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
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
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As an Asian birder, I recognize when I see good pair of chopsticks in skilled hands 😂
Long-billed Curlew 📷🌿🥢🪶
Long-billed Curlew 📷🌿🥢🪶
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As an Asian birder, I recognize when I see good pair of chopsticks in skilled hands 😂
Long-billed Curlew 📷🌿🥢🪶
Long-billed Curlew 📷🌿🥢🪶
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
📷🌿🌊🪶
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
📷🌿🌊🪶
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 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
📷🌿🌊🪶
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
📷🌿🌊🪶
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
📷🌿🐟🪶
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
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
📷🌿🐟🪶
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
📷🌿🐟🪶
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
📷🌿🪶
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
📷🌿🪶
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 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
📷🌿🪶
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
📷🌿🪶
Also seen in the US this year! Another one from Eurasia! This Olive-backed pipit landed in our county (Orange County, California) for about a fortnight! 🪶
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Also seen in the US this year! Another one from Eurasia! This Olive-backed pipit landed in our county (Orange County, California) for about a fortnight! 🪶
I love my Pepperoni
📷🍕🐈👹
📷🍕🐈👹
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I love my Pepperoni
📷🍕🐈👹
📷🍕🐈👹
Oh what a sweet story! It’s very fortunate we get a few of these winter in our county every year. My very first sighting was in Arizona
And I chased one down to get a really good look on an Alligator Juniper. It’s my one of my favorite photos of all time. And likely will be the first I print 🥰
And I chased one down to get a really good look on an Alligator Juniper. It’s my one of my favorite photos of all time. And likely will be the first I print 🥰
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Oh what a sweet story! It’s very fortunate we get a few of these winter in our county every year. My very first sighting was in Arizona
And I chased one down to get a really good look on an Alligator Juniper. It’s my one of my favorite photos of all time. And likely will be the first I print 🥰
And I chased one down to get a really good look on an Alligator Juniper. It’s my one of my favorite photos of all time. And likely will be the first I print 🥰
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
📷🌿🪶
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
📷🌿🪶
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 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
📷🌿🪶
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
📷🌿🪶
Or did this crow human watch me?
📷👁️🪶
📷👁️🪶
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Or did this crow human watch me?
📷👁️🪶
📷👁️🪶
Did I bird watch this crow?
📷🌿🪶
📷🌿🪶
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Did I bird watch this crow?
📷🌿🪶
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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 📷🌿🪶
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
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 📷🌿🪶
This lady was being chased around by two different males fighting for territory
What a popular girlie!
Belted Kingfisher 📷🌿🪶
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 📷🌿🪶
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
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 📷🌿🪶
Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve remains one of a kind in luring these wetland dependent birds to our county!
Tricolored Heron 📷🌿🪶
When ever I describe a little blue heron, the description always starts with a heron with a deep wine colored head 🍷
It’s such an incredibly deep rich color that I can describe no other way
THIS is how I like to get drunk on a Sunday morning… on birds
📷🌿🪶
It’s such an incredibly deep rich color that I can describe no other way
THIS is how I like to get drunk on a Sunday morning… on birds
📷🌿🪶
October 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When ever I describe a little blue heron, the description always starts with a heron with a deep wine colored head 🍷
It’s such an incredibly deep rich color that I can describe no other way
THIS is how I like to get drunk on a Sunday morning… on birds
📷🌿🪶
It’s such an incredibly deep rich color that I can describe no other way
THIS is how I like to get drunk on a Sunday morning… on birds
📷🌿🪶
Got my scope out and iPhone-scoped this Tricolored Heron
📱🔭🪶
📱🔭🪶
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Got my scope out and iPhone-scoped this Tricolored Heron
📱🔭🪶
📱🔭🪶
What a lovely bird to see! Undoubtedly a pipit, bobbing its tail. However, this species normally is an Eurasian bird and is very rarely seen and/or identified in North America
A bird I would have seen in the future, but it was nice to not travel to catch an Eurasian species!
Olive-backed Pipit 📷🌿🪶
A bird I would have seen in the future, but it was nice to not travel to catch an Eurasian species!
Olive-backed Pipit 📷🌿🪶
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
What a lovely bird to see! Undoubtedly a pipit, bobbing its tail. However, this species normally is an Eurasian bird and is very rarely seen and/or identified in North America
A bird I would have seen in the future, but it was nice to not travel to catch an Eurasian species!
Olive-backed Pipit 📷🌿🪶
A bird I would have seen in the future, but it was nice to not travel to catch an Eurasian species!
Olive-backed Pipit 📷🌿🪶
This was my final sunset in the Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia in March
I watched as the sun shown crimson through the mist rising from the Caribbean
A perfect end to a beautiful journey
📷🌅
I watched as the sun shown crimson through the mist rising from the Caribbean
A perfect end to a beautiful journey
📷🌅
October 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This was my final sunset in the Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia in March
I watched as the sun shown crimson through the mist rising from the Caribbean
A perfect end to a beautiful journey
📷🌅
I watched as the sun shown crimson through the mist rising from the Caribbean
A perfect end to a beautiful journey
📷🌅
Awesome! Welcome! R2 would be the second rectrice (tail feather) from the center. The tail feather has a notch on it in a rufous but not in an Allen’s
A small number of Allen’s have all red backs. And a small number of rufous have significant green backs 😅
R2 notch and bill shape are my go to
A small number of Allen’s have all red backs. And a small number of rufous have significant green backs 😅
R2 notch and bill shape are my go to
October 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Awesome! Welcome! R2 would be the second rectrice (tail feather) from the center. The tail feather has a notch on it in a rufous but not in an Allen’s
A small number of Allen’s have all red backs. And a small number of rufous have significant green backs 😅
R2 notch and bill shape are my go to
A small number of Allen’s have all red backs. And a small number of rufous have significant green backs 😅
R2 notch and bill shape are my go to
Do you know where the bird theory fails? When you actually meet a birder
You’re actually not interested enough to know that the only way to discern a rufous from Allen’s hummingbird for most people is a photo the notch on R2
But can you tell from bill shape? CAN YOU TELL FROM BILL SHAPE?!? 🪶
You’re actually not interested enough to know that the only way to discern a rufous from Allen’s hummingbird for most people is a photo the notch on R2
But can you tell from bill shape? CAN YOU TELL FROM BILL SHAPE?!? 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Do you know where the bird theory fails? When you actually meet a birder
You’re actually not interested enough to know that the only way to discern a rufous from Allen’s hummingbird for most people is a photo the notch on R2
But can you tell from bill shape? CAN YOU TELL FROM BILL SHAPE?!? 🪶
You’re actually not interested enough to know that the only way to discern a rufous from Allen’s hummingbird for most people is a photo the notch on R2
But can you tell from bill shape? CAN YOU TELL FROM BILL SHAPE?!? 🪶
Not sure how active he is on BlueSky, but this was a nice read at Easy by Nature Substack by Bill Davison @easybynature.bsky.social
billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...
I’m lucky I’ve found a way to work and bird before I sacrificed years to this culture of labor 🪶
billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...
I’m lucky I’ve found a way to work and bird before I sacrificed years to this culture of labor 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Not sure how active he is on BlueSky, but this was a nice read at Easy by Nature Substack by Bill Davison @easybynature.bsky.social
billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...
I’m lucky I’ve found a way to work and bird before I sacrificed years to this culture of labor 🪶
billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...
I’m lucky I’ve found a way to work and bird before I sacrificed years to this culture of labor 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There are many many folks with a 600mm F4 lens in Orange County. And none of them are actual birders
a ton of people claim to be bird photographers are interested in a minute amount of birds available to them
Meanwhile, the actual birders don’t carry equipment required to even take a flight shot🙄🪶
a ton of people claim to be bird photographers are interested in a minute amount of birds available to them
Meanwhile, the actual birders don’t carry equipment required to even take a flight shot🙄🪶
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There are many many folks with a 600mm F4 lens in Orange County. And none of them are actual birders
a ton of people claim to be bird photographers are interested in a minute amount of birds available to them
Meanwhile, the actual birders don’t carry equipment required to even take a flight shot🙄🪶
a ton of people claim to be bird photographers are interested in a minute amount of birds available to them
Meanwhile, the actual birders don’t carry equipment required to even take a flight shot🙄🪶
Now I get Wurster’d in the best way. I almost wait for Tom to email me so I can show of my photos🤣
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now I get Wurster’d in the best way. I almost wait for Tom to email me so I can show of my photos🤣
Happy Flycatcher Friday!
Social Flycatcher 📷🌿🪶
Social Flycatcher 📷🌿🪶
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy Flycatcher Friday!
Social Flycatcher 📷🌿🪶
Social Flycatcher 📷🌿🪶
Very cute round head! Light soft mantle! It was nice to have an adult as well as have it be in a large mixed group of gulls to make the ID easier
I’m pretty thrilled I stuck around to catch it in flight!
What a lovely lifer
Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull
I’m pretty thrilled I stuck around to catch it in flight!
What a lovely lifer
Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Very cute round head! Light soft mantle! It was nice to have an adult as well as have it be in a large mixed group of gulls to make the ID easier
I’m pretty thrilled I stuck around to catch it in flight!
What a lovely lifer
Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull
I’m pretty thrilled I stuck around to catch it in flight!
What a lovely lifer
Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull