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Mike Saccone@mikesaccone.bsky.social |
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Conservation advocate and amateur bird photographer. Ohioan by birth, Coloradan by choice, living near the nation’s capital.
I took and own all photos posted here. No reuse or reference without permission.
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Mike Saccone
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A great egret on the Maryland side of the Potomac along the C&O Canal.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 100, f6.3, 1/1250s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
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Mike Saccone
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A barred owl after dropping its crayfish lunch.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f6.3, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #owls #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
1 replies 1 reposts 23 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A gray catbird snacking on wild berries.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
1 replies 3 reposts 25 likes
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Mike Saccone
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An expectant green heron in the afternoon sun.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1600, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
1 replies 3 reposts 30 likes
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Mike Saccone
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An osprey family photo.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
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Mike Saccone
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You called it!
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Mike Saccone
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A blue-gray gnatcatcher on the hunt on Theodore Roosevelt Island.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5000, f6.3, 1/1250s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
1 replies 1 reposts 18 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A very vocal female red-winged blackbird.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 560, f6.3, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
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Mike Saccone
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A camera-shy green heron guy.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1250, f6.3, 1/2500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
1 replies 4 reposts 34 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A common yellowthroat showcasing its namesake.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f6.3, 1/1600s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
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Mike Saccone
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Liftoff for this great blue heron along the C&O Canal.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2000, f8, 1/2000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
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Mike Saccone
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A barred owl hiding in plain sight at Maryland's McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5600, f6.3, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography #owls
0 replies 3 reposts 31 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A young Northern mockingbird at the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5000, f8, 1/500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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A happy final #wrensday of June 2024 to one and all.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5000, f7.1, 1/500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Start your week right with this American goldfinch.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2000, f6.3, 1/400s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Of all the backyard birds, white-breasted nuthatches have the biggest mismatch between their looks and sounds.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 6400, f6.3, 1/1600s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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One of a nesting pair of Mississippi kites near Rockville, Maryland.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2200, f10, 1/2000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
2 replies 1 reposts 26 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A great blue heron visiting the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens on Juneteenth.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
1 replies 9 reposts 51 likes
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Mike Saccone
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Ah. The alt description misidentified it as a dry leaf.
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Mike Saccone
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Yes, thanks for that correction.
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Mike Saccone
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A backyard Northern Flicker in a pine tree.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f6.3, 1/200s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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It's gnat gonna happen.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2200, f8, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
1 replies 5 reposts 25 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A young downy woodpecker eagerly awaiting its food delivery.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5600, f7.1, 1/1600s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
0 replies 2 reposts 14 likes
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Mike Saccone
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Two yellow-crowned night herons at the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography
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Mike Saccone
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A snacking chipping sparrow.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 6400, f8, 1/500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
0 replies 3 reposts 21 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A loud, proud prairie warbler.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
1 replies 5 reposts 39 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A ruby-throated hummingbird (briefly) at rest.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 7200, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
0 replies 1 reposts 28 likes
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Mike Saccone
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A dusky grouse I crossed paths with during a backpacking trip last fall in Idaho's Sawtooth Wilderness.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor DX R 70-300mm (ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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An impressively intense stare from the neighborhood Northern mockingbird.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 900, f9, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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He's always got the blues.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f6.3, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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An American goldfinch at dawn shredding a thistle plant in search of seed.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2200, f8, 1/3200s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Two young tree swallows receiving a meal on the fly.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 8000, f6.3, 1/1600s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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A house sparrow hunting for bugs.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5000, f6.3, 1/500s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Wrensday is the best day.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f8, 1/400s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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A green heron on a precarious perch.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f8, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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He's enforcing a no-fly zone.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4000, f8, 1/400s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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An Eastern bluebird showing off.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor (ISO 4500, f8, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
1 replies 4 reposts 75 likes
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Mike Saccone
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An indigo bunting that needs to up its camouflage game.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 6400, f8, 1/1250s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
2 replies 10 reposts 87 likes
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Mike Saccone
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Thank you for your kind words!
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Mike Saccone
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A vocal prothonotary warbler pausing to search for food between calls to announce itself to the boaters, birders, and hikers near Riley's Lock along the C&O Canal.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 720, f8, 1/800s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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An American goldfinch pondering the last day of May and the imminent arrival of DC humidity.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 720, f8, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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A preening and prancing mourning dove.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2800, f6, 1/640s)
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
2 replies 1 reposts 24 likes
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Mike Saccone
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Thanks!
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Mike Saccone
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A red-eyed vireo showing off its namesake.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2800, f8, 1/800s)
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
1 replies 0 reposts 14 likes
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Mike Saccone
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Do you lose much sharpness? I was thinking about the 1.4 but not the 2x for that reason.
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Mike Saccone
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It’s the official start of #summer tanager season.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f8, 1/640s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Yellow-throated warbler? More like yellow-throated wailer.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2800, f8, 1/800s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Eatin’ good in the hood.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f8, 1/1000s)
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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A chatty Cathy, er catbird.
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 18000, f8, 1/1250s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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Mike Saccone
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Carolina chickadee? More like Carolina chicka-A+
📷 #Nikon #Z6ii + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f8, 1/800s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nikonphotography
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