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Noah
@weatherb1rd.bsky.social
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weather enthusiast 🌦 amateur nature photographer 📸 birder 🐦 artist 📝
he/him 🏳️‍⚧️ 18 y/o
life list: 179
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Noah @weatherb1rd.bsky.social · Nov 6
hey, it seems it's time to move!
i'm noah! some of you may know me from X, but I'd love to meet more people here.
i'm an amateur bird and natural photographer in Colorado. i aim to inspire others and show the beauty of the world while i learn about it myself. 🪶 come and see what i see, how i see it!
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i saw an interesting gull today. i'm guessing Ring-billed, but i wish short billed was realistic.
#birds
December 16, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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the unique Swan Goose (which is well named, i think) offered close-up views in dreary weather back in June. i remember this being the first time i felt really excited about my photos. that green compliments them so well!
#birds #photography
December 11, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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more of the northern pintail. my favorite duck photos i take have water dripping off the beak 💧
#birds #photography
December 9, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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looking back on comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. what a magical sight #photography #astrophotography
December 8, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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lifer Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay from October. fun fact, this is the roof of a campsite bathroom 😅 very photogenic! this also happened just after a failed sunrise watch (full cloud cover). he cured the disappointment, but i still wish i saw the pink mountains.
#birds
a medium sized bird with a long blue tail, blue head and wings. its body is a fluffy gray, ruffled by the wind, and it perches forward on the edge of a tan roof. it has white feather "eyebrows" just above its eyes and some white on its chest too. Mount princeton colorado in a slight golden hue. a blanket of clouds are drifting over the peak of it and only a bit of sun is showing through them.
December 7, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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happy sunrise from Colorado. new day and i feel much better!
December 7, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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i'll be back to posts tomorrow, i've been really sick with some kind of bug 🙁 hopefully i'll perk back up here soon
December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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a female bullock's oriole- one of my first "notable" lifers as i was learning to ID the birds myself back in may. can't wait to have these little yellow birds back in the spring.
#birds
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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my lifer brown-headed nuthatch at the alabama wildlife center last July. such sweet little squeaky birds. i look forward to trying to visit again next summer!
#birds
December 2, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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one of my most memorable life-list additions came in the form of this american three-toed woodpecker. on a 6 mile hike, i heard a woodpecker many times and only saw one on the way back. it stayed just feet from me for a while, once even too close for the telephoto to focus. just amazing.
#birds
a slightly scruffy, medium sized woodpecker with a yellow patch on the front of his crown. he is perched on a branch and looking at the camera curiously the same woodpecker has switched branches, now crouched and looking ready to fly away.
December 1, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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my lifer american dipper from july 🪶 we had a delightful encounter that lasted nearly a half hour. he bobbed and swam and i just watched.
#birds #photography
a smallish, pear shaped gray bird on a shining wet rock, looking out to the right. before him is a creek and more rocks, maybe with a meal he can find
November 30, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Saw my first Common Goldeneye today. No doubt about why they’re called that! #birds 🪶
A black and white Common Goldeneye swims in a lake. His eye is strikingly golden!
November 30, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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for Black #Birds of #BlackFriday Here's 2 Rusty Blackbirds from this year, first is spring, the other fall. Theyre pretty infrequent here, I love their fall plumage and really want to get a good pic of it but they seem love shadowy secluded spaces. #Photography
a Rusty Blackbird, a medium sized somewhat shiny all black bird with a sharp beak looking to the right showing its bright eye color. It is partially obscured by leaves and clusters of flower buds hanging from the top right. A rusty blackbird standing in mud and leaves. Its head shows fading hints of brown gray and black, and it's throat is also gray.
November 29, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Got a crow on a pole
Crow on a pole
November 30, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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#BlackFriday

My black bird is a turkey vulture sitting on a fencepost #FencePostFriday
A large, black turkey vulture with a red waddle under his beak is sitting on a wooden fencepost alongside a dirt trail. There are green rolling hills in the background and some shrubbery up against what's left of the wooden fence that was attached to the post the vulture is sitting on.
November 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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Yellow-headed blackbird that caused quite a stir when it showed up in Sarasota, FL a couple years back.🙂 #birds #yellowheadedblackbird #blackbird
November 30, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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it's #BlackFriday in the us, do you have any blackbirds to share? quote post or reply with your blackbirds!
#birds #photography
a male red-winged blackbird perches on a branch, facing to the left. sunlight is hitting the front of the bird and the blurry background, bringing out pale green leaves against the blue sky. the blackbird is brownish at this time of year but his wing patch is visible.
November 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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what's going on with this wild turkey's feet? rocky mountain arsenal NWR, Colorado from July
#birds
November 26, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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why do the US and england have different names for common birds in both places. golden-crowned kinglets and firecrests are the same, right? it's confusing #birds
November 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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my lifer Horned Lark from October at Antero reservoir. i had to hunt down this visual after hearing them for nearly an hour, but i like how the photo came out more artistic than mine usually are :)
#birds #photography #nature
a deep red rock is on the right with gold grasses on the left. the top two thirds of the photo are sky, blue on top with a large white cloud covering most of it. among the red rocks, a small horned lark peeks its head out.
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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the most i've ever worked in a 2-week period is 31 hours (i am a full time highschool student), so try 45 hours in 2 weeks with thanksgiving and only 1 day off from schoolwork? doing my best to keep a streak of going outside but wow, tough. i have 16 hours left this week. also, moon.
November 27, 2024 at 4:23 AM
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what's going on with this wild turkey's feet? rocky mountain arsenal NWR, Colorado from July
#birds
November 26, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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(WIP) what's up with a wigeon? #birds
November 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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my lifer Northern Pintail! what a lovely close range encounter with some shared excitement from other birders at the park. lovely duck. i am inching closer to my goal of 170 species this year (168)!
#birds #waterfowl #photography #naturephotography
November 23, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Trying this again - #birds
turtlesoup.bsky.social cranky ol’ Auncle Allie @turtlesoup.bsky.social · Nov 25
A few shots from a very windy walk around Horn Pond in Woburn yesterday. It's weird duck--er, waterfowl--season! #birds 🪶
A female greater scaup with her head turned to preen feathers on her shoulder. She's a brown duck with a black bill, large, messy white streak around the base of the bill, and yellow eyes. A pied-billed grebe floating in slightly choppy lake water, its head tilted back and up a bit. It's a small, fluffy golden-brown waterfowl with a round head, big brown eyes, and a pointy yellowish-ivory bill (currently without a stripe, as it's not breeding season). An American coot swimming intently, in profile. It's a rotund black waterfowl with a thick neck and roundish head, and a large, bluntly pointed ivory bill with a black smudge near the tip and a dark red "shield" at the top/forehead. It has bright red eyes. View across Horn Pond on a sunny, windy afternoon; the sky is bright blue and full of fluffy clouds, the water is a little choppy, and stands of trees (many evergreen) visible on the opposite shore. In the middle of the shot is a tiny island just big enough for a couple of willow trees, their leaves coppery-brown.
November 25, 2024 at 3:43 PM