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Peter Nguyen
@dptbirder.bsky.social
Vietnamese-American he/him

Brain physio🧠, avian druid🧙‍♂️, photon catcher📷, cat dad🐈

📍Orange County, California, USA

All bird thoughts and photos are mine

Life list: 551 Olive-backed Pipit

Socials: @dptbirder
Pinned
Snow King on the Golden Coast

Circa Dec 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣

Anna’s Hummingbird (leucistic) 📷🪶
I love my Pepperoni

📷🍕🐈👹
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s been a while since I’ve been this close to a Brown Creeper!

I took my own advice. Approached slowly at an angle. Took cover behind trees and finally got within 10 ft of this bird!

Brown creepers are my favorite birds to see when a few eventually winter in Orange County

📷🌿🪶
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Did I bird watch this crow?

📷🌿🪶
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Okay that was a pretty thrilling baseball game. Time to not watch one for another year 😅
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Austin Reaves 😱
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Varied bunting in watercolor

The Varied Bunting is a small songbird from the southwestern United States and Mexico, distinguished by the male's striking purple and red plumage and the female's plain, light brown appearance.

#birds #watercolor #birdartist #birdtober #birdtober2025 #painting #SciArt
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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A Great Blue Heron from this morning looking for a meal.
#heron
#birds
#nature
#photography
#birdphotograpy
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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My cohost Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has announced that today’s #BirdOfTheDay is all about 'Pairs Of The Same Birds' which makes it a #DailyDouble with #TwosDay

The Alt is 'Chaffinches'

#birds #EastCoastKin
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Red-winged Blackbird. Victoria, British Columbia.

A male showing its fall plumage with the feather tips tinged with a rusty orange. These will become solid black nearer to breeding plumage.

#birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #birdphotography #Nikon
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Belted Queenfisher of Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve

This lady was being chased around by two different males fighting for territory

What a popular girlie!

Belted Kingfisher 📷🌿🪶
October 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Even more important as women are now expected to work

My team and I treat more working women now than ever to help and PREVENT not only aches and pains, but intervene early enough to build a habit of healthy living to stave off cardiovascular risk and diabetes

The lift gets much harder as you age
Women derive more benefit from physical activity than men with respect to reduction of cardiovascular risk and related mortality, and can achieve protection at lower levels of engagement. From ~85,000 participants, open-access (blue=men)
nature.com/articles/s44...
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Another rare heron for our parts! Relative rarity aside. Our county is good for one of these per year!

Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve remains one of a kind in luring these wetland dependent birds to our county!

Tricolored Heron 📷🌿🪶
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The Red-Breasted Nuthatches *love* pine nuts. Their beaks are perfectly designed for extracting them from cones. If you zoom in on the third pic you can see he’s extracting a prize #birds 🌿
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Grammar errors is the new authentic

AI can’t fake bad grammar and fat fingers
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
When ever I describe a little blue heron, the description always starts with a heron with a deep wine colored head 🍷

It’s such an incredibly deep rich color that I can describe no other way

THIS is how I like to get drunk on a Sunday morning… on birds

📷🌿🪶
October 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Angie has been contributing to a 401k account and over $30k in the last 5 years

Her account is less than $3000. We stoping contribution with E*trade via Morgan Stanley at the moment

Is there something she missed? Should she have been managing it more closely?

Any legal action to take?
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Got my scope out and iPhone-scoped this Tricolored Heron

📱🔭🪶
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Is that the weekend over there? #birds
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What a lovely bird to see! Undoubtedly a pipit, bobbing its tail. However, this species normally is an Eurasian bird and is very rarely seen and/or identified in North America

A bird I would have seen in the future, but it was nice to not travel to catch an Eurasian species!

Olive-backed Pipit 📷🌿🪶
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Olive-backed Pipit — lifer 🪶
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Candice and D Wade like bowling pins in that Doncic three

What a bomb 💣

😮‍💨
October 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This was my final sunset in the Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia in March

I watched as the sun shown crimson through the mist rising from the Caribbean

A perfect end to a beautiful journey

📷🌅
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Bird theory” for relationships just came across my consciousness

And it’s really hilarious! It should work out for most lay folks
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Not sure how active he is on BlueSky, but this was a nice read at Easy by Nature Substack by Bill Davison @easybynature.bsky.social

billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...

I’m lucky I’ve found a way to work and bird before I sacrificed years to this culture of labor 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM