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@yetiinabox@todon.nl
2026-07-21 15:07:53

#Entomology
Fedimind: what has happened to this moth? Its abdomen is flexed sharply up so that it protrudes from beneath the wings and over the thorax; it has been motionless like this for many hours. We do not use any poisons in our house. I'm guessing it's a Silver Y moth?

a brown moth on a white windowframe, with its body sharply arched up so that it looks like a horn. The moth wings have a paler lower margin that forms a toothed pattern, with dark crescents, and there is a pale lateral band about 2/3 up the wing. the use of a flash at closeup has created a dramatic shadow showing the reflexed body.

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-09-20 19:27:15

So exactly a week after reading about the Northern Flicker at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute (https://rtpi.org/trails-hemlock-forests/), one joined me at my house.
This one was a male (I think), yellow-shafted.
More info:

Back of a maybe 12 inch gray-brown bird with a bright red V on the back of its head, black and brown bars on the wings, and white and black tail feathers hidden below.

Same bird from the side showing black spots on its lighter brown torso, clearer view of the white tail feathers, and a black stripe well under its eye from the beak to the throat.

Looking at the bird nearly head-on, where a large black crescent bib is visible on its chest, the spotted chest is more visible, and there is the tiniest hint of yellow under its wings.

@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2026-08-12 18:37:56

Sombras em crescente. O que fiz com o escorredor, aqui em ponto grande (não sei ao certo o que estš a causar estas sombras).
#eclipse

Crescent-shaped shadows on a building wall.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-08-22 23:57:59

And finally here is a most unexpected picture I just found looking through my #SolarEclipse images from Sahagún, Spain, taken experimentally before totality w/o a filter, for the first time in detail: a bird next to the solar crescent, caught in flight with 1/16,000 second at f/8 and ISO 200 - which the autofocus thankfully found more interesting than the astronomical event in the background ...

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-12 18:24:40

Despite the clouds and the oh-so-helpful automatic exposure continually resetting its zero point until I was unable to cut enough light to meaningfully capture the occlusion in quantity, I got these two shots. I really need a dSLR that does as it's told!

Tiny crescent shot through a welding mask

@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2026-08-12 18:25:34

Onde se prova que estš mesmo a ocorrer um #eclipse. Os buraquinhos deviam aparecer quadrados, não em crescente.

Eclipse shadow, with a bunch of crescents showing the sun is half hidden.

@smashtie@mas.to
2026-08-12 19:01:49

The #eclipse from the north Devon coast, in Croyde.

The crescent sun and a bit of reflection off the water.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-08-23 21:38:19

Still going through numerous recorded webcasts and TV broadcasts of the ecent Total #SolarEclipse on YouTube - and finding to my surprise that many of the experienced groups or large TV channels blew it right at second contact which is arguably the most important moment for the audience: image out of focus, solar crescent just leaving the FOV, using an H-alpha telescope only which is counter-productive for total eclipses etc. From what I've seen so far the clear winner remains the feed from Iceland of all places, mentioned earlier in the thread, and in https://www.facebook.com/groups/SolarEclipseChasers/posts/28259718680290370/ I mention four other interesting cases - and ask for links to other winners. Know any?

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-06-30 14:16:57

the next heads happening is happening for heads on thursday, july 9th, at mama tried in #brooklyn, with mountain movers, karen schoemer & her "august" band (including our big brah kid millions), & us sloppy heads. free, like air, jazz, & birds! #nyc

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