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Macro Photography

by Pancakke near District of Columbia, United States — May 9, 2025

Just picked up macro photography so only two pictures right now. I plan on taking more today when I go to a butterfly conservatory.

Ambassador All-Star: Monthly and Hourly Metrics

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by ShutUpLeonard — May 9, 2025

Didn't want to clog up Earth Month with my nonsense, but a few updates have been made to Ambassador All-Star. A monthly view and hourly chart for the daily top 10 has been added. Akela won April! Conclusion: just get your balls removed to be a winner.

https://ambassadorallstar.org/

Lake walk mini trash haul, dog walks, cautionary tale and water scorpions?!

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by spacecampsucks — May 9, 2025 — Gave 4 Hours for Earth

Feeding the ducks. With actual duck food. Don’t feed them bread!

Duck food and the bag I found and used for the mini trash haul

Mini trash haul. Ignore the Squirrel and Tom Nook. I’m telling my squirrel scouts that our mascot did it (because it might make them want to help in a future park clean up i’m planning)

Well deserved fruit tart from a nearby bakery as a reward for a long walk and trash haul!

One of my dogs had an emergency vet visit after vomiting blood. She’s mostly okay now but may have stomach cancer :( The 20 hour vet stay would’ve cost £1400 so this is a reminder; INSURE YOUR PETS!

We have been spoiling her with walks in the woods, her favourite type of walk

My other dog was sad when his sister was in the vets for so long

Water scorpions. Very real and very natural. Don’t look at the legs.

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Spent a few hours walking around the lakes to make the most of the beautiful weather we’re having. Found a bag with empty water bottles in (boooooo to the people who dumped it) and used it to collect other bits of rubbish along the way.

bonus; dog walks and why it’s important to have pet insurance

Honoring the fallen and a quick hike

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by Nature_alexander near Rijssen-Holten, Overijssel, Netherlands — May 9, 2025 — Gave 1 Hour for Earth

Went to the Canadian War Cemetery in Holten to pay respect to those who gave their live for the liberation of my city and the rest of the Netherlands. After that I went on a quick hike because the area is beautiful.

Trash pickup and bird watching around local ponds(Spider warning for last picture)

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by E7 near Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States — May 9, 2025 — Gave 1 Hour for Earth

Canadian Goose standing in the middle of a dry cranberry bog looking for cranberries to snack on — Canadian Goose foraging through a cranberry bog

Canadian Goose looking off in the distance with a perfectly round cranberry in its mouth — They found one! I had no idea until I was looking through all the photos later

Canadian Goose standing in a cranberry bog with its wings spread out, a feather is out of place on their left wing — Gorgeous wings, hopefully that one feather isn't bothering them

Red-Winged blackbird flying away from some vegetation at the edge of a pond — Barely caught a red-winged blackbird as it flew away

Small black bird flying across a pond as the sunset shines on the water below it — Not sure what kind of bird just thought it was a pretty lucky shot

Sunset going behind the clouds above a dense forest with a pond at the forefront shining bright from the sun — So much beauty all around us that we take for granted

Small black and gray bird perched up in a tree — Cute little blackbird, not sure of the species

Black capped chickadee perched up amongst the trees — I believe this is a black-capped chickadee, was quite a yapper

An assortment of cans and trash on the forest floor — A lot of our ponds are accessed through tiny trails through the forest, unfortunately a good spot for people who don't want to clean up after themselves

Trash bag full of cans and pieces of a hub cap from an old car accident — Didn't have much time with the sun, but picked up about half a bag of cans and the debris of some car accidents

Black bodied jumping spider with 3 horns on the top of his head and translucent legs with tiny black hairs coming off of them — Tiny little guy hitched a ride with me during work the other day, he will be eating good in the forest behind the office

Took some time before the sun went down to pick up some trash around our local ponds and got lucky with some chill birds!

BABY BIRDS HAVE HATCHED!!!!!

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by Clí (clee) near The Municipal District of Newcastle West, Munster, Ireland — May 9, 2025

I posted about this bird in our post box last time, and she had six babies!!!! I feel like a mother.

Also bonus cat pic of Maisie (supervised outdoor enrichment time)

Garden update

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by Amy (londonbrolly) — May 9, 2025 — Gave 2 Hours for Earth

juts a small update to my garden, almost warm enough to plant everything. Had some excellent supervisors.

WW2 bunker turned into urban forest & (bumble)bee butts

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by ChaoticallyMe near Hamburg, Germany — May 9, 2025 — Gave 1 Hour for Earth

Sadly I couldn't go up this time because I had to pick up my sister from the airport

A picture from the website from a different side of the bunker

This plant is absolutely buzzing with bees & bumblebees but they move too fast for me to get clear photos, I tried tho

On Wednesday I went to Hamburg and finally saw the finished "Green Bunker". It's a WW2 bunker that got renovated with over 10,000m² (32,808ft²) of roof gardens with about 23k plants. It's also being used for science with sensors in ground collecting data about how the plants are doing on a roof.

Reconecting with nature

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by Jynx near Crook, England, United Kingdom — May 9, 2025 — Gave 10 Hours for Earth

First rubbish (Trash) haul, even found the bin bag we used to collect it!

Fallen tree which created a bridge, always love seeing natures little highways.

Forrest cockchafer (honestly what its called). His little face!

all of these tiny rock formations are Caddisfly larvae. They usually use sand grains to create the cocoons out of sand, but as there was no sand here they used tin little pebbles, so cool!

Fresh sheep poop being enjoyed by so many flies! I'm assuming they're laying eggs in it.

Centipede and in isopod! Had such a good day turning rocks!

Red ant nest, didnt stay here long but so cool to see them working.

Accidental rubbish haul on the ONE MILE walk to the local pub for dinner. Had to use a point stick and my detachable hood to collect it all as we were not planning to collect anything.

We stayed at an old water Mill, spent an afternoon hiking down from the mouth of the mill. The water was so clear, there were lots of very fast frogs and toads living here!

Adder, one of our only snakes here, and I'm pretty sure only venemous vertibrate. We were in a protected nature reserve with raised paths, so couldn't get any closer.

THE BEST PHOTO I TOOK. Again a forest Cockchafer. Fun fact, you can sex the by the feathers on their antenae, 7 is a male and 6 is a female.

The sky was so clear that we could see the dark side of the moon! Very Floyd, very romantic!

For my recent Birthday, I decided to spend a few days reconnecting with nature. Me and my boyfriend went to one of the most beautiful places in England, the Lake District. We spent three days there walking, litter picking and looking for wildlife, I can't remember the last time my body felt so calm.

LA County Fair Wildlife

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by Skye near Pomona, California, United States — May 9, 2025 — Gave 3 Hours for Earth

Hi hi :) Went to the LA County Fair this week with family. I got to see and hang out with the different animals they had, most of them came from CalPoly University. Got a little sunburned but it was worth it

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