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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦
@lorichirp.bsky.social
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Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!
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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · Mar 4
A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉

A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)
A Barred Owl, a large, stocky owl with brown and white markings, round head, no ear tufts, and a medium-length tail, is perched on a branch in a forest.
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debmaluk.bsky.social
#aurora -nado🤣
A large cone of green and red aurora with a pointy end that looks like a tornado
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
Part of you died each year
when the leaves fell from the trees
and their branches were bare
against the wind and the cold,
wintery light.
~Ernest Hemingway

🕉️

#ThursJay 🪶
#FeelingFall 🌿
#Bluebirds 🐦
#BirdLovers 💙
#Photography 📸
#EastCoastKin
#LookingAtYou
#StickHappens
#BorbAlert
#Corvids
Without any leaves left, this bare Slippery Elm tree doesn't hide the borby blue-headed corvid called a Woodhouse's Scrub-jay looking at you through all the branches.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A young Mantled Howler Monkey in my garden at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#monkeys #nature #wildlife
Close-up of a young dark-furred monkey clinging to a tree trunk, its tail wrapped around the branch and large eyes looking toward the camera against a blurred green forest background.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
I always take WAY too many pics of Aracaris. Such charismatic birds. And they take zero crap from the Oropendulas. #birding Donde Cope, Limon, Costa Rica
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
Green Honeycreeper, Red-legged Honeycreeper and Shining Honeycreeper. #birding #CostaRica
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
It's not easy being green.
Orange-chinned Parakeet at Donde Cope
#birding
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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blathin384.bsky.social
Besides birds, I also like botanicals and especially grass

For #WackyWednesdayArt #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography

Bombay Hook NWR, 11 November 2025
Black and white photo of some marsh grasses
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
Rufous Motmot. La Selva, Costa Rica #birding
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
☁️ 🤏Patchy clouds in the west let just a smidge of soft light through for tonight's #bluehour #skypainting... 💙🔥😍

...in four directions! 🧭🌿

#BlueSky
#Cloudscape
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
#Clouds
#Scape
#Sunset
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
Starting in landscape and looking southeast at the blue hour clouds catching color over the Hualapai's... Then switching to portrait for the frame of just pastel color painting the northeast blue hour sky, keep your phone this way up for... Another portrait of just clouds and soft color painting the frame looking northwest... And finally, back to landscape for those patchy clouds hugging the western horizon as the sun set. Thanks for looking!
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A very judgy Spectacled Owl at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#nature #birds #owls
Close-up of a dark brown owl with bright yellow eyes perched on a moss-covered branch, facing the camera against a blurred green forest background.
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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maximumsteve.bsky.social
Nothing like a quiet solo walk on the beach. Peace! #birds #gull #ringbill #beach #ocean #endofday #peace #seagull
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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phh5.bsky.social
Habitat's leucistic visitor.

#finch #bird #leucistic
#backyard-habitat
#resistwithlove #nature
#wildlifephotography #photography
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
Many thanks Alan! Another pic of the same bird (or his/her mate), who wasn't paddling and so doesn't meet today's #BirdOfTheDay criteria, but who posed beautifully...
atcherleyons.bsky.social Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · Nov 11
For your #PlumeScrolling pleasure today may I present this outstanding #Oystercatcher. I photographed this wonderful wader at Brandon Marsh on May 1st, when I also heard my first Cuckoo of the year, saw my first Hobbies of the year, & delighted in many other #birds (and butterflies). #UKWildlife 🌿🦉
Photo of an Oystercatcher, a wading bird with black upperparts, white underparts, a long, orange beak, and pink legs and feet. The eye is red, with a black pupil. A very striking bird.
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
For your #PlumeScrolling pleasure today may I present this outstanding #Oystercatcher. I photographed this wonderful wader at Brandon Marsh on May 1st, when I also heard my first Cuckoo of the year, saw my first Hobbies of the year, & delighted in many other #birds (and butterflies). #UKWildlife 🌿🦉
Photo of an Oystercatcher, a wading bird with black upperparts, white underparts, a long, orange beak, and pink legs and feet. The eye is red, with a black pupil. A very striking bird.
November 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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atcherleyons.bsky.social
#Paddling is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today. Here is a Eurasian Oystercatcher who I photographed at Brandon Marsh near Coventry, at the end of April 2024.

#Birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #Photography 🌿
Photo of a Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) walking in shallow water alongside a shoreline. We see the bird's left side as he or she heads towards the left side of the picture, right leg in the water and left leg raised with foot reaching forwards. The Oystercatcher is a wading bird, which has black upperparts (including the head, neck, and the upper part of the chest), white underparts, a long orange beak, and pink legs and feet. The eye is red, with an orange rim and a black pupil.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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fceeviper.bsky.social
It's my Wednesday #Bird feed #photo drop 🐦

📷 frank.cruz
#naturephotography #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdlovers #birding #naturelovers #birdstagram #bestbirdshots #nikon #birdlife
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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patrodg.bsky.social
Juvenile Tricolored Heron

#birds 🪶
#birding
#birdphotography
#heron
A juvenile Tricolored heron stands at the edge of a pond. Its blue feathers blend with the color of the pond.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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anuradhasarup.bsky.social
I'm just the great paddler, #paddling #BirdOfTheDay theme away

The photogenic Black-winged stilt.

#Photography #Birds #EastcoastKin #Italy
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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bcgemma.bsky.social
Great White Egret and Little Egret at The Gearagh, Co. Cork. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025
A Great White Egret dwarfing the Little Egret that is standing next to it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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bengrabenstein.bsky.social
Pileated Woodpecker #birds
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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dptbirder.bsky.social
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

📷🌿🌊🪶
Black bellied plover in rocky tidepools
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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andrewkaizer.com
Ever since moving back to the Midwest from the East, #CarolinaWren have been hard to come by. I was thrilled when this little birb popped out of my brothers shed! A pretty vocal little one too!

Aug 2025 in Iowa #birds #birdnerd #birdphotography
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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ontariowildphoto.bsky.social
Juvenile Trumpeter Swans like this one keep their gray feathers for nearly a year before molting into white. Caught this one enjoying the last mild days of fall at Hespeler Mill Pond.
#HespelerMillPond #CambridgeOntario #TrumpeterSwan
#BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography
#sonyalpha #a6700
A young Trumpeter Swan
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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photosteve.bsky.social
A Great Blue Heron preening its wing feathers
#birds #heron
A great blue heron with its head bent over and its long bill tucked under its wing preening its feathers.
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
I was very happy to see 3 pairs of Evening Grosbeaks in the yard this afternoon☺️ #birds
A female Evening Grosbeak on a lawn. She is light brown with faint yellow spots. Her wings are black and white and her bill is yellow A Male Evening Grosbeak on a lawn. His has a yellow body and a gray-brown face with a band of yellow on his head. His wings are black and white Evening Grosbeak on a lawn. He is facing left
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM