Justine Jones

Thanks Squidward. 😀👍

Beautiful Fraggs

4th of July Lake, Mokelumne Wilderness, California.

A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.

Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.

#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus

A close-up of a butterfly resting on the ground, with intricate orange, black, and white patterns on its wings

There were a bunch of these on my walk today, flying together and landing briefly. Is this a #PaintedLadyButterfly? #Tuolumne in Central California. #Insect #ForestFriday

Thank you HLK. I think the only reason I got even remotely close is because they were preoccupied with each other.

A sunlit dirt path leading through a tunnel of arching, slender trees with lush greenery all around.

A winding trail surrounded by manzanita trees with reddish-brown trunks and dense leaves, creating a canopy overhead.

A narrow stream gently flowing through a lush, greenery with rocky banks.

#ForestFriday #Trail #Creek #Hiking #Nature

Spotted on my walk today at a local hiking area that is covered in lovely #Manzanita along the tail, even making a canopy in areas. The last part of the trail is along a little creek. Playing around the the camera and light.

Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European Starling, perched on a tree branch against a clear blue sky

Blue tit perched looking down

Gold finch on wild flowers, its vibrant colours gleaming - The striking combination of colors makes it a showy and easily recognizable bird

Robin Perched on a branch: The bird is shown perched on a thin, bare branch against a blurred background of foliage and branches looking at the viewer

Good morning 👋
Time for the little ones to wake up
It’s early here and still dark outside 🥱
#SmallBirdSaturday ✨
#LittleBirds
#birds #ukbirding #birdphotography #NaturePhotography
#EastCoastKin

Interlude male flicker usually will not allow this! #FlickerFriday

In step with the theme. great shots

Thanks, it was unexpected and lucky.

A macro image of the backside of a sleeping bee, whose head is not visible because it's jammed down into the center of a yellow flower. The bee's abdomen is dark with thin light-colored bands of hair. The flower's petals surrounding it are smooth, and the flower's fuzzy stigma is next to the bee, like a yellow pom-pom.

Guess what
Bee butt

A small (under 1 cm., way smaller than a honeybee) male Dufourea sp. bee sleeping in a sun cup (Camissonia campestris) flower in the Mojave Desert last week. Males of many solitary native bees sleep in flowers or use their mandibles to clamp onto thin plant stems. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

I've yet to see on in person, but I'm hopeful. :)

Thank you Cliff! 😀

Rosy-faced lovebird. Here are a pair of small mainly green birds with sweet pink faces.. These are peeking out of a nesting cavity in a saguaro 🌵 cactus.

These charming birds are an invasive species to the Phoenix, AZ area...I lived in Mesa, AZ for many years and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing them. I always heard them first, and wow, they are fast! 💚🪶

Mesa, AZ ~ May 2024

#birdoftheday #ColourfulCaptures #birdphotography #photography #love

Thanks Gretchen. 😀

As per @alan678.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SteppingOut
Black-crowned Night #Heron putting his best foot forward.
Everglades, Florida 03/27/25
#birds #photography

Amazing capture mawgdn. 🌟😀

Thanks mawgdn

Aww adorable! great photo

A picture of a partially visible victorian arched red brick bridge and waterfall that flows underneath it. The bridge stretches across the top of the frame, and both ends are hidden by the lush green leaves of trees that populate either side of the rock face of the waterfall. The grey sky is partially visible above and below the bridge and waterfall and in the foreground there is lush green grass and a to the mid right of the frame a set of steep old stone steps that dissappear out of picture.

A view of a hidden waterfall under a bridge shrouded by trees. #scape #waterfalls #bridges #trees #nature #wildlife #enchanted #EastCoastKin

Thanks GECko

One of the foxes, not Gretchen, came for a visit to get some breakfast peanuts. Hope this makes Monday a bit more palatable. #fox #wildlife #maryland #eastcoastkin 🦊📷🤘🏼🤓

A Great Blue Heron stands in a grassy field alongside a group of curious cows. Another heron can be seen in the foreground, creating a peaceful scene of different species coexisting in harmony.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #SteppingOut birds captured mid step. The alt theme is #ColourfulCaptures colorful bird or background. #birds #photography Thanks Alan @alan678.bsky.social for a chance to show this photo.

Flying or grazing, we're all part of the same big community.

A photo of an Allen's gallinule (Porphyrio alleni) wading in shallow clear water with one very large orange foot raised, mid-step, as it looks down toward its own reflection. It is a small wading bird with a stout body and a small head on the end of a short neck and long legs that end in large, long-toed feet. Its coloring is bright and vivid with iridescent violet-blue breast and neck, shiny olive-green back, aqua-blue wings, a black head, red irises, bright red beak, a pale blue shield above its bill, and bright orange legs and feet. It is facing toward the right of frame in shady lighting with a brown rocky shore behind it.

A colorful Allen's gallinule mid-step for #BirdOfTheDay. Sorry they spelled its name wrong, @alan678.bsky.social. #SteppingOut #ColourfulCaptures

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Eine Mandarinenente läuft über auf eine Wiese

Ein Bläßhuhn läuft über den Uferstrifen eines Sees. Man kann nur die Füße sehen

Colorful MandarinDuck.

Eine Mandarinente auf einem See von hinten

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SteppingOut birds captured mid step. The alt theme is #ColourfulCaptures colourful bird or background.
Sorry for all the #MandarinDuck picture... But the male is just very photogenic.. And the second pic shows the feet of a #Coot.
#Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

Colorful!

Kevin the Kingfisher #birdoftheday #colourfulcaptures #EastCoastKin #ukbirds

A small brown sparrow perches on a branch of a hawthorn bush surrounded by glossy green leaves and bright red berries. The bird’s soft, buff-brown feathers catch the sunlight, and pieces of crushed berry cling to the tip of its beak as it pauses mid-meal. Several berries around it show hollowed centres where they’ve already been eaten, while the blurred green background makes the warm reds and earthy tones of the bird stand out.

I’m sorry folks but back to work for me. May be around in evening for a short time. Not sure. Take care of yourselves and your loved ones. Please support each other. Comment on a couple of BOTD posts, repost them. It’s our community. Ta. #ColourfulCaptures #BirdOfTheDay #birds #EastCoastKin

A great blue heron takes flight while hunting rodents in an old orchard in rural AW #Oregon. Heavy rains have caused rivers to run high, forcing local herons to seek alternative hunting areas beyond their usual pursuit of fish and amphibians #wildlifephotography #photography #birds