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Peter Nguyen
@dptbirder.bsky.social
Vietnamese-American he/him

Brain physio🧠, avian druid🧙‍♂️, photon catcher📷, cat dad🐈

📍Orange County, California, USA

All bird thoughts and photos are mine

Life list: 552 Olive-backed Pipit

Socials: @dptbirder
Pinned
Snow King on the Golden Coast

Circa Dec 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣

Anna’s Hummingbird (leucistic) 📷🪶
I’m not too much of a landscape photographer, but I had my Leica handy and the stormy skies were calling

📷🌧️🌊
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Wood Duck doing the #DucksOutOfWater wood duck thing for the #birdoftheday

📷🌿🪶
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Peter Nguyen
Look👀 at the intense look in the eye!

Curve-billed #thrasher

#ThrasherThursday!

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
As an Asian birder, I recognize when I see good pair of chopsticks in skilled hands 😂

Long-billed Curlew 📷🌿🥢🪶
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When I’m trying I can actually pump out a few photos. I just have to keep it up
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
King tides separate the high and low tides by up to 8ft of tidal difference in the winter in Southern California

At the lowest tide, standing here means I would be completely submerged on the ocean floor at this spot just 6 hours before

Black-bellied Plover in tide pool

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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Now that migration and work has slowed down. I’m moving back into my photo editing era 💅

Gonna try and commit to pushing out more photos

I have a back log of 349 photos I’ve “liked” which indicate it’s passed my quality check for edits…

Here we go!

Belted Kingfisher con fishhhhh

📷🌿🐟🪶
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Five (!) years ago this month, a large flock of Evening Grosbeaks descended on our feeders, ate everything they could, and took off, never to be seen again. The one and only time I've ever seen them. It was magical.

#BirdOfTheDay #least #birds #birding #nature #photography
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This is the only Least Bittern I have photographed in my life. This is the smallest member of the heron family, and its conservation status is of Least Concern. Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. For the #least theme of #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #birds
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’ve appreciate Southern California now more than ever as a birder

Elsewhere in the US, birds count plummets with the oncoming winter

Buffered by the warmth of the Pacific Ocean, SoCal increases in diversity from summer to winter as birds, like this white-breasted nuthatch, come to overwinter

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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Woohoo! Free taxonomic update “life bird”

Eastern warbling vireo 😅🪶
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I love my Pepperoni

📷🍕🐈👹
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s been a while since I’ve been this close to a Brown Creeper!

I took my own advice. Approached slowly at an angle. Took cover behind trees and finally got within 10 ft of this bird!

Brown creepers are my favorite birds to see when a few eventually winter in Orange County

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November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Did I bird watch this crow?

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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Okay that was a pretty thrilling baseball game. Time to not watch one for another year 😅
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Austin Reaves 😱
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Varied bunting in watercolor

The Varied Bunting is a small songbird from the southwestern United States and Mexico, distinguished by the male's striking purple and red plumage and the female's plain, light brown appearance.

#birds #watercolor #birdartist #birdtober #birdtober2025 #painting #SciArt
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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A Great Blue Heron from this morning looking for a meal.
#heron
#birds
#nature
#photography
#birdphotograpy
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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My cohost Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social has announced that today’s #BirdOfTheDay is all about 'Pairs Of The Same Birds' which makes it a #DailyDouble with #TwosDay

The Alt is 'Chaffinches'

#birds #EastCoastKin
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by Peter Nguyen
Red-winged Blackbird. Victoria, British Columbia.

A male showing its fall plumage with the feather tips tinged with a rusty orange. These will become solid black nearer to breeding plumage.

#birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #birdphotography #Nikon
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Belted Queenfisher of Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve

This lady was being chased around by two different males fighting for territory

What a popular girlie!

Belted Kingfisher 📷🌿🪶
October 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Even more important as women are now expected to work

My team and I treat more working women now than ever to help and PREVENT not only aches and pains, but intervene early enough to build a habit of healthy living to stave off cardiovascular risk and diabetes

The lift gets much harder as you age
Women derive more benefit from physical activity than men with respect to reduction of cardiovascular risk and related mortality, and can achieve protection at lower levels of engagement. From ~85,000 participants, open-access (blue=men)
nature.com/articles/s44...
October 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Another rare heron for our parts! Relative rarity aside. Our county is good for one of these per year!

Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve remains one of a kind in luring these wetland dependent birds to our county!

Tricolored Heron 📷🌿🪶
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The Red-Breasted Nuthatches *love* pine nuts. Their beaks are perfectly designed for extracting them from cones. If you zoom in on the third pic you can see he’s extracting a prize #birds 🌿
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM