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Colton Finch, IDL biologist (gmail is nativefishes) and all-around nature lover and picture-taker; also books, my family, the Suns. He/him, opinions mine. ALT TEXT pfp: collage w/wife, horse, Monstera, fish banner: tote of bull trout
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Please watch this outrageously adorable video of Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird, tending her newest chick. She's a minimum of 74 years old, and this winter finally paired up again after having outlasted at least two other males. She had been alone since 2021. 🌎🪶 youtu.be/Me7tvLJVmqI?...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

A twin-spotted rattlesnake from the sky islands of Arizona #snakes #herps

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Just received word that since some of Linneaus's ideas formed the basis of modern scientific racism, federal grant proposals using Latin names are now more highly regarded. Gender studies research can now be approved if demographics are properly labeled as Vaginoraptor, Transeratops, & Penisaurus.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I do sometimes love a winter drive through central Idaho.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

I helped collect some very important zeros today trying to document the distribution of pygmy rabbits in southern Idaho, which are a candidate species for ESA listing. Stunning high desert scenery. 🦊🌿🌎

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

THERE ARE ROBINS SINGING UP IN HERE! I know you assholes living in like, Florida are covered in birds & blooming flowers, but I live less than 100 miles from Canada & it's snowy & way below freezing. Thankfully a feral rowan tree is surviving the Bradford pear industrial hellscape to attract them. 🌿

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Today I made an isopod after learning that the roly-polies I've been adoring since childhood AREN'T EVEN NATIVE TO MY HEMISPHERE. Anyone who was ever a kid looking under rocks knows them. Babybel cheese wax entry number two for #NearbyNature2025 #SciArt #Invert #booksky 🌎 bsky.app/profile/fish...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Okay, so...regrettably I had to evict the naughty moss and ferns who didn't know what the masking tape strip across the floor of the shared bedroom is for. I stuffed them into their own terrarium. Hopefully the three moss taxa still in here agree to take over. #orchids 🌱 bsky.app/profile/fish...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@nba.com welcome to 2023 - at least the league recognizes a bandwagon in time to jump on it.

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I just realized the post I quoted here of the icicles trying to stab my house had my neighbors' number legible, so I deleted to reupload in case anyone is wondering what it looks like for Elsa to keep you captive. Sorry neighbors, please continue tolerating my chickens. #wx bsky.app/profile/fish...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Then I let my 10-year-old slam the front door. #wx bsky.app/profile/fish...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Temperatures are climbing above freezing today for the first time since Feb 3rd so the glacial processes occurring on my metal roof have resumed. The icicles that grew long in the meantime (poorly ventilated attic) are now pointed menacingly at the house making us feel like prisoners. #wx #hydrology

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So do newly hatched gopher tortoises build adorable little mouse-sized burrows, or is it like a European multi-generational situation where they find an adult tortoise's burrow to squat in along with the snakes and toads and spiders and other cohabitating vermin? I'm suddenly very curious. 1/2 🐍🌎

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What is wrong with my <_________>? What's the first vegetable or fruit that you thought of to fill in that blank? I'll provide the answer in the comments. 🌱

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments