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Miosha

@miosha

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Miosha
@miosha Aug 14, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

Solar Eclipse - 12 October 2026

Since the big event was due, I've left work early. First, I needed to find some filters to use. I remember there were some large appropriate filters from the stash of my late grandfather, but I looke…

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Miosha
@miosha Oct 14, 2025, 11:25 PM UTC

Spider vs bee

Bees are busy. They seem to disregard the surroundings, WORK WORK WORK is all they care about. At times it puts them in the path of danger. I've observed one such event recently. A patch of topinambu…

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Miosha
@miosha Oct 10, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

Mushrooms of Barycz Valley

In my last mushroom post I've presented some eccentric wood eating mushrooms I've found during vacation in Barycz Valley. Today a supplementation - a set of caps on legs, mushrooms of classic look fr…

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Miosha
@miosha Oct 8, 2025, 1:22 AM UTC

Visiting Museum of Christmas balls

Museums, churches and whatnot are not really my thing. For vacation in Barycz Valley, I'd very much prefer to spend a day kayaking on Barycz River. But the weather forecast was awful. It was supposed…

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Miosha
@miosha Oct 6, 2025, 1:50 AM UTC

Kozioróg Dębosz - oak eater

I live in Dąbrowa which means "oak forest", my garden is in Dębina which means "oak wood". In both places oaks are present, but nowhere near as proliferated as in Barycz Valley where I've spent my Se…

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Miosha
@miosha Oct 3, 2025, 8:55 PM UTC

Recycling dead wood

Since I've returned from vacation I have a lot of material to publish. Hopefully momentum will carry me through it all. Apparently it will be my first mushroom post this year - how the time flies. Fo…

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Miosha
@miosha Oct 2, 2025, 1:34 AM UTC

Perfect predator encountered in Żmigród

Previous week's Wednesday marked the end of my vacation in Barycz Valley Landscape Park. For the context of this article it is only important that the area contains a lot of fish ponds. It means cana…

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Miosha
@miosha Sep 29, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC

Juvenile monster

Mantis religiosa or a praying mantis is a big, predatory, green insect. I've seen my first one when I was on vacation on Hvar (Croatia) over two decades ago, and then nothing. I've thought about it a…

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Miosha
@miosha Jul 14, 2025, 1:12 AM UTC

Digging red out of my photo archive

I saw @melinda010100 post announcing interesting contest so here I am. Since the challenge for #redphotoessay2025 said I need to post at least 5 photos, I don't need to limit myself, right? So I dug…

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Miosha
@miosha Jan 20, 2025, 11:06 AM UTC

Birds of a feather flock together

Recently for the first time this year I found myself outside when it was still light and not while walking to office or shopping. In fact, somewhat surprisingly, I got to visit a lake - southern part…

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