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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦
@lorichirp.bsky.social
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Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!
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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · Mar 4
A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉

A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)
A Barred Owl, a large, stocky owl with brown and white markings, round head, no ear tufts, and a medium-length tail, is perched on a branch in a forest.
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Happy Monday all! Wonder what insanity this week will bring... 🙄. Today's #birdoftheday theme is #StareDown. From last autumn, a White-throated Sparrow keeping a close eye on yours truly. #birds #OntarioBirds #birdphotography #Sarnia #nature #darktable #Canon #Sigma
A close up of a White-throated Sparrow with its distinctive white throat feathers and yellow feathers between they eyes and bill.
February 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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I had a fun Coyote encounter over the weekend. I glanced towards one of my neighbors' yard and spotted this Coyote watching over the creek valley. I opened up a screen on my porch and got this shot.

#Mammals #Animals #Coyote #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin
A Coyote sits and stares at the camera while on a creek valley ridge.
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Plate-billed Mountain Toucan feeding at sunrise-After the Andean Cock-of-the-rock, his is the bird I was hoping to see most on our trip last summer to Ecuador. Such beautiful and unique birds. They came on 2 mornings we were there to visit the feeding stations and eat bananas.🪶
February 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Plate-billed Mountain Toucan feeding at sunrise-After the Andean Cock-of-the-rock, his is the bird I was hoping to see most on our trip last summer to Ecuador. Such beautiful and unique birds. They came on 2 mornings we were there to visit the feeding stations and eat bananas.🪶
February 9, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Super, Narrow

Beauty near home is too often overlooked. The trail is narrower than it appears. #MountainMonday #Scape

Babine Mountains Prov. Park, Smithers, BC
🧭54°52'36" N 126°52'23" W

#photography #landscape #originalcontent #mountains #hikingtrail #BritishColumbia #Canada #imagesofcanada
Hiking in Babine Mountains Provincial Park. The dark, shale path is overgrown with vegetation hiding the cut away edges. The trail wraps around to the right, where the smaller peak lies ahead.
February 9, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Tree Swallow (male, Tachycineta bicolor) at Wiley Slough, Mount Vernon, WA. 6/1/2025.

📸 Nikon Z8 + NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR, Z Teleconverter TC-1.4x

#birds #wildlife #photography
Bird Photography: Tree Swallow perched on a robust tree stump looking off to the right.
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Another gray, subfreezing day means time at the art table: A great blue heron makes a meal of an invasive catfish.
#Birds #BlueSkyMonday #Herons #watercolour #Painting #BirdArt
An original watercolor illustration of a great blue heron about to swallow an armored catfish.
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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I've just returned home from photographing this juvenile snowy owl near our small airport in Ashland, Wisconsin. 🪶
#BirdOfTheDay #StareDown #owl
February 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Hey now... Does it still count as a lifer...🪶

🌿...with a little #stickhappens? Asking for a friend. 😏

📸 Auriparus flaviceps, aka Verdin #1, as in my first 🍒

#Lifer
#Birding
#TinyTuesday
#TheLittleThings
#Yellowbirds
#BirdLovers
First time we've even SEEN one of these elusive little desert birbs, the Verdin is known for its bright yellow head and chestnut shoulder patch, both of which I managed to catch through the thick scramble of our cholla patch today.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday
February 9, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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#ColorOfTheDay #PinkMon? I don't think I have ever posted for this one. I took this image for the shadow on the petal more than the flower itself. Why? I just seemed to make the image more interesting.
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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It's overdue to have some good news out of Minnesota.
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Team USA had never reached the semifinals in mixed doubles curling, but the duo from Duluth is going for gold after today's stunning upset. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/duluth-curlers-shock-defending-olympic-champs-advance-to-gold-medal-round
February 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Kestrel #Staredown #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin
A close-up shot of a kestrel perched on a thick, twisted metal cable against a plain white background. The bird is facing away from the camera but has its head turned 180 degrees to look directly at the viewer with large, dark, expressive eyes. Its plumage features rich reddish-brown feathers with black spots on the wings and back, contrasting with pale, streaked feathers on its underbelly. Its yellow talons are visible gripping the wire tightly.
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Song Sparrow #StareDown. I blinked first. #BirdOfTheDay #birds
A Song Sparrow perched on a slender, reddish branch staring directly into the camera. It's too cute to be very intimidating.
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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#ColorOfTheDay #PinkMon

Pink and lavender hydrangea blossoms.

#EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #Hydrangea
Somewhat of a closeup of a hydrangea plant covered in pink and lavender blossoms. Green leaves poke through in a few places.
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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A Female Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) sitting on my favourite lichen covered branch. #birds #ukwildlife
February 9, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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#BlueskyMonday #MountainMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed

I love how Jobs Peak finds a clear spot and is framed by clouds.

#EastCoastKin #EasternSierraNevada #LandscapePhotography #Clouds
Looking across a vast brown field in the Carson Valley to the snowy eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Most of the range is obscured by clouds, but one snowy peak (Jobs Peak) appears through the frame of clouds. There are some patches of blue sky at the top of the image. Carson Valley, Nevada
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Canada Goose wading in the Kish #birds
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
🤫 Quail don't actually like to be photographed.

🪶🪶🌿 So you get a couple thread-the-needle clicks for #TopKnotTuesday because today's birb made it to the neighbors' tree before I even got my lens cap off. 🤘😶‍🌫️

#Quail
#Birding
#BirdLovers
#StickHappens
#Photography
#BirdOfTheDay
#StareDown
Peek-a-boo! A male Gambel's Quail hiding up in the tree peeks around the trunk to stare down at me... ...which I did, but had to thread a tight window in the bare branches for some topknot in profile.
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #backyardbirds #Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography #naturetherapy
February 4, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Manx Shearwater, Skomer. It seemed to be trying & having trouble getting down through thick ferns, I know gulls attack them so stayed around until it was out of the way
#BirdOfTheDay #Black&White #Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotograph
February 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Pics of a Redwing eating berries for today's #BirdOfTheDay
#Birds&Berries #Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography #naturetherapy
February 6, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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kath-r-photos.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay #Serenity
#Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography #naturetherapy #UKbirds #RoathPark
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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kath-r-photos.bsky.social
Late #BirdOfTheDay #Posted Bird on a post.
I've attached one of my fave Robin pics, some Gulls and a Pied Wagtail
#Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography #naturetherapy #UKbirds
February 8, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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Common Buzzard giving me a #StareDown for my today's #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography #SonyRX10IV
February 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM