nimblenewt.bsky.social
🇨🇦Nature nerd by the Salish Sea. Lichen enthusiast; nudibranchs, liverworts, tiny mushrooms, seaweed, plankton, authors and cats. Also amphibians! And invertebrates...
(Note: any newt-handling photos are only to remove them from roads or other dangers.)
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Whaaaaaaat holy moly look at it GO! I was expecting a bit of a helpless drifting away...
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If I wasn't laughing so hard already, the dry commentary about seagulls at the end would crack me up. Great choice of debacle!
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Oh these clouds are amazing, those supercell ripples are just gorgeous! Wonderful photos🌞
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I am glad your dog was safe while you were being cared for, and that you are reunited now💚🙂
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It really is amazing. I grew up in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, and we had summer frogs too in spite of winter's crazy temperature shifts from the Chinooks. I never wondered back then how they survived winter if they kept getting thawed out every few weeks, but I wonder *now* haha!
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(we were all a bit sorry the salmon hats trend from the 80s that re-emerged last year has stopped again, so it's pleasing that they're showing us they have more interesting activities we haven't noticed yet!)
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Wow, that is an extreme landscape for an amphibian to inhabit outside of the brief spring wet season. I love that Leopard frogs can be so hardy and adaptable to extremes, it's just amazing! I hope you see many tadpoles this year as well🙂
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Alt text for article thumbnail image: A black and white Orca swims from left to right through a glassy reflective ocean.
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Lucky to see it growing wild! I'm not surprised I've never seen it in PNW, its relations are invasive here so it is likely prudent that it not be introduced in case it likes the mild rainy westcoast a bit too much! But I'm delighted to have enjoyed it in your photo🙂
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Oh wow this is a *wonderful* frog! Does high desert living mean this is a frog of extreme temperatures and a brief breeding season when there's water from spring storms? So speckled and just poised to jump. I sure like the colours! Thank you for sharing this photo🐸
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They sound similar in temperament to the little Pacific Chorus frog I posted! They happily hop around my greenhouse eating slugs and insects, and though they hop away if I startle them, if they see me coming they just settle in and observe. Happy mellow frogs make the best gardening buddies🐸
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I'm quite taken with this plant, it resembles many plants I love but it was different from each so I made it my Sunday morning ID project: I suspect it is Saururus cernuus, also known as Water Dragon among other names, Native to E. North America. Great photo, it let me key it out!
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So lovely and plump! And the toes are delightful🐸 I'd never heard of a Motorbike frog until I looked them up from your Alt text, they are very pleasing. Thank you for posting!
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🕷️👉🫙👉🌲👍
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Thank you! It is a very huggable tree, so I just took the photo from that viewpoint, haha.
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Alt text for this video caption: two stout porcupines eat peanuts, their quills are mostly thick and black with some very white ones, and some finer wispy ones, but nothing like the super-long-wispy Oregon Zoo porcupine, or the *very* wispy plane-crash porcupine from 4 posts previously.
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East Coast porcupines, same species. Will they get super wispy too? Or do they have different predators so their quills present differently? I read all about them in 3 Canadian references, no mention of quill differences, which surprises me because quills are important for First Nations ceremonies.
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Alt text for video photo: a porcupine is walking with an absolutely fantastic 80s hair-band quill-do, quill arching back from the lovely snout in a glorious fountain of delicate wire-like grey pointiness. (In the rear it has a striking collection of much shorter and sturdier black and white quills.)
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Such crisp photos! Thriving🌞
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This article makes me glad, there is an ongoing recovery effort to save our wee native Olympia oyster here on Vancouver Island, and acidification adds to the complexity of trying to re-establish colonies, on top of competing with huge non-native oysters etc. But we still have diverse healthy kelp!
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Alt text for article caption photo: an orange-raingear clad mussel farmer on a white painted boat operates machinery reeling in strands of small mussels.
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Also they have interesting joints on front and hind legs, which let them descend trees with more control than cats have.
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I take it back, I suspect this was simply an arrangement of cirrocumulus with virga, as @ensembleator.bsky.social posted about in Vancouver. Here's another photo showing the wisps better:
#clouds #SalishSea
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Maybe? They covered a moderate portion of the sky, with the same directional alignment.
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Ooo it's wonderful! You convey both the looming feeling and the ominous rotation just beautifully.
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Thank you! I was so pleased it stayed long at rest enough for the photo, usually by the time I get my phone out and wipe the potting soil dust off the lens, the butterfly has moved on, haha.
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A useful guide to butterflies on the South Island/Gulf Islands; I use it a lot though I wish it had moths too (we have great moths):
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Thanks! I crouched for ages hoping for a bumblebee to go in but no luck haha.
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I forgot to add the pale blue 3-lobed flowers of Lobelia 'Laguna Sky Blue', on the right of the frame, to the alt text caption.
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**Pseudacris regilla is what the latin name should have said in the alt text🙄