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Wendy Walker
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Birder. Recovered stage manager. Love a good story.
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Happy Bluesky Birthday! Here's a fancy Peacock to add to the celebration.
A very blue male Peacock with fabulous white eyelines looking curious. He is a resident of the Botanical Park and Gardens of Crete.
July 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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A similar sighting in Seattle. What a great discovery for science. I wonder what the species range is for pro-democracy dinos?
A pro-democracy t-norex holds a cardboard sign that reads Get That Dinosaur Out of Office.
June 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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#Seattle #NoKings march is still streaming into Seattle Center. Lots of smiles, dogs, little kids, people passing out water and masks. Creativity and care everywhere.
A person with long dark hair and a beard, wearing sunglasses, smiles while holding a big sign that reads "I drink my horchata warm because FUCK ICE." He also has a big flag of Mexico. I asked if he was ok with his face showing and he said yes. A young person holds a handwritten sign that reads 'I didn't recite Liberty and Justice for ALL every morning just to be called "too woke" for wanting Liberty and Justice for ALL." A sign that reads ICE = Deputized Proud Boys. A crowd marching down a street with a really big trans flag and a rainbow flag. One person holds a cardboard sign that reads "This all ends when enough of us say no."
June 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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My father died 14 years ago today. He lived a quiet but honorable life, kind and generous. During WW2, he did his part against the Nazis by growing food for his community. He had one eye and regretted not being allowed to enlist.
Today he is on my shoulder, against fascism and dictators.
#NoKings
A black and white photo shows a young man dressed in a collared shirt and work pants, gently holding the head of a very handsome calf. Both face the camera. This man is my father, the kindest man of the highest integrity, a farmer and dairy man for much of his life. He was born in 1924 and died 14 years ago on June 14. I miss him.
June 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Note to self: Normalize sharing fuzzy photos of #birds because they are the only kind I take through binoculars. #BirdJoy #OwlsAreAwesome
#Seattle
A fledgling Barred Owl on a very mossy branch looks back at the line of people on the park trail who are all enthralled by the owl family living its best life. Only the owl is pictured.
June 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A person wearing a ball cap in a wheelchair holds a sign that reads Protect and Support Trans Youth and a small US flag. They are in front of the Seattle Center fountain. A group of young people are seated on top of the silver dome of the fountain.
April 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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#HandsOff Seattle
A sign made of a collage of photos depicting beautiful outdoor spaces and a Pika with a mouth full of grass. Text on the sign reads Hands Off! Protect our parks. A sign with text reading No $$$ for Genocide! Photo of a large crowd of protestors carrying pro-democracy signs. Photo of a large crowd of protestors carrying pro-democracy signs.
April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Photos from Magnuson Park wetlands yesterday. Birds calling, setting up nesting sites, a frog chorus, a rich soundscape.

This soundscape may be degraded by a new pickleball court right next to it. #birds

How about no?
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An adult Cooper's Hawk perched on a bare branch with a background of more bare twigs and branches with small buds foretelling that spring will arrive soon. A young Raccoon is climbing a tree. Its black and white face peeks out from behind the trunk, looking at the viewer. A Pied-billed Grebe, a small waterbird, is on top of a mud nest she is building up with more mud and water plants. A Red-winged Blackbird perched on a twig, its red shoulder feathers flashing out, and its beak open as though singing. (It was in fact singing.)
March 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This is reason 1,279 why I love Seattle. It's February 28. Absolutely heinous things happened today. And people will still come out in 52 degree weather to sit on a blanket and watch the sunset.
We have to have joy to fight for.
In the foreground, a small grass patch with a dozen or so people on blankets and in chairs, or standing along a fence. Beyond the fence are the waters of the Salish See, with the sun setting behind the Olympic Mountains. The sky is lined with long white clouds, orange where the sun is descending. A view of the Salish Sea and the Olympic Mountains at sunset, with a marina full of boats in the foreground.
March 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I know everything is awful but the red flowering currant blooms anyway.
Clusters of tiny pale pink bell-shaped flowers, barely open, on a twiggy shrub. Half way between winter solstice and spring equinox, red flowering currant is starting to bloom in Seattle.
February 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Meet A/6, an adult male Cooper's Hawk who has nested for several years in a park close to me in Seattle. This sighting in my yard is the 20th report since he was banded as an adult in August 2020. Hats off to the Urban Raptor Conservancy that does the banding and provides the info.

#birds
An adult male Cooper's Hawk is perched on top of a snag. His left leg is banded with a metal band reading A over 6. A closeup of the leg and band on the Cooper's Hawk.
January 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Happy Christmas Ships, y'all.
#Seattle
Boats decorated with colored lights gather on Lake Union with the Seattle skyline and the Space Needle in the background. The Argosy boat Spirit of Seattle, lined with white lights. The word "Peace" is spelled out in lights on the back of the boat. A choir is singing Christmas carols on the ship.
December 24, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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Bald Eagles doing eagle things on top of a sign that is itself an eagle. #birds #Seattle
Two adult Bald Eagles are perched on a sign that is shaped like a Bald Eagle. Close up of two Bald Eagles.
November 30, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Golden-crowned Kinglet being its adorable self. #birds
November 17, 2024 at 8:23 PM