Saw a pair of male Atlantic Sand and Red-Jointed(Minuca minax) Fiddler crabs fighting at the marsh! Saw lots of M. minax aggression, which is high stakes for the other crabs; M. minax has developed the ability to eat their peacefulish cousins!
#wildlife #Northcarolina #obx #nature #crabs #marsh

okay I'm bored have a fiddler crab on the house

Finally getting around to posting some of the crab shots from last week! Here is Uca/Leptuca pugilator, the Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab!! I love these lil dudes SO MUCH! At Cedar Point Tideland Trail, NC!

#NC #OuterBanks #wildlifephotography #crabs #nature #invertebrates #crab #naturephotography

Went down to coast (Swansboro/Outer Banks) and got a TON of crab photos, but I think I'm gonna start it off with a Carolina Saddlebags (Tramea carolina)! Shiny lil bud

#NC #nature #insects #wildlife #wildlifephotography #dragonflies

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(Green anole, sometimes called the Carolina Chameleon!, #NC) #lizards #reptiles #wildlife

The Blurb is one of my favorite genres of outtakes

This is me and my dog whenever he insists there is space on the couch. The one on the left was visibly teeter-tottering 😆 From Huntley Meadows, #Virginia.

#wildlife #photo #naturephotography #nature #animals #reptiles #herpetofauna #naturephotos #dcarea

An extremely vocal Osprey this past month down at Cedar Point Tideland Trail in the #NC #outerbanks! There's usually a full family down there but this buddy was a ways away from their nest, maybe moving out?

#birds #sonyalpha #nature #naturephotography #photo #wildlife #animals #raptors #birdphoto

Mountain Laurel in bloom last May at Poor Mountain Trail, #VA. Took some proper one-lane mountain roads to get there!

#plants #Virginia #BlueRidgeMountains #Mountains #photography #naturephotography #photo #flowers #eastcoast #spring #wildflowers

Coming out of hibernation to share this; Needlerush at the salt marsh. Taken on Hoop Pole Nature Trail on the #outerbanks a while back. When you look into it in person, the visual noise kills all sense of depth, it's really quite mesmerizing.

#nature #photography #NC #naturephotography #plants

It's #Oldworkwednesday, so here's a shot I took probably in '21, '20, back before I switched from my PixPro to a DSLR, and when I was still very much learning! This was taken at Cedar Point Tideland Trail, NC.

Love when nature presents comical little tableaus like this.

#photography

Whiskers, aka vibrissae, have nerves that detect their movement, which must be over a certain temperature to work. For this, seals have large, ring-shaped blood vessels around their whisker hair follicles to heat them up; as seen here in an INCREDIBLE image from doi.org/10.1016/j.je.... Lookit'em.

This #cute harbor seal is a pinniped (group w/ #seals, sea lions, walruses, etc) that lives in northern ocean waters. They've tons of cold-water adaptations, including SPECIALLY HEATED WHISKERS. Whiskers need to be warm to work; here's how they do it: (thread) (1/3)
#marinelife #wildlife #funfacts

Structural coloration happens in all birds with blue feathers, but you can see how it happens in macaws in this image from doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204383109 ! The specific mechanism varies widely across birds, but is honestly too quantum-fancy for my understanding lol (3/3)

Hi all! Just joining #bluesky and LOVING IT!!! I'm a student and amateur photographer, and hope to post cool #science stuffs here!! I have a special interest in fiddler crabs and salt marshes!
This #bird is a Red-and-Green Macaw I saw this weekend, who nanoscopically manipulate light! (thread)