Keep Looking

Keep. 22. I like plants and birds. My other blog is keep-quinacridones.tumblr.com where I reblog more things.

[cleverreports]

We report about the wind blowing across this week: some days, a breeze, and the rest of the time, a gale. The wind is chasing a cold front, west-southwest veering southwest at night, counterclockwise, ten knots in the morning and seven more in the afternoon. Always going.

[michaelnordeman]

European Pied Flycatcher/svartvit flugsnappare. Värmland, Sweden (4 June 2019).

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Heliamphora glabra on the summit of Mount Roraima, Venezuela.

[cleverreports]

We report: it is drizzling intermittently, as though we are walking into clouds, and besides that, it is a very bright day. When we look into the distance, we see each field light up one after the other. We hear the rain, the wind, and the birds, and we feel we are here and now.

[herpsandbirds]

Giant Burrowing Frogs (Heleioporus australiacus), STANCED THE FUCK UP!!!, family Limnodynastidae, NSW, Australia

ENDANGERED.

photographs by Jesse’s Wildlife 

[ymutate]

Nansei Sakagami, Contemporary Japanese

Autumn Moon

Painting, pigments on paper

[yoshitaka-koga]

キビタキ

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オオヨシキリ

[michaelnordeman]

Varaldskogen, Austmarka, Norway (June 2, 2022).

European Pied Flycatcher/svartvit flugsnappare, the Comma/Polygonia c-album/vinbärsfuks, Red-belted Conk/Fomitopsis pinicola/klibbticka, and Eurasian Bullfinch/domherre.

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Black-tailed Antechinus (Antechinus arktos), family Dasyuridae, order Dasyuromorphia, NSW, Australia

Once thought to be a subspecies of the Dusky Antechinus, they were elevated to species status in 2014.

Like other Antechinus species, the males mate repeatedly, for hours at a time, and then die shortly after.

photograph by Stephen Mahony

[cleverreports]

We report during a sunny spell, but while the formation of some clouds is in the process of putting the spell to an end. Only cirrus intortus at the moment, but we know better than to expect them to stop here. While they expand outwards, their shapes surprisingly remain intact.

[herpsandbirds]

Chinese Tiger Gecko (Goniurosaurus araneus), family Eublepharidae, China

photographs by Artur Tomaszek

[huanggugugu]

love the grebe

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mama give me grass

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This...thing, i couldn't describe

[huanggugugu]

A family of great crested grebes

[drhoz]

#3743 - Lapsana communis - Nipplewort

Despite the huge efforts the motel owners had made to salvage the garden, weeds were already moving back in - a perennial problem in any garden, of course.

The name Lapsana comes from lapsane, an edible herb described by Greek physician Dioscorides and Marcus Terentius Varro of Ancient Rome, but it's quite likely they were talking about the Wild Radish Raphanus raphanistrum, which is still called 'Lampsana' in Apulia, SE Italy. The English common name 'Nipplewort' is a translation by pioneering English botanist John Parkinson (1567–1650) of 'Papillaris', the name used by Prussian apothecaries. Allegedly the resemblance of the flower buds to human nipples indicated that the plant was able to heal cracked nipples and mastitis. One Scottish name for the plant, 'Bolgan-leaves', means pretty much the same thing. In Ireland it was used for the healing of cuts, bruises or burns, but these days is regarded as lacking any medicinal qualities whatsoever.

Native to Europe and southwestern Asia, but widely naturalized elsewhere. It grows to a bit over 1m tall, and unlike the related dandelions and many other Cichorieae, never develops the parachute-like pappus on the seeds that helps them disperse on the breeze.

The young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked like spinach.

Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.