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Peargrin
@peargrin.bsky.social
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Passionate about wildlife and wild places. Photographer at heart.
All photos are mine, mostly from the beautiful state of New Jersey!
Veritas Omnia Vincit
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Peargrin @peargrin.bsky.social · Apr 2

“And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?
And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?
And have you changed your life?”
-Mary Oliver, The Swan
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Double Crested Cormorant defends catch from Ring Billed Gull juvenile and wins!
#birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
One bird in the water, one bird in the air, both hanging on to a small fish.
August 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Henry seems to look right at me and doesn’t mind, but for every slight noise, he is on alert.
#deer #mammals #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
August 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Was sitting quietly by my window, and look who showed up! 💖
#fox #mammals #wildlife #nature #backyard #photography #NewJersey
August 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Green Heron defying gravity. #herons #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Brown bird with long yellow legs and long beak hanging onto a log in the water and leaning seemingly too far!
August 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Barn Swallow dust bathing on a hot day.
#swallows #birds #wilflife #nature #photographs #NewJersey
Small brown and blue bird with long pointed wings on the sandy ground with beak open.
August 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This is Henry. Henry loves peanuts! While he’s on alert for danger, he considers anyone in the house an ally and waits patiently to be fed. He may have been one of the fawns his mother raised eating at my table. We just love him! #deer #mammals #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
August 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Everybody loves peanuts!
#foxes #mammals #wildlife #nature #backyard #photography #NewJersey
August 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The most exotic inhabitant of Manhattan! #CentralPark #Zoo #SnowLeopard #bigcats #mammals #photography #NewYork
Huge grey and white spotted cat lying in her side, having a little stretch.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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True story: A Bald Eagle’s call is so unimpressive, akin to a chirp, that in film they often substitute it for the raucous cry of a Red Tailed Hawk.
#eagles #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Enormous brown bird with white head thrown back and sharp beak open in a call.
August 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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“There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination,
Living there you'll be free
If you truly wish to be”
-Newley & Bricusse
#orchids #flowers #bloomscrolling #wishes #sweetdreams #goodnight
Closeup of a white orchid, which looks like an exotic insect
August 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Low flying Great Egret at Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.
#egrets #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Large white bird with long legs and beak flying low over striped landscape of blue water and green vegetation.
August 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Found this Black Crowned Night Heron hiding under a willow canopy.
#herons #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Blue, grey, white heron with red eye on a branch jutting out of the water surrounded by greenery.
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Black morph of the Grey Squirrel.
#mammals #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Black squirrel seated, eating a seed, tail curled along its back.
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream”
Khalil Gibran
#flowers #bloomscrolling #sweetdreams #goodnight
Orange mum with a backdrop of white hydrangea.
August 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Cicada from a massive eruption a few years ago. There were so many, a local ice cream shop used the carcasses in a limited edition flavor. No, I didn’t try it. I hear it was crunchy. 😄
#insects #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Large bug with black body, red eyes, golden see-through wings, sitting on a wooden fence post.
August 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Young swan discovers her new wings.
#swans #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Large young water bird with off white feathers, standing in water, and stretching small growing wings.
August 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Young Green Heron stood right next to me and insisted I take his picture. Did I get his good side?
#herons #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Large bird with long beak and legs in different brown tones standing on a railing.
August 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Swallowtail enjoying a bit of nectar!
#butterflies #invertebrates #nature #wildlife #photography #NewJersey
Yellow and black butterfly, wings up, standing on small white flower with green leaves.
July 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Red Bellied Woodpecker easily clinging to the trunk of a massive pine tree.
#woodpeckers #pines #trees #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Medium bird with white snd red head, and black and white striped back, clinging vertically to a tree trunk and looking back at the camera.
July 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Barn Swallow perfectly perched on a low branch.
#swallows #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
A small streamlined bird in colors of white, tan, black, blue perched on a thin low branch.
July 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Fosters tern emerging from a deep dive!
#terns #birds #wilflife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Sleek little shorebird, white with black head markings, slapping out of a dive.
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.” -Shakespeare
#GerberDaisies #flowers #bloodscrolling #sweetdreams #goodnight
Close up of daisy like flower with short pink petals surrounded by larger blush petals with a black center.
July 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Love the duckweed mustache!
#frogs #bullfrogs #amphibians #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
Large green and brown frog poking his head out of a duckweed laden pond.
July 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
#roses #flowers #bloomscrolling #sweetdreams #goodnight
Closeup of a dark pink/red rose, showing concentric petals.
July 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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My young buck came back today, giving me more photo ops. This may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship! 💖
#deer #mammals #wildlife #nature #backyard #photography #NewJersey
Young deer with two-point antlers standing in sunlight snd shade.
July 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM