Russell

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Writer, naturalist interested in the oceans, coastlines, urban ecology, natural history, chowder.

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A big pot of News You Can Use for all of you ahead of the holiday this week open.substack.com/pub/waterway...

I wrote about horseshoe crabs—animals that will bump into the same wall over and over, and can’t right themselves when they capsize, but have survived like 6 mass extinctions. How did they do it? Read for my amateur (but fun and informed!) theories open.substack.com/pub/waterway...

Horseshoe Crab Solsticeopen.substack.com Hi everyone, This week’s Landlubber is later than I had planned, but it has lots of cool photos and, if you read to the end, an eight second video that will blow your mind.Thanks for reading Landlubbe...

Oyster toadfish thinks it’s a channeled whelk

I wrote about the General Slocum catastrophe, historical memory, and our diminished relationship with the water around us. It’s my first post for Landlubber, my newsletter about coastlines, oceans, rivers, etc. Take a look, subscribe! It’s free open.substack.com/pub/waterway...

Working my way through a great Sichuan cookbook and I’ve got all these new ingredients in my house. Lots of fun, very tasty. Hopefully my digestive system will figure out how to handle all these peppers eventually

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Migrating yellow-bellied sapsuckers add to their secret code every year.

Sam does cool stuff with maps and ebird data

Where can I see new birds? Mostly Arizona, apparently! Fun little project using eBird's Status & Trends data to map someone's potential lifers. More here: smsfrn.github.io/posts/2024/0...

After being told repeatedly by shopkeepers that there’s no such thing as nicotine gum in France, I go to a pharmacy only to discover that they have taken the best flavor of nicorette, which was discontinued in the US, and sent it all here for these philistines

If it’s about to be waterworld in NYC it’s over for you mf’s I was born for this

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Per Twitter, they sure are

I took this picture of a Portuguese man o’ war that washed up in Massachusetts in August. Not a jelly exactly, but a siphonophore, these guys have several components that, depending on how you think of them, constitute separate organisms or individuals or whatever. I think they’re cool

Galls are so crazy. A little mosquito-looking thing called a nun midge laid an egg in a goldenrod stem, and then chemically (?) hijacked the plant, forcing it to grow this weird, Dr. Seuss-looking treehouse for its baby

The best part about fall migration in NY is at the end when millions of striped bass surge down the coast and you can catch em with with a fishing rod

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Welcome to my new mutuals! I went on a following spree. This is Canuck the crow. If you haven't heard of him, or if it's been a while: www.facebook.com/thecrowandI?...

I’m just out here lookin at dirt that’s my job this week

Has anyone figured out how to take photos of spiders with a phone camera? I’m struggling

If you’ve been thinking that all you need to get through the week is 2,500 words about seaweed, I’ve got you covered: https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/sargassum-summer-beach-seaweedy-what-is-it.html

A Centuries-Old Mystery Is Washing Up on Atlantic Beaches. No One Is Sure What to Do.slate.com Welcome to our hot sargassum summer.

I’m sore as hell and my shoes are toast but I saw some good birds this week. Lots of warblers and thrushes on their breeding habitat, and a lifer boreal chickadee

Check out this absolutely cursed object I just saw

Have the padres been wearing these insane uniforms all season? They look incredible

Hi everyone! My name is Russell, but here on Bluesky, you can just call me Manhattan Bird Alert! 🦅🦆🦜

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