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#WildlifeWednesday

While waiting for the ferry, I spotted this gull eating a starfish, looked like chocking at first. Dropped it, started over.. Got a long series…

#Wildlife #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Photography #Washington #PNW #Seattle

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Arthropod Photo of the Week: November 20, 2024
Southwestern Hercules beetle larva
Dynastes grantii
Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae
By Marshal Hedin, California, USA
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography

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Ice cold sunrise this morning. Taken on Glastonbury Tor looking out over the Somerset levels.

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“The hand of an over-electrified person, placed on a plate gives a very remarkable impression of the electrified cutaneous surface” — one of the many remarkable attempts to capture “vital cosmic force” in Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc's The Human Soul (1896): publicdomainreview.org/collect

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I recently learned that licorice ferns (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) often live on bigleaf maple trees (Acer macrophyllum). The ferns come out this time of year when the maples drop their leaves and let the light through. I had always admired this kind of moss monster, but I am only now realizing they are almost all maples. 💚

#mosstodon #ferns #rainforest #BigleafMaples

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Please appreciate this 3 hour time lapse I took this morning of a Pleated Inkcap (maybe???) blooming in my succulent pot!

#Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Mushroom #Moss

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#BOTD author William Hope Hodgson. His years as a sailor informed many of his early horror stories. He would later pioneer cosmic and dystopian horror, with influential works like The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. He also created occult detective, Thomas Carnacki. #books
#ghosts #bookstodon #horror

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Samhain / Halloween vibes at Fourwinds yesterday, the walls are the remains of a school built for the nearby quarry worker’s children.
#Dartmoor #Devon #photography #autumn

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Depiction of Bael, “the first king of hell”, with the head of a toad, a man, and a cat — one of the many illustrations by Louis le Breton for the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy’s "Dictionnaire infernal". More here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/d

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