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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁
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Hubby, daddy, lawyer, photographer on Canada's east coast. This account is primarily filled with wildlife and nature photography by yours truly, with maybe a bit of snark here and there. If this is your vibe, welcome aboard!
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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · Oct 2
Hello to everyone who recently followed along! (and also to those who've been here a while) I'm Steve and I'm a hobbyist wildlife photographer in eastern Canada. I post a new wildlife photo every day. I hope you enjoy the photos, and don't be shy to engage if you see something you like!
An american robin is leaning over the edge of a tree branch containing a bunch of red berries and it is grabbing a berry in its beak. An image of the April 2024 full solar eclipse, showing the full black circle of the moon as it eclipses the sun, with a halo of warm sunlight emanating from the periphery of the moon's orb. A lone eastern painted turtle rests on a semi-submerged log with a reflection of turtle and log clearly visible on the glass-like water. A blue jay is perched on a lichen-covered tree branch with an out of focus soft green background. The jay is looking over its shoulder at the camera with a sunflower seed in its beak.
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Redpolls apparently take their winter foraging very seriously.

Yoho, #NewBrunswick, Canada
January 2026

📷 #birds #REDP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A sparrow-sized bird with mostly grey and mottled brown plumage with a reddish cap on its head and a yellow beak is perching on a slender leafless tree branch with a brown acorn-like seed pod (a caktin) at its feet. It is facing straight-on toward the camera and staring into the lens.
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BackyardBirds. How am I expected to choose only one? They're all so adorable! Here's a Chipping Sparrow to prove the point, taken in my back yard near Fredericton, New Brunswick, in eastern Canada.

#birds #photography
A small bird with a mottled or barred brown back, grey breast, white throat and rusty brown cap on its head is perched on a lichen-covered tree branch facing to the right while looking at the the camera.
February 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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I missed the excitement of this Northern Harrier pouncing onto its prey (I was driving) but here it is afterward! #TalonTuesday

Tantramar, #NewBrunswick, Canada
November 2025

📸 #birds #raptor #NOHA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A grey bird of prey is standing on the ground in a grassy field, looking over its shoulder to the right. Unseen in its talons is an unfortunate small rodent.
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections (any bird reflection), per @robcrank68.bsky.social's official decree. Here's a Mallard drake about to touch down in the mirror-like water.

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A mostly brownish/greyish duck with areas of black and white on its back and tail and a bright blue patch on its outstretched wing is about to land in the glass-like calm grey water. The duck's head is bright green and its bill is yellow, with bright orange feet. What a colourful duck!
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Reaching WAY back into the archives for this year's #GroundhogDay photo of this cutie who lived amongst the large stones of a breakwater at an old abandoned wharf.

Maces Bay, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2016

#woodchuck #marmot #whistlepig #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #D7200 #Nikkor200500
A large-ish light brown rodent is peeking up through the cracks in a pile of large granite boulders, facing forward and slightly to the left.
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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I try to stay mostly apolitical on this account, and really this isn't a political statement as much as a reflection of what reviewers are saying. In any event, it made me actually laugh out loud. (@deadder.bsky.social is la crème de la crème of editorial cartoonists, IMHO.)
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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It's always exciting when I hit both #BirdOfTheDay themes with one photo! Main theme today is #openbeak (birds with beak open) and the alt is #openwings (birds with wings out). This Herring Gull has it all open to show its displeasure with a nearby crow that was harassing it.

#birds #photography
A white gull with yellow beak and red spot at the end of its beak is standing on a rusty green metal pillar with its mouth opened wide and wings spread open. It is looking up and to the left where a crow (unseen) is flying close by.
February 2, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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This is who runs this account
A very dorky 10-year-old boy (itsa me!) in a black and gold minor hockey league jacket and winter hat is standing in front of a very 1970s era living room with a red plastic pipe in his mouth.
February 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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It was quite a thrill to spend some time with this White-tailed Deer fawn as it and its mom played hide and seek with me in the underbrush. #adorable

Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2025

📷 #mammals #deer #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor180600
An adorable tan coloured baby deer with white spots is peering out and slightly to the right through a gap in the underbrush of a forest.
February 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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One of the two beautiful White-breasted Nuthatches that have been visiting our feeder lately, for the first time in all the years we've lived here.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
November 2025

📷 #birds #WBNU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A small bird with a grey back and top of head with a white face and sides is perching on a dead tree branch with a forest green background.
January 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Close-up of a Canada Goose from a dreary April day last spring.

Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025

📸 #birds #photography #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Close-up of the front end of a mostly brown and white goose with black neck and head with a white throat is swimming from right to left with a blurred background.
January 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Today we're going with the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Blue (any bird with blue in its plumage). They don't come much bluer than these guys. #BlueJay

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A blue jay is perched on a lichen-covered branch with a soft green background.
January 30, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Fact.
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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A brood of 'teenage' Mallard ducks that I came across last summer.

Oromocto, #NewBrunswick, Canada
August 2025

📸 #birds #duck #MALL #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A group of nine brown mottled ducks are swimming in calm water from right to left in the warm-toned morning light.
January 29, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #EyeContact (when the eye steals the frame). I love how the speckling in this Herring Gull's eye looks a lot like its eggs.

#birds #photography
Very tight close-up of a white bird's head (herring gull) with yellow eye and yellow bill with a spot of black and red near the tip.
January 29, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Mrs. Redpoll enjoying her snack of birch seeds on a fine winter afternoon.

Yoho, #NewBrunswick, Canada
January 2026

📷 #birds #REDP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A sparrow-sized bird with mostly grey and mottled brown plumage with a reddish cap on its head and a yellow beak is perching on a slender leafless tree branch with a brown acorn-like seed pod (a caktin) at its feet.
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescent (birds with iridescent colours). To demonstrate, here is a dull black Common Grackle. 😉

#birds #photography
A mostly black bird with iridescent bluish head and yellow eye (a common grackle) is flying from right to left in wings down position, all against a featureless gray sky.
January 28, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Happy #TalonTuesday to you! Here's an immature Bald Eagle to gaze upon.

Sheffield, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2025

📸 #birds #eagle #BAEA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mostly brown immature bald eagle with splotches of white feathers on its head is is flying from left to right. The eagle is lit by the warm-toned orange light of the rising sun.
January 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BrownIsBeautiful (celebrating subtle brown tones in birds). I've always admired the less-flashy-than-the-male but no less beautiful brown mottled plumage of the female Mallard duck.

#birds #photography
A brown mottled duck is swimming on calm, flat water from left to right, with softly out of focus brown and green blur in the foreground and background.
January 27, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Black-capped Chickadee adding some cheer to the winter gloom.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2025

📸 #birds #chickadee #BCCH #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor800pf
A small bird with white cheeks and breast with tan sides and a black face and head cap is perching on a bare tree branch and looking down and to the left, in front of a soft forest green background.
January 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paddling (birds standing in water) so here's a Solitary Sandpiper, umm, standing in water.

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A medium-sized sandpiper with mottled brown and white plumage is standing at the water's edge, facing toward the right and looking at the camera.
January 26, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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If you're a photographer or similarly minded person and you haven't discovered Andy Hutchinson on youtube (also here on BS @andyhutchinson.com.au but not very active), do yourself a favour and look him up. Mince words, Andy does not. For example, a recent comment on the current state of Instagram:
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Lesser Yellowlegs keeping an eye on the sky as something flew by overhead.

Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

📸 #birds #LEYE #shorebirds #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A medium sized shorebird with mottled brown and white plumage is standing on a rockweed-covered ledge exposed by the low tide. The bird is looking up into the sky.
January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #swans. There are no wild swans around here, but in 2018 a wayward pair of Mute Swans got turned around and found themselves in southern New Brunswick for a few days. Caused a very big fuss with local birders. I found them on a beautiful spring morning.

#birds #photography
A black and white photo of two beautiful white swans are swimming on calm water that shows their reflection like a mirror. The birds are bathed (and back lit) in beautiful morning light.
January 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Two White-tailed Deer enjoying the beautiful evening light at the river's edge.

Sheffield, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2025

📷 #mammals #deer #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Two deer in their rich brown summer coats are standing in the tall grass, one in front and one slightly out of focus behind. They are both looking toward the camera.
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM