So that explains my kitties’ litter box and the surrounding area. 🤣

Gorgeous day at Bloedel Reserve in Washington.

I love your cat! Here’s my cat Zoey or the Zoester.

I without guilt stole this. But if this doesn't make you smile, well then go back to bed...

Gorgeous eyes!

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a closeup photograph of a bright red-orange newt walking towards the camera on a wet, gravelly surface. by spacey3d

an exciting moment when we found the long-anticipated red eft on an extraordinarily rainy hike ⭐

eastern newt, 2025/9/26
rainbow falls, plymouth, nh
#herps #amphibians #nature #photography

Your shots of owls are just stunning!

So judgy, but so fluffy

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography

White-browed Fantail perched on a short wooden stump, tail fully fanned into a wide semicircle with brown feathers tipped in white. The bird faces sideways, showing a sharp eye and distinct white eyebrow, against a smooth, softly blurred green and brown background.

Fanned to perfection.

White-browed Fantail.

📍Mangar, Haryana.

#lensonwildlife #birds #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2026

Gorgeous shot! ❤️

#634, a violet-green swallow!
| #tribirds 🪶 |

Thank you, Philip.

Vertical image showing a Great Blue Heron suspended in horizontal flight over blue-gray water going back to blue-gray sky. The large wading bird is gray with some rusty tones in the neck body and front of wings. It has a black crown and head plume, yellow eye, and orange bill. Its dark wings are in a down stroke, black legs stretched out behind it and its long neck is curved inward forming an "S" with head up and bill pointing forward. An indistinct reflection of the dark wings creates two long vertical rectangles in the water below it. A graceful bird in serene surrounds.

A Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) flying over Tampa Bay is my #BirdoftheDay for the theme #LargeBirdsInFlight
#birds #Florida #Naturephotography

Beautiful! 🩷

Great shot! What type of bird?

From my walk along the Northern Calif coast

The head of a snake crawling with its tongue sticking out. The snake is dark grey with an almost white throat. It is moving to the right in the picture.

🐍King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

Max. length 585 cm (19'2") - the longest venomous snake in the world.

Mostly eats other snakes (Ophiophagus means snake eater).

Found in South and Southeast Asia.

Considered Vulnerable by the IUCN.

📷by the Smithsonian Institution

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Podarcis bocagei on a rock. He has mottled stripes of alternating black and green down his back and gray and black symmetrically mottled markings on his back and tail. He’s male so he probably has around 18 torso vertebrae, whereas a female would be more likely to have 20.

We tend not to think about lizards as exemplars of sexual dimorphism, but there are multiple examples from different clades of females having more vertebrae than males.

It’s usually 1 or 2 more vertebrae in the torso. Probably so there’s more room for babies!🦎🧪

📷Podarcis bocagei by nachoperez

#HerpInTheGrass✨🐍✨

Make that herpS in the grass! Just went on a hike along the Beavercreek Wetlands, & spotted my first snake of the year - a nice big eastern gartersnake. Then further along, I saw 3 more! 😃

#Herper #BeCurious

Green anole on brown mode climbing up a tree, eyeing us with suspicion!

Oops! I didn’t get any good pictures today, so here is a Lizard from a couple of days ago!
🦎

Beautiful pics! ❤️

Northern California.

Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) standing in a poodle Ochsenmoor, Germany

@robcrank68.bsky.social picked #BirdOfTheDay theme as #StandingInWater, and Alt Theme #Green.

If you're close enough, a lapwing checks both boxes.

#Naturephotography #Birds 🪶

For today's #birdoftheday theme #steppingout, a black-necked stilt in Arizona

#birds