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cheryllovestoread.bsky.social
@cheryllovestoread.bsky.social
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I’m a Reader living in the Sequoia National Forest, learning photography & birding. 🤓

I do follow some political feeds, but rarely comment. Just trying to stay informed.

Unapologetically pro-Vax.

#Nerdfighteria #DFTBA #EndTB #birding #p4a2025
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Today, I’m posting this photo that I took years ago for the #BirdOfTheDay theme: #birdonawire I just love birds’ innate spacing ability.

#BlueSkyArtShow #birds #birding #photography #EastCoastKin
Many black birds perched high on utility lines during a cloudy day. The flock is mostly evenly spaced along the wires.
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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@altnps.bsky.social I’m in Kern County, CA, where we have poll watchers. Just wanted to tell everyone that our county’s official “polling place finder” website is broken and is simply resetting when you enter an address. If you need to know where to vote, call the elect office at 661-868-3590.
Contact details for the elections office in Kern County, California. Phone number included in post.
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
cheryllovestoread.bsky.social
In Kern County, our official polling place website is down. It just resets.
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I’ll see you a Mallard duck and raise you two Mallard ducks!
Male Mallard duck in foreground with jewel green head, yellow beak, and tiny white necklace above a dark brown breast. Just above him, a female Mallard duck with a mottled orange bill and cream & brown body.
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is a 'Pair Of The Same Bird'. Please enjoy Mr & Mrs Mallard on the Kern River near Kernville, California.

#BOTD
#DailyDouble #TwosDay
#birds #ducks
#SequoiaNationalForest
#photography #EastCoastKin
Male and female Mallard Ducks on the Kern River. Male in foreground has a beautiful dark green head, yellow beak, and a tiny white necklace against a rich chocolate breast. Female is speckled brown and white with a splotchy orange bill. Both are hiding deep royal purple feathers under their wings.
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Good Morning! It is #BlueSkyMonday in this silly shot of my son and a #rock

#EastCoastKin #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock
In the foreground is my adult son acting like he’s conquering a big rock. Mountains and blue sky in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I have Mallard #Ducks on the Kern River in the #SequoiaNationalForest

#BirdOfTheDay
#photography
#EastCoastKin
Foreground is female Mallard duck in shallow river waters with her male friends in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Stealth duck to the rescue!
Male Mallard duck with vibrant green head and yellow bill stealthily streaming through the river water. Shhh. He thinks he’s invisible.
October 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay is one with character. This prompt requires another White-crowned Sparrow, the most distinguished of all the sparrows!

#EastCoastKin #birds
#photography
Male White-crowned Sparrow with gray body, black & white striped crown, and yellow beak, sitting on a wire bird feeder perch.
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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For the #BlueSkyArtShow I’d like to exhibit one of my favorite shots overlooking #LakeIsabella in California.

The theme today is #glow Amazing what you can capture if you just pull the car over!

#EastCoastKin
#photography
#SequoiaNationalForest
#FirstStarISeeTonight
View of lake surrounded by mountains at dusk. Reflections in the water of mountains and soft glow of the setting sun in the water and sky. First star (planet?) of the night directly above.
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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This is my resident squirrel who has an apt under my front porch. She loves a good suet bar and periodically makes her way to the bird feeder, via a platform of seed. Note the chubby cheeks!

#SquirrelSaturday
#EastCoastKin
#photography
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This lovely Common Raven was so pretty in profile, until she wasn’t 🫤. Kernville, CA

#PhotoFailFriday
#WorstBirdPics
#CameraShy
#birds #corvids
#photography
Common Raven turns away from the camera in a shy moment. But it is a nice shot of her tail feathers.
October 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay today is my favorite bird or birds. Mr & Mrs White-crowned Sparrow are my very favorite. They are the patient ones at the feeder while the House Finches and House Sparrows run amok.

#birds #photography
#EastCoastKin
Male White-crowned Sparrow on feeder perch. Female White-crowned Sparrow on feeder perch.
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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#ColorADay #OrangeSun
#Stunday #SkySunday
#EastCoastKin #photography

Lake Isabella
Kern County, CA
Lake Isabella with a distant mountain and orange sunlight peeking out. Mountain with trees in the foreground.
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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For Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay with 3 or more colors, may I present Mr & Mrs Black-headed Grosbeak.

#EastCoastKin
#birds #photography
#SequoiaNationalForest
Male Black-headed Grosbeak with bold orange, black, and white coloring. Female Black-headed Grosbeak with gray, white, and pale orange coloring.
September 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#LetsDance
Brother’s dance with the Bride.
September 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Here’s one of mine cropped within an inch of its life!
Male White-crowned Sparrow on bird feeder.
September 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#TheRoad
#EastCoastKin
#SequoiaNationalForest
#KernRiverCanyon
Two-lane highway winding through Kern River Canyon with cloudy skies above.
September 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I posted this little guy for black & white day, but he deserves another pic for #WoodpeckerWednesday
This Hairy Woodpecker was spotted in our local #AudubonPreserve

#SequoiaNationalForest
#birds
#EastCoastKin
#woodpeckers
Black and white Hairy Woodpecker with a bit of red on his head. He’s searching for bugs under tree bark.
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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#BlueSkyMonday
#MountainMonday
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMforMemories

Spring views in
Kern River Canyon, CA
Sequoia National Forest
Green grass-covered mountains in foreground with blue sky overhead and a few small puffy clouds floating by.
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines

Lines on a boat ramp (with my son) at Lake Isabella, CA
Man standing on boat ramp on Lake Isabella, CA. Southern Sierra mountains in the distance.
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This was the best I could manage 🤦‍♀️
A group of small quail huddled together on the ground.
September 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay is one having black and/or white on it. How about a Hairy Woodpecker in the Sequoia National Forest?
A black and white Hairy Woodpecker (with a bit of red on his head) hunts for lunch in the bark of a tree.
September 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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I caught one about a month ago!
September 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Here’s lookin’ at you, kid!
September 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM