Squire Jaybird

Photos I took on my Nikon d3400. Just having fun and loving birds, mostly.

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Favorite birding location!

Wingfield Pines, USC Pittsburgh

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absolutely miniscule

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bold jumping spider

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Dakay's brown (2)

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White-throated Sparrow

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I'm gonna say something incredibly 30-year-old and I'm going to ask you to not judge me while I'm trying to be genuine and real. Okay? Here's my truth.

A piece of lettuce can really elevate a sandwich. The fresh crunch? Unrivaled. Peak. Poetic cinema.

[razehider]

it's always convenient when a camouflaged crab spider catches the most conspicuous prey imaginable to help you notice what you normally wouldn't. the sneaky beast in question that caught this unsneaky Lucilia is, most likely, an undescribed misumenine i've talked about before

(June 25, 2025)

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Just had a fucking beautiful owl moment so good I nearly cried. Northern Pygmy Owl so close I could have reached out grabbed them and put them in my mouth for safe keeping

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To say I screamed would be an understatement except for the fact that screaming would have scared it, so I mostly just opened and closed my mouth like a large mouth bass

[birdsleepinginatree]

I like to think that the owl had a similar feeling about you. Look at them just glancing around and looking at you. Both of you had an experience, just being very still and looking at each other in a rare moment.

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Random fact: Although jumping spiders can't move their eyes, they can move their retinas to change their field of view. It's as if they're looking through a window.

If the spider is clear enough, you can even see the retinas moving through the cephalothorax:

Image sources: Melvyn Yeo, M.F. Land, and wmaddisn

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American Robins (Turdus migratorius), EAT THE TASTY BERRIES!!!, family Turdidae, order Passeriformes, Central Park, NYC, NY, USA

The last photo has a European Starling in the bakcground.

photograph by Laura Johnson

[onenicebugperday]

Giraffe big-jawed spider, Dolichognatha sp.? Tetragnathidae

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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An Arachtober favorite for the past couple years: Ms Hamataliwa helia and her newly-hatched and molted Miniature 🥹

I spotted the mum a week or two beforehand while wandering in hurricane weather (as one does?), and kept coming back in hopes of seeing babies. Was not disappointed 💚

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I made fanart

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Can anyone help me ID these?

My sister took these pictures in Northern WV. I was thinking wasp galls since there are wasps right there?? But I can't really find a good comparison picture. Thanks~!