Photo of a quilt showing whales in shades of blue, gray, and cream.
Photo showing the back of the quilt . The fabric shows white whales swimming in blue waves.
Because I’m one of those people who dive into things, this queen-size quilt was the second one I made 🤣 OMG I had no idea what I was getting into! All those little pieces 😱 I’m contemplating another Elizabeth Hartman pattern so stay tuned ! 🤣
... das ist zu Haare raufen! Kosten Geld, und dass nicht nur bei Null Nutzen, sondern auch noch bei einem erheblichen Schaden.
Hinter einem blühenden Busch mit rosa Blüten ist der oberste Teil eines Schuhschnabels zu sehen, der den Kopf nach links gedreht hat.
Vorgabe: Schuhschnabel
#KleineKunstKlasse #watercolor #animalMarch #watercolorsketchbook #watercolour
A close-up of a dark seabird with a long hooked bill, dark blue eye, and a bright turquoise throat patch. Photographed in La Jolla, California.
A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue!
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography
Trust me, you don't want to miss the incredible photos of these goobers: 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/kaka...
I think, I just witnessed the third egg being pressed out of mommy eagle owl. At 03:13:46 am CET there was a distinctive "clonk" after she made some pressing noises she did the last time as well. 🥹🪶
🦉🥚🥚🥚?🦉
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Hooray!!
Here are all the birds I did for #birbfest2026, it was super fun researching these birds, learning about them and drawing them, a total treat from the deadline work that I had to get done! Thank you @monkeymintaka🙏🏽❤️
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#birbfest #illustration #procreate handlettering
Drawing of a male King Eider standing proudly on a patch of yellowing grass. The bird is tessellated into triangles so that no two adjacent areas are coloured in the same hues. Polychromos coloured pencils and black fine liner on white paper, 15x10cm.
Really love the diversity of birds I'm being introduced to through #birbfest2026
For day 5, there's a true royal: the King Eider
#birbfest #SciArt #ArtSky #bird
A vibrant acrylic painting of a peacock's head and neck, surrounded by a brilliant explosion of its iridescent green and blue tail feathers. The "eyes" of the feathers are detailed with deep blues and shimmering golds.
#Birbfest Day 31: A Fanfare of Feathers 🦚✨
Closing out a month of birds with the ultimate showstopper: The Indian Peafowl
It’s been a wild, winged journey to this grand finale. Thank you for coming along!🎨🦅
#ArtSky #Birbfest2026 #Peacock #TraditionalArt #LisabellaRusso #BirdArt #AcrylicPainting
The very last prompt for #birbfest2026, thanks to @monkeymintaka for organizing this amazing new yearly challenge for us! Very pleased that I was able to do most of them albeit short of 2 which I plan to do after.
The final prompt is: INDIAN PEAFOWL
a collage of 32 birds, 7x5 grid with the middle listing all bird English names. the colors range from greys, pinks, blues, yellows, greens, whites and blacks, with some having shimmery plumage, others having mohawk feathers, some with very ornate tails or huge legs. the text in the middle reads: BirbFest2026 1. Bronzewing Pigeon 2. Many-coloured Rush Tyrant 3. Razorbill 4. Golden-headed Manakin 5. King Eider 6. Northern Emerald-Toucanet 7. Steller’s Sea Eagle 8. Andean Cock-of-the-rock 9. Indian Paradise Flycatcher 10. American Purple Gallinule 11. Mountain Bluebird 12. Common Redpoll 13. White-eared Pheasant 14. Silver-eared Mesia 15. Short-eared Owl 16. Eurasian Wigeon 17. Spangled Cotinga 18. Tufted Jay 19. Red-legged Seriema 20. Dalmatian Pelican 21. Ornate Fruit Dove 22. Galah Cockatoo 23. Nuthatch 24. New Holland Honeyeater 25. Common Kingfisher 26. Common Cuckoo 27. Red-bearded Bee-eater 28. Little Penguin 29. Red Junglefowl 30. Oyster Catcher 31. Indian Peafowl 32. Palestine Sunbird
here we are peeps, 32 birbs #Birbfest2026
more or less got them all under 20min, with a few more shimmery poofy ones taking an extra few minutes
my fav is still that silly horizontal nuthatch
#SciArt #birds 🪶
Zuviele zu aufgeräumte Gärten, Parkanlagen, Grünflächen...
Das Gleiche gilt für Igel, Amseln... eigentlich "Allerweltsarten" der menschlichen Siedlungsgebiete, deren Bestände aber seit Jahren beständig abnehmen.
Der eigentliche Skandal ist ja, dass in einem Naturschutzgebiet überhaupt Torf abgebaut werden darf. Ganz legal, mit dem Segen des grünen Umweltministers. #MoorMussNass
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A digital alphabet on a cream background with an animal and/or plant for each letter, an acorn and ant for A, a loon for L, a yarrow flower for Y.
Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar is from last December, a nature alphabet I made for a dear friend’s new baby 🐡
Quick ink and watercolor sketch of a dopey-looking pelican standing and facing the viewer
Quick ink and watercolor sketch of a pelican with its mouth wide open and its wig of head feathers flopping.
Has anyone looked into whether Dalmatian pelicans are all wearing toupees? #birbfest2026 #birds #SciArt
Galapagosinseln: Seit Charles Darwin verschwundene Vogelart doch zurück share.google/EERQtLet38OM...
Traditional watercolor page of Grey Herons!
#birds #herons #traditional #watercolor
Makalena family reunion on Midway Atoll! #Birds
George and Geraldine—Makalena (Short-tailed albatross)— are back at their Sand Island nesting site. Near them is their returning 2019 fledgling. Photos courtesy of USFWS Supervisory Wildlife Biologist Jon Plissner.
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Two crows are flying in front of a gray-blue sky. One says to the other "Do you think we're best friends in other universes too?" The second panel splits into a three by three grid of different reactions of "Um"s and "Well"s from the second crow, in a multiverse sort of way. The third panel is further split again by three, so there are nine by nine squares of the same two crows flying together, the only distinction between the squares is a different sky colour. In the fourth panel, the square are again divided by three so there are now 27 by 27 filling the panel. We can see now that there is a greater pattern emerging from the colours of each square, a pixelated form is starting to emerge. In the fifth panel, the many many squares of different universes is reminiscent of a painting using pointillism, which each dot of colour represent one of many thousands of realities. We can see now very clearly that the pixelated forms are the two crows, flying in front of a gray-blue sky. We return to the visual resolution as we saw in the first panel, as if no time has passed at all. The second crow responds "It doesn't seem likely".
Improbably Compatible #oldknees
illustration of four of my animal characters – Rikki the raccoon, Phib the bear, Mo the seagull and Rubi the fox – as a fantasy adventure party in a dark forest
Studie zeigt:
Große Ackerflächen 🚜 heizen sich an heißen Sommertagen ☀️🌡ähnlich stark auf wie städtische Betonflächen, mit negativen Folgen für den Ertrag und den Boden.
"An Hitzetagen gibt es kaum einen Unterschied zwischen Berlin-Mitte und der Feldmark", sagt Pierre Ibisch, Professor für Ökologie.
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
Vogelfreundïnnen, diese Geschichte MÜSST Ihr lesen: @thomaskrumenacker.bsky.social hat die Banc d'Arguin besucht, einen der wichtigsten Zugvogel-Hotspots der Welt, der durch seinen Fischreichtum zudem die Ernährung ganz Westafrikas sichert. /1
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"#Mecklenburg-Vorpommern punktet mit Natur", so der @wwf.de.
Als Mensch, der sich in Sachen #Natur 🪻🦋 im Nordosten ganz gut auskennt, sage ich:
Das ist leider alles mehr Schein als Sein! 🤨
Warum? 🧵
👉 #Naturschutzgebiete oft in miesem Zustand, zuständige Behörden unterfinanziert, personell...
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Alles, was Ihr über die berüchtigte, Bürgersteige und Spielplätze untergrabende invasive #Ameise Tapinoma magnum wissen wollt, erfahrt Ihr in diesem hörenswerten Feature von @buddepiept.bsky.social . Nur eine Frage bleibt für mich offen: /1
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Es ist ein erschreckend hohes Risiko, wo auch 1% Eintrittswahrscheinlickeit viel zu hoch wäre, wie bei einem AKW Super- GAU.
Inzwischen reden wir über 25% bis 70%, je nach Emissionen.
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Drawing of an ʻŌʻū on a dark green background. It had a yellow head and grey body, with a pinkish beak and legs. It’s perched on a long swirling branch, engraved with “1989”—the year the bird was las sighted.
ʻŌʻū - last seen in 1989, declared extinct in 2024.
#avianaugust #birdart 🪶
