Brown-lipped snail, moving upside down along the lid of a planter this morning in Saint-Évarzec in Brittany. 🐌
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Brown-lipped snail, moving upside down along the lid of a planter this morning in Saint-Évarzec in Brittany. 🐌
European Robin this morning in Saint-Évarzec in Brittany. 🪶
European stonechat this afternoon in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon in Brittany. 🪶
Equestrian statue of George Washington in the 16th arrondissement, Paris, France. Sculpted by Daniel Chester French and installed in 1900. French also sculpted the colossal sitting Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial, the Columbia Alma Mater statue and the Harvard John Harvard statue.
Death’s-head hawk moth this afternoon in Saint-Évarzec in Brittany. 🐞
Sanderling rushing between the waves at Mousterlin Point on the Bay of Biscay in Brittany. 🪶
Great cormorant this afternoon on the Mousterlin Marsh in Brittany. 🪶
Common green bottle fly, yesterday on Rodman Street. 🐞 🪰
Washington DC wildlife: Magnolia warbler this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Blackburnian warbler this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Tan jumping spider this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️
Washington DC wildlife: Osprey pausing to eat a just-caught fish, yesterday in West Potomac Park on one of the cranes there for the seawall rehabilitation project. 🪶
I've read the just-issued 11th Circuit opinion in Dershowitz v CNN, I appreciate Judge Wilson bringing to bear a thoughtful defense of Sullivan and highlighting my scholarship as well as that of others in defense of a cornerstone of press freedom... It's very gratifying seeing scholarship at work.
New: a map of railroads around Baltimore, DC, and the Potomac, from 1828 through today, shown against the hills, rivers, and mountains that drove their alignments. imaginaryterrain.com/projects/reg...
MPR just mentioned that David Brancaccio is at the Fair today. Since I met him via my course, I’m gonna try to track him down and see if he’ll ride a ride with me. (I probably will not succeed.) www.marketplace.org/story/2022/0...
Thank you!
Thank you!
Washington DC wildlife: Red-tailed hawk overlooking Rock Creek Parkway by Georgetown this evening. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Red-eared slider facing the morning sun today in Washington Channel by the Municipal Fish Market. 🐢
Asian wall jumping spider, yesterday on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️
Black-dotted ruddy moth, this morning on Rodman Street. 🐞
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Washington DC wildlife: Zebra jumping spider preying on a much larger buzzer midge yesterday on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️
"Saturday afternoon was a blessed time on the farm. First of all, there would now be no mail in till Monday afternoon, so that no distressing business letters could reach us till then, and this fact in itself seemed to close the whole place in . . ." Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (1937)
Blackburnian warbler, this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶
Peachtree borer moth, yesterday on Rodman Street. 🐞
Washington DC wildlife: Yellow-billed cuckoo this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Ruby-throated hummingbird perched on a ceiling fan blade this afternoon on our deck. She let me get so close I took the photo with the macro lens I use for insects. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Pileated woodpecker yesterday on Rodman Street. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Bald eagle flying over Reservation 630 park in Cleveland Park this afternoon. 🪶 🦅
Immature red-bellied woodpecker, this afternoon on Rodman Street, all black, white, and shades of gray, with no adult red coloring yet. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Great crested flycatcher does its part by eating a spotted lanternfly this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶 🐞
Washington DC wildlife: Black-and-white warbler this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶
False potato beetle, this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🐞 🪲
Washington DC wildlife: Common yellowthroat this morning in Rock Creek Park by the maintenance yard. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Juvenile false map turtle basking on a turbidity barrier with juvenile red-eared sliders yesterday in Washington Channel by the Municipal Fish Market. 🐢
Good quote for wildlife photographers from Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (1937): “The art of moving gently, without suddenness, is the first to be studied by the hunter, and more so by the hunter with the camera.”
Washington DC wildlife: Juvenile false map turtle this morning in Washington Channel by the Municipal Fish Market. At least two others were basking nearby, among red-eared sliders and red-bellied cooters. 🐢
Washington DC wildlife: Pileated woodpecker this afternoon on Rodman Street. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Pileated woodpecker this afternoon on Rodman Street proving he’s not too big for this bird feeder. 🪶
Two-lined spittlebug, this morning on Maine Avenue. 🐞
Bigeminy lady beetle, yesterday on Maine Avenue. 🐞
It’s time again for my advice to first year law students:
Washington DC wildlife: Pileated woodpecker looking for insects and flicking his tongue yesterday on Rodman Street. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Pileated woodpecker this morning on Rodman Street. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Green stink bug this afternoon on Rodman Street. 🐞
Washington DC wildlife: Coppery leafhopper this afternoon on Rodman Street. 🐞
Most incredible encounter with a grizzly on trail today. We turned a corner and found ourselves near one, and quickly made our way to a large boulder where everyone was standing. We waited for the bear to cross the trail. It got a bit too close for comfort, but wow, what an incredible sight.
Great photos!
Washington DC wildlife: Hentz jumping spider this week on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️
Occupied Washington DC wildlife: Monarch butterfly and tulip-tree beauty moth earlier this week. 🐞 🦋
Nice!
Washington DC wildlife: A nice surprise: a monarch butterfly this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🦋
Life in occupied Washington DC this week.
DC's got an abundance of riverside public land, but there are only about 180 waterfront lots in private ownership. I've mapped and visited them — here are the parcels along the Potomac. ggwash.org/view/100460/...
Washington DC wildlife: Hentz jumping spider scuttling around on Maine Avenue this afternoon, mostly in focus. 🐞 🕷️
Washington DC wildlife: Laughing gull executing a tricky landing on a turbidity barrier this morning in the Tidal Basin. 🪶
Washington DC wildlife: Common five-lined skink making a home in the panda enclosure, today at the National Zoo. 🦎
Painted bunting today in the National Zoo bird house.
Freeze-dried mealworms?
American tree frog yesterday in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🐸
Six-spotted fishing spider yesterday in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia 🐞 🕷️
Handsome meadow katydid Inside a swamp rose-mallow flower this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🐞 🦗
Thank you!
American green tree frog this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🐸
Juvenile eastern bluebird with porcelain berries in the background this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🪶
Nice!
Poem about Bleistein v. Donaldson from a contemporary newspaper.
Thank you!
Washington DC wildlife: Female and male hentz jumping spiders this week on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️
Speaking of Nature’s Wonders – It’s Go Time for the now BLOOMING Corpse Flower!! - Boom: www.popville.com/2025/08/wash...
Theme park, scam and religion news: 👇
Washington DC wildlife: Face to face with a fork-tailed bush katydid this afternoon on Rodman Street. 🐞
Green tree frog blending in with its surroundings yesterday in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🐸
Luna moth this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. They only live one week as winged adults. 🐞
Osprey flying away with a fresh-caught carp this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🪶
Thank you!
Belted kingfisher drying himself off after a dip in the marsh this morning in Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🪶
Sylvana jumping spider, yesterday on Rodman Street. 🐞 🕷️
Washington DC wildlife: Fork-tailed bush katydid this evening on Rowland Place. 🐞 🦗
Sounds like they reminded you to duck.
It's Frank Zappa.
Washington DC wildlife: Barn swallow belting out the hits this morning at the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial. 🪶
Elm leaf beetle, this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🪲
Washington DC wildlife: Amber snail this morning on Theodore Roosevelt Island. 🐌
Asiatic garden beetle, yesterday on Rodman Street. 🐞 🪲
Washington DC wildlife: Red-eared slider yesterday in Washington Channel by the Municipal Fish Market. 🐢
Juvenile false map turtle (my best estimate from research), yesterday in Washington Channel by the Municipal Fish Market. First time I’ve seen a turtle like this in the area. Very small and cute. 10/10 would pet. 🐢
Thank you very much. Based on my looking at photos, including in the DC/Virginia/Maryland area, I'm arriving at a best guess of juvenile false map turtle.
Thank you! Do you think it could be a false map turtle?
Red-faced jumping spider, this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️
That’s what it looks like but iNaturalist has no sightings in DC.
Can anyone identify this turtle? I saw it this morning in Washington Channel by the fish market in SW DC. Very small, a juvenile? 🐢
Washington DC wildlife: Handsome bush cricket yesterday on Rodman Street. 🐞
Washington DC wildlife: Green lacewing larva scooting along on a stem yesterday on Rodman Street. 🐞
forward.com/opinion/7575... (My thoughts in the Forward about why anyone who cares about Israel or the Jewish people should be speaking out on Gaza)
Washington DC wildlife: Near the Thompson Boat Center this morning, capturing the exact moment before an Eastern cottontail rabbit begins its deadly charge. 🦊 🐇
Say’s mantidfly, this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞
Washington DC wildlife: Spined assassin bug this morning on Rodman Street. Definitely glad they’re tiny.
