Samantha biobabbler

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Unbridled enthusiast of that nature thing, card-carrying conservation biologist, photography phan & word nerd. Have swiffer, will fend off mountain lion. she/her

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Vaux's Swift are my "Hardest bird to Photograph." Whats yours? I've shot thousands of shots at these #birds and this is the best I've ever gotten.

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Scenes of serenity Foe when you need to breathe...

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When you wish upon a star...🎶

The good news abt the #GraniteFire is that it's v near the Columbia airport (where many fire planes seem to live), and a reservoir so the copters can dip for more water readily. LOTS of aircraft on this one!

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omg look at this (I’ll be back - had a “big hike-training hike” that I want to share with you)

#GraniteFire new start. It's 107 in Mariposa, so it's not great in Coulterville, I imagine. 😬

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Field Sparrow Taking a moment to consider...

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#LakeFire near #ZacaLake, north of the #SantaYnezValley, California: A wildfire burning in the Los Padres national Forest in #SantaBarbaraCounty jumped to more than 12,000 acres burned less than 24 hours after it started. www.kclu.org/2024-07-06/f... - KCLU #CAFire #CAwx

Fire in Los Padres National Forest grows to more than 12,000 acreswww.kclu.org Blaze burning north of the Santa Ynez Valley: Smoke visible throughout Santa Barbara County

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Highly recommend entering this giveaway or just buying an Aranet! I bought one last year during a good sale, and it has been absolutely fascinating to see its readings at different places and times.

Here’s a video I’ve been meaning to put together explaining how to use CO2 monitors to gauge COVID risk. If you’d like to own this great public health tool, Aranet have kindly offered to collaborate on a GIVEAWAY! To win an Aranet4 indoor air quality monitor, check the YouTube video description.

This Tech Can Help Detect Virus Riskyoutu.be Here’s a video I’ve been meaning to put together for a while explaining how to use carbon dioxide monitors to gauge virus transmission risk. If you’d like to...

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Tried to go to the beach today, but we were rained out. It was beautiful when we arrived, but then a thunderstorm blossomed....

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Of course, here's my dear colleague June Casagrande to set the record straight, dammit.

Interesting! I would read the hell out of a deep dive on the phrase.

Worst Comes to Worst? Or Worse Comes to Worst?www.grammarunderground.com I try not to cringe when people use language in a way that seems wrong to me. My idea of what’s right, as I’ve

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Here’s why people can create wild species domestic cat hybrids that need much more space, exercise and are more likely to hurt you than the people that buy them expect. Please don’t buy wild-domestic hybrid cats. They are challenging. Started off interesting biology, ended on a soap box.

The earliest cat (Family: Felidae) was likely Proailurus (Greek: 'before'+'cat'), dated to about 30 MYA in the late Oligocene. Some species were a little larger than a house-cat (20 lbs/9 kg), while others were bobcat-sized (50 lbs, 23 kg). Fossils are found Spain to Siberia. (📷: Mauricio Antón)

The emu pics look 100% like dinosaur illustrations. WOW, they're big!

I think I've shared most of my Boolcoomatta shots. But here are some from the camera trap which I set up at a puddle near the camping ground. Nothing exciting but interesting to see what came in for a drink (red kangaroos and emus). 🪶 #birds

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An old shed ... and an incredible sky ... near Halbury. This seemed like excellent danger noodle habitat 🐍

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I saw these on Baranof Island, Alaska, yesterday. Round-leaved sundew, *Drosera rotundifolia*.

Australia has more than 250 species of sundews (drosera). I love taking photos of these carnivorous plants and now, through to spring, is the best time to find them. These sundews were at Spring Gully Conservation Park yesterday.

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Eight years ago today 🌿 Erysimum capitatum, our native Western Wallflower, blooming on Mt. Blue Sky. 😎

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Was about to get wet, again. But the weather was bringing the swifts down close 🪶 #birds

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'American soldier with a stray dog in Tunisia during World War II' Robert Capa, 1943

#FrenchFire update. Hey, @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social "steep terrain" makes an appearance!!😆🥳🏔️

A little bit of winter, to help us get northern hemisphere peeps get through this crazy heatwave.😊❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

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Some enchanted evening, you may see a heron across a vacant lot...

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Gray squirrel enjoying the breeze #Sqrlpix

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Out and about in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest for the first time this year. Taking it absurdly slowly as my health still isn’t 100% but there is a growing feeling of wellbeing surrounded by nature again.

Looked behind me during my nap, and ... 😻🥰🐱 #Caturday #NapCompanion

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Was sitting watching what I though was the horizon over the water and then realized a boat was floating in mid-air. #Toronto

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I found this beetle trapped in an abandoned spider web and freed it, because it was essentially in the spider equivalent of a ghost net. Also, it was a very cool beetle - a rugose stag beetle, Sinodendron rugosum.

Radio transmission for #FrenchFire just said "Fire contained." I'm assuming they mean as a whole. Woo-hoooo!!! 🥳🥳🥳

The #FrenchFire looking sooooo much better, despite brutal temperatures. Great work, everyone!!🥳🥳🥳

So, seems this is the result of the flight I clocked while having migraine-related insomnia (no biggie) & checking the flight app 3:50 a.m. 'cause "Why not?" 😅 US Army peeps getting mapping DONE in the middle of the night. What stars they are! 🥳 #FrenchFire