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Birds, bugs, and whatever else catches my eye. All 📷 mine unless otherwise noted. Also into books, meteorology, fiber arts, herping, hiking, and all manner of exploration.
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saskajanet.bsky.social
“You will be visited by 3 spirits"

The three spirits
Looking up at three Bohemian Waxwings perched side by side on a bare tree limb. Heads are tilted making them look very judgemental.
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
avianwi13.bsky.social
The view when a Red-bellied Woodpecker lands directly above your head.
#BirdOfTheDay #unusualangles #EastCoastKin 🪶
A large black and white woodpecker with a red top and back of its head and a red-brown eye perched on the side of a dead tree, as viewed from directly below.
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #warblers, and the striking Black-throated Green Warbler is one of my favorites.
#EastCoastKin #naturephotography #birds
A small white songbird with black throat, black-streaked flanks, yellow head, and orange facial markings perches on a thin branch. The branch as numerous green buds at its tips. There are out of focus branches and blue sky in the background.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, individual threads splitting, being snipped off, branching again, creating an incredible tangle of species that are both discrete and connected.
~Riley Black

#BlueSkyMonday
#BirdOfTheDay 🪶
A flock of doves warming in the sun together perched in the bare limbs of a tree against blue sky above a cloud in bokeh.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.
~Mary Midgley

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#BirdOfTheDay
#BirdOnAWire
#BirdsOfPrey
#BirdLovers
#Raptors
#Photography
A totally borbed Kestrel is perched on a wire right above my head so I'm taking pictures of his frank n beans for you from this angle against overcast skies, because it's cold...
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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jdphoto8500.bsky.social
Out on the dawn perch, just watching the world go by...

#WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Raptors #BaldEagle #LifeInNature
A juvenile bald eagle on its morning perch watching over pastures in north Boulder County, Colorado
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
I'm very late to #BirdOfTheDay today, but I can't resist sharing this handsome juvenile Barn Swallow #onawire.
#EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #birds
A medium-sized songbird with dark blue to black wings and back and light orange chest and belly stands on a thick, multi-strand black wire rope.
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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alxnelson.bsky.social
An orange-crowned warbler perched in a shrub at the edge of the marsh, trying to ignore the little bundles of chaos that are yellow-rumped warblers that completely take over the shrubs this time of year. #birds
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
🎶I hear the alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme is #singing...

...see what I did there? 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Curve-billed Thrasher 🪶🌿

#Mimidae
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#FeatheredFriday
Curve-billed Thrashers sing a pleasant, highly variable ditty composed of repeated notes in short, often staccato phrases, sometimes mimicking other birds, belting out an endless and ever-changing melody. Like this one is doing in profile so you can peep the curve in that bill.
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Happy #FerruginousFriday !🪶
Floofed up ferruginous hawk perched on a piece of irrigation equipment.
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
To kick off the weekend, a stunning Scarlet Tanager putting his heart and soul into his song. #BirdOfTheDay #singing #EastCoastKin 🪶
A shockingly red medium-sized songbird with black wings and tail stands on a small branch facing away from the camera. His beak is open in song and his tongue is sticking out.
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
Today may be the day for me to play the lotto!

In 4.5 years I've *seen* two Pacific Wrens in the yard (maybe heard a few more)

Today TWO Pacific Wrens just runnin' all around the place - like right out in the open!

And posing for photos...

Wren 1

#birds #becurious
Photo of a pacific wren standing on a branch that is on the ground, behind the wren are fall big leaf maple leaves. the wren is in profile facing left.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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photeauxbien.bsky.social
Snap, Grackle, Pop! Just a grackle glowing in the sunlight.
#birds #grackle #photography #Louisiana #biglake
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
😁❄️ We got snow up in the pines...anyone fancy a hike?

🌿

#Treehuggers
#GetOutThere
#GreenTherapy
#ThickTrunkThursday
#Photography
#Hiking
That's the snowy trail through the forest leading to the ascent route of Hualapai Peak, the highest you can get in this county. I checked.
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
"Oh hai!”

Surprised to see this hairy woodpecker peek up over the edge of the bird bath 😂 #birds
Black and white bird with long pointy beak is peeking up over the edge of a light-coloured bird bath basin. Two toes on each foot grip the edge.
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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iolantherosa.bsky.social
A Hermit Thrush for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay. They are so sweet. 🪶
A small brown bird perched on a thin branch. It is looking to its left and displaying a creamy breast, the top half covered in light brown spots.
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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simmcewen.bsky.social
This #wader is an ‘auku’u, black-crowned night heron, from Maui. #birdoftheday #photography #nature #birds
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
One of our most common #thrushes, bluebirds are vibrant, lively little birds who brighten the landscape year round. #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin 🪶
A small tan bird with an orange wash of color on its chest stands on a small, lichen-covered dead branch.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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friendsofmidway.bsky.social
#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
avianwi13.bsky.social
The pokeweed berries have also been late here in WI this year, providing food for some of our latest migrating birds. Here's a Yellow-rumped Warbler enjoying a few of the (toxic to people!) berries on a recent dreary fall day. 🪶 #NaturePhotography
A small tan songbird with slight yellow on its flanks stands on a purple-pink plant stem. It is stretching its neck upwards, grabbing a dark purple berry from a cluster of berries overhead. Its beak is open and its tongue is visible. There are green and brown leaves and other purple-pink stems in the foreground and background.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
It’s #WoodpeckerWednesday

Cache your zygodactyl images here
Acorn Woodpecker caches another acorn
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
November woods are bare and still;
November days are clear and bright;
Each noon burns up the morning's chill;
The morning's snow is gone by night.
~Helen Hunt Jackson

🕉️ Have a sweet #WildlifeWednesday! 🦌🦌🌿

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#Mammals
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#FeelingFall
#AutumnVibes
#Autumn
Two Mule Deer are resting in a small clearing behind some boulders, a mother doe with her back to the camera but with one ear focused on me whispering to the fawn between us that is facing the camera.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
For the #BirdOfTheDay, this American Coot wants you to know that water birds can be #round too!
#NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin 🪶
A medium-sized black to dark charcoal gray water bird with a triangular ivory-colored bill and red eyes stands in shallow water. Its body feathers are somewhat puffed up, giving it a round appearance. Its head is facing towards the camera but it is also tilting its head to one side, cutely. Its incredibly large yellow feet can be seen under the water. There is a large, dried orange-brown leaf behind the bird and a few brown water plant stems.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
avianwi13.bsky.social
When it's 60 degrees and sunny in Wisconsin in November, you take advantage of the weather to go down to the lake and take the most exuberant bath possible. #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin 🪶
A medium sized brown songbird with large, orange beak, reddish crest, and hints of red on her wings and tail splashes around in extremely shallow, clear water at the edge of a lake. There is fine gravel in the foreground and numerous water droplets flying off in every direction.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
🫠 TFW...a beautiful Gambel's Quail hen gives you the ol' 'get-my-good-side' head turn...while backlit. Both ways.

🌿 Have a double-sweet #TopknotTuesday peeps!! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Callipepla gambelii 🪶🪶🌞

#BirdPhotography
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
Two frames of my sweet backlit hen, both in 16:9, as they came off the camera, first in profile with her topknot facing forward and her crown highlighted in afternoon light... ...and then with her head turned to look back, giving me a backlit crown and topknot plume the other way. Zen birding.
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM