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Birding Ralph 🐦🦆🦉🦋🐞📸
@birderbro.bsky.social
Hobby bird photographer based in Bonn 🇩🇪 (previously CA 🇺🇸)
Irl I work for an African health NGO 🌍
My feed features feathered friends & nature 📸s from California, Africa & Germany
All 📸s my own unless RP 🔁
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Hello Bsky friends👋 here's a brief intro to myself: my name's Ralph. I live in 🇩🇪 (previously in CA) & work for an African health NGO. In my spare time, I like to take 📸s, especially of #birds. Being out in #nature is therapy for my soul. I'm also a dad of 2😀. #funfact: I used to be in a ska band 🎺🕺.
✋Hands up if you've seen the 2011 movie adaptation of Mark Obmascik's The Big Year, starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson 🤣
Do you remember the Pink-footed Goose?
Well, I finally saw one myself - lifer💗🥳
Here it is ⬇️😍

#birds #nature #naturephotography #photography #birding #birdwatching
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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I just LOVE #BirdOfTheDay. Thx @alan678.bsky.social & @robcrank68.bsky.social for hosting 🙌
Today's theme: #QuietObservers - single #birds observing their surroundings.
Well, here's Winnie the Whinchat doing just that in a field of #yellow mustard and sunflowers 🌻

#EastCoastKin #nature #photography
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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😧 I'm late for #BirdOfTheDay. What's the theme you ask? Well, Rob says it's #LongLegsAndNeck - any #birds with both items listed
How'bout a Grey Crowned Crane?
This elegant bird graced my hood for a few days a couple of years ago, surely an escape but w/o a ring 🤷

#EastCoastKin #nature #photography
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
On the last day of the year, I'm sharing my 1st ever pic of a Coal Tit - cute little fellas... 😍

Wishing you a very Happy New Year full of #nature & #birds & always with clear vision 🐦🧐

#NewYear #HappyNewYear #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography
#BirdsSeenIn2025 🇩🇪
December 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
December 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Red-necked Grebe at "my" local lake 😍
What a pretty bird 🥰
I hope it'll stick around and that we'll get to see it molt into its even more vibrant breeding plumage... 🤞

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #waterbirds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphoto
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
@alan678.bsky.social set the theme for #BirdOfTheDay to #birds that #contrast w/ their backgrounds.
I humbly present this adult Oystercatcher - does it count?
A whole lotta #black, but contrasty nonetheless, right?☯️
Not least that carrot of a beak... 🥕🤥

#photography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin
December 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚨 #Cuteness alert 🚨
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is all #AboutTheKids 🥰
Here's a itty bitty teeny weeny Ostercatcher 🐥
Taken this summer on Heligoland island in the North Sea

#birds #nature
#photography #birdphotography #naturephotography
#artshare #EastCoastKin #cute #BabyBirds
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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@alan678.bsky.social says today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #NaturesPantry ( #birds w/ berries, seeds, or flowers) The alternative is #WinterBirds in snow, ice, rain.
I’ve got a (European) Blackbird that fits both themes.
Hope u like it! 🍓❄️
#nature #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #birding
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ScratchersAndPruners (any bird Scratching or Pruning itself), and the Alternative is #Drinkers (any bird taking a Drink)
I'm going with the Alternative theme and this stellar Steller's Jay taking a sip on a hot day🪶

#photography #EastCoastKin #nature #BirdLife #birds
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
😧 I'm late for #BirdOfTheDay. What's the theme you ask? Well, Rob says it's #LongLegsAndNeck - any #birds with both items listed
How'bout a Grey Crowned Crane?
This elegant bird graced my hood for a few days a couple of years ago, surely an escape but w/o a ring 🤷

#EastCoastKin #nature #photography
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I just LOVE #BirdOfTheDay. Thx @alan678.bsky.social & @robcrank68.bsky.social for hosting 🙌
Today's theme: #QuietObservers - single #birds observing their surroundings.
Well, here's Winnie the Whinchat doing just that in a field of #yellow mustard and sunflowers 🌻

#EastCoastKin #nature #photography
December 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Rudolph the Red-necked Grebe
Had a very shiny beak
And if you ever saw it
You'd surely want to take a peak

#birds #water #droplets #nature #photography #naturephotography Not a #duck ! #photographer #birding #birdwatching #saturday #weekend
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Groups, groups of 4 or more birds.
How'bout this gregarious gaggle of Greylag Geese ganging up on me one day at the local lake... 😬?

#birds #waterfowl #geese #nature #naturephotography #photography #EastCoastKin #BirdsSeenIn2025
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@alan678.bsky.social says today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #NaturesPantry ( #birds w/ berries, seeds, or flowers) The alternative is #WinterBirds in snow, ice, rain.
I’ve got a (European) Blackbird that fits both themes.
Hope u like it! 🍓❄️
#nature #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #birding
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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😮 Well look at that!
The Red-necked Grebe is still around on my local lake.
Will it spend the winter?
Who knows 🤷
I guess I'll just have to keep going out there to check 😉

#birds #naturephotography #nature #BirdsSeenIn2025 #photography #water #winter #photographer #birdwatching #birdphotography
December 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ScratchersAndPruners (any bird Scratching or Pruning itself), and the Alternative is #Drinkers (any bird taking a Drink)
I'm going with the Alternative theme and this stellar Steller's Jay taking a sip on a hot day🪶

#photography #EastCoastKin #nature #BirdLife #birds
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I need help 🚨: Can someone kindly explain to me how to play the #BirdoftheDay game? Do I just post a pic of #HeronsandEgrets today? If so, here's a Snowy #Egret and a Little Blue #Heron from earlier this year in Southern California ⬇️🪶

#photography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #weekend
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Rudolph the Red-necked Grebe
Had a very shiny beak
And if you ever saw it
You'd surely want to take a peak

#birds #water #droplets #nature #photography #naturephotography Not a #duck ! #photographer #birding #birdwatching #saturday #weekend
December 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
😮 Well look at that!
The Red-necked Grebe is still around on my local lake.
Will it spend the winter?
Who knows 🤷
I guess I'll just have to keep going out there to check 😉

#birds #naturephotography #nature #BirdsSeenIn2025 #photography #water #winter #photographer #birdwatching #birdphotography
December 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Another one of the Red-necked Grebe on "my" local lake
😍

#birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #nature #naturephotography #water #birdphotography
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
You know the weather's bad if even the weather app says it's "dreary"... 🌧️
And to that a distinct lack of #birds, and it makes for a sad #Sunday.
But hey, this Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) let me watch it for a while, so it's not all bad... 😄

#raptor #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇩🇪 #Raptors #nature #naturephoto
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The Grey Plovers (known as Black-bellied Plovers in the Americas) are still around!!

👁️ Classic birb staring contest 👁️

#birds #photographer #nature #photography
#birdphotography #naturephotography
#waders #shorebirds #staringcontest
October 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM