Loren

Photographer, birder, nature shitposter, alt text enthusiast, he/him, northern Illinois, usa, 32

Birds are real and good

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2025-03-18 16:36:28 UTC

i cant go out and look at little creatures today. can you show me some please?

2025-01-01 02:52:44 UTC

the frog! the frog! the frog!
okay this was one of the most beautiful moments i've ever experienced. top ten memory right here. i was having a terrible start to this year, just felt like total dog shit. i was unemployed and listless. i could just barely get myself out the door to go take pictures. and i am so glad i did.
i walked into the nature preserve and immediately was hit with this sound that i couldn't identify. took me a few moments to register that they were probably frogs and i needed to go find them immediately. on my way rushing to the pond i passed a woman who was like "do you hear the chorus frogs??" and i was like "yes!! where are they??". She apparently had just gotten done teaching a class out there and told me where to find them.
As i approached the pond, the sound nearly too much. They were so loud!! It sounded like i was absolutely surrounded by hundreds of frogs all singing. The strangest part was that despite there sounding like endless numbers of them i could not for the life of me locate one of them!
Took me a bit of hunting but finally i started to be able to start see them amongst the duckweed. Just tiny little orbs croaking there tiny little hearts out. i was just absolutely overwhelmed with emotions of experiencing something so beautiful and perfect. such a new and unique experience. something that made suffering through the shit utterly worth it. there will always be more frogs to see for the first time. there are so many more experiences to have. there are people to love and animals to wonder about. ill be thinking about these frogs for the rest of my life.
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2024-10-05 07:34:01 UTC

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@npub1wf9…f76g ooo cool what kind of frog is this?