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A sentient swamp is here to chill you out with original nature videos, field recordings, and photography. There might also be some absurdist dark humor thrown in, as one should expect from a swamp. linktr.ee/SwampVids
Marsh wren is a tiny, active AGILE songbird 12 cm lives in freshwater and saltwater wetlands across North America, eating mostly insects and spiders. Found during the summer breeding season across much of southern Canada and the US migrate south to winter along coastal regions of southern US.
Some supplemental content for the last video — the full collection of background sounds. Please enjoy. 🌿 #birds #fieldrecording #prattle
Swamp@swampvids.bsky.social · 5d agoHave you heard a mysterious sound coming from a rotting tree? It's sort of spooky, sounds like clicking, or finger snapping, or maybe like a frog, or creaking floorboard....or a scraping saw? You might think it's haunted. That would be the sound of sawyer beetle larvae chewing on wood. 🌿 #nature ⬇️
The SwampVids schedule will either be biweekly (twice a week) or biweekly (every other week) for the time being.
Spring Warblers, East Rock Park. From my book Streams: An Illustrated Guide, to be published by Yale University Press on Sept 15, 2026. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #scicomm #birdart #warblers
Please be sure to check your Oenothera blossoms for fuzzy pink moths who have arrived to spread joy to all who exist. #teammoth #nativeplants #pink
Have you heard a mysterious sound coming from a rotting tree? It's sort of spooky, sounds like clicking, or finger snapping, or maybe like a frog, or creaking floorboard....or a scraping saw? You might think it's haunted. That would be the sound of sawyer beetle larvae chewing on wood. 🌿 #nature ⬇️
Big conservation wins still happen. In Maine, a partnership of conservation organizations protected 78,000 acres, connecting more than half a million acres of conserved land for wildlife, communities and climate resilience.
Historic Magalloway Collaborative Conserves 78,000 Acres in Western Maine
A landmark project supports the regional timber economy, secures recreational opportunities and protects important wildlife habitats.
nature.org
Would you like to hear a good sound? Oblong-winged katydids have a good sound. #orthoptera 🌿
Fact: Clubmoss sex is explosive. daily.jstor.org/the-many-une...
The Many Unexpected Jobs of the Clubmoss Spore - JSTOR Daily
The first working internal combustion machine debuted in 1807, powered by lycopodium powder, which is made of explosive plant spores.
daily.jstor.org
GardenWild Guy@gardenwild.bsky.social · last wk.Fun fact: before the advent of gunpowder in the west, the spores of this area so flammable that they were used as a facsimile of it! I what? Idk... because it certainly wasnt in guns lol but i read it in a book so - it must be true 🤷♂️🤣🧐
If there are no more SwampVids this year… trying to track down this moose, all right?! Important matters.
These highly attractive, utterly perfect looking mushrooms, clearly the work of fairies, are an interesting bunch because if you dare maim one, they express their disapproval by spilling blood everywhere. That is where they get the name, bleeding fairy helmet. #FungiFriends #nature
A spiraling display of fan clubmoss, a species belonging to one of the most ancient groups of vascular plants, lycophytes which have been around for ~425 million years. They take approximately 20 years to grow and cannot reproduce without the help of mycorrhizal fungi. 🌿 #nativeplants
Their house has been gone for close to 100 years but they still come back twice every summer to mow the lawn.
Ok human-folk, at what time does your motorcycle dusk chorus end? This is getting to be a bit much.