[gruntsculpinenjoyer]

Hello!!

My main account is @alittlepineforest and my geeky sideblog is @gruntsculpinfanclub.

I'm a geography/environmental studies major graduate (!!) in my mid-20s living in BC Canada. My interests revolve around citizen science (shout out to iNaturalist) and ecology. Though I'm extra fond of marine life, birds, and fungi!

Want to know what a grunt sculpin is? Check out this post I made about them!

While I do reblog a fair bit, I also like sharing some of the things I've learned and photos of different things I come across while exploring. My posts are tagged #yapping and are mostly photos of things I see and various thoughts and info dumps.

Here are some of the other more general tags I use:

#art (various forms of art)

#funnies (memes and funny things)

#news (news articles and current happenings)

#educational (posts with educational info)

[aminoalcid]

Oarfish are magical creatures 💫

[lowkeloki]

[zinyli]

some small paintings of fish, i was able to scan again after a long while T-T

[rayewarrrd]

[gruntsculpinenjoyer]

I picked a ton of Himalayan blackberries yesterday! There are huge bushes of them along the road by my apartment!I picked a bunch, rinsed them, and froze them to put in my smoothies.

I <3 not spending money on frozen fruit and instead collecting my own!!

Picking them is satisfying, and I felt like a baller walking back to my apartment with my yogurt container full of berries 😎

[40ouncesandamule]

Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun

Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger

I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass

[40ouncesandamule]

[marxistlesbianist]

Yup

[staranos]

That's absolutely insane.

[preludeinz]

Nature red in tooth and claw ain't seen nothing yet

[basuralindo]

In case anyone was bothered by the idea of them torturing the fish, it was already dead.

[spiny-ant]

Who dropped these here

[cdplayer]

"sound of the summer is this song" WRONG. its cicadas

[cdplayer]

for the 40th to 200th million summer in a row

[roseblooms]

100 years of sir david attenborough. paper collage, 2026.

[analog-television]

i learned about a stupid looking bird today and i cant stop laughing

its called a crested satinbird (cnemophilus macgregorii)

[bace-jeleren]

[batterbees]

[bob-artist]

You can't just nerf him without admitting that he was too powerful in his original form

[gruntsculpinenjoyer]

I love getting IDs from people whose usernames are related to the organism they're IDing.

I trust you. You seem like you know what you're doing.

[gruntsculpinenjoyer]

I encountered the cutest little bugs today while watering my grandparents' garden while they're away on vacation! They're rhododendron leafhopers, and yes, I did find them on a rhododendron bush ❤️

[hyydraworks]

More littol birds to hang out in your plants!

[michaelnordeman]

Red fox/Vulpes vulpes/rödräv. Värmland, Sweden (9 July 2024).

[raccoonmilf]

When I was in grade school I used to send emails to biologists and zoologists asking them questions to get answers to include in school projects I was working on, and would cry when they did not respond because I thought I was stupid for thinking that some random kid would ever be deserving of a response from someone who does something as smart and cool and important as *checks notes* studies frog fungus.

Now, at 29, I’m lowkey having a panic attack because my academic email is filled with middle schoolers wanting me to answer their questions about pygmy raccoons and I keep putting off answering them because I’m so overwhelmed with all the other raccoon stuff I have to do.

Anyway, greatest apologies to any scientist I ever emailed as a child and also an adult.

[raccoonmilf]

I know your research is really important and I appreciate all you are doing but this is so fucking funny

[herpsandbirds]

Lesser Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennis), mother and chicks, family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, Arizona, USA

photograph by Mark Koster