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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Chris Steller

@chrissteller.bsky.social

Greetings on the morning of the shortest day!

bare trees over an icy river with a snowy road and a pale blue sky turning to yellow and peach near the horizon

December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Daily Stoic

@daily-stoic.bsky.social

December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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David Preston

@dave1957.bsky.social

A #HolidayRobin for the Solstice. This scruffy little guy was (I think) just coming into adult plumage in September 2023.

#birds #photography

A Eurasian robin with unkempt-looking plumage, framed between twigs.

December 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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Luca

@lucagalletti.bsky.social

The breathtaking Cachoeira da
Fumacinha waterfall in Chapada Diamantina, Brazil

December 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Scientific American

@sciam.bsky.social

Cross-species “defense pacts” help animals keep tabs on parasites and predators

How Animals Form Unlikely Alliances to Keep Predators Away

Cross-species “defense pacts” help animals keep tabs on parasites and predators

www.scientificamerican.com

December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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Dogofthedesert

@dogofthedesert.bsky.social

Yesterday, this hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus) and I startled each other in the Rio Grande Bosque (in Albuquerque, New Mexico). Photo taken on December 18, 2025.

#nature #naturephotography #birds

A bird roughly the size and shape of a robin, but with a white breast with large dark spots. The throat is also white, with dark streaks and spots. The visible part of the head is mostly a streaky brown. The eye is large and dark, with a thin eye ring. The head is cocked up a bit, much as robins do. The back and folded wings are dark brown. The belly is white. At this angle, the tail looks mostly dark brown. The thrush is perched on a bare red branch, with additional but blurred branches in the foreground and background.

December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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Viv K

@vivkeene.bsky.social

Blue-sky! Such a relief. Had a quick walk around Lyme Regis looking for Black Redstarts, with no success. Lots of Buzzards, Kestrels and a few Bullfinches, Woodpeckers and Blackcaps were a pleasure to see. #UKBirding

A male Bullfinch perched on a bramble twig, against a blue sky

A view along the coast from Lyme Regis towards West Bay.

December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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crazycanloon.bsky.social

@crazycanloon.bsky.social

The Grey Ghost - Northern Harrier (male)

#birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #birding
#photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography
#northernharrier

December 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM

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LMC_CurryCreations

@lmcurry.bsky.social

Red Shouldered Hawk with a squirrel…hard to photograph this as the squirrel was still crying a little but I am a recorder of nature and I do not interfere. Plus, the squirrel was dying.

#bird #birdoftheday #birdphoto #photography #nature #wildlife #canonphotography #blueskybirds #hawk

December 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM

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Terre-Strial

@terre-strial.bsky.social

Solstice Peace, Hope, Light... ✌️✨🫶

December 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM

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Barry

@barryw757.bsky.social

Sunset tonight
December 20, 2025

The sun sets behind the distant trees, leaving a golden glow along the horizon.

December 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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.𖥔 ݁݁ ˖ stella ˖ ݁݁ 𖥔.

@wolfgirl.bsky.social

spotted two young wapiti sparring in the Qualla Boundary near Cherokee, North Carolina and got these AMAZING photos. me and my partner are unanimous in thinking these two were the highlight of our trip through the smokies
#WildlifeWednesday
#GreatSmokyMountains #autumn
#photography