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SaraG

@hardlikearmour.bsky.social

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She/her PNW Into birds, bees, nature, reading, cooking, karaoke, and Crowded House.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · Nov 21

Auto settings did a weird overexposure on this Rufous Hummingbird feeding on salvia. I really like it. #birds 🪶

Washed out photo of a bronze and green hummingbird feeding on light pink tubular flowers.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 29m

Thank you, Alan. 😊

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1h

For the @robcrank68.bsky.social and @alan678.bsky.social hosted #BirdOfTheDay today's theme is the family Paridae. The most widespread version seen in North America is probably the Black-capped Chickadee. Their name is an onomatopoeia of their call. #birds #chickadee

A small grey and tan bird with a black cap, white face, and black throat is perched on a pink and green branch looking almost straight at the camera. Its pose makes it seem taken aback. There are more green and pink branches in varying levels of focus in the background.

A small grey and tan bird with a black cap, white face, and black throat is perched on a pink and green branch looking towards the right. There are more green and pink branches in varying levels of focus in the background.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 15h

🤩 this is an amazing image.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

Love it.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

😮 that fish is huge!!

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

Great gory photo. Perfect for theme & spooky season. 😱

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

They are very cool birds. I was happy to see them this morning. Fingers crossed they hang around for a bit.

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

I'm on team left. It's just too cute.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

There. Are. No. Exceptions. To. Human. Rights. If one of us isn't free, none of us are free. I want to live in a country where a politician who stands on this principle isn't the exception. But until then, Mamdani is an example of what's possible, and what we should demand from our leaders.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

Gory but great photo.

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 23h

They are a great clean up crew and spend more time beneath my suet feeders than on them. They're also some of the most dapper birds.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

This morning at the local wetlands. #birds #nature #urbannature #raptors #herons

A Red-tailed Hawk perched on a metal electric tower, its feathers ruffled in the wind.

Splish-splash a Greater Yellowlegs taking a bath.

A pair of Hooded Mergansers in front of a Great Egret. The male is facing left and the female is facing right. The egret is also facing right.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

The Wood Pigeons made me chuckle. Lovely photos.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

Great photo!

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

😲

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

🤣😆 Thank you, Alan. Sometimes the stars just align. ✨

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

What a gorgeous bird. That blue eye! 🩵

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

😂🤣😂 I just snapped it earlier this evening (it's still night in the Western US), and couldn't believe the tiny fish was captured so clearly. BOTD theme was serendipitous!!

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

Overachievement for the #BirdOfTheDay theme by combining a #wading Great Egret with a #beakful of weeds plus a wee fish. #birds

A Great Egret wading thigh deep in murky water with weedy material in the tip of its bill and a tiny fish poking out the side.

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. Time for the #BirdOfTheDay theme and it is #Beakful , so anything in the beak from food to nest material and the alternative is #wading Good luck!! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

A female European Stonechat with a warm orange-brown breast and a light brown head perches among green leaves, holding a few wisps of dried grass or straw in its beak. The soft, blurred background highlights the bird’s detailed plumage and the delicate strands it carries, giving a sense of nesting activity in a calm natural setting.

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gigpalileo @gigpalileo.bsky.social · 1d

Palm Warbler
in Central Park Pinetum this afternoon🪶
Safe travels!!!
#birds
#birdwatching
#birding

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

What a cutie!

SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool photo!!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Can we talk about an exciting fall visitor to the yard this week?: Purple Finch! #birds (1/7)

Bird that looks like a sparrow dipped in cranberry juice is perched on the edge of a bird bath.

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