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Mark Robertson
@markrobbie.bsky.social
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Aviangelist.

Married chap. English teacher. Apprentice to Jesus. Other stuff.

They will also know us by our mirth.
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Found the cutest lil solo Bonaparte's at the local patch. Poor fella looked like he was stood up at cocktail hour #birds
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Found my first ever Long-necked Grebe (!) just chilling out max and bobbing all cool at the local crick mouth #birds
Kinda wild looking small billed waterfowl with smoke-and white plumage and an arresting button-like red eye
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Sand Darling
#birds
Sanderling strutting on the flat sand of the tideline, a aquamarine sea and cobalt sky in the BG
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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"Mirror, mirror
on the ground
who's the cutest
blirp around?" 🪶
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Did I bird watch this crow?

📷🌿🪶
Portrait of crow head. Eyes edited to show detail
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Not even 'ol Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these #birds
Bluebird of fifty shades of his eponymous color and a smartly contrasting rouge breast taking off
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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That's Amore! 🌕
Pizza-colored Beaver Moon rising over the San Juan Hills
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Egret Agent Man
#birds
Snowy egret taking off from the shallows, making a calital M, water trailing off is lil yellow boots
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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That second little white sage bud in the fore—
STOOD NO CHANCE 🪶
Little Allen's hummingbird zipping headlong toward the stem with perfect determination in his face
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The gull and the GINORMAMOON 🪶
A layered series of a white and gray California gull streaking below huge ol rising moon
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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A HUM HUG
(take that, Sunday scaries!) 🤗 🪶
spritely anna's hummingbird with sage stems curling behind it Same bird fractions of second later with wings outward as if in a gesture of welcome
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Egyptian Geese are such charming psychopaths 🪶
Wild looking goose making a wild slanted withering stare
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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What a marvelous night for a moonhawk
#birds
Red-shouldered hawk in a lunging flight, the waxing gibbous moon just beneath his yellow talons
November 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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New goose just dropped—
my #lifer Greater White-fronted Goose! Hazoo.
Gray-Brown goose with light pink beak, white rump, ans yellow legs standing in the roughage of a golf course
November 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Breaking: the Titmouse is on the loose.
He is taking no names.
He is taking no prisoners.
He is giving no dangs.
Give him all the nuts and berries and no one gets hurt
#birds
Gray bird leaping on a stem feet out to grab sumthin, bokeh yellowish background
November 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Yo where all my gargoyles at
🎃🪶
Cormorant wings out all gargoyle like
November 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Is it even a contest? 🪶
A mandarin duck standing on some sort of thing in the middle of a lake looking to the left, looking dry and spiffy
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Behold the Tsarina of the Toyon Berries 🪶
Blue-gray gnatcatcher female on a slight stem on a Toyon bush, regaled with red berries in the aft
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Kingfisher letting me know I am 100% stranger danger and that, no, I cannot be his forever friend 🪶
Charcoal, white, and bronze kingfisher looking directly me-ward from his chain-link fence post perch
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Cluster of the cutest crab-killers #birds
Sanderling squad atop a pebble-covered beack, the shoreline and green surf weaving behind them
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Tread gently, mis amigos—we've all got a hill to climb #birds
Cute gray plover ambling up a little rock stack at the seashore
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Crab CAKES, HERE. Get yer fresh sand-caked CRABS, HERE #birds
White shorebird on beige sand, scampering with his prize: a sandcrab in his beak
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#Lifer Northern Parula. Hazoo.
Warbler Octobler came late this year, but dadgummit, I think it's here
#birds
Lovely tiny bird cupped in fallen sycamore leaves. They've got subtle green hues with yellow splotches and light black and white wingtips. Same bird casting a perfect shadow, standing on a concrete grading.
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I find that I keep looking and waiting and watching
so I can keep sharing in
the primordial gladness of the birds 🪶
Blue-gray gnatcatcher peeking out from a shadowy hovel, she's on a tuft and there are some wilty scrub flowers ablur in the foreground
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Thrilled to announce the re-convening of the Widgin and Pidgin Appreceidgin Colation (WPAC)
L: Widgin
R: Pidgin
Please apreesh #birds
Cool looking weird duck, mostly beige/bronze, with green band over eye, and a grear and white band on wing. Flying, both wings on the downflap Pigeon at rest in the sand, fluffled up and head resting in his own sparkly magenta and green neck tufts
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM