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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsOnTheGround -- and I might have to re-share a pic or two (since a little caught up to edit pictures)

Lesser Adjutant stork, peafowl (male), thick-knee, little egret.

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
a large bird, looking towards the photographer with a frog in its beak - the belly is towards the photographer - and the head towards the stork. the frog is caught across the neck, and two of its hind legs are dangling. the bird is large with black wings, and grey belly, it has a white head, with tuft of hair (resembling some evil mad scientist) - blue eyes and pale coloured beak. there is green grass all around it, and near its leg you can see soil where it has dug to find the frog. a peafowl sitting between grass on a flat area, just after finishing it's dance and lowering the tail. in the background you can see trees with green and brown leaves. a bird with long legs, and thick knees - the color is mainly white and various shades of brown and black. it has a yellow eye. it has a thick beak, mostly black in the front half. it's in front of dry leaves on ground, which helps the bird camouflage in plain sight. an egret with yellow feet, black legs and blackbeak, has its head focused on the ground to find some food (fish discards) - it has a lot of breeding plumage visible) there's a large ferry behind it, out of focus, red, yellow and black colored.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Made an artwork for this week's #FlashFictionFriday story.

It will be out on Nov 14, Friday, you should become a @patreon.com member so you get it in your inbox!

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#BookSky #StoryPromo #IAmWriting #WriterSky #ReaderSky
A shadow entity floating in front of the text that says from the shadow. it has lots of tentacles and one eye.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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thank you :D

I really felt the roomba interaction was peak - and i made an artwork for it as well 😂
line art - a translucent ghost with its moth open shouting at the roomba in front of it, but the audible sound is BEEP! BEEP! the story title is above the interaction: The Phantom Ankle-Biter’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Haunting
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is the bird #least photographed by me, and boy oh boy do I have a collection of one hit wonders - but also no time to look through the archive, so please accept a stork-billed kingfisher. seen twice, photographed once.

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
a bird with blue wings, orange neck and belly, a brown head, and a very thick long red beak (with black tip) perched on a branch. the green behind is that off the tree/leaves
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #StandingOnThings

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
A grey morph reef heron standing on a floating piece of thermocol in the docks. There are plastic bottles around it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Name your fav superhero that isn’t DC or Marvel

(Always imagined this was the best spidey inspiration with it being absolutely different)
Nagraj (snake man, with a green scaled body, wearing a maroon briefs and leather boots. Thousands of snakes reside in his body that can come out from his wrist similar to spidey's web - which he uses in similar style to swing or catch the bad guys
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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I love how this one looks in a monochrome - profile shot of a female sunbird, perched on a flower.

Added it to my @inprnt.com: www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci...

Here's an extra 15% discount code: TY6OR7O

#birds #photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #SciArt
monochrome photograph of a small bird looking up, while sitting on small flower bud in front of a bloomed flower.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Some Purple Sunbird (female) photos for #StunDay

What is the naming scheme - (only the male ones has purple plumage)

#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
a small bird, yellow chest, and brownish back feather, perched on a small branch and drinking nectar from a red flower. the bird, beak out of the flower and looking at it. the same bird, looking away. the bird is again looking at the flower and wondering if it should drink some more.
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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trying out some old school film filters on darktable.
(Kodak Gold 200 + tweaks)

#Birds #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
a young cormorant, perched on a rock, behind branches and leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TakingOff (and since I am busy with some work - it will be a repeat of this fun photo)

A flamingo and cormorant taking off while an egret looks at them.

#Birds #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
in the background, an intermediate egret (white bird with long neck) looking towards the madness in front, where it looks like a flying little cormorant (black bird) has resulted in the greater fflamingo to lost track of what it was trying to do and its legs are moving randomly.
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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just chill on Friday, enjoy the sun.

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#Friyay #Photography #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife
a crocodile basking in the sun, in middle of a grass patch on the river bank. you can see grass all around, further behind are trees and rocks visible. head of the crocodile is facing away from the photographer and the tail is on this side.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Some #Fighting birds for #BirdsOfTheDay theme today.

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
dry tree branches, on the left side, there is a bird sitting, on the right two birds are fighting, you can see the wing spread out by one of the birds. There's a square biscuit skewered onto the thorn near the tail of the bird with its wing open. These birds are also called toothpick of the tiger, as they enters very fast into the mouth of the carnivorous animals and eats the flesh stuck in their teeth.
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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just saw the trailer, very cool indeed (will wait for all the episodes to drop)

also found this review, and now want to watch it doubly so
1 out of 5 star review This was a straight theft by Vince Gilligan, of Rick and Morty episodes of Unity. Even passed unity the same way by kissing, a little bit grosser on R & M. End it now, Have you no shame, Gilligan!
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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INPRNT is having a sitewide sale, so you should check out my shop! And if you buy something - you can use code TY6OR7O for an extra 15% off.

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#PromoSky #DigitalArt #TraditionalArt
3x3 grid, showing multiple digital art work, by me, and 2 photographs from the jungle. #birds ##mammals #SciArt #BSNM #Prints
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime, so here are
1. Asian Green Bee-Eater, eating an insect (bee?)
2. Lesser Adjutant Stork, with a frog.

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Blurd
a green bird that has an insect in its beak is looking away from the photographer - the bird is green with shades of yellow and blue. its perched on a branch (perfectly focused) - as a result the insect is just slightly out of focus a large bird, looking towards the photographer with a frog in its beak - the belly is towards the photographer - and the head towards the stork. the frog is caught across the neck, and two of its hind legs are dangling. the bird is large with black wings, and grey belly, it has a white head, with tuft of hair (resembling some evil mad scientist) - blue eyes and pale coloured beak. there is green grass all around it, and near its leg you can see soil where it has dug to find the frog.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Using the Bird of The Day theme of Close up to share one for the mammals feed.

side profile of a male sambar deer.

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#Mammals #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin
a sambar deer photographed with a 600mm, hence a close up, a brown color large deer, with antlers. it has its mouth open.
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Close up for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme.

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #FromTheArchive #ColorADay #RedWed
a close up of a red-wattled lapwing, it has red eyes and black pupil. the beak is red with black tip, it has a red cap and neck, and red wattle, and the ear is white which further goes down its body. the wings are shade of brown-green and has reddish tone at the edge, a purple sunbird with iridescent blue feathers perched on a bunch of red flowers, with its long beak in the bloom to drink the nectar.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A meal in the mouth is worth two in the web.

A garden orbweaver having its breakfast.

#ento #虫 #Macro #Photography #arachnid #spider #EastCoastKin #Macro
a spider with multiple colors across the body and legs. the legs are banded with peacj, dark red, black color. the abdomen has yellow lines as well. the spider has a fat mosquito in its mouth. below on the web you see two thick white zigzag web (signature of a signature spider)
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Have you read it? 😁😁😁

theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-...

I'm quite proud of the ending.

Here's the opening paragraph...

#ReaderSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity
DR SUVAJEET DUTTAGUPTA The Leviathan’s Mercy The Triton plunged even deeper into the Mariana Trench, a silver needle piercing the ocean’s black heart. I pressed a hand against the cold view-port, the fortified glass a fragile barrier between our hubris and a crushing demise. Our team had spent years on this project, meticulously planning, designing, and testing to withstand these unimaginable pressures. Still, I couldn’t shake the memory of those other fools from the SeaCrate incident — the sheer arrogance of men who had disregarded every safety measure and treated the deep as if it were a simple weekend adventure.
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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It was a lot more enjoyable than whatever little I remembered from when I saw it back in the days (and never in one go)

I also wanted to see chhaiya chhaiya on the big screen. #DesiWatch
Bunch of men dancing above a moving train. There are people in the foreground wearing regional garbs and there back side is seen in the photo Lots of trees all around. A man in red jacket, black shirt, brown pants dancing above a train and there's a chimney with smoke coming out (the engine) trees are in the background. On the left more men are dancing
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Some SRK for #DesiWatch feed.

Got to watch the whole of Dil Se for the first time (in one sitting)

#FilmSky
Title screen. Reads Dil se. A man wearing a red jacket, with his suitcase next to him. Looking towards another person on the other seat - further to their left. A man in red jacket dancing above a train with people around him in regional garb. There are tall trees behind him in the frame Close up of a man with flame in front of him that's hiding half his face
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Quote your purple art 💜

#DigitaArt
a purple glass planet, with two layers of liquid/land inside. there's a ring around it with overlapping moons on the same line. there's a blue planet in the distance, and two large stars somewhate more visible (yellow-green and orange color) -- you cans ee shooting stars and stars way in the background)
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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only managed to photograph the stork-billed once.

but seen white-throated many times (not got to shoot too many great pictures -- but i think there's some better ones in the drive i should find and edit)
A brown bird with blue wings and tail, and a very large red beak. perched on a brown branch - there are leaves in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Combining both of #BirdOfTheDay themes for today
(Long Beaks on the Rocks)

1. Asian Wooly-necked Stork.
2. Black Stork

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #FromTheArchive #RockinTuesday #ClassicMono
Asian Wooly-necked Stork. A bird sitting on stone, with one leg holding the other, between green grass. there is stone (river bank) behind. Bird description from iNat: The woolly-necked stork is a medium-sized stork. The iris is deep crimson or wine-red. The stork is glistening black overall with a black "skull cap", a downy white neck which gives it its name. The lower belly and under-tail coverts are white, standing out from the rest of the dark coloured plumage. Feathers on the fore-neck are iridescent with a coppery-purple tinge. These feathers are elongated and can be erected during displays. a black and white photograph of a black stork sitting at the edge of a water body, there are stones in front of it. the bird has black (somewhat iridescent) and white feathers - and the beak is mostly red in color
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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#Pigeons for #BirdOfTheDay theme — so here's an old picture of my hand and a pair of pigeons on it

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#Photography #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #FromTheArchive
2 pigeons perched on a hand, with both their wings spread. there's also brown chickpea in my hand that they are trying to eat.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM