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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦
@lori2whibbs.bsky.social
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Birder, lover of nature trails and all they have to offer. All my own photos, except reposts of course. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature
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Heads up for a nice day! 💙 #birds #birdphotography #bluejays
A slim Blue Jay perched tall on an evergreen
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Love the look of this handsome male Northern Cardinal #birds #birdphotography #cardinals
Brilliant red male Northern Cardinal with long tail, black mask and throat, thick orange beak, perched in green cedar with reddish orange blurred background above it
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Hungry Hermit Thrush enjoying a blue berry #birds #birdphotography
Hermit Thrush on thin berry vine branch, large round blue berry in its open mouth. Additional blue berries hanging down from branches below.
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Northern Mockingbird blending in ~ I love the pale tone of this bird. So pretty! #birds #birdphotography #mockingbird
Profile of perky Northern Mockingbird blending in with its surroundings, perched on similar coloured branch in tangles with tail up, tail feathers separated
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing my first Winter Wren of the fall. A tiny bird with a BIG attitude! #birds #birding #wren #BirdOfTheDay
A tiny winter wren standing on a mossy log, looking to the left. They are very round "borbs" and carry their tail cocked up. The background is blurred out fall colours.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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From my archives, a closer up look at a gorgeous male Pine Grosbeak, taken at Algonquin Park a few winters ago. #pinegrosbeak #winterfinch #finch #birds #birding #Algonquin
A gorgeous male Pine Grosbeak, in profile view looking to the left. He's all pink, with some gray and brown on and around his wing, with white wing bars. He is perched in a pine tree, with some snow on the needles.
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I was happy to spot this Eastern Screech Owl ~ the ultimate master of disguise! #birds #owls #birdphotography
Wood lot scene with large deciduous tree leaning to the left, red maple leaves in foreground.Closest of two branches amputated half way up the other. Knot in tree showing outline of a Screech Owl’s head. Close up of knot in tree showing top of gray morph Eastern Screech Owl’s head, eyes closed, pointed ears
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Big night in T.O. Go Jays Go! ⚾️🧢 #torontobluejays #wantitall
Saturday, November 1, 2025. Lake Ontario in foreground, blue sky with fluffy white clouds above Toronto skyline. CN Tower rising in middle of photo above adjacent downtown buildings. Rogers Centre in there somewhere.
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Why did the Fox Sparrow cross the road? To get to the Jays game of course! Go Toronto Blue Jays Go! #baseball #worldseries #torontobluejays #wantitall #birds #birdphotography
Upright Red Fox Sparrow in motion, crossing a gravel path
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Game 3 ~ Go Blue Jays Go! #WANTITALL 🇨🇦💙
Blue Jay
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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GO BLUE JAYS GO!! 💙 #WANTITALL🇨🇦
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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That time the entire Blue Jays' lineup of 9 players visited my backyard. World Series bound! LET'S GO BLUE JAYS! #birds #birding #Bobsbackyard #HamOnt #Ancaster #bluejays
A photo of my backyard feeding station with a wall of green trees behind it. On my large tray feeder there is one mourning dover and six blue jays, while on the hoops and rungs there are three more, giving an entire starting line up of Blue Jays baseball players!
October 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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American Pipit posing #birds #birding #birdphotography
American Pipit standing on chunky mound of dirt with its head turned back over its right shoulder, thin bill, black eye with thin white eye ring, bare buff neck, brownish back, buff breast with vertical brown streaking on upper breast and down sides.
October 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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thebirderbob.bsky.social
What an honour to be hosted by @naturecanada.bsky.social to speak about #birds and #birding as therapy for coping with chronic illness, in my case #Lymedisease. Join us on October 21st at 2 pm!
naturecanada.bsky.social Nature Canada @naturecanada.bsky.social · Oct 9
Join Nature Canada and Canadian Author, Bob Bell @thebirderbob.bsky.social for an outstanding free webinar where we explore the intersectionality of disability (both visible and not) and birding.

Register here:
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Promotional image for a free webinar titled 'Out of the Lyme Light & Into the Sunlight' featuring author Bob Bell, scheduled for October 21, 2025, at 2 pm EST. Hosted by Nature Canada with a logo of Birdability featuring a stylized bird. Bob Bell is shown holding his book, smiling.
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Sweet little Brown Creeper creeping up a tree in the forest looking for a tasty bug to dine on. 🍃🍂 #birds #birding #birdphotography
Small Brown Creeper creeping up a rough barked tree with vertical grooves. Brown back, light belly, rounded head with thin curved pointed beak to neatly pick bugs out with. Forest scene with fallen trees and blurred green and red leaves in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Marsh Wren with a beak full of cattail #birds #birding #birdoftheday #beakful
Perky Marsh Wren with tail up and mouth full of cattail fluff perched on horizontal cattail with a few green reeds in the background
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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My first Hermit Thrush sighting this Fall 🍁🍂 #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdoftheday
Hermit Thrush on green grass surrounded in behind by a pile of slightly dried out red maple leaves, a few such leaves in front. Bird has a round head and full body look, brown back, characteristic reddish tail, creamy white throat with sharp brown spots which become smudgy spots further down onto the breast. Its dark round eye is surrounded by a very thin white eye-line.
October 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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In honour of our Toronto Blue Jays. Go Jays Go! #birds #baseball #birdoftheday
Back of Blue Jay, crested head turned to its right, perched on bare beige meadow twigs. Various shades of blue overall with distinct blue, white and black markings at end of folded wing tips. Blue tail with thin black barring and white tail tip.
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Great Blue Heron ~ recent resident at our local pond #birds #birding #birdphotography #herons
Close up profile photo of Great Blue Heron with mix of grey, blue and brown coloured body, S-shaped neck, long pointed bill, somewhat long, shaggy neck plumes. Photo backdrop is autumn coloured trees reflecting on water.
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.

She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.

#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane

Photo: Marko Zlousic
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Momma Ruby-throated Hummingbird on her nest. Seeing this was so special! #birds #birding #hummingbirds
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird with her iridescent green feathered body and whitish throat, bill and tail both pointed up, tucked into her nest made mostly of white spider silk dotted on the outside with a few bits of green lichen, set on a moss and lichen covered branch with blurred green leaves in the background.
October 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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thebirderbob.bsky.social
Thanks to all you voters for hanging in through four sparrow preliminary rounds! This is the championship round - we've reduced 16 sparrows to 4 finalists: Chipping, Dark-eyed Junco, Fox, and White-crowned. Tough decision, I love them all. Vote your champ in the comments! #birds #birding #sparrow
A chipping sparrow perched on the landing arm of my feeding station, looking over its shoulder to the right side of the image A Dark-eyed Junco perched in my backyard last autumn, with a combo of unchanged green leaves, and bright red leaves A fox sparrow on the ground with some sunflower seeds, being photobombed by a northern cardinal in the lower right corner of the image A white-crowned sparrow perched on a bare branch, looking over its shoulder to the left side of the image. Taken in early spring with leaves just starting to come out
September 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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One of these things is not like the others…
Can anyone help with an ID on these Swallowtail butterflies?
Three large yellow Swallowtail butterflies close together on ground adjacent to water. The middle butterfly has different markings than the other two.
September 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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It's the final day of the ongoing sparrow cage matches; tomorrow will be the grand championship. Cast a vote for your favourite of today's competitors with a comment - House, Lincoln's, Vesper, and White-crowned sparrows. Each photo's ALT text has a bit of ID info #birds #sparrow #birding
House sparrows are introduced from Eurasia and aren't related to our sparrows; but they're so common here I felt I had to include them. Lincoln's sparrows have delicate dark streaking on a buffy, taffy coloured breast. Vesper sparrows have a fairly prominent white eye ring. They are so named for their habit of singing at dusk, or vespers, which was when evening prayer services were held White-crowned sparrows are very well named for their distinctive head markings!
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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It's day 3 (of 4) of the ongoing sparrow cage matches. Cast a vote for your favourite of today's competitors with a comment - American Tree Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Eastern Towhee, and Swamp Sparrow. Each photo's ALT text has a bit of ID info. #birds #birding #sparrow
American Tree Sparrows have a dark smudgy spot on the centre of their unstreaked breast, and bicoloured bills - a black upper mandible, and yellow lower one. In this photo, taken last January, it's foraging in goldenrod Dark-eyed Juncos migrate south from their boreal breeding grounds and will spend the winter here - they are the true harbingers of winter! I took this photo in my backyard last October, so my backyard maples are in full red and orange colour, providing a beautiful backdrop Eastern Towhees are atypical sparrows - large, colourful with red eyes! Swamp Sparrows are well named for the habitat that they prefer, and are well camouflaged for it.
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM