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Two of a flock of six female Red-breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator) appearing to have a little spat at Wyandotte County Lake, Wyandotte County, KS on 26 April 2025. #birds #birding

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Get out and nature this weekend!

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The April photo from our annual calendar is this one that @bugeric.bsky.social took last spring of a Phidippus princeps in a red bud here in Leavenworth. #spider #jumpingspider

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Some photos from today-this is what democracy looks like. #marchfordemocracy #march4democracy #marchfordemocracyKC

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Democracy is not a spectator sport. If we don’t speak up, eventually there will be no one left to speak up. #MarchForDemocracy #MarchforDemocracyKC

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Tufted Titmouse showing its elegant gray side. #birds #birding #KSbirding

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Well, I ruined my day by doing our taxes and discovering that since we underestimated our income for 2024 when applying for healthcare (which has to be done before the year starts), we owe over $1000. It could be worse, but I really hate sending any money to the government right now. #taxes

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Prairie sunset -we headed to the Olathe Prairie Center this evening to hear the American Woodcocks peenting. The bonus was this beautiful sunset. #sunset #PrairieBeauty

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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.

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American White Pelicans at Loess Bluffs NWR in NW Missouri today. I love these big pterodactyls. #birds #birding #MObirding

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My partner and I joined the protest at the Kansas State Capitol today. #resist #fightfordemocracy #supportveterans

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The March photo from the calendar @bugeric.bsky.social and I make for family every year is this awesome shot of a tree cricket singing, which Eric photographed here in Leavenworth, KS. #bugs #insectphotography

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Sunset along the Kansas Turnpike this evening. #sunset #KSsunset

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Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907. #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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We've had lots of these American Goldfinches at the feeders during the recent deep freeze, although they're still in their drab winter plumage. This one was photographed last April. #birds #birding

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Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

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Yup

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Hundreds of cute little finch and junco tracks all over my snowy patio. #birds

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Fluffy borb alert!! Cute little Tufted Titmouse on a cold day makes for a fluffed up little ball of a bird. Almost doesn't look real. #birds #birding

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Watching the start of the USA vs Canada game, and I’m so glad to hear my Canadian friends booing my team and during the anthem. Our country f’ing deserves to be booed. #OCanada

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A flock of Common Mergansers taking flight earlier this month at Perry Lake in Kansas. #birds #birding

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Yes, this!

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The caterpillar of a White Furcula moth (Furcula borealis) appears to be looking at its shed skin. Photographed in southern Missouri last September. #bugs #caterpillar

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This dapper Swamp Sparrow, which didn't make the cut for our calendar, was photographed at Wyandotte County Lake in eastern Kansas last spring. #birds #birding

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Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’ Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

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Dr. Margaret Strickland Collin’s studied termites, and was the first Black woman to earn PhD in entomology. siarchives.si.edu/blog/margare... #BlackHistoryMonth #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH❤️🖤💚 Tuskegee Airmen in front of their P-40. African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.

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New month, new calendar photo-this photo, taken by my partner ( @bugeric.bsky.social ) in our neighborhood this past summer. #urbanwildlife #mammals

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Laughed pretty hard at this one

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My feeds are full of friends irate about 47's presser about the crash and how he spent most of it blaming Biden, Obama, and DEI, but when I watch #cbseveningnews they don't even mention that. They showed a clip of his first couple sentences. His lack of ability to lead should be front and center.

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I'm still seething from all the news today, and I've rage posted on that Meta site, but here I'm going to share another rejected calendar picture. This dapper fellow is a Dickcissel. His name is onomatopoetic. #birds #birding

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Another one that missed the cut for our calendar, I just used this photo on my mom's birthday card, so you get to enjoy it, too! This lovely Ozark Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton ozarkae) was one of several photographed on a glade in Carter County, MO last spring. #bugs #butterfly #nature

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Another shot that didn't make our calendar this year is this Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Sapsuckers make a series of holes around a tree and then both lick the sap and eat the insects that come to the sap. #birds #birding #ksbirding

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One of my favorite beetles - Blue Fungus Beetle (Cypherotylus californicus), which were really common in Colorado in the right habitat. #BlueMonday #BlueBug #bugs #bluebugs

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It's going to be a rough 24 hours: FORWARD FACING HERONS #birds

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How bout those Chiefs!!! #ChiefsKingdom

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