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Christine Beeton

@christinebeeton.bsky.social

Might be working in the lab, might be staring at birds. Immunologist using venom peptides to target ion channels in chronic autoimmune diseases. Gardening & birding for relaxation. 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. No politics, no DMs. 🦉🪶🌱📷🧪🐈 Views my own.

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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 3h ago

Green treefrogs are green. It helps with camouflage against predators. This one didn't read the syllabus. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Frogs #Amphibians #Photography #TexasStateParks #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A green treefrog sitting on a yellow blade of grass.

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 3h ago

A green anole covered in water droplets looks like a monster from a Sci-Fi movie. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Lizards #Anoles #Herps #Reptiles #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Portraits #TexasStateParks

A green anole looking from out of this world, covered in tiny water droplets as it stands on a blade of grass

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 4h ago

A green heron with a snack. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Birds #Herons #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #TexasStateParks

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · yesterday

Carolina mantis. I don't see enough of them but this one definitely saw me. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Insects #Bugs #Mantids #PrayingMantis #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #TexasStateParks

Portrait of a praying mantis looking at the camera

A praying mantis hanging from a blade of grass

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · yesterday

Bambi and Mom. Bambi is now old enough that its spots are almost all gone. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Mammals #Deer #Doe #Photography #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #TexasStateParks

A young and an adult deer standing in grass on the edge of the trail

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Green anole from different angles. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Lizards #Anoles #Herps #Reptiles #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Portraits #TexasStateParks

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today was a treefrog kind of day! 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Frogs #Amphibians #Photography #TexasStateParks #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy #Caturday! #Cats #Minette #Pets #Photography

A lynx point siamese, sleeping on her back, all twisted

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Using the eye of a broad-banded watersnake as a mirror on the trail. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Snakes #Reptiles #Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Portraits #TexasStateParks

Portrait of a broad-banded watersnake with beautiful black, brown, and yellow markings

My reflection can be seen in the eye of the snake.

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is not a hand-painted glass sculpture, it's a Namib sand gecko. So so cute. 📷Dorob National Park, #Namibia, April 2026 #Reptiles #Herps #CutestCritterAlive #Geckos #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

This might be the cutest living critter ever. A little translucent gecko with pink webbed feet, a body that's pink, orange, blue, and yellow. The biggest yellow and black eyes, and a pink, orange and blue smiley face

Brian Smith @briansmith-photos.eurosky.social · 5d ago

One for the alt theme for #BirdoftheDay, and #BirdStare, and the Least Bittern from the Las Gallinas trip the other day - giving me a look, but hanging around and carrying on fishing. #Birds #eck 🪶

A frontal view of a Least Bittern (Botaurus exilis) (Ixobrychus exilis) perched on vertical green reeds at the water's edge. The small heron is looking directly at the camera, its brown and white streaked plumage providing camouflage against the dense vegetation. Its long legs and large feet are visible gripping the stalks above the green, reflective water. The setting is a marshy wetland in Marin County, California.

Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷@crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 5d ago

#BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers pic of any diving bird. Alt theme: #BirdStare Any bird captured staring right back at you! Ms.Ganser in Torpedo Mode! #birds #becurious 🪶

photo of a female merganser zooming through the water of a river. she is moving to the right of frame. the water is displaced in a clear tunnel over her head and shoulders, breaking into a splash over the rest of her body and behind her.

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 5d ago

#TheDivers is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. Here is a series of photos of a brown pelican flying by, noticing a snack, and diving for it. 📷 #Texas, December 2025 #Pelicans #Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors. Here is a red kite. 📷 #Corsica, #France, October 2021 #Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #Raptors #Kites #RedKites #BirdsOfPrey

A red kite flying towards the camera against a very blue sky

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads, any bird with a Red on its head/beak, so here is a pileated woodpecker. 📷 #Texas, March 2025 #Birds #Woodpeckers #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #TexasStateParks

A pileated woodpecker sitting near the top of a dead tree, looking into the distance. It is all black and white with a characteristic red flame on the head and brown eyes.

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today is #WorldRhinoDay! Here are photos of both black and white rhinos I took last April in #Namibia. #Mammals #Photography #Rhinoceros #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · last wk.

I made a new friend. It allowed only one (blurry) photo before heading off to new adventures. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Photography #Lizards #Herps #Anoles #Invasives #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A very small brown anole sitting on my arm. They are unfortunately invasive but I don't have the heart to kill them.

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · last wk.

Two wood storks, two black-necked stilts. I wonder what they are all thinking, standing in the same pond. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Birds #Storks #Stilts #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #Birding #NationalWildlifeRefuges

Four black and white birds standing in shallow water, surrounded by green grass. On the left, two storks watching two much smaller stilts standing to the right and in the center of the photo.

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · last wk.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CaptionThatBird. - I think there's something wrong with her. She is still staring at us with one eye. - Just ignore her. - But her eye looks weird. And she's staring. 📷 #Texas, March 2020 #Birds #Photography #Owls #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Birding

Two great horned owlets sitting on a large branch covered in dry ferns. One is looking straight at the camera and the other is looking away

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · last wk.

Morning trail. 📷 #Texas, September 2026 #Photography #Landscapes #Trees #Trails #TexasStateParks

A dirt trail shaded by tall trees and surrounded by green grass and shrubs

Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · last wk.

If you hit a blue jay with a peanut in the shell, would you think it's still safe to step outside tomorrow? Or do I need to move to a corvid-less continent, like Antarctica? It was an accident, I was just sharing peanuts but he looked very offended. He still took the peanut. #Birds #Jays