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loaf
@loaf11.bsky.social
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Forever attempting to be some sort of artist but unwilling to admit that the daily grind is winning every time.
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Objects in mirror are as ridiculous as they appear.
#wankpanzer
April 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Gliding over the snow. Grey ghost harrier hunting at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge near the border of Oregon and California. #bird #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature
A beautiful Grey harrier flies low over the snowy landscape.
March 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge yesterday. It's a bit of a way to go for a day trip but it's the one thing keeping us sane these days.
With jay.newman.bsky.social.

#nature #photography #wildlife
Dirt road on the left passing a long, still expanse of water that for many years has been dry due to drought. My trusty husband jay.newman.bsky.social waiting for some owls to pop out for an evening of hunting.
March 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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This is Ashland Creek. It's where I taught myself how to do landscape photography. Even more importantly, I was standing barefoot in this creek when I proposed to @loaf11.bsky.social. Best thing I ever did.
February 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Behold! The magnificent red-winged blackbird!

And friend.

#birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature
In the foreground a red-winged blackbird perches on a wire. The wire leads to a utility pole in the background where an out-of-focus bald eagle rests.
February 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Clash of the seasons.
#gardening #flower #snow
Stringy red witch hazel flowers with a good layer of fresh snow on them.
February 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I swear Mogwai is the wiggliest cat I've ever had. Very hard to get pictures of! So I have resorted to filters to make it seem like I totally meant to only take blurry photos becuase art and stuff. Happy #Caturday.
#cat
Butt view of my siamese cat stretching, but with a color pencil-type filter on it. My siamese cat squirming with joy making the photo so blurry I put a color pencil-type filter on it.
February 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Shasta's Peculiar Hat. What's with these majestic mountains and their weird fashion sense? Mt. Shasta usually gets these lenticular clouds whenever I'm unavailable to photograph them, but somehow I got lucky this time.
#nature #photography #clouds #landscape
Mt. Shasta in northern California. Sage, rabbit brush and juniper in the foreground. The mountain is snow-capped and a spaceship-looking lenticular cloud hovers around the peak.
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Happy #caturday to all that celebrate! Here's Fizzgig enjoying his newest box in a less traditional manner than usual.

#cat
Fizzgig the silver smoke kitty looking up at the camera with a shallow cardboard box flat on resting on his back. He's very silly.
January 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Frosty Nest. The bald eagles have returned to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.

#birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature
An adult bald eagle looks out from its massive nest that is covered in thick frost.
January 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Snow Goose Migration. The Klamath and Tule Lake Wildlife Refuges in Northern California have long been a stopover spot for these and many other migrating birds, turning winter into my favorite season.

#birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature #migration
A purple blue sky teeming with hundreds of flying snow geese.
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This osprey was enjoying a fishy feast when I rudely interrupted for a photo. Little did he know I wasn't interested in scaling a forty foot pole that day... or any day, really.

#bird #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature
An alert osprey atop a tall post takes a break from eating a fish and stares down the camera.
January 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I can't say I'm feeling very optimistic about the coming year, but this guy seems ambivalent.

#facesinthings #photography #nature #rockface
December 31, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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My wife, @loaf11.bsky.social and I have two very strange cats. Here is the head of one of them. The rest of him is under there somewhere. #fizzgig #cats #caturday
December 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Not a lot of wildlife at the wildlife refuge today, but the skies were off the charts! #landscape #photograpy #wildlife #mammatus #bluesky
December 28, 2024 at 3:30 AM
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Late Light Flight. Many thanks to this hawk for posing so nicely as the sun went down.
#birds #usbirding #hawk #wildlife #photography
Silhouette of a hawk with wings and feet extended, taking off from a rocky meadow against an orange sunset.
December 24, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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It's already #caturday again? What a week. Here's a pic of our little blue-eyed terror as a tiny kittlet.
#cat #catsofbluesky #kitten
A blue-eyed seal point siamese kitten cheekily peeks out from behind a shower curtain.
December 21, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Lovely light. The sun was in and out this day... mostly in. I set up and waited, hoping the perfect window would open in the clouds and, it did. #BryceCanyonNationalPark #landscape #photography #nature
A cloudy day at Bryce Canyon National Park when a shaft of sunlight bursts through the clouds and illuminates the orange, psychedelic, castle-like hoodoos.
December 19, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Those eyes. 😍
Happy #caturday

#cat
Bright blue eyes of a seal point siamese cat glow against her dark face which is clearly full of mischief as she plots her next move from the top of the cat tree.
December 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Curious Floof. This juvenile great-horned owl was keeping an eye on us while its lazy sibling napped.

#owl #bird #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature
December 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Mosses and frogses. This little pacific tree frog seemed unbothered by the paparazzi (me).
#wildlife #photography #frog
Tiny tree frog is climbing up a mossy tree trunk.
December 8, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Sunset and Sea Stacks. The Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor along the Southern Oregon coast is my favorite stretch of coastline. We don't get out there often but when we do, a nice sunset really makes the trip.

#nature #landscape #photography #oregon
Quiet waves wash against scattered sea stacks with a pink and orange glow in the aky.
December 6, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Getting frosty out there.
#nature #photography #frost
Three layers of frost. Thickly frosted grasses in the foreground, middle layer of frosted shrubbery and tall frosted willows in the back. Open, frosty landscape with one grand willow on the right. You can see sky through the fog in places. Frosty grasses and reeds along a frozen canal. Wide shot of frozen canal and dirt road heading toward a heavily frosted bank of willows on the left and one lone willow on the right.
December 2, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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Spotted this magnificent creature in the forests of southern Oregon taking advantage of the gloomy day to do a bit of hunting.

#birds #usbirding #owl #wildlife #photography
November 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Loggerhead Shrike. So cute... but fierce! Obviously this one was being more cute when I shot this. #birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography
November 28, 2024 at 4:48 PM