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Birds are good and I take pictures of them, sometimes if I'm lucky those are good too.
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Been messing around with home developing film recently, so far the first roll turned out well.
Here is a Brown Thrasher and a Northern Mockingbird.
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A monochrome image of a brown thrasher(medium sized songbird) perched on a lichen covered branch looking towards the ground A monochrome image of a brown thrasher(medium sized songbird) perched on a lichen covered branch looking out into the distance. A monochrome image of a Northern Mockingbird(Medium sized songbird, colors other than eyes not really effected by the monochromacy) with puffed up head and breast feathers and a waggling tail. Bird is perching on a wire. A monochrome image of a northern mockingbird perched a wire, head slightly out of focus, soft background.
June 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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A Hooded Merganser flicking some water up in the air.
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A male Hooded Merganser ( A small duck with a brown breast and black back and head, with striking white stripes and large white spot on it's head) sitting on the water, using its bill to fling water into the air.
April 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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A Forster's Tern surveying the shallows
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A Forster's Tern (a smaller mostly white seabird, with reddish feet, black bill, and small black mask) With wings held overhead while hovering in place, soft sky background.
April 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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This sopping wet, and kind of scruffy Common Raven seemed quite interested in what I was doing.
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A Common Raven (a larger corvid, solid black with some iridescence) looking bedraggled with messy head feathers and general wetness, standing on a wet table, looking towards camera. Trees in background. A Common Raven (a larger corvid, solid black with some iridescence) looking bedraggled with messy head feathers and general wetness, standing on a wet table, looking slightly away from camera in something of a bow.
April 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A pop of color in the forest, always love to see Blue jays.
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A Blue jay (smaller corvid, with bright blue body and striping) perched on a branch in a densely wooded area, partially obscured, looking to the left.
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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A lovely little Carolina Wren sitting in the sunset light.
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A Carolina Wren ( A small brown and lighter brown song bird), perched on a branch. Illuminated by golden sunset lighting.
April 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Here is a different Fish Crow cawing up in a mossy tree.
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A fish crow (a medium corvid, solid black, with very mild hints of iridescence) perched on a Spanish moss covered branch, mouth slightly agape and head slightly to the side.
March 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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A Fish Crow and presumably its chick cawing up a storm in the trees
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Two Fish Crows (medium sized corvids, solid black, except for the juvenile on the right with a pink mouth) perched on a conifer branch with beaks agape, the younger crow on the right is partially obscured by the branch.
March 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A bright splash of color in the late winter trees.
Male Northern Cardinals are always a delight to see.
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A male Northern Cardinal (medium sized songbird, bright red other than a black mask on the face) perched on mostly bare branches.
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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A lovely Cedar Waxwing scarfing down some berries to prepare for its flight back north for the coming spring.
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A Cedar Waxwing (medium songbird, brown body that smoothly gradients into grey at the wings, with red tipping on sections of the wings, and a black mask on the face) holding a single berry in its beak while perched on a leafy branch. A Cedar Waxwing (medium songbird, brown body that smoothly gradients into grey at the wings, with red tipping on sections of the wings, and a black mask on the face) the berry now mostly down its throat with the bird's tongue sticking out a bit.
March 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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They might be invasive, but they sure are pretty.
Here is a handsome little House Sparrow perching.
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A male House Sparrow (a small songbird, with brown wings, grey chest, and a black beard and mask) Perching on barbed wire with a soft red-ish background.
March 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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A lovely little floofed up American Robin.
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A male American Robin (Medium sized songbird with grey head and orange breast feathers) with puffed up feathers, standing on a weathered log.
March 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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A nice Red-winged Blackbird perching in the snow.
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A Red-winged Blackbird (A small, mostly black songbird, with colourful shoulder bars on the wings) that is perched on a thin snow covered branch. On a flat, overcast background.
February 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Finally making my first post on here, going to be posting a mix of old and new photos until my backlog is spent. First have a lovely little Northern mockingbird perched on a wire.
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A northern mockingbird (a medium sized, grey songbird) perching on a wire, looking upwards.
February 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM