@leashtotheworld
Entomologist 🐛🐜🐝 | Wildlife Photography attempter 📸 | Obsessed with nature & slowly learning how not to kill my plants. Cat lover at heart (and soul) 🐱🦊🐺 Expect insects, wildlife in general, feline chaos, and the occasional strange. Follow along!
Mason bee pupal cleaning.
Ideal time - fall.
When I remember - spring.
This year about 2000 pupae on our balcony!
#bugsky #scicomm #bees #masonbees #gardening #insects
Redstart sitting on a rusty iron post
Flamingo stretching out its wings.
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #WideOpenWings birds with wings wide open and the alt is #NoBranch any perched bird not on a branch.
Redstart and flamingo!
#birds #🪶 #birding #birdphotography
Ohhh! Love the ice in the photo! Also the birds, just that ice is cool.
An egret standing in shallow water with its reflection below
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay the theme is a #Portrait of any bird! Here is an #egret in the shallow waters of the Albufera, Spain. #birds #birdphotography
Think this is the Yellow Pansy butterfly, Junonia hierta. The male was displaying courtship behavior, repeatedly flying, fluttering, around a female.
Mesmerizing to watch 🦋.
#scicomm #entomology #insectsofinstagram #butterflies #insects #zambia #bugsky
rose-ringed parakeet in the trees
For #birdoftheday short beaked theme, I have gone with rose-ringed #parakeet! I found this one in the city of Valencia, ES where it is not native and invasive. Still pretty 😍. #birds #wildlife
Broad winged hawk resting on a tree branch in a forest
Here is a beautiful broad winged hawk (I think) for #raptors themed #birdoftheday #birds
#manitobabirds
#gulls for #birdoftheday #birds
Sea gull with sea star in its mouth!
Oh! #gulls is an alternative for #birdsoftheday ! Check out this gull trying to eat a #seastar! GIF in comments! #birds #gluttony
Eurasian hoopoe on a brack looking to the side.
Eurasian hoopoe on a branch preening.
Good day! Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongBeaks! Thanx
@robcrank68.bsky.social for the inspiration to post!
This is the #eurasianhoopoe with a long beak to its body size! #birds
Thank you for the kind words! Think the pigeon suffers this the most 😁. The yellow headed black bird is gorgeous 😍 and one I would love to see!
A Whimbrel on a rock overlooking the vast ocean
Whimbrel on the west coast of Costa Rica for #birdoftheday with the theme of #solitude. #birds
Common Kestrel is sitting in the grass after catching a blackbird.
Common Kestrel with the feathers of a blackbird in its beak.
Common Kestrel with the feathers of a blackbird in its beak.
Common Kestrel just after catching a blackbird. #kestrel #birdsofinstagram #BIRDING #birdphotography #birds
No worries! Was thinking you were excited about the cackling goose!
That is wonderful! Thank you for the background.
Several red winged black birds in flight at dusk on the pond margin.
Last fall I really wanted to see a #redwingedblackbird. Where I live, we dont have them. On a trip to Manitoba there where hundreds! Of course it was very difficult to get a photo as the sun was down too far. #birds #birdphotography #migration ##manitobabirds #manitoba
What was his history?!
Thanks! hope you find one! The call is distinctive from the Canadian Goose, likely just a different accent 😅. Next time, I'd like to ID them in real time!
Thank you! We knew they were there but being new to the birding life we were unsure.
A pond of Canadian geese
Bird ID help! We heard cackling geese, but to find one, we did not. Looking through my photos, is this a cackling goose? IRL 'Where's Waldo'! #birds #cackling #geese #birding #birdID
American bittern standing infront of vegetation
American bittern in flight on a foggy morning
Even standing right in front of you, it can be missed! The American Bittern is peak bird-nerd joy! Its cryptic plumage makes it rewarding to find! #🪶
#bittern #birding #manitobabirds #BirdNerd #birdphotography #birds
We recently adopted 2 kittens for our beautiful older gal who lost her brother at the beginning of the year 💔. They both embody parts of his character making us feel like he's still here. They bring so much joy! #whiskerswednesday #cats
As a child, I loved pinktoed tarantulas (still do, they are like the teddy bears of the tarantula world). While on a night tour in Ecuador 🇪🇨 we came across this beautiful banana 🍌 spider eating my dream tarantula - the pinktoe! There are so many mixed emotions! #bugsky #spidersky #arachnid #spider
Loving the punk rock plumage there! Beautiful.
The most amazing sound was waking up to these beautiful animals munching on vegetation as they walked around our tent! You can't hear or feel them walking!
#Hippos #mammals #photography #biodiversity #zambia
It is so beautiful! Getting a new appreciation for their beauty.
Spotted this stunning Rufescent Tiger Heron chilling on the Amazonian riverbank in Ecuador! Jungle MAGIC! 🌿
#BirdPhotography #WildlifE #Ecuadortravel #AmazonRainforest #BirdWatching #Photography #BIRDS #Heron #birding
It has grow in the number of cells (pots?) and I miss a lot of them! Life keeps getting in the way. A good challenge! #bugsky #insects #wasps
It can really appear that way. The exoskeleton of insects provides rigidity and strength. Dried insect specimens - yeah can be a disaster.
My bugging partner feels this project. Think it's time to eat! I am sure she'll agree! #cats
