Sur les dunes de Pirou en Normandie, j’ai aperçu quelques traquets motteux en transit ! Ces petites boules de plumes sont de grands migrateurs : ils passent l’hiver en Afrique centrale et l’été en Arctique
Ici, un croquis rapide réalisé au crayon sur le terrain, avec une coloration numérique pour garder l’esprit « carnet de croquis »

blackberry update

It’s City Nature Challenge weekend!

All around the world, it’s a call for us to take photos of wild organisms of all kinds from April 25-28, 2025.

Then you upload them to iNaturalist, either via the app or the website and try to get them identified by May 4!

It’s a sort of global census of all wildlife, done by thousands of citizen scientists.

The best part is you can participate anywhere!

#CityNatureChallenge #CityNatureChallenge2025
#naturalist
#birds
#NativePlants
#citizenScience

First Front Range lizard of the year. Prairie lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus) enjoying some sunshine two days after heavy snowfall at Walker Ranch open space park near Boulder. #naturephotography #LizardsOfMastodon #herpetology #Colorado #naturalist

If you live in Oregon, like to hike, and are a nerd, this site's for you. Yet another reason I'd like to move to that state. #oregon #hike #hiking #scientist #science #naturalist #biology #geology #NaturalHistory https://trailscholar.com/

As a #naturalist and #conservationist, I am deeply concerned about this decision. It is irresponsible, and robs future generations of their natural resources. This is yet another overstep of authority by an administration which believes it can act without consequence.

The Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri —particularly in our future home county where we recently purchased land— is affected by this decision.
https://journa.host/@ianjames/114325800037614120

A lizard — side-blotched, Uta stansburiana, I think? — debating sunlight and shade under the leaves of a caniagre dock plant at Saddleback Butte State Park this weekend

https://flic.kr/p/2qW68qk

Oyé oyé ! Les gravelots sont de retour pour nicher sur les plages de l’hémisphère nord ! Faites attention où vous posez les pieds à la plage, il y a des œufs ! Et quand ils vont éclore, le poussin le plus mignon du monde apparaîtra !

#ornithologie #oiseau #gravelot #aquarelle #illustrationnaturaliste
#artanimalier #croquis #biodiversite #natureillustration
#birdart #birdlover #wildlife #wildlifeart #watercolor #illustration
#naturalist #charadrius #shorebird #protectiondelafaune
#oiseauxdesplages #nidification #conservation

Good morning from Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Refuge

Just got word, city approved the Scout's Park Rehabilitation plans with my native pollinator garden design inputs. Such a great project! I've already set aside plants! Time to contact all my garden friends with the list of plants needed!

Edit* forgot to say, we're still waiting on the mayor's stamp

my best shots of the full moon, blood moon lunar eclipse near totality March 13th & 14th.
#moon #bloodmoon #fullmoon #lunareclipse #bloodmooneclipse #nightsky #naturalist #totality #nature

Oh, yes.... forgot to mention...
It's spring peeper time in Southern Ohio!

Yoder Lab grad student Pryce Millikin went scouting this weekend and confirmed we're in for a good Joshua tree flowering season!

If you're in the Mojave this spring, help us learn how weather affects the trees' specialized pollinators by joining our iNaturalist project

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/yucca-moths-and-joshua-trees

In which I find myself on the front page of the Sunday op-ed section in the newspaper my parents have subscribed to since I learned out to read it, hoping to rally hometown opposition to the Trump administration's destruction of federal research agencies

Local boy makes op-ed

https://www.molecularecologist.com/2025/03/02/local-boy-makes-op-ed-science-homecoming-chicory-nsf-nih-advocacy/

It feels like it's time for a new #introduction

I'm Daniel! He / him.

I'm a husband and Master #Naturalist from Louisiana and living in northeast #Oregon.

I post about #birds, #birding, #insects, #NativePlants, #iNaturalist, and everything else that I find in our travels around this beautiful Earth of ours.

I am a practitioner of #Soto #Zen #Buddhism, a #photographer, web developer, wood carver, and burgeoning gardener.

Website: https://daniel.observer

A Good Birb.

https://flic.kr/p/2qLeCii

Alt Text in Photo Description:

Photo of a Northern Shoveler, a large duck, with bright orange feet and legs, chestnut underside, white breast, and black and white feathers. The wings also have gray and green patches along their length. The head is iridescent green, turned back with its bill tucked under its wing. Its bright yellow-orange eye is looking at the camera/viewer.

CC: @darwin
#Naturalist #Birds #UrbanNature #iNaturalist #Brooklyn #NYC