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Christine Pence
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Nature and travel photographer

https://chicksonagrousetrip.blogspot.com/?m=1

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Scaly-munia are starving at 3 pm.
#birds
#scalymunia
September 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Good morning
#birds
#housefinch
#birdfy
August 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Laguna Beach Sawdust Festival 2025
#sawdustfestival2025
#lagunabeachcalifornia
#streetphotography
under the bench a guitar with a buy me sign pointing toward...who knows what exactly.
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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scarlet rumped tanager, female in the rain
#birds
#costarica
small yellow/orange bird sitting on a branch in the rain
August 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Aren't they cute!
#birds
#housefinch
#morning
#breakfast
August 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The blue morpho butterfly in Costa Rica...looking a bit ragged.

#insects
#butterfly
#bluemorpho
#bluemorph
#costarica
big, blue butterfly with wings outstretched on a green leaf
July 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The beautiful nictitating membrane of the red-eyed tree frog, protecting its eyes from drying out.

#amphibians
#redeyedtreefrog
#nictitatingmembrane
#costarica
red eyed tree frog on a leaf with the nictitating membrane slightly raised.
July 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The anhinga cooling off in the Tarcoles River, Costa Rica.
#birds
#anhinga
#costarica
#tarcolesriver
a big bird with wings spread sitting on a branch in the middle of a river.
July 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The beautiful red and green macaw of Costa Rica.

#birds
#macaw
#costarica
red and green and yellow and blue colors in the red green macaw in flight in Costa Rica
July 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The brown hooded parrot of Costa Rica
#birds
#costarica
#brownhoodedparrot
two colorful, blue-green brown headed parrots on a post
July 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Happy Mother's Day

#birds
#avocet
#mothersday
avocet in breeding colors in water
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Caught on the Birdfy webcam this morning....baby female house finch begging for food, male parent feeding baby from the feeder.
#birds
#housefinch
#birdfy
#feeding
baby house finch begging to be fed while sitting on the birdfeeder male house finch beginning to feed baby house while sitting on the feeder male house finch places seed in baby house finch's open beak which sitting on the bird feeder.
May 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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last of the exercises at the end of the day...

#horse
#whitehorse
#racehorse
#horseexercise
white horse feet off the ground trotting toward home
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Spring morning under cloudy skies and drizzle

#flowers
#Spring
#morningwalk
Ground flowers Cactus and poppies.
April 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Happy Earth Day from our local wildlife refuge...thankful we still have these places for nature.
#Earthday2025
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#SoCal
female redwing blackbird mallard ducks in a puddle American Avocet in breeding colors feeding in the local pond
April 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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HE IS RISEN! Even the red-necked pheasant noticed.

#birds
#redneckedpheasant
#Easter
red-necked pheasant shaking it out for his mate
April 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Easter by the roadside...waiting on the hour.

#Easter
#cross
#purple
#HolyWeek
April 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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It's one of those lazy, hot, end of day moments with the female mallard duck stretching her neck before flying off.

#ducks
#mallard
#female
#birds
female mallard duck in the pond stretching her neck up toward the sky.
April 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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World wildlife day finds the peregrine falcon waiting in its scrape for the other falcon to arrive for a little courting....atop the County Courthouse in Elizabeth, NJ USA
#birds
#peregrinefalcon
#courting
Peregrine falcon in its scrape looking sideways at the webcam.
March 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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the colorful chukar strolled through the ghosts in the Calico Ghost Town, California
#birds
#chukar
colorful chukar out for a stroll
February 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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red tailed hawk enjoying the late afternoon sun while surveying the fields for food
#birds
#redtailedhawk
#endofday
red tailed hawk perched on a branch at the end of day
February 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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female northern harrier buzzes the ponds, making the blackbirds flush...into the evening.
#birds
#northernharrier
#blackbirds
female northern harrier flying over the ponds in almost dark blackbirds flushed from the pond in the evening.
February 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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end of day in the wildlife refuge with the female northern kestrel and the song sparrow...lovely soft light.
#birds
#femalenorthernkestrel
#northernkestrel
#songsparrow
#waninglight
#endofday
colorful female northern kestrel, a small falcon, posing on a branch in the waning sun song sparrow, small sparrow, posing on the branches end of day
February 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Raptors everywhere these days....in the wildlife refuge with the Merlin and in the backyard at the birdbath with the Cooper's Hawk
#birds
#raptors
#merlin
#cooper'shawk
#wildlife
Merline on a branch eating a bird. Cooper's Hawk sitting on the birdbath with head turned around to face the camera.
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A male wood duck and a female bufflehead duck float peacefully by my camera.
#duck
#ducks
#woodduck
#bufflehead
multicolored wood duck floating in water female bufflehead floating in water after stretching her wings.
February 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM