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Linda Barnia King
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Retired, 7 year survivor of stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, mom, granny, proud Democrat, birder, nature photographer, flower gardener, collage/glue booker…refugee from Facebook…photos are mine unless noted…
#birds
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Canada Geese fly up action over on the neighborhood gravel pit pond during this very brown January 2026 in the Yakima Valley, Washington state…
#birds #geese #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#naturephotography #birdphotography
January 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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This sign is long gone from on top the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Toppenish, WA…always got a laugh out of seeing pigeons roosting on it…
#throwbackThursday #birds #pigeons
#photography #birdphotography
#WestCoastPhotography #signs
#BirdsoftheWorld
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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American Goldfinch photo from last summer…they’re Washington’s state bird…overwinter here looking much less colorful after molting…diet is mainly seeds especially nyger…
#birds #finches #ornithology #audubon
#birdphotography #BirdsoftheWorld #WestCoastPhotography #photography
#nature #BirdsofBlueSky
January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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This rose was blooming here in the Yakima Valley on November 9, 2025…today January 7, 2026 I’ll be out raking mulch over Daffodils that are poking through way too early…climate issues for sure…
#roseWednesday #roses #gardening
#flowerphotography #bloomscrolling
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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An American Crow gave me a really nice pose on a gray winter day at the Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…
#birds #crows #ornithology #audubon
#birdphotography #BirdoftheWorld
#naturephotography #birdwatching
#WestCoastPhotography #depthoffield
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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AI says this is a Weeping European Beech…American trees all said to descend from a single tree introduced in 1847…found at the Yakima Area Arboretum…has a huge weeping canopy…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #nature
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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I still have some Christmas happening in my bathroom garden—one Paper White bulb opened fully overnight joining the blooming Poinsettia and Amaryllis…
pleases my gardening heart on winter’s chilly, gray days…
#flowers #gardening #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #flowerphotography
#plants #photography
January 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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A view from our east facing back deck of yesterday’s monochromatic morning here in the lower Yakima Valley due to heavy fog…
#monoMonday #monochrome #bnw
#silhouette #blackandwhitephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
January 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Really like the mix of these particular pastels in this floral shop bouquet…
#flowers #bloomscrolling #roses
#flowerphotography #bouquet
#dailyflowers #flowerfeed #closeup
January 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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A young Snowy Owl showed up in Union Gap, WA on a foggy winter morning several years ago when a food shortage sent many south into the U.S. & birders like me scrambled to see it…
#birds #ornithology #owls #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#stunday #PNW
January 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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A close look at the very complicated blossoms of an Iris found last May in a border garden along a sidewalk in Yakima, WA…
#stunday #flowers #iris #closeup
#bloomscrolling #flowersonSunday
#flowerphotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #flowerfeed
January 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Posting a dose of summer and the national flower of Ukraine from cold (36), fogged in lower Yakima Valley while the Felon brags about bagging Venezuela for his oil pals…so much for grocery prices, health care, and the Epstein files…
#resist #voteblue #dailyflowers
#sunflowers #bloomscrolling
January 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Bonaparte’s Gull, smallest North American gull…pink legs, nests far north in trees…one on water was alone 12/2024 at nearby Yakima Co. gravel pit pond, other 2 at McNary National Wildlife Refuge…
#birds #ornithology #gulls #audubon
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
January 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Smokey’s snoozing just for a moment…soaking up warmth from the sun-warmed earth…
#caturday #cats #pets #Photography
#WestCoastPhotography
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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It’s very frosty but we’ve had now had 3 Red-winged Blackbirds show up…heard one sing yesterday…migrations seem out of wack in the lower Yakima Valley, Washington…
#birds #blackbirds #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #birdphotography
#photograohy #BirdsofBlueSky #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
January 2, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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A small floral shop bucket of flowers and greens to start 2026…
#floralFriday #flowers #dailyflowers
#bloomscrolling #photography
#flowerphotography
January 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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A friend let me know he’d seen a few Greater White-fronted Geese in a massive fly in of geese…rechecked my photos from another Yakima Valley location same day…found I had one—yellow bill far right in photo…
#birds #geese #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #naturephotography #WestCoastPhotogrsphy
January 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Some of the very pregnant Black Angus ladies got together at the water tanks for a New Year’s Eve drink…eastern Washington state…
#cows #rural #farming #ruralscenes
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#mammals #farmlife
January 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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My best wishes for a wonderful 2026…
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Bald Eagle flashing its butt on take off from a tree hanging over the bank of a gravel pit pond…
#birdoftheday #birdbutt #birdphotography
#WestCoastPhotography #raptors #eagles
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A Bald Eagle is the reason I had no luck finding any geese on my favorite pond…actually delighted to catch this great bird near Harrah, WA…
#birds #eagles #ornithology #audubon
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#birdphotography #birdwatching #WestCoastPhotography
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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12/30/2025…still waters of Toppenish Creek at the east access to Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge…photographing geese in particular and scenery that moves me…
#waterWednesday #reflection #water
#naturephotography #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #scapes
#landscape #rural #ruralscenes
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Orange Roses represent enthusiasm & desire, gratitude, sincerity & admiration, energy & fascination…wonderful messages to end 2025…Rise Garden, Yakima Area Arboretum
#roseWednesday #roses #flowerfeed
#rose #bloomscrolling #dailyflowers
#flowerphotography #flowers #photography #WestCoastPhotography
December 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Young Red-tailed Hawk sitting on a power pole near the end of our driveway in a very strong wind, December, 2025, near Harrah, WA…
#birds #hawks #raptors #ornithology
#audubon #WestCoastPhotography
#birdPhotography #BirdsoftheWorld
#BirdsofBlueSky #birdlife #birdwatching
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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AI says this is a Cedar of Lebanon, known for its widely spaced horizontal branching…it’s fragrant wood is naturally insect and rot resistant…used for making essential oils…Yakima Area Arboretum…
#thicktrunkTuesday #trees #photography
#WestCoastPhotography
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM