Went from Vienna, Austria to Bratislava, Slovakia with the Twin City Liner, the fastest passenger boat in Europe. It can reach as much as 70 km/h or 43 mph.

Vienna, Austria

View from the Kahlenberg over Vienna

Photo of an adult male Gang-gang Cockatoo, portrait from the neck up. It is grey with light grey/green bars on the edges of its feathers, and bright red feathers on its head and crest. Its eye is dark and its stout beak is white.

As before, but a different, younger male Gang-gang Cockatoo. Its red head feathers aren't fully developed yet. It is biting the end of a stick.

As before, but an an adult female. its head feathers are grey and its belly feathers have cream, yellow, and orange bars.

Today there were *nine* Gang-gang Cockatoo in our garden!
#birds

Cruising on the Danube

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Austria

At the best Greek restaurant in Vienna

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday April 18, 2026
The theme is #Edge.

Volcano, plateau, bones, death. New Mexico *is* the freaking edge of everything you thought you knew and why I'm here.

FLOWER GARDEN
04/18/2026

Only in New Mexico! A man can dream, right? I'll plant around the bones. Just grabbed these elk and something-something pieces from the neighborhood repository. Still pretty gamy, so monsters may carry them off. What a life.

Photograph of a very small bee walking on the anthers of a cluster of bright red flower stamens. The bee is mostly black, with short cream and brown hairs on its head and thorax.

A native Stingless Bee (Tetragonula sp.).
#insects

An adult female kākāpō feeding a chick in a nest. Credit: Andrew Digby

#kakapo Esperance with chick Elsie-A2-2026 on Whenua Hou. At a month old the chicks start to get coloured feathers and males will weigh around 1kg - not far off the mother's weight. But she's still less than halfway through raising them in the nest! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #wildlife

Long-nosed Bandicoot Sounds - The squeak calls of a bandicoot in the Australian bush. YouTube video by Wild Ambience

Went spotlighting near home last night and heard (but didn’t see) a couple of animals in a couple of different locations make the same strange sound that I thought must be an owlet-nightjar, but it didn’t sound quite right. And that’s because it was this!!!! youtu.be/yTTgEOczY_Q?...

The most beautiful Waste incineration plant in Europe, created by the artist Hundertwasser.

Artificial raptor nest in Tucson, Arizona

Some wonderful people in our neighborhood placed this nest for our Great Horned Owl family.

Three owlets at sunset

The Three Amigos! Great Horned Owlets in their human-made nest. 🪶

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#NaturePhotography #nature #bird

🎼Sound up for the dawn chorus… West Aussie style 🎼

This large flock of Black Cockatoos (presumably Carnaby’s given the numbers) comes over our house at around dawn each morning currently.

Best alarm clock you could ever have!!

#ausbirds #birds #wildoz #cockatoo #sunrise #dawnchorus

A photo of a bald eagle standing over its kill on green grass with a blurred natural background of brown and green vegetation.

A bald eagle standing over its kill.
#Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

A common redpoll in flight against a mottled v brown and orange background. The redpoll is mostly striped brown on white with a bright red cap. It’s tiny beak is yellow! The background colour is out of focus branches lit by the sun.

We had another big “spring” snowstorm yesterday and I think some of the birds who arrived early are questioning their judgement.
But not the redpolls, they’ve been here for weeks and don’t care at all!
This common redpoll female was zipping down to the ground to forage!
#Birds #photography 🪶

My lil friend cares not for the affairs of humankind.

Just got a song to sing.

*Out on my deck. Coffee tree behind.

#birds

A leather-gloved hands holds a bat with nein-orange fur and a pink, wrinkled naked face, looking into the camera

It's #BatAppreciationDay.
Bats are an incredibly diverse group (around 1500 species - the second largest group of #mammals), performing incredibly important roles in their ecosystems. 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇
Plus, some of them are bright orange. 🧡
#OrangeLeafNosedBat #bats #fieldwork #WildOz #MammalWatching

Grikes running through the Burren limestone layers.
Fractures caused by tectonic activity 290 million years ago and widened by water erosion after being exposed by glacial activity during the last iceage OR the train track junction of an ancient civilisation 🤷‍♂️
County Clare, Ireland.

Fossilized Crinoid stalks, like cross sectioned screws and bolts preserved in a dark shale concretion.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Photo of an immature male Gang-gang Cockatoo on the end of a thin broken branch. one foot is holding onto the branch, the other is raised as it repositions. The bird is grey with bars on the ends of all its feathers in colours ranging from cream to yellow to orange, with some green washes on the wings. Is head and crest are feathers are partially bright red.

As before, but the bird is lower on the branch holding onto it with both feet and is now facing down.

This guy again.
#birds

A fulvous fruit bat flies with its wings at the top of their stoke, with a baby clinging to its belly. In the background, four smaller bats cling to a stone wall.

As if it wasn't incredible enough to modify their hands so a wing is formed between the fingers, #bats can also fly with their babies attached. 🦇
Look closely! 👀
#BatAppreciationDay #MammalWatching #WildIndia

A photo of an eastern meadowlark with bright yellow chest and striped brown back perched on a leafy green shrub. The background features a soft-focus natural landscape with muted greens and yellows.

An Eastern Meadowlark surveying expansive Florida wetlands. #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

Vienna, Austria, Saturday evening

Can you #FindThatLizard?

Tonight you're looking for a western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis.

I saw this individual while I was visiting the California Botanic Garden in Claremont. It is one of the most beautiful gardens I've ever visited, and it was teeming with lizards.

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#NaturePhotography #nature #bird

Great Horned Owl nestlings

A third active raptor nest in our ‘hood… stay tuned for more of these muppet babies 🦉