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Nelson Chu Pavlosky

@loren I met a neighborly mining bee recently, it really lived up to its name! It landed on my leg and hung out for a while.

:inaturalist: inaturalist.org/observations/2

Loren

onions: the perfect hand held device

Roland

They're also good for throwing them at people who are annoying you 🧅

Loren

i was looking through some old pictures and found these from when i monitored nesting black skimmers on the beach about 10 years ago. look at these little fluff balls!

#birds

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Loren

i love skimmers so much, what strange looking creatures. i wish i had a recording of what these colonies sounded like though. it was an absolute cacophony lmao

Kathleen Jones 🚲🖼️🦭

@loren I used to see them fairly often where I used to live, and loved seeing the skimming in action. Magic.

It wasn’t until years later I saw a photo of what they look like end-on. Had no idea their bills were so narrow! Awesome.

The Crafty Miss

@loren What, woah, who are these guys with the Flintstones beaks and why have I never been aware of them before?

Loren

i had been thinking to myself: "do not try and take pictures of the flying swallows, it never turns out well. they're too fast and i am tired and hot and ready to leave"

so of course this guy has to go and land right in front of me in a low tree.

i basically just held down the shutter for 10 minutes straight while they hung out for a while. they did a little preening, a little yelling, and by that point i was ready to go sit down so i had to say goodbye to my new tree swallow friend.

#birds #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #birding #BirdPhotography

i had been thinking to myself: "do not try and take pictures of the flying swallows, it never turns out well. they're too fast and i am tired and hot and ready to leave"

so of course this guy has to go and land right in front of me in a low tree.

i basically just held down the shutter for 10 minutes straight while they hung out for a while. they did a little preening, a little yelling, and by that point i was ready to go sit down so i had to say goodbye to my new tree swallow friend.

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Ulrike Heiß

@loren How did that happen, I thought they never stop flying about.

Chrysalis

@loren @she_goes_on #birdsofmastodon #aberdeen Last spring newly arrived swallows had to take shelter from gale force winds and torrential rain under the eaves of our block of flats. One one was found dead on our veranda, the poor thing was covered in ticks.

Loren

for #FungiFriday i have probably the coolest fungus i’ve ever seen. thanks to everyone who helped me ID it on here a while back i now know these things to be the incredibly named Crystal Brain Fungus #CrystalBrainFungus #fungi #fungus #mushrooms #mushtodon

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