Peter (he/him)
@peterlbarr.bsky.social
Photographer | Birder | Cinephile | Cats | BSc Environmental Science | Biocentrist
🇨🇦: Nova Scotia ➡️ New Brunswick ➡️ Ontario
Posted photos are mine except for reposts. 🚫AI
🇨🇦: Nova Scotia ➡️ New Brunswick ➡️ Ontario
Posted photos are mine except for reposts. 🚫AI
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Peter (he/him)
@peterlbarr.bsky.social
· Nov 21
To fill your evening with awe. Here, my friends, is the magnificent Scarlet Macaw!
Not a pet. Not in a zoo.
Shot in the wilds of lovely Costa Rica in 2022.
#birds #birdphotography #photography
Not a pet. Not in a zoo.
Shot in the wilds of lovely Costa Rica in 2022.
#birds #birdphotography #photography
During a brief pause in its foraging, an American Robin strikes a pose. Majestic af.
FWR Dickson Wilderness Area, Ayr, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography
FWR Dickson Wilderness Area, Ayr, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography
May 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
During a brief pause in its foraging, an American Robin strikes a pose. Majestic af.
FWR Dickson Wilderness Area, Ayr, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography
FWR Dickson Wilderness Area, Ayr, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography
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Sunrise a few days ago, before all of this weather moved in.
East Tennessee mountains
#naturephotography #PhotographersUnited
East Tennessee mountains
#naturephotography #PhotographersUnited
May 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Sunrise a few days ago, before all of this weather moved in.
East Tennessee mountains
#naturephotography #PhotographersUnited
East Tennessee mountains
#naturephotography #PhotographersUnited
From my recent trip to Nova Scotia...
Piles
Brighton/St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia. Apr 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#landscape #landscapephotography #photography #novascotia
Piles
Brighton/St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia. Apr 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#landscape #landscapephotography #photography #novascotia
May 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
From my recent trip to Nova Scotia...
Piles
Brighton/St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia. Apr 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#landscape #landscapephotography #photography #novascotia
Piles
Brighton/St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia. Apr 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#landscape #landscapephotography #photography #novascotia
"Choose only one master -- nature.” – Rembrandt
Tree Swallows
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
Tree Swallows
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
May 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Choose only one master -- nature.” – Rembrandt
Tree Swallows
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
Tree Swallows
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
Doing a stare-down with a Palm Warbler. I lost. Birds always win.
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025.
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025.
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
May 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Doing a stare-down with a Palm Warbler. I lost. Birds always win.
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025.
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025.
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
Splish-Splash! A Common Grackle takes a bath in a puddle.
Riverside Park, Cambridge, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography
Riverside Park, Cambridge, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography
May 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Splish-Splash! A Common Grackle takes a bath in a puddle.
Riverside Park, Cambridge, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography
Riverside Park, Cambridge, Ontario. March 2025
Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom
#birds #birdphotography #photography
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Great gray owl
This beauty was down in a ditch feeding on a meadow vole, and decided its next perch was on the telephone pole behind me.
Right place, right time.
Ontario, Canada.
#birds
#nature
#photography
#owl
This beauty was down in a ditch feeding on a meadow vole, and decided its next perch was on the telephone pole behind me.
Right place, right time.
Ontario, Canada.
#birds
#nature
#photography
#owl
May 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Great gray owl
This beauty was down in a ditch feeding on a meadow vole, and decided its next perch was on the telephone pole behind me.
Right place, right time.
Ontario, Canada.
#birds
#nature
#photography
#owl
This beauty was down in a ditch feeding on a meadow vole, and decided its next perch was on the telephone pole behind me.
Right place, right time.
Ontario, Canada.
#birds
#nature
#photography
#owl
I think the shade of blue here is really nice. And the details in the tree stump remind me of a tiny mountain lol 😌
Field of Blue
Bannister Lake Conservation Area, Ayr, Ontario. April 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#photography #blue #landscape
Field of Blue
Bannister Lake Conservation Area, Ayr, Ontario. April 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#photography #blue #landscape
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I think the shade of blue here is really nice. And the details in the tree stump remind me of a tiny mountain lol 😌
Field of Blue
Bannister Lake Conservation Area, Ayr, Ontario. April 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#photography #blue #landscape
Field of Blue
Bannister Lake Conservation Area, Ayr, Ontario. April 2025
Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom
#photography #blue #landscape
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April 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I'm back. I think. It's been a rough few months. Job loss, stress, depression...you know, all that fun stuff.😕 Anyway, on the topic of hopeful, here's a Yellow Trout Lily.
April 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I'm back. I think. It's been a rough few months. Job loss, stress, depression...you know, all that fun stuff.😕 Anyway, on the topic of hopeful, here's a Yellow Trout Lily.
My, what a handsome fellow!
Photographed at FWR Dickson Wilderness Area in Ayr, Ontario, in Feb of 2025.
#birds #birdphotography
Photographed at FWR Dickson Wilderness Area in Ayr, Ontario, in Feb of 2025.
#birds #birdphotography
March 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My, what a handsome fellow!
Photographed at FWR Dickson Wilderness Area in Ayr, Ontario, in Feb of 2025.
#birds #birdphotography
Photographed at FWR Dickson Wilderness Area in Ayr, Ontario, in Feb of 2025.
#birds #birdphotography
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Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy?
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot
He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy?
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Want to start your week off with some good news? Check out this story from @abcbirds.bsky.social about the rediscovery of two birds in Peru that hadn't been seen in over 10 years. #ornithology
FOUND: Sira Barbet and Peruvian Solitaire Rediscovered in the Mountains of Southeastern Peru
Fabrice Schmitt tells the story of an expedition by GECO Nature that resulted in photographs and sound recordings of two species not documented since 2013
abcbirds.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Want to start your week off with some good news? Check out this story from @abcbirds.bsky.social about the rediscovery of two birds in Peru that hadn't been seen in over 10 years. #ornithology
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Sunsets and dawn photos... Ok here are a couple of mine -
First from Tasmania... With the sun rising behind me...
Near Grindelwald Tasmania.
#photography #goldenhour
First from Tasmania... With the sun rising behind me...
Near Grindelwald Tasmania.
#photography #goldenhour
March 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sunsets and dawn photos... Ok here are a couple of mine -
First from Tasmania... With the sun rising behind me...
Near Grindelwald Tasmania.
#photography #goldenhour
First from Tasmania... With the sun rising behind me...
Near Grindelwald Tasmania.
#photography #goldenhour
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March 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The Sparrow (Sept 2015) #photography #escanaba #puremichigan #yooper #906life #birds #sparrow #birdsky #bird
February 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Sparrow (Sept 2015) #photography #escanaba #puremichigan #yooper #906life #birds #sparrow #birdsky #bird
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Hey all!! Time for a #NatureBreak
Wont be long and spring will be here! Enjoy your day:) Thanks very much for the likes reposts quotes and follows🙏🙏
Cedar Waxwing enjoying a berry:)
#birding #birdphotography #birdwatching #naturephotography #naturesbeauty #photohour #blueskybirds #FocusOnNature
Wont be long and spring will be here! Enjoy your day:) Thanks very much for the likes reposts quotes and follows🙏🙏
Cedar Waxwing enjoying a berry:)
#birding #birdphotography #birdwatching #naturephotography #naturesbeauty #photohour #blueskybirds #FocusOnNature
February 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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This Rufous Hummingbird was in the Yarmouth County NS in August 2015. Still the only one I've seen in NS, although I did miss one by five minutes in Queens County once. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching
February 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This Rufous Hummingbird was in the Yarmouth County NS in August 2015. Still the only one I've seen in NS, although I did miss one by five minutes in Queens County once. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching
My life has been a bit chaotic lately due to some employment issues. It certainly hasn't been as serene as this shot, let me tell you. Taken at Amherst Point Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia. July 2022.
#landscape #landscapephotography #novascotia #blackandwhitephotography #nikoncreator
#landscape #landscapephotography #novascotia #blackandwhitephotography #nikoncreator
February 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My life has been a bit chaotic lately due to some employment issues. It certainly hasn't been as serene as this shot, let me tell you. Taken at Amherst Point Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia. July 2022.
#landscape #landscapephotography #novascotia #blackandwhitephotography #nikoncreator
#landscape #landscapephotography #novascotia #blackandwhitephotography #nikoncreator
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Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants.
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
Leaked emails show the nation’s leading wildlife agency has halted critical funding for conservation
Exclusive: The US Fish and Wildlife Service has frozen millions of dollars, imperiling animals abroad.
www.vox.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants.
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US.
@benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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Restoring #Predators, #Restoring #Ecosystems - #Yellowstone #Wolves & Other #Carnivores Drive Strong #TrophicCascade
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #willows #ecology #biology #biodiversity #vegetation #wolf #elk #riparian #stream #tree #herbivore #spatiotemporal #model
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #willows #ecology #biology #biodiversity #vegetation #wolf #elk #riparian #stream #tree #herbivore #spatiotemporal #model
February 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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"AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness"
“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness"
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I don't want to doom-scroll anymore this morning, so here's about 10 seconds of Adele penguins swimming and jumping through the ice for everyone to reset. Keep fighting for science. NBP23-03 East #Antarctica. 🧪🦑🌎🐧🇦🇶
February 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I don't want to doom-scroll anymore this morning, so here's about 10 seconds of Adele penguins swimming and jumping through the ice for everyone to reset. Keep fighting for science. NBP23-03 East #Antarctica. 🧪🦑🌎🐧🇦🇶
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Some good news for a change
Scientists found solar farms had a greater number of species & individual birds per hectare than surrounding arable land
Solar did not pose a threat to national food security, esp when built on low or moderate grade agricultural land
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scientists found solar farms had a greater number of species & individual birds per hectare than surrounding arable land
Solar did not pose a threat to national food security, esp when built on low or moderate grade agricultural land
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Well-managed solar farms can boost wildlife - Cambridge study
Findings by the RSPB and Cambridge University find solar farms can contribute to and aid biodiversity.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Some good news for a change
Scientists found solar farms had a greater number of species & individual birds per hectare than surrounding arable land
Solar did not pose a threat to national food security, esp when built on low or moderate grade agricultural land
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scientists found solar farms had a greater number of species & individual birds per hectare than surrounding arable land
Solar did not pose a threat to national food security, esp when built on low or moderate grade agricultural land
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Afternoon Glow'
The winter here in southern Ontario has been pretty brutal (constant snow and very cold), and I'm really missing some colour in my life. Hopefully spring is not far around the bend.🙂
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #hopeful
The winter here in southern Ontario has been pretty brutal (constant snow and very cold), and I'm really missing some colour in my life. Hopefully spring is not far around the bend.🙂
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #hopeful
February 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
'Afternoon Glow'
The winter here in southern Ontario has been pretty brutal (constant snow and very cold), and I'm really missing some colour in my life. Hopefully spring is not far around the bend.🙂
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #hopeful
The winter here in southern Ontario has been pretty brutal (constant snow and very cold), and I'm really missing some colour in my life. Hopefully spring is not far around the bend.🙂
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #hopeful