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Wendy Miller

@burrowingowl.bsky.social

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Nature photographer, public defender representing young people, lover of burrowing owls. RPCV Niger.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · Sep 1

I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 39m

In flight snowy plover sequence. First time I ever got this angle, super rare you can get below the bird, since they're ya know.. in the sand, but luckily they were on a sand... ridge? #birds

a snowy plover going with flapping wings to in flight, 4 different shots

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1h

Finally got a pic of a bananaquit too 🔥

Dozens of them were chirping when I walked through this morning but I couldn't see a single one

Walking back to my room this evening, the afternoon sun was a great help in spotting one 😄

#birds

Photo of a bananaquit perched in foliage on a thin branch. Underparts are a bright yellow like a banana. Upper wing feathers are a dark blue or black, there is a light gray wingbar, and wing tips are a lighter blue. Its throat feathers are white, and it also has a white "eyebrow" along the top of its head. It has a sharp, slightly decurved beak.

Close-up of the first picture. Photo of a bananaquit perched in foliage on a thin branch. Underparts are a bright yellow like a banana. Upper wing feathers are a dark blue or black, there is a light gray wingbar, and wing tips are a lighter blue. Its throat feathers are white, and it also has a white "eyebrow" along the top of its head. It has a sharp, slightly decurved beak.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 6h

Blessed Nightweaver protect us.🙏

Spotted Orbweaver, Neoscona crucifer.

#Arachtober
#Spiders
#MacroPhotography
#NaturePhotography
#SheWhoProtectsInTheDark

A photo of a rotund brown and tan orbweaver spider hanging in her web at night. The spider has a large abdomen which is tan with 2 columns of 3 black curved markings on either side of the middle. One of the spider's rear pair of legs are visible, slender and banded black and tan. The spider's two front pairs of legs are held tucked close to its body on either side of its head which is obscured in shadow. The spider's web shines from the flash, the background being the black of night.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 3h

Lol, maybe Donald Sterling has enough girlfriends to sustain an entire fashion line.

Three photographs of Donald Sterling's friend, V. Stiviano, wearing different visors.

Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 3h

Moist owlette. 🪶

Burrowing owl shaking rain off his head and back.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 3h

More from the Big Island: hiked some shoreline ruins in South Kona and the vog gave us QUITE a #sunset : )
#Hawaii #photography

A white sand beach with black lava rock outcroppings and a few noni trees form the foreground of a tremendous Hawaii sunset, the red sun just hitting the horizon and lighting up mid and high clouds

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 5h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning! 🪶

A red cardinal among autumn leaves in a maple tree

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 5h

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning!

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Stephanie Graham @logicaphotography.bsky.social · 6h

A handsome young red deer stag. #ukwildlife

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 6h

If the crime is that old, he could apply for 212(c) relief, I guess, but he'd never get it in this administration.

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Jerry Cannon's Wild Life @jerrycannon27.bsky.social · 8h

Caught on the Kis Cam #birds

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 8h

Hee hee haw haw, what’s so funny miss parrotfish?? 🤭🦜🐟 #redtailparrotfish #parrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #smile #livelaughlove #goofball #buckteeth #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning! 🪶

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13h

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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Frauke Adrians @frauke.bsky.social · 1d

Patriciowl's friends, of which she had quite a few, used to call her Trish. Her little sis Samanthowl, who cawed with a lisp, called her Trif. She found this so endearing that when her very rich parents gave her a whole industry complex for her birdsday, she had her nickname painted onto the facade.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

Red shouldered hawk sitting in a sweet gum tree

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

A regular adult Oriental Whip Snake looking like a laser beam

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Adult Oriental Whip Snakes are usually fluorescent green. I’ve met this blue/green individual a few times over recent months. Stunning morph.

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning!

Fox squirrel sitting up with paws on her front.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning!

Burrowing owl perched over an irrigation canal.

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Frauke Adrians @frauke.bsky.social · 2d

Powla had to admit that her siblings were crap when it came to proper classic ballet. "But you need to dance SOMEhow", she insisted. "All of you." (Including Owlfred, who has no sense of any rhythm at all, she thought.) "Let's do a nice chorus line, shall we?" Most of the others obliged. Sort of.

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Frauke Adrians @frauke.bsky.social · 2d

Powla, Owlfred, Owlgernon, Owlizabeth (the eldest sister), Owlga, Owlexander.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

I saw between 30 and 40 owls out and only two were doing this! This guy didn't even care that I was parked nearby, gawking at him.

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