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Vide Noir - Johnnie Redmayne

(More: set one, set two)

#idk I felt like reblogging this

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4/20 happy vide noir day

#last reblog I swear #for those who weren't online on the weekend and missed vide noirversary

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I step back from the edge of a pure black void, muttering ancient names in forgotten tongues

#this gets a vide noir day reblog also

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4/20 happy vide noir day

#lord huron #buck vernon #vide noir #fanart #4/20 #he's having a normal time here #artists on tumblr #no it's not quite 4/20 here yet but #close enough right

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Townsend's Solitaire sketch for Yardwatcher on reddit/ko-fi. My last illustration of 2023, what a fun one!

#self-reblog #hey do you remember winter #I do it keeps getting down into the 20s overnight #my poor rhubarb popped up and then froze oops

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Eurasian Tree Sparrow. Look how striking! Take a moment to appreciate the beauty of something you might otherwise pass off as just another little brown bird.

#self-reblog

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I'm just going to treat the Redmaynes as OCs until I get more to work with I guess, anyway here's chaotic bisexual Dale Redmayne about to cause problems for someone somehow

#reblogging in honor of dani's dale fic teaser #well and because he deserves it

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Ko'ko' bird (Guam Rail) is a critically endangered species in the Mariana Islands. Once considered extinct in the wild, a few are now found on Cocos Island off Guam. Currently the bulk of the population is in captive breeding programs. They are mainly threatened by invasive snakes & feral cats.

#next day reblogging

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Ko'ko' bird (Guam Rail) is a critically endangered species in the Mariana Islands. Once considered extinct in the wild, a few are now found on Cocos Island off Guam. Currently the bulk of the population is in captive breeding programs. They are mainly threatened by invasive snakes & feral cats.

#birdblr #birblr #guam rail #endangered birds #endangered species #wetlands #pacific islands #guam #mariana islands #birb #scientific illustration #artists on tumblr

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Vide Noir gave us a character and immediately took him away again and that's cruel so here's a much better look at Alex Redmayne than the one we got.

#it's alex feelings o'clock #as I continue to think too much about characters with no characterization beyond what I invent myself

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I found some new reference material and I intend to abuse it so here's a Johnnie doodle before I get back to art I'm supposed to be doing

#anyway now that I'm back in the states and not out in the woods for a few weeks #here's johnnie again #I'm hoping I'll have time to add more nonsense to the internet soon

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Before I head back to Rota, I will be on Saipan for a few days. Canario here (Golden White-eye) is an endangered species found only on Saipan and Aguijan, though it probably was also on Tinian and Rota in the past. Their thrush-like habits and songs are very unlike most other white-eyes.

#self-reblog #because I feel like it #I head back to Saipan on Friday #been one heck of a good month on Rota!

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Fieldwork here on Rota is well underway, with about half of our mist-netting lanes and trails marked and prepped for next month's bird banding. But along the way, we find all kinds of incredible landscapes and hidden treasures.

Top left: A WWII Japanese artillery gun sunk into a manmade cave in a limestone wall. The old gun is being overtaken by the jungle and has ferns and moss growing all over the barrel.

Top right: An old wrecked boat inside the lagoon on Rota's northwestern shore, with brilliant blue sky above and turquoise water below.

Bottom left: Guam Coenogyne, a rare endangered orchid found only on Rota and Guam. This white flower with a red center emerges from a swirl of large bulbs with leaves that cling to the bark of a mossy tree.

Bottom right: An unbroken green glass bottle that originally held soy sauce, from sometime in the 1920s-40s when Rota was a Japanese colony.

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Fieldwork here on Rota is well underway, with about half of our mist-netting lanes and trails marked and prepped for next month's bird banding. But along the way, we find all kinds of incredible landscapes and hidden treasures.

Top left: A WWII Japanese artillery gun sunk into a manmade cave in a limestone wall. The old gun is being overtaken by the jungle and has ferns and moss growing all over the barrel.

Top right: An old wrecked boat inside the lagoon on Rota's northwestern shore, with brilliant blue sky above and turquoise water below.

Bottom left: Guam Coenogyne, a rare endangered orchid found only on Rota and Guam. This white flower with a red center emerges from a swirl of large bulbs with leaves that cling to the bark of a mossy tree.

Bottom right: An unbroken green glass bottle that originally held soy sauce, from sometime in the 1920s-40s when Rota was a Japanese colony.

#WWII history #japan #japanese history #rota #rota island #northern mariana islands #orchid #tropical pacific

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Before I head back to Rota, I will be on Saipan for a few days. Canario here (Golden White-eye) is an endangered species found only on Saipan and Aguijan, though it probably was also on Tinian and Rota in the past. Their thrush-like habits and songs are very unlike most other white-eyes.

#birblr #birb #songbird #white-eye #golden white-eye #canario #endangered species #endangered birds #scientific illustration #artists on tumblr #mariana islands #saipan

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Back to the Marianas next week! Here are two field sketchbook pages I didn't manage to post yet, of fanihi (Mariana fruit bat) and sali (Micronesian Starling).

Fanihi were kind of everywhere on Rota, and I saw more of them in five days there than I have in all my time working on Saipan over the years. It's good to know that their population is healthy there, though the locals said that they were seeing them more than usual also because of a behavioral change. Typhoons in 2023 had stripped the trees of flowers and fruit and delayed the new fruiting season, so part of the reason fanihi were so visible was that they were spending a lot more time than before having to find food.

Pretty important when doing any kind of science to keep behavior and detectability in mind - seeing more bats doesn't always mean there are more bats, just that they may be more visible than normal for other reasons.