Ed Broyles
@edwardbroyles.bsky.social
Retired corporate whore. Post about bicycling, photography, scale modeling, some politics. I live in Ashland, Oregon with a spouse, a daughter, and a rascally black lab named Oliver. Profile pic is November sunrise in the eastern Sierra.
Just a nice photo of a birding friend looking out over the upper Rogue Valley, which is under a thick inversion. This is from almost on top of Mt. Ashland in Oregon yesterday, where we were searching for a rarely seen (in these parts) Snow Bunting, which we heard but did not see. #birds
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Just a nice photo of a birding friend looking out over the upper Rogue Valley, which is under a thick inversion. This is from almost on top of Mt. Ashland in Oregon yesterday, where we were searching for a rarely seen (in these parts) Snow Bunting, which we heard but did not see. #birds
Back from a few days at Sacramento and Colusa refuges in California. Saw many thousands of geese and other waterfowl. Witnessed the female mallards viciously chasing each other and got a few decent photos. #birds
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Back from a few days at Sacramento and Colusa refuges in California. Saw many thousands of geese and other waterfowl. Witnessed the female mallards viciously chasing each other and got a few decent photos. #birds
This is a ring-billed gull, common here on the West Coast. I got this not particularly great photo earlier this week one evening out at Emigrant Lake in southern Oregon. If you're new to bird photography, this is what shutter priority jacked to 1/4000 will get you. Canon R7. #birds
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This is a ring-billed gull, common here on the West Coast. I got this not particularly great photo earlier this week one evening out at Emigrant Lake in southern Oregon. If you're new to bird photography, this is what shutter priority jacked to 1/4000 will get you. Canon R7. #birds
Had a stare-down with this heron last evening at Ashland Pond near Ashland, Oregon. A pair of herons nested in the immediate area last spring and summer but the partner seems to have headed on south. This one was standing on one leg up in a dead tree. #birds
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Had a stare-down with this heron last evening at Ashland Pond near Ashland, Oregon. A pair of herons nested in the immediate area last spring and summer but the partner seems to have headed on south. This one was standing on one leg up in a dead tree. #birds
Kind of an interesting undercurrent on BlueSky I've seen lately is this telling people what they should say on their timeline. If you want to make a general point in an original post, fine, but don't go on somebody's timeline and tell them what to think. I'll say what I fucking want.
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Kind of an interesting undercurrent on BlueSky I've seen lately is this telling people what they should say on their timeline. If you want to make a general point in an original post, fine, but don't go on somebody's timeline and tell them what to think. I'll say what I fucking want.
Today was October Big Day where birders were asked to bird at least SOMEwhere before midnight. I chose a location called Ashland Pond, in the northeast part of Ashland, Oregon. The photo is a Black Phoebe just leaving its perch on wire fence. #birds
October 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Today was October Big Day where birders were asked to bird at least SOMEwhere before midnight. I chose a location called Ashland Pond, in the northeast part of Ashland, Oregon. The photo is a Black Phoebe just leaving its perch on wire fence. #birds
This northern shoveler isn't doing anything in particular, just looking dapper in its autumn feathers as it floats yesterday on one of the sumps in the Klamath Wildlife Refuge. Nice to see the sign shutting down the HQ had no partisan references and a stern warning to potential poachers. #birds
October 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This northern shoveler isn't doing anything in particular, just looking dapper in its autumn feathers as it floats yesterday on one of the sumps in the Klamath Wildlife Refuge. Nice to see the sign shutting down the HQ had no partisan references and a stern warning to potential poachers. #birds
I know these are common around here, but it was pretty cool that this young Red Tail Hawk came down and perched on a low branch maybe 30 feet away. Common but still majestic. Hope its ready for winter. #birds
September 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I know these are common around here, but it was pretty cool that this young Red Tail Hawk came down and perched on a low branch maybe 30 feet away. Common but still majestic. Hope its ready for winter. #birds
Long billed dowitchers are on the move. Taken last week at the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, these birds breed in the arctic and migrate all the way into Mexico and Central America. #birds
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Long billed dowitchers are on the move. Taken last week at the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, these birds breed in the arctic and migrate all the way into Mexico and Central America. #birds
Great Gray somewhere in southern Oregon last night. Hard to see scale but this bird was at least 30 inches. Watched it hunt for almost an hour just before sundown. #birds
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Great Gray somewhere in southern Oregon last night. Hard to see scale but this bird was at least 30 inches. Watched it hunt for almost an hour just before sundown. #birds
Great Egret pulling an eel out of the shallows of Emigrant Lake in Oregon. Taken last evening just before sundown.
September 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great Egret pulling an eel out of the shallows of Emigrant Lake in Oregon. Taken last evening just before sundown.
One of my fellow riders enjoys the view toward the end of a hot, tough 38 mile gravel ride near the mountain lakes in Southern Oregon Sunday. Climbing over deadfalls, gnarly downhills, and brush obstructed barely double track was interspersed with a little red dirt champagne gravel. Honest ride.
August 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
One of my fellow riders enjoys the view toward the end of a hot, tough 38 mile gravel ride near the mountain lakes in Southern Oregon Sunday. Climbing over deadfalls, gnarly downhills, and brush obstructed barely double track was interspersed with a little red dirt champagne gravel. Honest ride.
A Rufous dances on my fence. Other than celebrating a couple of pretty good poops, I'm not sure why. Maybe just a good stretch in the morning sun. #birds
August 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A Rufous dances on my fence. Other than celebrating a couple of pretty good poops, I'm not sure why. Maybe just a good stretch in the morning sun. #birds
A little sunset and mammatus cloud action from the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon last night. Taken from Roxy Ann looking southwest.
August 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A little sunset and mammatus cloud action from the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon last night. Taken from Roxy Ann looking southwest.
From a few days ago . . . this young lady Anna's hummingbird is the master of all she surveys, including my feeder. Lessers may test her, but this queen is having none of it. Violence will ensue. Canon R7 1/4000 shutter priority if anyone's wondering. #birds #hummingbirdsareassholes
July 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
From a few days ago . . . this young lady Anna's hummingbird is the master of all she surveys, including my feeder. Lessers may test her, but this queen is having none of it. Violence will ensue. Canon R7 1/4000 shutter priority if anyone's wondering. #birds #hummingbirdsareassholes
A typically deranged looking male Western Grebe at the Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge yesterday. Western and Eared Grebes are plentiful at Tule and Klamath throughout the summer. Some other birds were around but most big birds, even many raptors, have migrated to breeding grounds far to the north. #birds
July 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A typically deranged looking male Western Grebe at the Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge yesterday. Western and Eared Grebes are plentiful at Tule and Klamath throughout the summer. Some other birds were around but most big birds, even many raptors, have migrated to breeding grounds far to the north. #birds
Orange crowned warbler is judging me after I chased it around some dense foliage on the shore of Hyatt Lake in Oregon Wednesday evening. Finally perched long enough for me to get a decent shot. Amazingly noisy for such a small bird. Its friends had opinions, too. #Birds
July 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Orange crowned warbler is judging me after I chased it around some dense foliage on the shore of Hyatt Lake in Oregon Wednesday evening. Finally perched long enough for me to get a decent shot. Amazingly noisy for such a small bird. Its friends had opinions, too. #Birds
The photo ain’t great but the ride was. Five of us did a gravel night ride in the Ashland Watershed in southern Oregon Friday night. It was a hoot. Literally. We saw an owl. No bears, though. #gravelbike
July 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The photo ain’t great but the ride was. Five of us did a gravel night ride in the Ashland Watershed in southern Oregon Friday night. It was a hoot. Literally. We saw an owl. No bears, though. #gravelbike
Spent a hot hour watching an osprey family of four fishing at Emigrant Lake in Oregon this morning. One photo shows the "hover" as one prepares to dive. The other shows a bird skimming the surface trying to catch a fish it missed on its dive. It missed again. Saw four dives, one catch. #birds
July 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Spent a hot hour watching an osprey family of four fishing at Emigrant Lake in Oregon this morning. One photo shows the "hover" as one prepares to dive. The other shows a bird skimming the surface trying to catch a fish it missed on its dive. It missed again. Saw four dives, one catch. #birds
A Lesser Goldfinch "hides" in the dreaded Star Thistle, bane of cyclists up and down the West Coast of the US. Those tiny little thorns? They will penetrate steel. #birds
July 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A Lesser Goldfinch "hides" in the dreaded Star Thistle, bane of cyclists up and down the West Coast of the US. Those tiny little thorns? They will penetrate steel. #birds