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T. Michael Redmond
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Born in Ireland 🇮🇪. Vocation: vision scientist; avocation: traveling natural history and landscapes, and art and architecture photographer. The vast majority of images I post are mine, others not are properly attributed. Dogfather. All opinions personal.
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Very nice! I have gone to Argentina for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #CootsAndMoorhens with this Red Gartered Coot. Great diversity of Rallidae down there!
A black waterbird with yellow bill and white facial shield, a tiny red spot connecting the shield and the bill. The bird is swimming on very green water and its neck and head are reflected in the water.
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Detail of a 6th century CE ceiling mosaic in the Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. Such unbelievable beauty!
A mosaic with a background of gold tessellae, with multicolored bands at the lower left and upper right. Pairs of idealized blue and green horn-shaped figures run from the upper left to the lower right. In the center of each pair is an idealized flowering plant. On the rightmost plant a bird is perched.
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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For Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme here’s a #Paddling Northern Waterthrush in its ideal habitat.
A brown-backed bird with prominent eyestripe, streaked belly, red legs, snd medium length pointed bill standing in very shallow water. There are some out of focus in the lower right of the photo, and some small sticks in the background
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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For #BirdOfTheDay #LunchTime theme I can offer this Atlantic Puffin bringing home the groceries.
A bird with a black crown and black neck and white chest, with pale grey face and cheeks, red surrounding its eye, and a deep, multicoloured grey, yellow and vermilion bill, the bill holding many silvery fish.
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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“Here's looking at you, kid!”

Keeping with Razorbills and Rob’s theme of #CloseUps for #BirdOfTheDay
A black-headed and black-backed bird with white underparts looks down its bill into the camera. White markings extend from its bill to just in front of its eyes. White vertical stripes are seen on its bill.
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is any bird perched on a #Rock. I think that this image fits this (Razor)bill!
A black headed and black backed bird with white underparts is perched on a boulder with yellow lichen to its left side and white bird guano to its right side and below. The bird has white edges to its folded wing secondary feathers. It has a white vertical stripe on its deep black bill and a horizontal white stripe extending from the top of its bill to below its eye. There is a green vegetation background to the left and top of the image.
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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For the #BirdOfTheDay #hiding theme here is a Common Yellowthroat hiding in a waterside bush WHILE belting out its song. Typical MO for this skulker.
A small greenish brown bird with black mask and a yellow throat sings its song from inside a bush with green leaves and thin brown branches.
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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A message from beyond the grave! #HappyHalloween
Three plastic human skeletons sitting side by side on three deck chairs in the dark, on a leaf-covered lawn beside a street. The leftmost with its hands over its eyes, the middle one with its hands over its mouth, and the rightmost with its hands over its ears.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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For #BirdOfTheDay theme #Heron we have a beautiful Great Egret sitting pretty on a muskrat mound at Blackwater NWR in Maryland.
A white bird with yellow eyes and bill and white crest sits on a mound of sticks in the middle of a pond.
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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You have to get up early to see Charles Bridge #Prague as empty as this.
October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay decided by Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social, the theme is #Raptor. Here’s a handsome Snail Kite in Entre Rios, Argentina.
A bird with slate-grey body, white under-tail, black wing and tail edges, with a long, sharply hooked bill, yellow face, and orange feet stands on a lichen-crusted fence post against a blue sky. A fence wire runs from left to right intersecting the post just below the bird.
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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For the #BirdOfTheDay #green theme is this Green Heron on a log in a swamp.
A dagger-billed bird with dark greenish blue crest, lighter greenish blue back and rusty underside sits on a log with its orange feet. To its left is another log with moss on it and below it is a pale green duckweed covered pond. A vertical thin brown stick is immediately behind the bird’s bill.
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A Common Raven vocalizing in a tree in our neighbor’s yard in suburban Maryland. This is the second time we’ve had a Raven in our neighborhood in the past year. (Video courtesy of JBR.)
October 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Artist’s impression of current state of peer review in US health research studies.
A man with an angry expression and wearing a white coat stands at the end of a pier tossing papers into the water.
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The last of the summer okra? Gigantic pods– only good for long cooking in gumbo. I had to work hard to find the smallest ones.
A man’s right hand is placed for scale atop a pile of rather large green okra pods.
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Always look up, Rome edition (but not Sistine Chapel, questo è proibito!). This is the baroque ceiling fresco of Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola representing the life of Ignatius of Loyola, a founder of the Catholic order of the Society of Jesus. The late Francis was the first pope of this order.
A highly ornate ceiling depicting holy works of a saint executed in a trompe l'œil fashion. Large numbers of angels feature. Three windows are at the top and three windows are at the bottom of the image.
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Always look up: Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore edition. We joined a line of hundreds queuing to visit the tomb of the late Pope Francis.
A richly ornate dome ceiling.
October 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Our ride from Bologna to Rome. I love me a Frecciarossa!
October 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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A mural in the picturesque San Giuliano neighborhood of Rimini celebrating the films of famous director Federico Fellini. Rimini was the boyhood home of Fellini.
A mural on a white wall depicting the figure of a perplexed looking man, surrounded by heads of about a dozen people. There is a depiction of a man on a motorcycle in the bottom right, one of Blind man playing an accordion at the top right, and a nun climbing a ladder in the top left. There are green plants on the left of the picture and a window in the middle of the left side.
October 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Reflection of Palazzo Ducale, Modena.
Baroque building reflected in a shallow rectangular pool of water, the reflection receding to a vanishing point at the top side of the image. Blue sky and clouds above the building are also reflected. Paved surfaces are to the left and right sides of the image.
October 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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In a library of the old University of Bologna, oldest university in Europe. Many seminal books on Zoology and natural history, including such as Linneaus and Cuvier.
A bookshelf of old books many in brown bindings. A wire lattice in front protects them.
October 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Ravenna, 10/3: Protesting the interception of the #gazaflotilla. Beside the railway station.
October 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Ravenna, 10/3: A protest against the interception of the #gazaflotilla. Part of the one-day national strike in Italy that is disrupting trains, planes, ferries, and buses all over the country.
A crowd of people, some carrying red flags, on a street intersection under trees. A signpost in the centre of the image.
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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“Iacta alea est!” Crossing the estuary of the Rubicon, north of Rimini, historical boundary of Rome. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his legions in January 49 BCE, setting in motion events leading to the Civil War that ended the Roman Republic.
View from a train window of crossing a bridge over a tree-lined river. The yellow sleeve of a train passenger is to the bottom left.
October 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Did a LOT of looking up today in Ravenna!
Byzantine mosaics line the interior of a dome. The central circle is of a man being baptized by another man. Surrounding this is a circle comprised of 12 figures. In turn, 8 windows surround this.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM