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Nature-loving bird nerd with a camera or three. Ethical photography; no AI. All photos and artwork are my own and copyrighted, unless reposts. DMs will be ignored.

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julielfrost.bsky.social @julielfrost.bsky.social · Feb 19
A photo from this past summer, offering lightness and warmth on yet another difficult day.

#WildlifeWednesday #butterflies #nature #photography #serenity
A giant swallowtail butterfly approaching a pink flower.
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Who's watching whom? American tree sparrow. #Birds #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #Sparrows #BirdWatching
A ground-level image of an American tree sparrow directly facing the camera.
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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Eye to-eye with a song sparrow on a #snowy day for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Birds #Photography #BirdsOfBluesky #Nature #Wildlife #Sparrows
A song sparrow on a snow-covered boardwalk.
January 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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A great egret #caughtinmotion. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Egrets #Photography #Nature #Wildlife
A great egret standing in shallow water, its head bent under a raised wing as it preens.
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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A great blue heron (from spring) gets the #monochrome treatment. #Birds #Photography #BIF #BirdsInFlight #Herons
#ColorADay #BWFri #FlyDay #FeatheredFriday
A great blue heron, edited to monochrome, is in flight with a stick in its bill.
January 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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In the upper Midwest USA, it is rare to have #GoodLight in the winter. So, I was lucky that sunshine and a red-tailed hawk came together on a recent walk. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #Hawks #Raptors
A red-tailed hawk sits on a branch, head turned to the side.
January 2, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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In this new year, remembering that "just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." Monarch on milkweed. (Summer 2025) #InsectThursday. #Insects #Photography #Nature #Butterfly #Wildlife #Bloomscroll #Butterflies
A monarch butterfly, wings spread, sits on milkweed.
January 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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A white-breasted nuthatch in #B&W for the first #BirdOfTheDay in 2026. #Birds #BirdsOfBlueSky #Photography #Nature #WildlifePhotography #BlackAndWhite
A white-breasted nuthatch in its iconic downward pose on the side of a tree. The photo was processed as a black and white image.
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Ready for 2026. Happy New Year.
#Birds #Swans #Photography #Nature #Wildlife
A close up of a trumpeter swan staring directly into the camera.
December 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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A wood duck to close out 2025 and the #Reflections theme for #BirdOfTheDay. #Birds #Ducks #Photography #Nature #Wildlife
A wood duck and its reflection.
December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The after-a-NYE-champagne (or three) #Reflections for the #BirdOfTheDay. Thank you Rob and Alan for hosting this fun.
#Birds #Ducks #Photography
The distorted image of a wood duck, its reflection flipped right-side up.
December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A blue-gray gnatcatcher perched on a branch. (Spring 2025)
#BirdOfTheDay #BranchingOut #Photography #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography
A blue-gray gnatcatcher is perched on a branch.
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A sandhill crane, one of the year-round residents at an area park.
#Birds #BirdPhotography #WildllifePhotography #Photography #Cranes #Nature
Close up of a sandhill crane set against a blurred beige-gray background.
December 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Views from below and behind for today's #BirdOfTheDay, #BirdButts for #RearOfTheYear. A pair #RedtailedHawk pair and a great-crested #flycatcher. #Birds #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #TwosDay #BirdsOfPrey
A pair of red-tailed hawks viewed from below. A great-crested flycatcher on a branch, viewed from behind.
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A female #mallard on ice for the last #MallardMonday of 2025. #Birds #Ducks #Photography #Winter #Wildlife #Nature #BirdsOfBlueSky
A female mallard stands on ice, at the frozen edge of a local river, her orange feet and yellow-orange bill in contrast with the milky gray ice.
December 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A resting ruby-throated hummingbird brings #serenity and remembrance of warm summer days for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Birds #Photography #Hummingbirds #Nature #Wildlife #Peaceful
Close up of a ruby-throated hummingbird in profile, at rest on a branch. Its nictitating eyelid covers the eye we can see, giving it the appearance of a hummingbird at sleep.
December 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A great egret and an osprey with wings #outstretched for today's #BirdOfTheDay (September 2025). #Birds #Egret #Osprey #BirdsOfBlueSky #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdsInFlight #WildlifePhotography
A great egret in flight, white against a blue-gray sky. An osprey in flight, wings spread against a pale blue sky.
December 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Brrrr. You know its cold outside when both you and the birds wear puffer coats. House sparrow. #Birds #Sparrows #FlyDay #RecentCaptures #BirdOfTheDay #Nature #Wildlife
A close-up image of a house sparrow, feathers puffed up in the cold.
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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This wood duck is one of my #MostRecent captures. The only wood duck on the lake, it seemed particularly attached to a certain female mallard. #Birds #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Ducks #Nature #WildlifePhotograpahy
A colorful male wood duck standing on ice. A male wood duck and female mallard side-by-side in the water.
December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Holiday greetings. An American robin (actually a thrush) with festive berries is as close as I can come to a #HolidayRobin for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Birds #Photography #Robins #Nature #Wildlife #Birding
An American robin sits on a branch surrounded by green leaves and red berries.
December 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Yesterday's #faceoff encounter with a red-tailed hawk. See comments for a few of the fly-over images.
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #Hawks #Raptors #BirdsOfPrey #WildllifePhotography #Nature
Close up image (head shot) of a red-tailed hawk in flight. The hawk appears to be looking directly into the camera as it flies toward (and over) the photographer.
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A red-headed #woodpecker with a tiny seed for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #SideProfiles. #Birds #Woodpeckers #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife
A red-headed woodpecker in side profile with its bill slightly open displaying a tiny seed.
December 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Three sparrows and a nuthatch #OnTheGround. IDs in Alt Text.
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #Sparrows #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography
An American tree sparrow on the ground. A white-breasted nuthatch on the ground. A female white-crowned sparrow on the ground. A male white-crowned sparrow on the ground.
December 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay is all #AboutTheKids, any bird chicks or juveniles. My thoughts immediately go to great blue herons and meal delivery. I think any parent can identify.... See comments for more of the chaos. #Birds #Herons #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography
A close up of juvenile great blue herons, their long, pointy bills over the adult heron's bill as the youngsters seek delivery of a meal.
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Spring was filled with #QuietMoments, today’s #BirdOfTheDayTheme. A Canada goose and gosling.
#Birds #Goose #Photography #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Geese #BirdPhotography
An adult Canada, goose, and a pale yellow gosling rest in the grass, bathed in sunshine.
December 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Celebrating the one-year anniversary of #BlueSkyArtShow with an #OpenHouse theme, an open call for art. #Birds #Wildlife #Art #Artists #Create #Illustration
A tight illustration of the head of a red-bellied woodpecker with a nut in its bill. The bright colors of the bird are highlighted against a stark white background.
December 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM