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Richard
@ricketywindmill.bsky.social
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Middle-aged and quite strange...a winning combination. Enjoy art, history, music. Natural history too. And cheese. Drink industrial quantities of tea. Will occasionally lose myself in a game. Bad at describing myself. Hi.
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Walking around in the bush with my head down again this morning. I’m absolutely in love with the gills on this mushroom. I think it might be a type of oysterling. 🍄🌿
Looking at the underside of a frilly oyster mushroom. The different lobes overlap, each other kind of like a nudibranch, it’s tan gills form, beautiful, ripping patterns.
September 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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bawley.bsky.social
Amazing
May 24, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
Despite their teeeeeny size you can always spot a male Rufous Hummingbird, no matter how far across the yard they are😂🔥

#birds #becurious
photo of a male rufous hummingbird at a distance, he is perched on top of a fig branch facing the camera and his gorget is brightly refracting yellow-orange and vibrant coral.
March 24, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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New Photos: Guyana 2026

This coming week I'll start sharing my new Guyana photos in earnest, but as usual my BlueSky audiences gets a sneak peek!

Here's a lovely tropical flat snake we found during one of our night walks.

Preview more photos from this trip: www.maxwaugh.com/2026/01/30/n...
Tropical flat snake, Guyana
January 31, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Gigantic light rays hitting Segla mountain, captured back in 2018 during one of the coolest morning shoot of of my life.

#photography #nature #light
#art #landscape
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 19, 2025
Horsehead grasshopper
Pseudoproscopia latirostris
Orthoptera: Proscopiidae
By Dennis Botterbusch, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
#arthropodPOTW
A close-up view of a brown, elongated insect resembling a stick or twig, with bulbous eyes at the top and a rough-textured body against a plain, dark background.
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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A lifer #butterfly for me today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social, the Zavaleta Glasswing (Godyris zavaleta). These are found mostly in Ecuador and Peru, and this was fun to see in #CostaRica

#butterflies #invertebrates #lepidoptera
A butterfly with yellow and black wings and white spots perched on a green leaf against a soft green background.
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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#SnowcapoftheDay

Male Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature
A close-up photo of a vibrant hummingbird perched on a branch. The bird has deep magenta and purple plumage with a striking, snow-white cap on its head. The background is a smooth, blurred green, highlighting the bird’s vivid colors.
August 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Eastern Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes vicrama). Taken at a site close to home in Greece 🇬🇷
August 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard.

#Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology
Macrophotograph of a Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp) resting on a slightly weathered metal beam. The fly holds its patterned wings upright in an elaborate, fan-like display, appearing almost butterfly-like. Each wing is intricately marked with shades of dark brown, black, white, and subtle hints of iridescent blue, creating a mosaic-like camouflage pattern. The fly’s body is robust and heavily speckled in shades of brown, black, and cream. Bright, vivid orange-red eyes stand out distinctly on its head, along with delicate antennae and fine bristles visible along its legs and thorax. The textured metal beam beneath it has faint scratches and rust streaks, providing contrast that highlights the detail and coloration of the insect.
July 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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mush-photos.bsky.social
A dripping wet Porcini with a massively wide stipe grows in a sea of vibrant green moss

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 29 images
10/27/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫
A mushroom with a chestnut brown cap and a light oatmeal brown stipe grows among bright green moss. Its base is surprisingly wider than its large cap. A single large drip of water hangs from its cap on the right side. The entire cap is wet and reflects the light gray sky above.
July 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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A mid instar Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) on a Fuchsia bud after the rain.
July 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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A favorite from my archive a day: A TEENY-TINY Atheniella. So small my phone camera struggled to focus. Note the pine needles for scale.

They come in pink, yellow, orange, red. I’ve only found pink and I’ve only found three. Different angle below⬇️
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
July 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A super shiny Parrot Mushroom, Gliophorus psittacinus, reflects the forest canopy on its viscous cap

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/30, ISO 800
Stack of 32 images
11/24/21
Olympia area, Washington

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #gliophorus #parrotmushroom

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫
A beautiful yellow and green mushroom sits among reddish-brown cedar duff. Its stipe is bright yellow, and its cap is a very pretty light and dark green. The cap is extremely reflective, making it appear glass-like.
July 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Another one of our beautiful Canadian animals, here's a Bighorn Sheep photographed a couple of days ago in the Rocky Mountains. #wildlife #sheep
A bighorn sheep's head, with larger antlers curling around.
July 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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This is a painted grasshopper nymph (Poekilocerus pictus). Gorgeous.

Yes, it’s real. I caught and released an adult one of these in Arondizuogu, Nigeria once. 😃 My cousin said it looked like a masquerade and I’ve thought of them like that ever since.
Timeline cleanse: A colorful details yellow, blue, black and red grasshopper
June 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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mush-photos.bsky.social
Amanita pachycolea, the Western Grisette, is a choice edible and a fun mushroom to photograph

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 10 images
10/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫
A tall and large mushroom with a brown cone-shaped cap and roughly textured white stipe emerges from a white egg-like structure. Like many Amanitas, this one grows from what appears almost like an egg before it breaks through and grows taller. Brown soil with thin roots and fir needles surrounds it.
June 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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My favorite type of Amanita that grows around our home is the beautiful Amanita augusta 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400
Stack of 10 images
10/7/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #amanita #amanitaaugusta #mushroomphotography
A very tall mushroom with a long white, roughly textured stipe, which appears almost toasted due to soft brown-yellow color that is seen on the left side, a light brown-yellow ring of thin mushroom flesh, and a darker yellow color between the ring and the cap, which is a woody-brown color that's broken up by flaky yellowish-white spots.
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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A mother bear and her cub stand up to take a look at the surroundings. #wildlife #bears
A brown mother bear and her cub stand up to take a look at the surroundings while standing amongst a bunch of cattails and looking out towards the water.
June 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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tandjwood.bsky.social
For #macromonday and a favourite. One of the Figwort Weevils (Cionus tuberculosus) photo'd a couple of days ago on one of the Common Figworts in the garden.
June 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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A rose for #MacroMonday

#EastCoastKin #photography ##BloomScrolling
June 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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A moody photo of a male Rufous-tailed Jacamar at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#nature #birds
A small bird with iridescent green feathers, a white collar, and rust-colored underparts perched on a branch against a soft green background.
June 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Guess what? Fireworks butt. Here's a tiny planthopper nymph (not sure which family) from Costa Rica, one of several kinds we saw. The fibers are a waxy material; if a predator attacks from behind, they can break off harmlessly and let the nymph escape. Alternatively...Coachella-ready. 🐙🌿 🎆 #insects
A macro photo of a planthopper nymph, viewed from the side, standing atop a green stem against a black background. The insect is all kinds of odd: a very large, blocky head and thorax, bright red eyes, red-cream-black stripes and bands on the body, and an upward-curved abdomen from which a spray of straight fibers protrudes, almost like fireworks shooting out of its backside. I mean, there's a lot going on.
June 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ricketywindmill.bsky.social
Going through some folders of things I made when I was learning 3D modelling. I had some health issues and stopped making things for years, but I'm back at it now. Anyway, I found this. No idea why I made it, but it probably speaks for itself
June 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone
June 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM