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Still have plenty of monarchs around (Danaus plexippus) and it looks like more eggs will be coming soon. Ample milkweed, fortunately. Now these two are taking a break to fly around.

I’m having coffee. This handsome fellow (red bellied woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus) is having dried mealworms.

The only monarch I support is Danaus plexippus.

We have gopher apple (Geobalanus oblingifolius)!

Paddling into the sunrise on still waters. North River, Everglades National Park.

“I’m thinking of giving up the vegan lifestyle.” Catopsis berteroniana is considered to be a proto-carnivore. Pearl Bay area, Everglades National Park. #plants #bromeliads #Everglades

A week ago, starting my annual off-season solo canoe trip in the ‘Glades, heading out through the Hell’s Bay trail. #canoeing #Everglades

Wormvine (Vanilla barbellata), a “leafless” orchid, native in tropical Florida. It “crawls” through the mangroves in the Everglades. Lostmans 5 River, Everglades National Park.

Great to be back in Montréal, banger of a race.

The green and the brown of it. Green Anolis carolinensis and the brown Anolis sagrei which has nearly extirpated the native green here in Florida. #lizards #reptiles

Happy Telecaster Tuesday! 75 years of the Tele. There are many electric guitars to want, but this is the only one you actually need. #Telecaster #electricguitar

Coffee for me, dried mealworms for my companion on the deck. Happy #Wrensday

This guy was hunting in my front yard today. ‘Twas a great egret (Ardea alba L.) and lizards beware! #Birds

“I’m not ‘eadless, was only preening!”

The path across the bridge was blocked by the dread Headless Limpkin (Aramus guaranua decapitus) #birds

We’re in the middle of the 6th great extinction, our country entering a new dark age, but Dana Cooper put on a great house concert last night. #livemusic

Starting the year with a blue (Cyanocitta cristata) attitude on a frosty morn. Good luck to us all in 2026, we’ll need it.

And this morning, coffee for me, mealworms for the wrens.

Happy last #Wrensday of the year! Looking back at this year’s brood on the nesting platform.

The dread bobtail wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus miamensis “nubbins”). Carolina wren molting tail feathers. Happy #wrensday #birds

No AI, no photoshop, just how it looked in #Shetland A place that stays with you.

www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/u... I bet he has a framed picture of Bull Connor on the wall in his office.

@canoeing.bsky.social Sharing Avocado Creek with a manatee, Everglades National Park

@canoeing.bsky.social Leaving the mangroves of Bottle Creek for the sawgrass of Main Street, Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park

@canoeing.bsky.social Sunrise Joe River, Everglades National Park

Sharing Avocado Creek with a manatee, Everglades National Park

Sharing Avocado Creek with a manatee, Everglades National Park

Leaving mangroves of Bottle Creek for sawgrass of “Main Street” Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park

@canoeing.bsky.social Sunrise, Joe River, Everglades National Park

How does the #brain suppress salient irrelevant stimuli to focus on information that's relevant to current goals? This study shows how task-irrelevant stimuli are encoded in frontal eye field & lateral intraparietal area, two higher-order #visual brain areas 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CurGJA