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@melchio1.bsky.social
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birdnerd126.bsky.social
Lifer!! Back home in the freezing cold in RI, snow on the ground and to my surprise, what did I see? A Yellow-breasted Chat at the feeders, just outside our kitchen window!
#birds 🦉
#nature 🌿
#naturephotography 📸
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February 22, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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Leucistic bananaquit, rare sighting, St Barth FWI.
Can you tell the difference?
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February 1, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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This Lesser Antillean Bullfinch seemed to be annoyed & in this pic he's letting us know! It seems that we interrupted the argument it was having (with its own reflection in the car mirror). Luckily no one seems to have gotten hurt
#nature 🌿
#birds 🪶🦉
#naturephotography 📸

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A Male Lesser Antillean Bullfinch sits on the side view mirror of a car, calling towards the camer.
January 16, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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#birds 🪶 It's neck and head were so well hidden, as well as the size of its body. Seeing the legs we assumed it to be our resident immature Yellow-Crowned Heron, but instead it was the stealthy Great Blue @melchio1.bsky.social
A Great Blue Heron stand in a creek, stealthily still and hiding behind light vegetation with neck posed, ready to strike a target in the water below
January 16, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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I concur. I've only seen pygmy owls, but of the two, without revealing my choice... Is there anything more charismatic than burrowing owls? Those legs!
So do these Ferruginous Pygmies @melchio1.bsky.social
A pair of Ferruginous Pygmy Owls perched on the same branch, calling to one another. (Punta Duarte, Veraguas Province, Panama)
January 8, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Nothing to see here, move along... just some flowers, a pair of legs and a razor sharp spear wielded by hunter with sniper-like precision.
Aside from the legs, this GBH had us totally fooled until, upon closer inspection we saw it's eye. Impressive!
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January 16, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Is it too late for #invertfest ? 🪲 Because this Giant Metallic Wood Boring Beetle (Euchroma gigantae) was hoping for its 15 minutes…
We had 2 buzzing around our Cabana in Panama and this 1 landed on a nearby tree to checkout our breakfast.
Unfortunately no wood left on our plates to share. 🤓🪲
December 28, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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A few more pics of the GBH hunting and grooming at sunset... this adult is one of the most beautiful I've seen on the island, or maybe ever!That beautiful chestnut along the wings and legs 🤩
#birds 📸🪶
#goldenhour
#naturephotography
#nature
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Great Blue Heron stands in a calm coastal marsh, hunting, seemingly ready to strike Great Blue Heron stands still in the corner of a marsh at sunset. Great BlueHeron shakes its neck and fluffs up in corner of a marsh at the golden hour.
December 27, 2023 at 9:36 PM
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Coming in for landing - I forgot that we saw this GBH in flight so I was confused when first looking at this photo until I zoomed in and then was delighted to see such a beautiful heron flying through the marsh. #goldenhour @melchio1.bsky.social
December 27, 2023 at 9:26 PM
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Find the Great Blue Heron (close-up revealed in comments)
#Birds 🪶
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#hideandseek
Great Blue Heron somewhere within a coastal marsh
December 27, 2023 at 9:20 PM
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So we ended up finding another photo in the camera roll that really gives you a perspective on how gigantic this heron was! Should we be scared? 🧐🫣 @carlmarx.bsky.social
(original photo © @melchio1.bsky.social )

#birds #dinosaurs
Immature Great Blue Heron stands on roof of floating house with 2 people fishing from the dock photoshopped in to give the false perspective that the house is to scale, making the heron enormous.
December 27, 2023 at 1:47 AM
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Great Blue Herons sure are a dinosaur of a bird!! Look how it dwarfs the house!!
#birdbutt #birds #nature
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December 22, 2023 at 12:49 PM
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Taking turns to guard the house. #birds #heron @birdnerd126.bsky.social
December 22, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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Cattle egret checking the docks #birds @birdnerd126.bsky.social
December 22, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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What a treat to make "one last stop, just in case" and find the biggest congregation of shorebirds we've ever seen on the island!
Stilts, both species of Yellow Legs, Ruddy Turnstones, and others!
Plus the last day light provided beautiful and moody lighting 📸 🪶
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#birds #nature
December 11, 2023 at 11:37 PM
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Our aloe is loving the morning and occasional afternoon rains! I've never seen so many blossoms at one time... and that means lots of visitors! Today we had a Green-Throated Carib at least 4 or 5 times to fill up on nectar.

#birdwatching #birding #photography #nature
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Photo of a Green-throated Carib Hummingbird approaching an aloe blossom to forage on its nectar.
December 2, 2023 at 11:33 PM
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Our aloe is loving the morning and occasional afternoon rains! I've never seen so many blossoms at one time... and that means lots of visitors! Today we had a Green-Throated Carib at least 4 or 5 times to fill up on nectar 🪶

#birdwatching #birding #photography #nature
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A Green-Throated Carib Hummingbird flying up to an aloe blossom, foraging on its nectar
December 2, 2023 at 11:36 PM
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My first post on Bluesky... These little fiddler crabs Panama's Pacific beaches at low tide.
As they forage, sifting for tiny food particles, they leave behind ephemeral works of art... little sparkly bundles of sand placed right next the mark made by their efforts. #Nature #Ocean #Animals #Playa
November 28, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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Male and Female Lance-tailed Manakins
#Panama #Duarte #Azuero #Lek #Birds #Birdwatching
#BirdPhotography
November 28, 2023 at 9:56 PM
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Check out this video about the protests in Panama... yesterday the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the mining contract to be unconstitutional and illegal. A step toward ending this atrocity!!! 🇵🇦🙌🦜🐒🐆 youtu.be/OzhdCrpSQlA?...
#panamawildlifeconservation
#conservation
#Panama
First Quantum Minerals Environmental crisis Panama
Why the World Has to be Concerned about Panama's Environmental and Social Crisis! This is the destruction of Panama's biodiversity on the hands of First Qua...
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November 29, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Found this gigantic beauty on a path near mangrove swamps, but also bordering tropical dry forest (location: Western Azuero Peninsula, Panama)... the fruiting body seems to have appeared and disappeared within 3-5 days, maybe less.. Not sure the species 🍄📸
November 29, 2023 at 9:16 PM