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Andrea Peterson
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A flamingo with its baby chick safely snuggled in its wing 🥰

#Birds #Flamingos #Flamboyance #Flamazing #BirdOfTheDay #Serenity #Peaceful #Pink #TracyAviary #Photography #Stunday
A pink and white flamingo with a black beak sitting on a nest with a baby chick nestled in its wing and poking its head out. Two additional flamingos are partially visible in the background of the image.
December 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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A dahlia from our garden this past summer

#Flowers #BNW #BNWMacro #ClassicMono #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #BackyardBlooms #Photography #Droplets #PNW
A close-up of a dahlia in black and white with water drops on its petals
December 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A bouquet of dahlias from my 2022 archives

#Flowers #Dahlias #Orange #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Bloomscrolling #Photography #Anthophile #FlowerGirl #Stunday
A bouquet of three different types of orange dahlias clustered together with a few green leaves between them.
December 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Reflections on the water yesterday in Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island, Washington

#Stunday #PNW #Reflections #PugetSound #BlueSky #Photography #Marina #Winslow #Boating
A view of a bridge crossing from the mainland to the docked boats in a marina with a blue sky and puffy clouds, and everything is perfectly reflected in the blue Puget Sound waters below.
December 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A party of sea lions and double crested cormorants at Possession Point, Whidbey Island

#ColorADay #GreenSat #Green #SeaLions #Pinnipeds #Birds #Cormorants #PNW #PugetSound #Olympics #Boating #Washington #Scape #Animals #Photography
A green buoy in the middle of Puget Sound with sea lions sitting on the bottom portion and several double crested cormorants hanging out on the upper portion. Kingston can be seen across the water, and the snow-capped Olympics are visible in the background. The sky above is pale and light blue colored.
December 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A crow chasing after a bald eagle at Point Wells, near Edmonds, Washington. This was taken this past spring, the eagle was likely pestering nesting crows.

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Outstretched #Crows #Eagles #Corvids #Birdscrolling #FeatheredFriends #Photography #PNW #PugetSound #Boating
A crow flying towards a bald eagle that has its wings outstretched, and its feet hanging down as it heads to a pole to perch. There is a second pole in the image, with a loudspeaker attached to it. Behind it all is a pale white overcast sky.
December 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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A brown pelican headed towards a large rock in Monterey Bay, California

#Birds #Outstretched #Pelicans #Birdscrolling #PacificOcean #WestCoast #FeatheredFriends #Photography
A brown pelican flying in the sky towards a large rock that is colored white because of the birds that regularly congregate on it. The blue waters of the Pacific Ocean are visible, and a few other birds can be seen on the rock.
December 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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A gull flying past a radio tower on an overcast day, Vashon Island, Washington

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Outstretched #Gulls #PNW #Washington #Photography #Minimal #Simplicity
A gull flying through an overcast sky, thick with clouds. A radio tower, with red lights, is visible, but blurred and somewhat covered by some clouds.
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Spotted this southern ground hornbill grabbing a 'bite' to eat behind some trees at the Woodland Park Zoo

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Red #Hornbill #Yikes #FeatheredFriends #Birdscrolling #NatureIsMetal #Photography
A black and red southern ground hornbill with a baby bird captured and dangling from its beak. A fallen log and a tree are both visible in the picture as well as two blurred trees in the forefront.
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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An Amazon milk frog at the Loveland Living Plant Aquarium, Draper, Utah

#Frogs #FridayFrogs #FrogsOnFriday #Green #Amphibians #Photography #Animals #Froggy
A gray, green, and dark brown colored Amazon milk frog on green leaves and a mossy rock
December 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Fungi and ferns on the forest floor 🌿🍄🍁

#ForestFriday #Forests #Ferns #FungiFriday #Fungi #FridayFerns #Green #Photography #PNW #Moss #Lichen #Maples #Leaves #Scape
A shot of a forest floor with fungi, moss, ferns, lichen, and brown and gold maple leaves.
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The Point Robinson Lighthouse on Maury Island, Vashon, Washington

#Lighthouses #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #BNW #ClassicMono #ArtYear #PNW #PugetSound #Photography #Mono
A view of the Point Robinson Lighthouse with the American flag displayed next to it. A sliver of Puget Sound can be seen behind the lighthouse and in front of the mainland, in the distance. The background is a sky filled with clouds and sun beams trying to shine in between them.
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A gull flying over Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island, Washington

#Birds #FlyDay #FeatheredFriday #Gulls #BirdNerd #Photography #BirdPhotography #Nature #PNW
A gull flying against an overcast sky with thick gray clouds. Below the bird, the tops of trees can be seen, blurred.
December 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A shot from my archives to brighten up your Friday

#Flowers #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #FridayFlowers #Tulips #Hyacinth #Bright #Colorful #Photography #Scape
A view of a field of yellow and red colored tulips and purple hyacinth flowers surrounded by green stems and leaves with the sun shining brightly on all of them.
December 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A masked lapwing at the Woodland Park Zoo wondering what you're looking at 🤷‍♀️

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #MostRecent #Seattle #Ballard #BirdNerd #Photography #FeatheredFriday #FeatheredFriends
A black, grey, white, and yellow masked lapwing bird standing in dirt and looking directly at the camera with its head slightly tilted to its right. There is green grass visible in the image on the right hand side, and more dirt and rocks behind the bird.
December 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Freshly baked cherry danishes at Snapdragon, Vashon Island, Washington

#FoodOnFriday #Food #Pastries #BakedGoods #Breakfast #Photography #JustEatIt #NomNomNom #SweetTreat
A view of freshly baked cherry danishes through a window with white Edison bulbs strung up above them and lighting them up. Additional unbaked pastries can be seen in the background, as well as a man bent over a counter, making something.
December 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Standing in the middle of trees, trees, and more trees in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

#ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #PNW #Cascades #Scape #Nature #Photography
Standing in the middle of a forest with tall trees surrounding, greenery visible between the trees, and grass on the ground
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Riding the ferry to Vashon Island with an homage to the old M/V Olympic ferry aboard

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #WashingtonStateFerry #WSF #WSDOT #Ferry #PugetSound #PNW #Scape #Photography
A tribute to the M/V Olympic ferry that includes photos, brass navigational tools, and the ship steering wheel, all in front of windows on a Washington State ferry that is crossing Puget sound from Fauntleroy and headed to Vashon Island, which can be seen in the distance through the windows
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Red roses from our garden earlier this year 🌹

#Flowers #Roses #RedRoseWednesday #RoseWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #Red #Photography #Bloomscrolling #Edmonds #PNW
A bright red rose on a rose, bush, surrounded by green leaves, additional flowers, and rose buds
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Narada Falls, in Mt. Rainier National Park, from my 2017 archives

#WaterfallWednesday #Waterfalls #Scape #Forest #Trees #Tahoma #Photography #Nature #Cascades #Washington
A giant waterfall in the Mt. Rainier National Park, with trees, rocks, moss, and tons of water falling are all visible
December 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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A charming kookaburra trying to hypnotize me at the Woodland Park Zoo.

Friends, it worked, I was mesmerized 😍

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Contrast #FaceOff #Laughing #BirdNerd #Seattle #Photography
A white and brown kookaburra perched on a thick log and looking directly into the camera. Additional tree limbs and green leaves are visible and all are against a black background.
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The Point Robinson Lighthouse, on Maury (Vashon) Island, Washington, marks the halfway point between Seattle and Tacoma

#WindowsOnWednesday #Windows #Lighthouses #PNW #PugetSound #Vashon #Scape #Photography #WhaleTrail
The Point Robinson lighthouse on Maury Island, the eastern side of Vashon Island, Washington. It is a white building with a red roof and dusty blue window frames. The sky is cloudy and overcast, and a bit of Puget Sound is visible between the lighthouse and the mainland.
December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Some racy cuttlefish action at the Seattle Aquarium, from my 2022 archives

#MarineLife #Cephalopods #Cuttlefish #AscarosepionBandense #StumpySpined #MolluscMonday #Chromatophores
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A blue-faced honeyeater at the Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Grounded #Photography #Birdscrollng #FeatheredFriend
A blue-faced honeyeater bird with an olive green colored body, a white chest, and a black head with blue all around the eye.
December 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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A dahlia from this past summer

#Flowers #Dahlias #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Bloomscrolling #Photography #Stunday #Anthophile
A large, full orange dahlia with multicolored dahlias visible just below it.
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM