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Bev Paulan

@bpaulan.bsky.social

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Former crane mama, current conservation pilot, environmental educator and lover of 🦇🐝🦋🪶🌼🐸 All photos my own unless otherwise credited. Being kind is a choice.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 11h

More young birds for #BirdoftheDay. Yellow-shafted Northern flicker and chicks.🪶

A brown spitted bird with a black moustache and red patch on the back of his head clings to the side of a tree. Two young birds of the same species poke their heads out of a hole in the same tree with open beaks begging to be fed

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 12h

Since it is Friday and this week seemed verrrry long, I think y'all could use something cute. Canada goose goslings for #BirdoftheDay theme of #chick. 🪶

2 fuzzy yellow and brown goslings face each other. One is standing & one is lying.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 14h

I have worked on a crane project for almost 20 years and will not apologize for continuously posting photos of both North American species. 😆
#BirdoftheDay theme of #chick

A very tall and a very small brown bird stand facing each other in a field composed of green grasses and yellow flowers.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 21h

#GoodMorning from northern Illinois. An awe inspiring sunrise to start my Friday. Sets the tone for a great day.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 1d

I think I was #spotted. Tufted titmouse trying to figure out what the great big single eye was - friend or foe.
#BirdoftheDay 🪶

A bird perches on a branch and bends all the way foreward to look backwards between its legs. The background is mottled green.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

Fabulous image!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Rob.

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you.

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

That has to be really great to watch.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

More Sandhill cranes stage up prior to #migration. Central Wisconsin. (Might have to tap image for full effect.) #BirdoftheDay. 🪶

An autumnal field is filled with tall gray birds.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

#Migration season is definitely upon us. Sandhill cranes gather by the thousands at staging areas prior to moving to their wintering grounds. This image of Sandhills in front of the full moon was taken at Crex Meadows in northwestern WI. #BirdoftheDay 🪶

A full moon glows orange over a marsh. It has risen between a break in the treeline and is reflected in the water. Several Sandhill cranes fly across the face of the moon.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 4d

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 4d

Albatross at sunset for #BirdoftheDay theme of #seabird. Drake Passage on the way to Antarctica. 🪶

A sunset over the ocean. A large flying bird is silhouetted against orange clouds

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 4d

Never a bad day when you look out into your yard and see this. Video of 3 Sandhill cranes, one a chick, in my backyard. Taken through my living room window. 🪶

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 4d

I love this thread! Thank you for putting it together.

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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 5d

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Cynthia Slate -Create Bird Habitat @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 5d

Poor birds. I was gone most of the day. #CatsIndoors #Birds
If you don’t hear the birds making warning calls that means they don’t see her or don’t recognize her as a threat because they didn’t evolve with her.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic image!

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Rob.

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 6d

Another example of #rest for #BlueSkyArtShow. A White pelican in repose.

A large white bird with a large orange beak rests on a log in a creek.

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 6d

Finally getting to post for #BirdoftheDay. Today I saw it was #ducks. I erected a Wood duck house in my yard in 2017 and have had one or two broods every year since.

A pair of ducks sit on a log in a creek. One is drsb brown & the other is very colorful

A female Wood duck prepares to enter her nest box. Her feet are forward and her wings are back as she aims at the hole. A male Wood duck is seen blurred in the back ground.

Two fuzzy brown and yellow ducklingd have lept from their nest box. They appear to be flying in that brief moment before gravity takes hold and the drop into the water below.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 6d

Oh to be a Japanese macaque soaking in a hot spring. They look quite content. For #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #relax

Two very fuzzy, tan colored and red-faced, mokeys sit submerged in a hot spring. Steam wafts in the air about them.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 7d

My Gov!❤️❤️❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

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Governor JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov