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Wendy Miller
@burrowingowl.bsky.social
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Nature photographer, public defender representing young people, lover of burrowing owls. RPCV Niger.
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · Sep 1
I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶
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debmaluk.bsky.social
another gloomy, cloudy day brightened by the Evening Grosbeaks and some lovely hoarfrost☺️
A male Evening Grosbeak on a hoarfrost covered branch. He is yellow with black and white wings. His beak is pale yellow and he has a bright yellow bar on his forehead. His feet are pink. A male Evening Grosbeak on a hoarfrost covered branch. There are frosty berries in the background. A female Evening Grosbeak on a hoarfrost covered branch. There are frosty red berries on the left and out of focus branches and berries in the background. She is pale yellow and brown with black and white wings. a female Evening Grosbeak on a hoarfrost covered branch. She has her back to the camera and is looking down and to the right. She has black and white wings and black tail feathers with white spots and white tips.
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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doktrnick.bsky.social
The Powerful Owlet was bothered by a Pied Currawong 3 times which is why it looks worked up here.
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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doktrnick.bsky.social
Powerful Owlet roosting with a parent in a Brisbane park. This was the one found last week, & I wanted to check if it had a sibling. But at dusk there wasn't trilling except from this one, so it looks like a singleton. It was fun watching it playing and flying after sunset.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Tufted Titmouse - little, spicy crested bird with intense eyes 🪶
Littt bird, slightly puffed, dark and light gray feathers, crested sitting on cypress branch
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
Happy #ferruginousfriday! 🪶
Young ferruginous hawk glaring at the camera from atop a utility pole.
December 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
My little chickadee. 🪶
Black-capped chickadee getting a drink at the bird bath, flinging water droplets into the air.
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
A four-panel comic. In panel one, a female northern cardinal and winter plumage american goldfinch are sitting at a bird feeder in a grey landscape. The cardinal says "These seeds are delicious." The goldfinch replies "Mmm-hmm." In panel 2, there's a close up of the birds at the feeder, and the cardinal says "It was nice of the human to put up this feeder." The goldfinch says "Sure was." In panel 3, the cardinal says "We should return the favor." The goldfinch says "Great idea." In panel 4, there's a pullback shot of the bird feeder, and a human is staring at it and also at a large stick next to it with a pink-iced donut at the end of it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet with dilated pupils running to catch all the sales!
December 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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kelper60.bsky.social
Black-browed Albatross...
December 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
I hereby nominate the long-tailed duck for cutest duck! This morning at Montauk, NY. 🪶
Black, grey and white duck with a white eye ring and pink on the edge of his bill, eating a piece of seaweed.
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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drsusan.bsky.social
Good morning!
Squirrel on a fence with a Christmas hat and scarf on!
December 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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gwen4braves.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
A young brown headed nuthatch is on a leafy branch in July
December 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec.24
Their slightly nasal sounding beep beep beeps are one of the best sounds during our long winters.
This Red-breasted Nuthatch pauses briefly in the frosty branches before checking out the pine cone for seeds!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
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A red-breasted nuthatch perches on a very frosty spruce tree branch. He has an orange belly, grey/blue back and wings, a grey/blue cap and black eyeliner. There is a frosty pine cone hanging just below where he’s perching and he’s probably going to check it out for seeds.
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
A family of five burrowing owls at their burrow. One owlet tries to get out of the way as two of his siblings start allopreening behind him.
December 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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gwen4braves.bsky.social
Good afternoon! 🪶
A small chipping sparrow is floofed out on a lichen covered branch and looking to the left.
December 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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anzaborrego.bsky.social
A wet desert lily flowering with a grand view while storm clouds are moving in from the west this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
A wet desert lily growing in sand and flowering with a grand view while storm clouds are moving in from the west this morning.
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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drsusan.bsky.social
Good morning!
Dark eyed junco on a fence floofed up in the chill and snow.
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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mondomascots.bsky.social
The towering Lerch-san, mascot for Niigata Prefecture, is based on Theodor Von Lerch, an Austro-Hungarian who introduced skiing to Japan in 1911.
A tall inflatable mascot with a ginger moustache, boots, a red scarf, and a yellow cap and ski suit stands on a busy street and gives a thumbs up.
December 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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frauke.bsky.social
Be on your guard, Dad said to himself; especially at Christmas. Even if we're not living in Herowldes' times, and nobird (Harry Harrier aside) is out there killing Owlets, there are those who want to deport them, saying they have no right to stay. Better be on the safe side and protect the kids...
December 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Two burrowing owls, one peeking out from below and one standing behind her.
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
Baby Satin Bowerbird (and its mother)!
#birds
Photograph of a juvenile Satin Bowerbird standing on a wooden stick in a garden bird bath. The bird is green, brown, and yellow, with a fluffy white belly. Same subject, wider angle showing the juvenile (L) begging from its mother (R). The juvenile's beak is open as it calls, and the mother is holding an unidentified snack in her beak. Both birds are similar in size and appearance, but the juvenile has dark blue eyes, shorter tail and flight feathers, and a smaller beak. The mother's eyes are strikingly violet in the sunlight. As before, tighter angle framing the faces of both birds as the mother is leaning forward and feeding the juvenile.
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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xenomatt.bsky.social
There are three of them, so they must be wise men, right? Or spirits? But not stooges. Definitely *not* stooges, okay?

White-eyed Moray (Gymnothorax thyrsoideus), Anilao

#Fishmas #MarineLife 🐟🌿
Three moray eels peering out from a hole in a coral reef. They have prominent white eyes with black pupils, dark heads, and their bodies are a lighter brown with yellow speckles #UnderwaterPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM