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Molly Bangles
@mollybangles.bsky.social
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stage manager, night owler

she/her

mostly birds and nature here

pictures and videos are mine unless otherwise noted

arts & crafts: https://mollybangles.etsy.com
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Rainy day owl: Video Edition 🌧️🦉🍂

Barred Owl in Central Park, November 2025
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Rainy day owl 🌧️🦉💛

Barred Owl in Central Park, November 2025
A Barred Owl perched on a diagonal branch, in the rain, with bright yellow foliage out g focus in the background. The owl’s back is to the camera, but their head is turned 3/4 back and to the right, looking over their shoulder. A small spatter of water can be seen near the right side of the owl’s face - a rain drop that has just hit and repelled off of them.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Saw a friendly neighborhood raptor yesterday 🙂🪶

Cooper’s Hawk, Astoria NY, 11.5.2025
A Cooper’s Hawk in adult plumage - orange and white barring on the front, gray plumage on the back and top of the head, and amber-irised eyes - perched on a bare branch amid many tangled bare branches against a gray sky. On the left, some green and yellow foliage is out of focus in the foreground. The hawk is facing front, giving her the appearance of smiling.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Sunset over the East River 🌅

Astoria, New York, 11.5.25
The Hell Gate Bridge silhouetted between the sky and the East River at sunset. Clouds reach out from the horizon over the camera, lit blue, amber, and pink by the setting sun, reflecting orange and pink and blue in the water.
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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20-plus years and I am never leaving
mollybangles.bsky.social Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social · 6d
“Do you live in . . . Commie Corridor?”
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Last month when I was in CA, the young guy working at the UPS store in San Luis Obispo looked absolutely star-struck when I told him I lived in Astoria lol
diepthought.bsky.social Diep Tran @diepthought.bsky.social · 7d
Astoria, Queens is really proving why it’s the best neighborhood in NYC. We put out AOC and Zohran, plus Chip Cookies, Brooklyn Bagel, and King of Falafel. Feel free to sample our food and politics, then spread the message to your own neighborhoods
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Astoria Bookshop is having a celebratory 20% off in-store sale, if you’re in the neighborhood and want to support an awesome local small business 👀
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Fireworks in my neighborhood and you know what, tonight I will allow it
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
New York City map of which areas voted for Cuomo and which for Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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On my break and I got a great sticker that I am NOT allowed to wear while working at my poll site
A sticker that is red and yellow and says “ZOHRAN for Queens”
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Good morning voters
Hand-drawn cut-out letters on a bulletin board that read “In case no one told you today / Hello / Good morning / Thank you / I believe in you / you’re doing great”
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Underrated among #underrated birds, the American Robin ❤️🪶

Central Park, October 2025 #BirdOfTheDay
An American Robin in slightly muted plumage - deep orange-red front with gray wings, head, back and tail, and a white eye ring - perched in profile on a thin diagonal branch, with out-of-focus tree limbs and green, yellow, and orange foliage in the background
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Contemplating the best location for hiding snacks 🌰🐿️

Eastern Gray Squirrel in Astoria Park, October 2025 #mammals #sqrlpix
An Eastern Gray Squirrel in profile, sitting up straight and tall in the grass, acorn in their mouth, front paws together. The background is out-of-focus asphalt.
November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Happy Halloween from my neighborhood 20 Foot Tall Skeleton & Friends to yours 🎃💀👻
A trio of large Halloween decorations in front of a house in Queens - very large skeleton and a very large ghost/demon clad in torn white robes, arms and bony hands outstretched. On a balcony behind the skeleton and to the left, is a large jack-o-lantern-headed skeleton
October 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Gotta get ‘em all!

( I voted )
On a sidewalk with autumnal foliage, a hand holds three circular NYC early voting stickers - the center one says “Halloween Voter” and is orange, with a drawing of a pigeon wearing a witch hat and carrying a pumpkin candy bucket. The sticker on the left is red, white, and blue, with a picture of the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and says “Queens Votes Early.” The sticker on the right, mostly hidden by the Halloween sticker, is the traditional “I voted early!” sticker - red, white, and blue, with a reverse silhouette of the Manhattan skyline.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Eatin’ bugs 🪶🦟

Ruby-crowned Kinglet in Central Park, 10.24.25
A section of goldenrod stalks, light green, yellow, and some fuzzy white, mostly out of focus except for one at the center of frame, to which a small yellow and olive bird clings, attempting to eat a small unseen fly A much closer crop of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the previous photo, beak open as a small out of focus fly hovers in it
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🪶😛✨

Great Blue Heron in Central Park, 10.22.25 #BirdOfTheDay
Zoomed-out shot of a Great Blue Heron standing in shallow water reflecting nearby light-green and yellow foliage. The heron is partially in shadow, but their face is lit by bright afternoon sun. Their large beak is open and the tongue is out Closer zoom-in on the same Great Blue Heron standing in shallow water reflecting nearby light-green and yellow foliage. The heron is partially in shadow, but their face is lit by bright afternoon sun. Their large beak is open.
October 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Red-tailed Hawk over Central Park 🪶✈️

October 2025
A Red-tailed Hawk flying in a blue sky, the mostly-white plumage of the hawk’s underside is lit by the afternoon sun. A Red-tailed Hawk flying in a blue sky, the hawk’s face is in the sunlight, the rest is in shadow, though the signature red tail feathers are fanned out and providing a contrast to the blue sky
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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If you’re looking for a place to donate money to help folks losing SNAP, may I suggest my local food pantry? They do all kinds of incredible mutual aid work that *directly benefits* people in Queens. www.astoriafoodpantry.com
ASTORIA FOOD PANTRY
Information about Astoria Food Pantry in Astoria, Queens, NY. We are a mutual aid group and provide food, clothes, books, diapers and more, as well as community events and a space where artists and or...
www.astoriafoodpantry.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🍁🍂✨

Central Park Foliage, 10.22.25
Close up of fallen leaves on the dark asphalt ground - the leaves are golden and amber, and are lit by the sunlight coming through the shadows of the trees above
October 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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🍁🍂❤️

Central Park Foliage, 10.22.25
A branch of bright red-orange foliage in light and shadow against a dark background of trees A section of treetops in brilliant red-orange fall foliage. In the background, some green foliage, bare branches, blue sky, and the top of one of the to San Remo buildings Close up of the top left section of a tree with bright red-orange foliage against a bright blue sky. Peeking out from behind the tree to the left is an American flag, wavy in the wind Close up of leaves in varying shades of deep red, with some remaining patches of green, in the afternoon sun
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Mamdani: "But there is one thing that I will change: I will no longer look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light."
October 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I love it when a bird knows how to find their light 🪶✨🌿

Blue Jay in Central Park, 10.22.25
A Blue Jay perched in profile, partially obscured by shadowy light green foliage. A patch of sunlight illuminates the bird’s face and neck perfectly
October 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Hawk portrait 🪶📷🌿

Red-tailed Hawk in Central Park, 10.17.25
Close up of a Red-tailed Hawk perched in profile in a tree, surrounded by blurry light-green foliage
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Just realized the first bird that appears in the video is actually a Whimbrel!

Upon closer inspection of the photos I took of that particular bird, I noticed much bolder head stripes and a shorter bill when compared to the Long-billed Curlews 🪶🌊
A Whimbrel - a light-brown shorebird with a long de-curved bill, very similar to the Long-billed Curlew, but smaller, with a shorter bill and bold head stripes - standing in profile on the sandy shore of the Pacific Ocean. The ocean’s blue water is out of focus in the background, beyond the horizon.
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM