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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.
lorichirp.bsky.social
A Long-billed Dowitcher, preening, for #WaderWednesday!

#birds #photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
February 11, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
The pure heart is a spotless mirror
in which images of infinite beauty
are reflected.
~Rumi

🕉️

📸 Antilocapra americana 🦌🌿

#WildlifeWednesday
#ClassicMono
#Monochrome
#Mammals
#Scape
#EastCoastKin
#ImageAndVerse
#Photography
#LookingAtYou
Two Pronghorn stand alert in mirror image of each other as they stare back at the camera across open grassland in black and white.
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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breeze420.bsky.social
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
— Rachel Carson

till next time💙
The inside of a lava tube — a tunnel formed when flowing lava hardened on the outside while molten lava continued moving through the center. When that molten core eventually drained away, it left behind this long, cave‑like passage. Photo take at the Lava Beds in California.
February 11, 2026 at 3:28 AM
lorichirp.bsky.social
A male Wood Duck for #WoodDuckWednesday!

#birds #photography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin
February 11, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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rangedan.bsky.social
Brown and white fungi and green moss growing on a charred black stump ☮️
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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rangedan.bsky.social
clouded dirt
Puddle in the middle of a dirt road, reflecting clouds on a cloudy day. Foto in black and white. On the other side of the road is dry grass, brush and an evergreen tree on the right. Beyond that two forested ridges, one behind the other extending across the frame ☮️
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Bofa deez nuthatches. #birds #HellYeahNuthatches
A pair of white-breasted nuthatches cling to a hanging log suet feeder.
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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mstreefrog.bsky.social
Anyone else grow up in a family that put the props in malapropism? Growing up with the family vernacular, it sometimes took years to learn what something was really called. Here, then, is a nice photo of a College Squirrel. 🐿️ 👩‍🎓🤓
📷🦊
An Eastern Gray Squirrel, enjoying a peanut at a local park. They aren’t native to Washington state and since they thrive in a park-like college campus setting, I grew up believing they were called a “College Squirrels.“
February 11, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
🐦🌵Habitat loss, particularly the decline of cholla cacti, directly impacts the Cactus Wren, driving a steady decline in its population, resulting in a cumulative decline of about 51% from 1966 to 2019. 📉

Now you know. 🪶

#NoPlanetB 🌿
#Wrens
#Wrensday
#BirdLovers
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
One more look at my singing Cactus Wren, this one feels more like he's looking at me from the cholla cactus in front of the Peacock Mountain range in the distance.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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A Tufted Titmouse and a White-throated Sparrow pecking around for food together.
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #birds #nature #photography
February 11, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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steddybirds.bsky.social
#TongueOutTuesday
#dogphotography
#EastCoastKin
A small dog peeks out from a stairway with her tongue out. You can only see a portion of her head and one eye.
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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My Photo-a-day 2026 photo - Day 41: My photo a day photo today is actually two photos - of my favorite reasons I'm happy to be home from travels. Bruce and Buckley are on the couch and Mischief is licking a catnip toy in his favorite box. 🥰 #photoaday #rescuedog #rescuecat #photography #pets
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Some close Heron encounters today. Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron and Green Heron. #Birds 🪶
Close-up of Great Blue Heron head showing eye and face end of bill. Another of the Great Blue Heron, looking towards the top of the head, seeing both eyes, and coloured herringbone 'tie' down the front of the neck. Black-crowned Night Heron showing the wonderful bright red eye. A Green Heron close up - showing the yellow eye and red/brown colour around the neck and front, and the different shades on the back and wings.
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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The last of the milk truck series as I only captured these three angles.

Thanks for all the love and support, y'all!

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #photography #Montana
An old, weathered delivery van rests in overgrown grass, surrounded by rolling hills under a clear sky, captured in black and white.
February 11, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
a couple pics for #BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples
A Bohemian Waxwing on a branch with their beak open. The bird is yelling as down and to the right is a Sparrow biting the Waxwing's tail. There are out of focus branches and blue sky in the background. A Baltimore Oriole in the upper left corner and a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak on the right. They are yelling at each other. The Oriole is orange and black and the Grosbeak has a white body with a red bib and a black head.
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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handcranked.bsky.social
Feeder frenemies

#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #AnimalArtTuesday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited
A black-capped chickadee eating at a bird feeder on a big tree. A white-breasted nuthatch lingers nearby.
February 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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mstreefrog.bsky.social
#TidesOutTuesday
Padilla Bay at Bay View State Park, Skagit County WA
The sun sets in mid January bringing a golden glow to the waters of Padilla Bay. A small stream curves along the sand in the foreground.
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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Monument valley
February 11, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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Warm and fuzzy
Close up of the large round seed head for a yellow goat's beard wildflower (or yellow salsify). One yellow bud in the upper left corner. Green leaves and stems beneath. June 17, 2025
February 11, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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A moment of stillness on the coast, her eyes set on somewhere beyond.
#birds
Side view of a female Blue Rock Thrush on weathered coastal wood, gazing far over the water.
February 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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robcrank68.bsky.social
#TongueOutTuesday is exactly what it says, anything with it's #Tongue out. So here's a Amur Tiger, Orangutans, Reindeer & Colombian Spider Monkey at Blackpool Zoo.

#mammals #photography #EastCoastKin #wildlifephotography #ZooLife #PhotographyIsArt #CanonR5mkii #naturephotography #naturetherapy
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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I very seldom see canvasbacks, and when I do, they’re typically far away. But this guy inexplicably decided to grant me a close look a few weeks back.

#birds #🪶 #nature #ducks #birding #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
Eye-level view of duck with red head, red eye, black bill, black breast, and light gray humped back, swimming in blue water toward the left side of the frame.
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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#TongueOutTuesday. Sure.
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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timbert.bsky.social
#TwosDay How do I keep forgetting these days? Oh, wait, I know, the same way I forget everything else. Now what were we talking about . . . ?
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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An American Bittern for #RockinTuesday

Bombay Hook NWR, April 2025

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds #ClassicMono
Black and white photo of an American Bittern climbing over rocks in search of food
February 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM