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The Sword-billed Hummingbird has a bill so long that it preens with its feet. These fabulous little birds evolved their long bill to feed from trumpet shaped flowers. They will also catch small insects like a swift, with bill wide open. Guango Lodge, Ecuador

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Phew

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🎶Blue sky, nothing but blue sky…🎵 View across Windmill Pond, Coconut Creek, Florida.

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Gosh! So many new followers - thank you! 😊 Who will be the last rose bloom of the season? ‘Felicia’, ‘Prosperity’, ‘Ballerina’, ‘Cornelia’? Happy Friday everyone, take care. 🌱

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Arabian Eagle-owl look significantly less like they're going to run your day than Eurasian Eagle-owl. These almost look sweet 😂

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Crescent Nebula from June 2024. It really does look like a brain in space. #astrophotography

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Was lucky to catch a few sprites, and even a couple green ghosts during my travels this year. Such a fascinating phenomenon. #wxsky #wxbluesky #photography #sprites

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Autumn brings golden leaves, cool air, and a cozy charm. 🧡 Enjoy the beauty of the season.✨ 📷🍁🍂

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Timeline cleanse 🔭 Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars located 20,000 light-years away. These stars sculpt the surrounding nebula, carving out a cavity lined with a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys. 1/3 📷 hubblesite.org/contents/med...

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Time for another version of SLAM (the "somewhat larger Andromeda mosaic"). Andromeda M31 is getting harder to observe with my Seestar, since it quickly is too high in the sky for proper Seestar photography. Here is the latest mosaic, though. 🧪🔭

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Eagle nebula, aka the Pillars of Creation. I'm not a fan of the Hubble palette but it seemed to work better here than the other versions I tried. #astrophotography

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Got a rainbow at the end of today’s mental health hike:

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There seems to be a lot of misinformation going around so please allow me to clarify. Matt Gaetz did not have sex with a 17 year old girl. Matt Gaetz raped a trafficked 17 year old girl and then venmoed the guy who trafficked the girl; aka her pimp.

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Andromeda Galaxy tonight 09/02/2024. 4 hours of data, shot with Willam Optics Redcat 51. #astrophotograhy #andromediagalaxy #Michigan

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Light... #photography #arizona #slotcanyon #magichour

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Meanwhile. Elsewhen...

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Autumn is such a great time for woodland photography. Here's one from Wyming Brook. #woodland #nature #forest #trees #woods #naturephotography #photography #landscape #autumn #outdoors #woodlandphotography #landscapephotography #woodlandwalk #foggy #forestphotography #countryside #foggywoodland

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#NASAWebb’s near-infrared image is perfect to observe the star formation among the swirling clouds of gas and dust in NGC 5068. If observed in visible light, the dust would appear opaque. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA and CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team. 🔭🧪

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The Andromeda Galaxy 🧪 or M31, is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Shot this last September from my backyard 🔭 William Optics Pleiades 111 📷 ZWO 1600 MC OSC 🕐 12:41 hours of exposure #Astrophotography #DeepSpace #Astronomy

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Well, this is all rather nice isn't it.

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Great Horned Owl in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 🪶🦉 #birds #owls #nature #naturephotography

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My latest finish! It turned out cute 🐝 #crossstitch

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I do a lot of astrophotography just outside of austin texas. this is one of my images from the last month this is M45 the pleiades star cluster which is also the inspiration for the logo of the subaru car company. this is 10.5 hours of exposure from my backyard #astrophotography

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So I made a post three days ago about having 1k followers; now I am doing another one because you are now more than 2,000! That's incredible and I am so grateful! 🫶 Here's a reward for y'all: the Antennae Galaxies seen by the JWST, processed by me ofc! 🔭 HD: flic.kr/p/2qujZU2

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Gorgeous Long-eared Owl. A surprise encounter that was special last year and a photograph that I haven't shared. This was actually at twilight so is over exposed to show off the beauty of these amazing birds of prey! 🪶 📷 🌿 Happy weekend to all 🦉 #birds #owls #nature #naturephotography #ukwildlife

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We're only halfway through Native American Heritage Month, so there's still plenty of time for you to read one of our many titles by and about indigenous people, including @sgj.bsky.social, @morgantalty.bsky.social, Joy Harjo, and Ned Blackhawk. Not that you shouldn't be doing that every month.

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here’s one of the creatures that i’ve created

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Great spotted woodpecker about to take flight Cumbria, UK #UKwildlife #birds PS who said woodpeckers were black and white?

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Our first spicy pitch post on Bluesky...

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The sombrero galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Sunrise #photography #landscape

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A picture I took of a reflection the other day. #photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography

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How do auroras form, and what causes the colors we see? A 🧵... This is one of the most common questions I get on social media, and one I have received countless times over the past month, so let's dive in together!

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....meanwhile, while the world spins, the forest is like 🎶la, la, la, la, la🎶 Hope today you find your rhythm🎵 #photography #nature #fungifriends #mindset #daybyday

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Lake Michigan. Such a pretty place to be.

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Blue friend shapes

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Another Great Horned Owl, Rock River #birds #wildlife

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Good morning brothers and sisters. Welcome to your Friday! Be safe. Be good. Play nice. Have a wonderful day! One of the seven wonders. Each of y’all are a wonder as well. Remember that as you go about your day.

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trying myself on a new hobby and feeling very humbled... 😅

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