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Joanne
@joannelowry.bsky.social
Hoping to retire sooner. Amateur animal and landscape photographer - Beauty is the Earth's nature. Human rights advocate, "mind your own damn business", Pagan, Loves real books. Hetero. Listen to your heart. Maga/Republicans stay away. I ignore Chats.
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Another FYI
Sequence of still shots of the snowy egret take off from their roosting space in my backyard community pond, Glendale, Arizona. They will be gone for the day and then come back.
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The snowy egets taking off from their roosting spot this morning. It's the pond in my community, so right out my backyard. #birds, #wildlife, #egrets, #nature, #cellphonephoto
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The resident Anna. He'll be around all year. Glendale, Arizona
#birds, #hummingbirds, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
3 more beautiful birds found @ Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, Arizona. Saturday 11/8/25
Northern Cardinal male, #Birds, #wildlife, #nature
broad billed hummingbird, #photography
Verdin collecting feathers for his bed.
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Spotted towhee @ Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, Arizona. #birds, #towhee, #nature, #wildlife, #photography
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Ruby-crowned kinglet @ Boyce Thompson Arboretum 11/8/25
#birds, #kinglets, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Hermit thrush in Superior, Arizona, @ Boyce Thompson Arboretum. #birds, #thrush, #nature, #wildlife, #photography
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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This guy is a legend
Expressing the collective thoughts of the world.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I love Ravens, the bird kind anyway. (Not football, yuck!) Sears Kay Ruins Trail, N. Scottsdale, Arizona 2019
#birds, #ravenbirds, #wildlife, #intelligence, #nature, #photography
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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This.
Most Sundays, the Kingfisher restaurant in Tucson is closed. But this Sunday, the restaurant known for its old-school decor and seafood entrees opened its doors to feed furloughed federal workers and their families.

news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2...
Tucson’s Kingfisher restaurant feeds 450 furloughed federal workers, family members
Sunday lunch was the first of four planned free meals, owner Jacki Kuder says.
news.azpm.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats!
💙💙💙
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
In Arizona we have wild burros wandering the desert. This is near Lake Pleasant, in December 2020. #birds, #wildlife, #nature, #photography, #wildburros, #burrosdonkeys
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Arizona woodpecker: While it’s fairly common in the proper habitat, this species is on the Yellow Watch List because of its restricted range. Madera Canyon 2023. #birds, #woodpecker, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A variety of smaller birds from the last few weeks in the neighborhood. Starling, black phoebe, Abert's towhee, & white crowned sparrow. Glendale, Arizona. #birds, #wildlife, #nature, @photography
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Lovebirds in Glendale, Arizona backyard. Yes, I'm having my early dinner, what about it? #birds, #wildlovebirds, #lovebirds, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I love my curve-billed thrasher friends. Glendale, Arizona.
#birds, #thrashers, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hey everyone! Look who stopped by for a bite to eat. He/she came with it's partner, who left earlier. Wild Dutch blue lovebird. Glendale, AZ #wildbirds, #birds, #lovebird, #nature, #photography
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Oh! my! that looks itchy! Anna's going through a molting. Glendale, Arizona. #birds, #hummingbirds, #nature, #photography
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's dinner time and the lovebirds like variety. Glendale, Arizona.
#birds, #lovebirds, #wild, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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fb memory from one a year ago. 🥹
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Verdin in morning light. Glendale, Arizona.
#birds, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yellow rumped warbler in the neighborhood. Glendale, Arizona.
#birds, #warblers, #wildlife, #nature, #photography
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM