A cool pic. I like Red-tailed hawks. I don’t see them as much as I used to. Around the 5th, I stepped out the back door and my 5 ‘pet’ crows were harassing a redtail in the clear cold sky. Snow and the polar vortex may have upped the chances of that. I got some peanuts for the …
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Lishan National Nature Reserve in northern China’s Shanxi Province
6 views Nov 14, 2025 Infrared cameras at the Lishan National Nature Reserve in northern China’s Shanxi Province, have recently recorded an exciting lineup of rare species –including the North China leopard, musk deer, brown eared-pheasant, golden pheasant and hazel grouse. Known as the “gene bank of North China’s wildlife”, the reserve is a true …
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Falcon collage
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Rainbow Stunner
Rainbow trout caught this past 2025 on the Alagnak River, AK. A stunning Rainbow Trout. I think it was Donnall E Thomas that said in his book, Whitefish Can’t Jump: & Other Tales of Gamefish on the Fly, that rainbows are by far the best gamefish. In the trout world, he may be right.
AlphaFold – The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
The positive side of AI with a warning at the end.
Rock Bee Hive
7000‘ elevation Colorado. First I have ever seen. Fall 2025. Save The Wild Bees! When I first saw this I thought it was overseas but he says CO. Commenters said it was feral honeybees and they will not survive a winter with exposed combs.
New Mexico Population Density Map
New Mexico Population Density Map More Maps of New Mexico.
Malcolm’s Pit Viper
A Borneo snake with amazing luminous scales.
Space Travel
Yes, another pet peeve. A science researcher I worked for made a comment that stuck in my head. ’It should be called science fantasy not science fiction.” Right on. The limits of the universe are serious and our inability to deal with reality is killing us.