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Spotted Doc Martin stomping along, have you?
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Spotted Doc Martin stomping along, have you?
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No relationship between the size of the bird and the amount of wash sloshed out of the birdbath!
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How close? You got the eyelashes!
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Mary Gemignani
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It takes alot of teaching. I believe this is a female Belted Kingfisher teaching her female youngster to fish. This branch seemed to be a learner’s branch. No hovering required, just dive when you see one. My fave photo from Thursday.🪶
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These are so hard to spot, let alone catch parent and baby, and a great shot to top it all off! Zone focus and extreme patience to capture this one? Epic!
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It has superhero possibilities!
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Bizarre, icy sculptures! Sometimes Lake Michigan has spectacular ice that crumples and beaches along its shores, also bizarre.
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We had redtails nesting near home for years. Mom or Dad would bring the fledglings over, catch a squirrel in our trees and divvy it up between the babies who would still be hungry. Then it was their turn!
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All the more startling because we’ve been so invaded by nutria. Morning quiet, and “is that a nutria…” and repeated slaps and splashing! “Beaver!”
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Seems pretty up-gradey to me, beer with your burger! Spouse used to work for a German owned company here in U.S., and Germans had beer with lunch, and 4 weeks vacation while Americans had coffee and 2 weeks.
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We’re still getting new baby birds, 1-2 weeks post fledging and mooching from our feeders, hanging out at birdbaths…flickers, chickadees, towhees, nuthatches, jays, hummers etc., all weeks later than normal
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You’re getting into advanced birder territory !
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Had another one here…I do think phenology folks have determined asynchrony is affecting populations.
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Oh horrid! Lived in Midwest, chiggers are nasty but added to poison ivy…knock yourself out with something!!
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Bring home some cheap multi rapid tests too-just ok’d here but just $2-3 in some Eoropean countries.
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Most of them discovered while hiking, often long distances! Woo hoo for that, too. Bird by bird!
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Saucer with sand and water for bees, birdbaths full, puddles around the raised beds to sip—check, check, check!
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Read this, and weep for the million plus people who died from Covid, the millions messed up from Covid, and the millions with chronic illness, on chemo or frail, whose lives were greatly curtailed by Covid. But don’t feel sorry for those who lied about it.
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Do they wateski in? Grebes have some hydrofoil moves
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Wattle of Bits 🏳️🌈
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One nice thing about social media is that it taught me to appreciate birdwatching, which is dry on paper but when you see these moments you get it
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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Amazing that here in US of A, many would rather consign some to poverty and others to endless work, so Bezos, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Musk, etc., can have 20 percent of the world’s money.
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Peter Nguyen
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Twisted my arm, here’s coastal OC’s chortle chortle!! 🦅📷🪶
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He lives extremely well with little effort, seems like a win to me
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Whoever the villain is, they were once taken care of by a pediatrician, or perhaps they hatched out and hung upside down in a cave…you ever can tell.
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Because it’s been programmed to respond with alternative facts. Which is pretty scarey.
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The little dotted purple lines on throat, the key bit of ID?
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Great year for them here in western Oregon, too. However, we are almost benefit of butterflies. Have an idea why?
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Ward Cleaver Beaver also slapped his tail in warning, a couple times when family was out swimming at dawn. Still lots to see, if you really look, can be quiet and patient.
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Same park had ouzel (American dipper), deer and we even encountered a baby heron (GBH probably), slowly picking its way along the path on those gangly legs. I am still ID-ing new, interesting native plants there though and the beaver family (Ward, June and Beaver Cleaver) were often out at dawn
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Y’know, not every naturalist has such a great sense of humor. Science and a light approach, great combo 😅
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Peter Nguyen
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Mountain bluebird stretchy stretch 🩵🪶
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I have never seen anybody capture this! Had budgies for years and they’d stretch this way.
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Fewer shots could = fewer SE and yecchy days, I’m in
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Good thread, thanks! I have the right kind (the last one, in a large pot). Have seen only one tiger swallow trail, but not for a couple days, despite lots of things blooming now. I hope nobody ate it 🫤
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“Does this camera angle make my beak look too big?”
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We used to have these at a park a mile away, and another nature reserve in a nearby town. Now pushed out by growth. 😭
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They do look like bandits
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And these are great pics! Picked up the iridescence of the parents
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So in other words, it’s like a pizza place on Saturday night!
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Did you lie on your stomach to get this? Eye to eye shot!
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Mine jump out at me, every spring when I clean the patio decently—it was today and of course I was covered with grime and phone was inside. I hate messing up their face spot!
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They seem pretty shy, hard to photograph
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Ummy nummy….bet those take a while to learn to make!
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Wow, talk about a late bloomer! Some teenagers really clean up later, when they learn to comb their hair, don’t they? 🤣
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Yes…who can forget the superspreader medical conferences in 2020! Arrrggghhh
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A 🧵about safer conferencing during the pandemic. In addition to encouraging people to wear N95s indoors, what can conference organizers do to reduce spread (besides go online...)? Some thoughts based on seeing conferences of 300ish become significant spreaders of COVID-19 in 2022-24: 1/3
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You’d think it would fry the poor little guy!
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Beautiful shot!
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Simone Biles is the greatest athlete of all time and i simply shan't hear otherwise
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