Rhamphotheca

Hi, I'm Paxon - Queer, cis -he/him, ANTIFA, vegetarian, intersectional trans inclusionary feminist, antiracist, socialist, wildlife biologist. On tumblr since 2009. This is a science and natural history blog (with conservation issues, radical left politics, feminism, queer and trans content). This blog has the occasional naked guy, and lots of arachnids. You have been warned! I love you. http://typhlonectes.tumblr.com/faq

[kellydeal]

There’s a new litter of coyote pups hanging out in the Graceland cemetery in Chicago. They are learning how to coyote.

Sound on!

[mammalianmammals]

Took a trip to California last week, and met a A LOT of Sea Lions on the piers in San Francisco!

California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus), family Otariidae, San Francisco, CA, USA

photos and video by Paxon Kale CC

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By EvanMitchellxo

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[vakhtangboy]

[herpsandbirds]

A massive dyer’s polypore I saw last year (UK).

[herpsandbirds]

Look who was watching us swim last night from under the house… 

Gulf Coast Toad (Incilius nebulifer), male, family Bufonidae, Houston, TX, USA

Photograph by Paxon Kale CC

[herpsandbirds]

Looking for outdoor nature friends!

Hey y'all, I need to meet people who wanna go out in the summer heat and look for herps, bugs, and birds!

If you live in the Houston area or in Austin, Beaumont, San Antonio, Dallas, or within that weird polygon... Hit me up!

We can put together some group outings or one on one hikes if you like.

Lets turn over some logs, lift some cover boards, find some vagrants, and photograph some cool beetles!!!

DM me if you're interested!

- Paxon

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning!!! IS THAT A QUESTION!?!?!

[herpsandbirds]

Trip Report: Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park, northern CA, USA

This park isn't that well known outside of the area, and I was excited to visit a new park and bring my park count up to 35!

It was a really beautiful mountain landscape, with amazing volcanic features, with a ton of ravens, snow plants (a totally red parasitic non-photosynthetic plant), and sagebrush lizards.

Lassen Volcanic National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Also pictured, wolf lichen, steller's jay, western wallflower, and my bf, Evan.

photos by Paxon Kale CC

[herpsandbirds]

Red-sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), family Colubridae, Manitoba, Canada

A) normal phase (86%) B) hypermelanistic (12%) C) melanistic (2%)

These snakes were all found within a polymorphic (multiple color types) population at a den site in Manitoba, Canada. Normally, den sites are just one of these color morphs. The non-standard morphs are usually known from islands and other fragmented populations, but not usually found in these numbers from populations like this, with genetic in flow.

photographs and findings by Owen Edwards

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[vakhtangboy]

[8nin]

if ur wondering what the fuck is wrong with me imagine how i feel

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[mybeingthere]

Joshua Vogel is a sculptor, furniture designer & woodworker, and co-founder of Black Creek Mercantile & Trading Co. (BCMT) in Kingston, NY. Raised in New Mexico in the 70's, he traveled extensively through Australia, Haiti, Europe & finally the American West, where he pursued Anthropology and Art History at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Architecture studies followed at the University of Oregon, where he also began working in earnest with wood. By the mid 90's Joshua Vogel had again relocated, this time to New York City where he worked to establish his first studio. Eventually focusing his expertise exclusively on furniture design & production, he co-founded BDDW, a recognizable, heirloom quality, American made furniture & design company.

Ultimately choosing the country lifestyle over that of the city, Joshua moved to the Hudson Valley to rediscover the basics; not only of life, but of design, woodworking & his first love - sculpture. Alongside his partner Kelly Zaneto, he operates the exquisite furniture and design workshop BCMT in Kingston, producing hand-made high quality pieces, in solid wood and natural materials. Known to be meticulous and detail oriented, it is Joshua’s Vogel’s indomitable energy to build, innate sense of larger design issues, and love of process that set him apart.

[petaltexturedskies]

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Susan Sontag, On Photography (originally published in 1977)