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Garden bird ID, made simple 🐦✨

How many of these feathered visitors you can recognise?

Bonus points if you spot one today 👇

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January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Ditto what GetToKnowNature said!
October 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Black Bear female (her cub’s in the brush behind her) enjoying wild apples fresh off the tree rather than those on the ground…used all the zoom I had…
#easternWashington #PNW #nature
#rural #mammals #bears #wildlife
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#gettoknownature
September 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Black-billed Magpie…together they build globular nests about 3 foot in diameter…male feeds female while female lays and incubates 5-9 eggs…both feed young…
#birds #BirdsoftheWorld #closeup
#BirdsofBlueSky #photography #PNW
#easternWashington #rural
#WestCoastPhotography #wildlife
#gettoknownature
August 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Captured this Great Blue Heron hunting at the Lily pond in Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…
#easternWashington #birds #herons
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
#WestCoastPhotography #PNW
#greatblueheron #gettoknownature
#Stunday #waterlily #BlueSkyartshow
August 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Male Belted Kingfisher near Harrah, WA hunting an irrigation canal from a phone line…they nest in 3-6 foot long tunnels that slope upward to keep rain out…
#birds #easternWashington #PNW
#gettoknownature #BirdsofBlueSky
#BirdsoftheWorld #closeup #wildlife
August 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Rufous Hummingbird at my Yakima Valley, WA feeder…likely migrating south…known for aggressive behavior, males do not assist females with incubation or care of young…
#birds #easternWashington #closeup
#birdsoftheworld #photography
#WestCoastPhotography #nature
#birdsofBlueSky #gettoknownature
August 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Calliope Hummingbird, the smallest bird found in North America, visiting my feeder in Yakima Valley, WA during spring migration…it didn’t linger…
#birds #BirdsoftheWorld #nature
#birdsofBlueSky #gettoknownature
#easternWashington #closeup
#WestCoastPhotography
#photography #onlybeautifulthings
August 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Up close with an American Crow…took all my zoom but it seemed OK with people…maybe a resident at Sportsman State Park, Yakima…
#birds #depthoffield #BirdsofBlueSky
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
#easternWashington #closeup
#birdsoftheworld #gettoknownature
August 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Female Bullock’s Oriole raiding the hummingbird feeder…guess it felt it needed to take a break from grape jelly…common here in the Yakima Valley…
#birds #Orioles #naturephotography
#WestCoastPhotography #birdsofbluesky
#gettoknownature #onlybeautifulthings
August 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Hummingbird crowd at my feeder…believe Black-chinned female and two youngsters from my observations…had a female for several weeks before this photo and only females incubate eggs…
#birds #hummingbirds #gettoknownature
#photography #WestCoastPhotography
August 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Sights along a trail we briefly walked at Sportsman State Park, Yakima WA pond so I could photograph the water lilies…it was 96 degrees but I really had to get those lily photos…
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#naturephotography #photography
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Cattails and reeds from the pond edge…a bit of pink water lilies out on the water… A hollow log laying on a bed of last fall’s fallen leaves that’s likely home to mice or other small rodents… Bright red wild rose hips against green leaves and brown twigs… Canada Thistle flowers gone to seed that’s very fluffy and gold…
August 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Caspian Tern panting in the 98 degree heat at a boat launch on the Columbia River, McNary National Wildlife Refuge, Burbank, WA…Gull sized, largest tern…
#birds #gettoknownature #wildliferefuge
#photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky
#naturephotography #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Cow and her calf…our small pasture was allowed to go to seed…now a few cattle are on it…they’ll re-seed the pasture by walking the seeds into the ground…it’s an old fashioned, cheap way to keep a pasture healthy…Yakima County, WA…
#cattle #animals #WestCoastPhotography
#photography #gettoknownature
Mature Black Angus cow… Calf born early this spring…
July 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Wood Duck, drake, on Sportsman State Park pond, Yakima, WA…he had just come out of some blooming weeds at the pond edge so I think the white specks on him may be pollen or plant debris…
#birds #wildlife #gettoknownature
#naturephotography #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
July 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Great Blue Heron hunting among the Water Lilies at the big pond at Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…
#PNW #birds #greatblueheron
#landscape #WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature #photography
#flowers #wildlife
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Messy as they are, watching Barn Swallows build these mud nests is fascinating…didn’t realize it was such a frantic process…Yakima, WA…
#birds #gettoknownature #wildlife
#photography #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
July 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Water lily found on the large pond at Sportsman State Park, Yakima WA…
Google Lens says it’s a hardy variety likely Nymphaea ‘Fabiola’…it took my breath away…
#flowers #bloomscrolling
#flowerreport #photography
#WestCoastPhotography
#flowerphotography #gettoknownature
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Great Blue Heron at lunch among the blooming water lilies at Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…fishing was good…it got two before flying off to digest
#birds #PNW #greatblueheron
#WestCoastPhotography
#wildlife #photography
#gettoknownature
July 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Steller’s Jay, the only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains, surprised us by spending much of the summer with us in the Yakima Valley…guess it liked the steady supply of raw peanuts…
#birds #PNW #gettoknownature
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
July 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Red-tailed Hawk flying over Toppenish NWR land on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…its cry has a prominent role in the storyline in the 1992 Val Kilmer, Graham Green movie thriller “Thunderheart”…
#PNW #birds #WestCoastKin
#photography #raptors #wildliferefuge
#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature
July 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Great Egret wading Snake River waters at Hood Park, Burbank, WA…it’s US population was nearly decimated in the late 1800’s by plume hunters…its comeback because of efforts of conservationists made it the symbol of the National Audubon Society…
#birds #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Shot this hummingbird from an open kitchen window…was really amazed by the feather pattern on the wings…
#birds #gettoknownature
#WestCoastPhotography
#naturephotography
July 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Wondered if this Swallowtail hadn’t dived too deeply into the lily…was preparing to shake it out…however, it backed out quickly and flew off covered in pollen…no need for human interference…
#butterflies
#flowers
#gardening
#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature
July 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
lindaking78.bsky.social
Check out the Great Blue Heron rookery on Toppenish Creek, Yakima Valley…14 of 15 nests are now empty…just one remaining adult and a fledgling…will be interesting to see if the rookery is used again next year…
#birds
#gettoknownature
#greatblueheron
#WestCoastPhotography
July 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM