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Animal & nature lover 🐦‍⬛🌳 photographer
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Six #Ibises #Paddling for #BirdOfTheDay

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday🌊

#WingsWednesday #WaterWednesday #EastCoastKin #TheWildImages #birds #birding #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #AtlanticOcean #Florida
6 white Ibises with orange beaks and legs walk toward the ocean in shallow blue shore water, their reflections below them. In the mid-ground are several white Seagulls in more blue ocean water. Tide pools relecting (unseen) buildings and the white foam and blue water of small breaking waves make up the background.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A Mama #Mallard and her ducklings exiting the yard after a swim in our pool last summer for #BirdsOnTheGround

#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #TheWildImages #ducks #birds #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
A brown and white Mama mallard with six fuzzy brown and yellow ducklings in tow walks quickly on the gray cement of a pool deck. The background is long, green grass and a black steel pool fence.
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Good morning (or afternoon), Bluesky☀️
—-the Sunrise Committee🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

#TidesOutTuesday #BlueTue #TranquilTuesday #EastCoastKin #GoldenHour #Seagulls #birds #oceanscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
3 Seagulls stand facing left, their shadows beneath them, on wet sand reflecting the orange sunrise sky. The gray-blue Atlantic Ocean and small breaking waves stretch across the mid-ground.It is gray with a few small glowing pink clouds where the ocean meets the horizon, topped by orange sky and yellow sky at the top of the photo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Five Pelicans fly on silent wings
against a backdrop
of early, tender, apricot light

Wishing you a peaceful Sunday.

#Stunday #SuperSeabirdSunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #cloudscape #oceanscape #BrownPelicans #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
5 Pelicans in varying stages of flight fly low over the gray Atlantic Ocean just before sunrise. The backdrop is a gray, orange, pink, and yellow cloudscape. The shallow shore water in the foreground is the pinkish-orange reflection of the sky and clouds.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Good morning, Susan!☕️ It’s good to see you, as always! And twice already, thanks to #BlueBrewBooks📚 I’m back in MI today, and thankful that Shiya is no worse for the wear, but also, I’m not happy about this❄️ Anyway, wishing you a lovely day😊💫
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A backyard friend and #CitySlicker for #BirdOfTheDay

#MourningDove #bird #birding #TheWildImages #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
A gray and blue Mourning Dove perched on a black steel fence strung with mini white lights looks at the camera as I shoot its photo:). Blurred green and yellow leaves make up the background.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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For you💙
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Last #Evening

Wishing you a peaceful and rejuvenating Saturday☁️

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #dusk #cloudscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A couple at the bottom on the left walks on gray sand at dusk in front the calm, seafoam and blue Atlantic Ocean. On the horizon is a strip of violet sky and pink puffy clouds that span the width of the photo. Above them is a pale yellowish-pink sky.
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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In pink and purple ribbons of light
the birds ascend and take flight
They alone trade soil for vibrant air
and find their solace, ethereal

(*See ALT for the rest)

Wishing you a peaceful #Scape Friday💜

#PurpleFriday #FlyDay #EastCoastKin #cloudscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
*...Oh, to transcend this earthbound plight! To join in effortless, sunlit flight To shed the weight of weary years and leave behind all doubts and fears --le A pink, orange and purple sunrise cloudscape with numerous gulls in varying positions of flight make up the majority of the photo. The steel blue ocean, and part of a distant, charcoal pier at the lower right make up the very botom of it.
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Good morning from the sunshine state, Bluesky!☀️
Wishing you a wonderful day.

#ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #birds #Willets #oceanscape #photography #photgraphersofbluesky #Florida
Sunrise in Ponce Inlet, Florida. The white-yellow sun and it's yellow corona shines from the top right corner. The pink-orange sky spreads across the horizon, becoming a purplish green at the top left. The medium blue ocean and dark blue breaking waves fill the mid-ground. in the forground are 3 Willets foraging on the left and a fourth on the right.
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Sunrise walker and seagulls☀️

#HumansofBlueSky #UrbanGaze #WindowsonWednesday #WeekSforShadows #EastCoastKin #photography #DaytonaBeach #Florida
A woman in shorts walks in shallow water in the center of the photo. Behind her are the sunlit and shaded gray mid-and high rises of Daytona Beach Shores and Daytona Beach under a gray sky and the small breaking blue waves and white foam of the Atlantic Ocean. Next to and in front of her-on the right-are many seagulls foraging in the shallow tide pools. In the foreground is brown sand and a couple narrow horizontal gray blue tide pools.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Wishing you a #RockinTuesday !

#ColorADay #BlueTue #WeekSForShadows #EastCoastKin #mountainscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #CoconinoNationalForest #Arizona #ProtectOurNationalParks
A hazy view of the Red Rock Mountains from the Brins Mesa Trail, Coconino National Park, Sedona Az. A blue sky and long horizontal clouds top the purplish-red Red Rock Mountains that span the background of the photo. The mid ground is lush, green foliage of Oak Creek Canyon, and A spire jutting up on the far right side. The foreground is green foliage and the sienna colored, iron-rich dirt of Sedona.
November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Happy #BlueskyMonday, friends!

Wishing you well as you begin your weekly swim🌊

#MinimalMonday #EastCoastKin #birds #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
3 gulls (2 in the bottom left and 1 a little higher on the right) scavenge in the surf at pre-dawn on the Atlantic Coast, Florida. In the foreground is wet gray sand reflecting the pink clouds above. Moving toward the midground is low water on a diagnonal on the shore, and in the mid ground some small medium and light blue breaking waves. The light blue water of the horizon meets the pink and gray-blue clouds and sky in the upper mid ground, and more gray-blue clouds and sky make up the background.
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Florida dreaming today...

Happy #Stunday !

#SkySunday #goldenhour #sunrise #EastCoastKin #seagull #cloudscape #oceanscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A seagull soars just left of center in a sunrise sky of orange, yellow, blue and gray above the charcoal Atlantic Ocean. Black clouds meet the ocean across the entire forground, including a puffy black cloud in the bottom right corner.
November 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Here’s my Nov & Dec pile📚 I’m aware it’s an aspirational goal to read this many books, so it’ll likely extend to January at least! I’m part way through the bottom 2). Thank you for recommending Williams, Stegner, & Keegan😊 And thank you for starting #BlueBrewBooks. Happy reading to you and all here☀️
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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You are a voracious reader, Susan!📚
Here’s my September and October pile…I haven’t mentioned White Trash because I’d been reading it for months and finally finished it. It’s very enlightening. The others I know I’ve recommended before, and I’m glad to see the 3 Body Problem & JCO on your Nov. list💫
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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An autumn moon rises
On Halloween night
A glowing orb
of soft misty light
As orange fades
And velvet blue reigns
The moon, it casts its silvery gaze
On the very last of October days
--le

#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #NightmareNov #dark #smArtist #EastCoastKin #moon #photography #photographersofbluesky
A waxing gibbous moon sits in the upper center of the photo surrounded by luminous light blue clouds, reflecting the sun, then silvery gray clouds, less proximal to the moon, and finally, orangish-gray, then obsidian-colored clouds, farther away. Misty, translucent cloud-mist appears in front of the moon in the upper half and on the lower left.
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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An autumn sunrise for #Scape Friday

Wishing you a lovely day and a fun Halloween, friends!🎃

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Sunrise #goldenhour #31DaysofHalloween #photography #photographersofbluesky
#Michigan
A forest at sunrise and the banks of Lake Huron. The glue-gray water of the lake makes up the foreground. The dark green pines and orange and green deciduous trees make up the mid-ground. And the background is the pink-on the horizon-and gray-blue sky at sunrise.
October 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The sunlit #MackinacBridge or #MightyMac, the fifth-longest (by suspension) bridge in the world, and third largest in the US for #UrbanGaze

#EastCoastKin #bridge #bridgescape #sky #skyscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
The photo is a close up of one of two towers that make up the Mackinac Bridge, while the other tower can be seen in the distance. Sunspots from the (unseen) sun overhead appears at the top right, adjacent to cut outs, from which the sun streams, on the gray steel. Blue sky and cumulus clouds surround the towers, as well as light poles, main suspension cables, and hangers. Multiple vehicles moving toward and away can be seen on the gray deck/road.
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A #Ring-billedGull coming in for a landing
for #BirdoftheDay

#EastCoastKin #birds #photography
#photographersofbluesky
A white and gray A Ring-billed gull soars, slanted downward, in a light blue sky in front of a blurred white cloud. It's wings appear to dissect sky and cloud.
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Fallen red and violet leaves
on a sun-dappled forest path
for #ColorADay #RedWed

Happy Wednesday afternoon🍂

#EastCoastKin #leaves #nature #photography #photographersofbluesky #NorthCountryScenicNatureTrail #St.Ignace #Michigan
A gray wooden path strewn with red and violet leaves begins at the bottom and continues vertically to the top of the photo, where it veers sharply right. Mostly green foliage in the form of small, low plants and vines (along with some moss on the right) surround the path on both sides. Sunlight dapples the path in the middle and toward the end (top).
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Two #RoyalTerns, arguing

#BirdoftheDay #DailyDouble #TwosDay #EastCoastKin #birds #birding #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
Two black and white Royal Terns with orange beaks stand in shallow water, their reflections beneath them. The one on the right has its back to us and its shoulders raised in a defensive posture. Its head is turned in the direction of the other tern. The tern on the left stands sideways to the camera, it's head lowered and jutting out in front of it toward the tern on the right. It looks as if it is reprimanding the other tern. The background is gray wet sand.
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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A large spire, part of #CathedralRock, for #RockinTuesday

Hope you’re having a lovely day!

#ColorADay #BlueTue #EastCoastKin #landscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #CoconinoNationalForest #Sedona #Arizona #SaveOurNationalParks
A large sienna-colored spire juts upward from a rocky platform. In front of it are lesser sienna colored rocks. Beyond it is the green foliage and sienna colored hills and valleys of Oak Creek Canyon and the distant, blue mesas and buttes of the Mogollon Rim. All are under a clear blue sky and a thin, horizontal white cloud stretching across the bottom of the horizon.
October 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A majestic Great Blue #Heron for
#BirdoftheDay

#EastCoastKin #bird #birding #birdphotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #Michigan
A Great Blue Heron stands in shallow gray marsh water in late April of this year. Green water plants, reflected in the water below them hide his legs.
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Monday morning you sure look fine
--Fleetwood Mac

Wishing you a good #BlueSkyMonday☁️

#MinimalMonday #EastCoastKin #cloudscape #seascape #clouds #sunrise #goldenhour #photography #photographersofbluesky
#LakeHuron #Michigan
A light blue sky and white and light gray clouds top large navy and yellow horizonal clouds underneath, over a strip of orange sky, over a dark, distant treeline, over silver-blue Lake Huron at sunrise in October in Michigan.
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM