A Colorful Quadrantid Meteor : Meteors Can Be Colorful. While The Human Eye Usually Cannot Discern Many

Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

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IT’S A BITTERN APPRECIATION POST

Sources & Species in order below!

Fun with Bittern by Richard Pittam   - Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris)

Face to face with a juvenile Least Bittern by ChristinaAnne.M   - Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)

American Bittern by Flora to Fauna    - American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)

Cinnamon bittern by Shafaet Alam Abir   - Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)

Heads or Tails? by Peter Brannon   - Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)

American Bittern juvenile by Michael W Potter    - American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)

American bittern a bit threatened by white egret by Pamela Viale   - American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)

rocky coast

a gryphon that’s half pelican, half skunk, known as the Smellican

So fun

playing with bright colors

marshmallow has the thots

about FINSH FLYDAY!!!

Earth During a Total Solar Eclipse : What does the Earth look like during a total solar eclipse? It appears dark in the region where people see the eclipse, because that’s where the shadow of the Moon falls. The shadow spot rapidly shoots across the Earth at nearly 2,000 kilometers per hour, darkening locations in its path – typically for only a few minutes – before moving on. The featured video shows the Earth during the total solar eclipse earlier this month. The time-lapse sequence, taken from a geostationary satellite, starts with the Earth below showing night but the sun soon rises at the lower right. Clouds shift as day breaks over the blue planet. Suddenly the circular shadow of the Moon appears on the left and moves rapidly across South America, disappearing on the lower right. The video ends as nightfall begins again. The next total solar eclipse will occur next December – but be visible only from parts of Antarctica. via NASA

speaking of my highly specific 1970s cultural knowledge. people really liked this post on twitter

low poly animals in the sims are my favourite cryptids