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Darkciao
@darkciao.bsky.social
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Polyamorous/pansexual. Michigander. Things I enjoy: nature photography, various webcomics, movies, and shows, Balders Gate 3, all Lord of the Rings media including The Rings of Power, cats, fanart, OCs, dragons, D&D, board games, books, and anime.
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darkciao.bsky.social
This was really interesting: youtu.be/VCOl4bjMN-E?...
Why Society Disrespects Blue Collar Workers
YouTube video by Damon Cassidy
youtu.be
June 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Another nice Costa Rican hummingbird, the tiny Violet-headed Hummingbird. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#birds #hummingbirds #nature
A small bird with a rounded body and iridescent feathers perches on a branch. Its head and throat shine with deep blue and violet tones, while its chest and sides are covered in soft green and gray. The background is a smooth blur of dark green.
April 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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carolpopegordon.bsky.social
"Look honey, I brought you another stick."
White Stork adding to the nest. 🪶
A White Stork flying in to a nest carrying a large stick in its beak. Another stork is visible sitting on the nest.
April 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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junkboxjim.bsky.social
Yellow-headed blackbird riding a reed like a cowboy on a bucking bronco.

Pointe Mouillee SGA, MI
April 23, 2022
April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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photosteve.bsky.social
Peekaboo 🫣

(baby great horned owlet)

#birds #owls #wildlife
A baby great horned owlet peeking between two trunks of a tree from just above their heist. It has fluffy light brown and white feathers, tiny ear tufts, and bright yellow eyes. It looks like it’s wearing a balaclava
April 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Red-capped Cardinal, Amazon River, Peru

#birds #nature
A small bird with a bright red head, black back, and white underside perches on a curved branch. Its body leans forward, and it appears to be looking intently at something below. The background is softly blurred in natural tones.
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Forget touching grass, try touching some forest moss.
a small green damselfly sits on a stick on a bed of moss on the forest floor
April 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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h1twom4n.bsky.social
I can’t resist a bird in a hole really…
April 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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amyraehill.bsky.social
Custom angled cup, Venus volcano - now with new and improved eruption!

(It's okay to let yourself blow off steam now and then, or rather spit a little lava I guess!)
Angled cup featuring volcano erupting with lava under hazy yellow sky. Angled cup featuring volcano erupting with lava under hazy yellow sky. Detail of volcano
April 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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dtl.bsky.social
Those wings make a switchblade sound when they open 🪶
A tree swallow (iridescent blue and white) perched on a nest box. ©️DTL, 2025
April 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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chrisdipiazza.bsky.social
Volunteered with the students at a community home for previously incarcerated women in our town today. Painted this pot with local birds.
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
The American Dipper babes are growing up quickly. Soon they're going to run out of room and will have to leave the nest.

Washington state

#birds #nature 🌿
Three wide-eyed nestlings peer out from a cozy, moss-lined cavity, their bright orange mouths open in perfect unison. Fluffy gray feathers and eager expressions fill the frame, while tangled twigs and greenery form a natural cradle around them.
April 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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understudy77.bsky.social
Flyby #birds #wildlife #eagle #photography
April 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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birderk.bsky.social
A year ago yesterday, our hawk watch set its Broad-winged Hawk record with an unprecedented 10,000+ individuals moving through in an hour’s time. Conditions today looked good for another large flight, but have since deteriorated. Maybe after this rain passes, though🤞
#birds #migration #hawks
April 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here is a nice mushroom
The underside of an unidentified brown mushroom. Its gills are sharp and dark shadows separate them. Two fingers are blurred in the forefront where they hold the mushroom up above the forest floor in the background. All photos by me
April 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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timosborne.ca
It's that time of year when many of the youngsters are beginning to explore their new surroundings. Here is a young Barred Owlet from a few years back. #wildlife #birds #owls
A young Barred Owl with feathers just beginning to come in, perched on the top of a broken tree with greenery in the background.
April 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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davebspain.bsky.social
Our local pair of Eurasian Kestrels keep me very happy.
I don't know another pair, that are as unconcerned about people as these two. #Raptors #birds
A small raptor with long tail feathers flies directly overhead, showing its white and black spotted underwings, rusty spotted belly and yellow legs.
April 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye

(photo by me)
Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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understudy77.bsky.social
This I think is my favorite from my trip to Conowingo. You can almost feel the tension in the scene. #birds #eagle #photography #wildlife
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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naturehq.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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dtl.bsky.social
Little spot o’ midnight 🪶
A male red-winged blackbird clings to a budding twig against clear blue sky ©️DTL, 2025
April 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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dtl.bsky.social
My favorite osprey couple in their favorite tree 🪶
Two large raptors sitting on either side of a dead pine. Grey sky and budding trees behind. ©️DTL, 2025
April 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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alxnelson.bsky.social
Sometimes the bird misses; sometimes you miss; sometimes you both miss at the same time. Even though I was ready for the shot, I took just a little too long focusing on the osprey, which was just enough time for it to pull out of frame and away from the camera. Near misses are a part of life. #birds
An osprey comes up from a dive having only grasped a talon-full of vegetation and no fish.
April 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM