Matt Beatty

NW Indiana birds, butterflies, plants, etc! Tweets my own

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This is clearly an Ivory-billed Woodpecker

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@nwi_jsp Gary is also mentioned in the new Jonathan Franzen novel (Crossroads). Don’t have the book on me but if I recall correctly it was used as a metaphor to refer to a smoky, industrial environment.

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@MicahPollak I read chapters from Rebels Against the Future by Kirkpatrick Sale for a class years ago and remember the writing to be very interesting and engaging.

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Thanks to supply chain problems, there are sedges in NW Indiana that will have to go down as “Carex sp.” that could have otherwise been identified!

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Scenes from a small cloudy meadow. Coral hairstreak, dun skipper, dogbane leaf beetle, delaware skipper. I thought I might make a small thread about how to take pics of small butterflies https://t.co/OnU2BEDMBl

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(Please ignore that fact that the Dickcissel is perched on Autumn Olive)

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Indiana prairies. Good for the soul!

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Dante was a herper

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lol at Dante mocking birders

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@AlongsideWild ?

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I think this is a Western Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis proximus), but have had some conflicting feedback. Looking for confirmation that it isn’t an Eastern? Jasper County (Northwest Indiana)

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Annual Conopholis appreciation tweet

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@nwi_jsp @GaryAREA That makes sense, though I think I’d feel most comfortable leaving out the eastern time zone counties. I was tweeting about a spot in Pulaski County earlier today and it just didn’t feel right saying Northwest Indiana.

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@nwi_jsp @GaryAREA Which brings up a question: what areas are included in “Northwest Indiana”? Certainly that term is more inclusive than The Region, correct? Is Wheatfield, to take a random example, in Northwest Indiana? LaPorte?

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@GMcLeanLeighton The one I’m wondering is the one you’re calling Indigo Bunting, I think. Habitat didn’t seem right (middle of mature forest), so that didn’t occur to me, but it could be...

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Feeling stumped. What is this bird singing in the canopy? Forest in Pulaski County, northern Indiana.

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@4letterbird Are you up for some virtual birding? I feel like this is something I know but just am not making the connection...

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Feeling stumped. What is this bird singing in the canopy? Forest in Pulaski County, northern Indiana.

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@KSandsMan @bingaman Too bad you didn’t get a great photo like I did, maybe next time! 😂

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Are there any weevil experts on Twitter? Found these on a patch of Blue Flag Iris