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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦

@lorichirp.bsky.social

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Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · Mar 4

A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉

A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)

A Barred Owl, a large, stocky owl with brown and white markings, round head, no ear tufts, and a medium-length tail, is perched on a branch in a forest.

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 2h

Happy #TwosDay! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Long-billed Dowitchers

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John McGowan @jmc223.bsky.social · 22h

On this day in 2023 in the garden - Do you come here often? Coal Tit and a Blue Tit have a conversation at the feeders - Birmingham UK - 13-10-23 #birds #ukbirding #uknature #ukwildlife #nature #ornithology #photography #birdphotography #canon #naturephotography

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Michael Lund Markussen @mlmarkussen.bsky.social · 22h

Golden-winged Sunbird
Gyldenvinget Solfugl
Drepanorhynchus reichenowi
#birds #birding #Kenya #photography #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #ornithology #birdphotography #animalphotography

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Heather @hceedee.bsky.social · 21h

Fergus, 10 Oct '25. #PigeonSky 🪶

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Heather @hceedee.bsky.social · 21h

Moir, 10 Oct '25. #PigeonSky 🪶

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 2d

An American Red Squirrel on the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, doing its superhero pose for #SquirrelSaturday

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice. Black-capped Chickadees are non-migratory. Here's one near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, in winter when temperaturescan be -40° or lower. This one is perched on one leg to avoid heat loss though the other leg.

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 21h

Pink ripples at sunrise for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 21h

Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise for #ColourADay #PinkMon

#ColorADay #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape #clouds

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 21h

Storm clouds racing up Colpoy's Bay, Ontario in the #bluehour for #BlueSkyMonday. Only a 25-second exposure, the clouds were moving fast.

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 20h

Clouds over Colpoy's Bay and the Niagara Escarpment shortly before sunrise for #MinimalMonday

#TenMinutesFromHome

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape #clouds

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 21h

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #wings. So here's little and large wings made with the same manual focus telephoto 20 years apart.

An immature Ruby-throated Hummingbird on the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario.

American White Pelicans formation flying at Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan.

#birds #wildlife

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Julia @julia11.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends. Have a wonderful day. 🍁🍁 #birds

A Blue Jay perched on a sunflower stem in the morning light.

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Aaron Sheppard Wildlife Photography @wildlifeshorts.bsky.social · 21h

Stonechat female with food for her young. #stonechat #ukbirding #bird #Ashdownforest #england #photographersunited #photography

A female Stonechat is perched on the top of a Gorse bush with a grasshopper in her beak.

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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 21h

Azure kingfisher, at Kumbartcho Sanctuary.

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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 21h

Azure kingfisher perched on a very patient water dragon. 🪶

Azure kingfisher perched on the tail of a very patient water dragon, at Kumbartcho Sanctuary.

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 5h

Ooh, interesting! I just read that they hybridize with Mallards often. The picture on "All About Birds" shows the hybrid with a green "cap". This one definitely is getting some green on the head. I'm still thinking probably domestic cross because of the white on the chest. I'll watch if it's around.

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James William Lowry 👊🇺🇸🔥 @jdublow.bsky.social · 20h

Coming in from the weekend on this #MallardMonday
#bird #wildlife #nature #photography #wings

Regimen fascisticum delendum est!

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James William Lowry 👊🇺🇸🔥 @jdublow.bsky.social · 20h

Sticking the landing #bird #wildlife #nature #photography #wings #hummingbird

Regimen fascisticum delendum est!

A juvenile ruby-throated hummingbird in landing sequence on a leaf

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gvbodenhausen.bsky.social @gvbodenhausen.bsky.social · 20h

Portrait of a hermit thrush, a bird of perhaps subtle but undeniable beauty 🪶

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Mr Garden @mygardenuk.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning to you too. 😊🙏

Here's a few flying fighting Wood Pigeons with their #wings spread for #BirdOfTheDay

Today’s theme is #wings
The alternative is #droplets so any droplets of water on any bird.
#Birds #Nature #BeautifulBirds #BlueSky #OldPhotos #WoodPigeons #Pigeonsky