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Carol Pope Gordon
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Nature photographer, especially birds. Trying to find beauty and humor everywhere. Learning to draw and paint nature. All photos my own unless otherwise stated.
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It's Friday and I think the Great Blue Herons are plotting something. *runs for the hills* 🪶
Great Blue Heron standing on a log and giving the camera side-eye
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Up close and personal with a sea lion in Galapagos. How about those foot pads? #ThrowbackThursday 🌿
Close up of sea lion flippers Upside down sea lion coming directly at the camera
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Here's some side-eye from a male in eclipse molt for #WoodDuckWednesday. 🪶
Male Wood duck on a log squinting with his red-rimmed eye.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Above the water view of a marine iguana swimming by when we were snorkeling in Galapagos. 🦎
Marine iguana swimming with its head out of the water under a moody cloudy sky.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Happy Monday! Your Coopers Hawk overlord will be watching you. 🪶
Young Coopers Hawk looking down from the top of a broken off dead tree.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Cheesecake is enjoying a bath from his buddy Tugboat on #Caturday
Brown tabby cat licking the Head of a light red tabby cat
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Fun sighting this week - a young Red-headed Woodpecker with the red feathers just starting to come in. 🪶
Woodpecker clinging to a large tree with heavily textured bark. The bird has a solid white front and black wings with a solid white patch. The head is gray with a scattering of bright red feathers Black and white woodpecker clinging to a large tree and with its head turned to look behind it. Red feathers are visible on its gray head and throat
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Since it's #ThrowbackThursday here's another GoPro shot from snorkeling in Galapagos. #invertebrate
A sea star textured with bright orange dots lying on the ocean floor amid purplish feathery vegetation (or anemones)
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This Red-bellied Woodpecker showed up for #WoodpeckerWednesday. 🪶
Woodpecker with a mostly red head, black-and-white barred wings and a red blush on its belly clinging to a tree. The background is a blur of yellow and gold leaves.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Here is a Galapagos Green Sea Turtle for #TurtleTuesday. Three years after our excursion I have finally downloaded videos from my GoPro. Better late than never? 🐢
Green Sea Turtle underwater headed for the camera.
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Happy Monday! Remember to keep looking up because you never know who's watching you. 🪶
Barred Owl looking down from a perch in a large tree
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Cheesecake will be relaxing in his cat cave for the remainder of #Caturday 🐈
Cat in a wool cave seen through the opening
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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This drawing I just finished of a Dead Leaf mantis seems appropriate for today. 🪲
Large leafy-looking mantis in shades of black, tan and rust standing on 4 of its 6 legs surrounded by a border of brown leaves.
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Well who wouldn't want that in their front yard for Halloween? 🤔
8 or 9 foot tall vampire holding a lantern.
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Yesterday's sun brought out the turtles and these two won "Best Balancing Act." 🐢🌿
A large Red-eared Slider is balance on top of a jagged weathered stump that is sticking out of the water. A much smaller Painted Turtle is wedged between two stump projections just below the big turtle.
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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TFW it's #WoodDuckWednesday and the wind blows through your pompadour. 🪶
Colorful male Wood duck with its crest blown askew.
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Two turtles turtling on #Twosday.
A large and a small turtle sunning themselves on a wooden stump rising out of the water. The larger turtle is balanced at the highest point with feet outstretched. The smaller turtle is on a branch on the left just out of the water.
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Me: Hey Cheesecake it’s #Caturday!
Cheesecake: *waves paw 🐾
Light red tabby American Shorthair cat lying on a table with one paw outstretched, showing the toe beans.
October 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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It's #FlamingoFriday because who doesn't want to see pictures of flamingos? 🪶
Two Greater Flamingos in water up to their bodies with their necks gracefully curved toward each other
October 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Great Blue Heron making a fabulous splash. 🪶
Large bluish-gray bird with head and neck submerged in the water making a big water splash
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Pausing for a moment of reflection on #WoodDuckWednesday.
Colorful male Wood duck in the water with head slightly raised and a drop of water hanging from his bill.
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Here's a pair of Pie-billed Grebes for #Twosday that stopped in the nearby park pond for a migration break. 🪶
Two small chunky birds swimming on the surface of the water.
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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It's Monday and the squirrel is watching. Also it wants to make sure that you admire its magnificent tail. #wildlife
Fox squirrel with rusty yellow and black fur hanging onto a very small branch on the side of a very large tree.
October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Cheesecake is resting on #Caturday after a hard motorcycle ride. 🐈
Light red tabby American Shorthair cat curled up on a yellow leather motorcycle jacket.
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A year ago on this day I got to see a beautiful Golden-mantled Tamarin in the Ecuadorean rain forest.
Small primate with a black face, whitish muzzle, and golden ruff looking through the leaves of a tree
October 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM