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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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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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pmskinner.bsky.social
However your day turns out, it won’t be as good as their day.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
“Moi?"
(American Red Squirrel) 🌿
Squirrel perched on a branch, facing the camera with head turned slightly to its left. It has a huge brown eye and is holding a spruce cone in its front paws.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl couple peeking out from inside a discarded tire.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
A pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos have stopped by a few times this week! The male is camera shy, but I managed to get a few shots of the female.
#birds
Photograph of a female Gang-gang Cockatoo - a grey parrot with light grey beak and orange/yellow edges on its neck and breast feathers. It appears to be nibbling on a dead branch, but was actually climbing it and using its beak as a hand (as parrots tend to do). In this light its eye looks brown. Same subject, but different lighting and pose. This is a more conventional bird portrait, with the cockatoo's back to the camera but the head turned side-on. Its soft, willowy crest is raised and its eyes appear much darker in this light. Its grey back feathers have light grey edges and thin yellow bars.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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birdturntable.bsky.social
Female Belted Kingfisher🪶
A ventral view of a female belted kingfisher with her wings spread showing the bright white undersides and rusty wingpits and belt. Her tail is a dazzling array of black and white patterning and she has a fish grasped in her bill. A belted kingfisher flying away with her wings held down showing the gorgeous slate blue of her back and shoulders. She has a freshly caught fish in her bill. The background is fairly dark but speckled with sunlit drops of water flying off the kingfisher.
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Derpy Green Giant (Lyssomanes viridis) 💚
#EmotionalSupportSpood
The giant googly eyes of a female magnolia green jumping spider--apple jello green and translucent, with a little white and orange "hat"--peering into your soul.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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russbengtson.bsky.social
RIP legend

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt10...
Guns Of Brixton By Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by Paranoid Philosopher
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November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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npitchford.bsky.social
I may sound like a broken record on this but that's the nature of trauma: every one of these children will be traumatized for life. For life.

My own separation from my mother via immigration was just about the gentlest imaginable version... and it's still the central truth of my adult life. I'm 60.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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yardgonewild.bsky.social
Opossum doesn’t worry about an unruly hair night…
you just gotta own that style😄
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
I have the brown/gold one and I love it, really beautiful quality and artwork. Get one while they're on sale!
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My desert animal bandanas are one of my most popular items and come in a variety of colors. Get them at a discount starting this Thursday/Thanksgiving by entering the code HOLIDAY20 at checkout in my largest sale of the year! #BSNM #BlackFriday
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An ad for bandanas showing 4 color varieties lined up on each other with a button that says 15 Colors. A handsome man (my husband, naturally) out in the desert birding holding binoculars, wearing sunglasses and a wide brimmed hat. He is wearing a desert animals. bandana around his neck in gold/yellow with brown ink showing a bighorn sheep and a joshua tree in this quadrant. An image of the full desert animals bandana design showing each quadrant with a different animal: Roadrunner, coyote, bighorn sheep ram, jackrabbit. The corners have a combination of a joshua tree and beavertail cactus, the sides have century plants and jimson weed. The center has barrel and ocotillo cactus.
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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gwen4braves.bsky.social
Good afternoon! 🪶
A black and white woodpecker is going up the side of a tree
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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feathertrail.net
cape barren geese #birds
pale gray goose with pale yellow-green bill and pale red iris pale gray geese with pale yellow-green bill and pale red iris
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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iolantherosa.bsky.social
For #MacroMonday, how about some Spanish Moss? Love how it swoops and flows.
An irregular netting pattern of light green strands, sometimes tightly woven and other times wide open.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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fbsxix.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Blue jay in a tree
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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drsusan.bsky.social
Good morning!
House finch on a heated bird bath.
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl looking out from inside her burrow.
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
Finally!

My neighborhood Ocelot is a sneaky one and I haven't been able to get a photo of it until tonight. At @casabentbill.bsky.social

#cats #ocelot #nature #costarica
Spotted wild cat standing alert in dense green undergrowth at night, lit by a camera flash.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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hawklady.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is "Mr & Mrs" so here we have Mr Red-Tailed Hawk sneaking up behind the Mrs as she perches in a tree. 🪶
#Raptors
Mr Red-Tailed Hawk sneaks up behind the Mrs as she perches in a tree.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social
A wet Powerful Owl. #birds #wildoz #brisbane
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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mondomascots.bsky.social
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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sabrinafitzhugh.bsky.social
This project is for angel tree families who haven’t been taken care of yet! We had several items not signed up for and we have so many needing help this year in our middle school. Rt? @pamwickham.bsky.social @burrowingowl.bsky.social @annedeuceofcups.bsky.social www.donorschoose.org/project/holi...
Holiday Help, a project from Mrs. Fitzhugh
Help me give my students clothing for our care closet and angel tree families and snacks for our snack bin. Three years ago, I added a snack bin to my classroom. Kids could take food as they needed...
www.donorschoose.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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srboisvert.bsky.social
Today's regularly scheduled 10am Peregrine attack on the Montrose Snowy Owls. Third day in a row they've done this dance. 11/23/2025
#Birds #Owls #Falcons
Peregrine swooping in on a Snowy Owl flying just off the concrete pier. lake Michigan and the shore in the background. Peregrine swooping in on a Snowy Owl flying just off the concrete pier. lake Michigan in the background. Peregrine flying away after swooping in on a Snowy Owl flying just off the concrete pier, lake Michigan in the background. The falcon has some Snowy Owl down in its banded right claw. Two Peregrine falcons swooping around for another go at a flying Snowy Owl that is looking to land on the pier. Lake Michigan, the shore and former Edgewater hotel building in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
Freezing a hummingbird’s wings at 1/4000 of a second. (Anna’s hummingbird feeding on Creosote blossom)
Male Anna’s Hummingbird feeds on creosote
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
Took a day trip yesterday to see the Sandhill Cranes gather at sunset at the Jasper-Pulaski FWA and it was absolutely and totally worth it. 😍 #birds
Photo of 4 Sandhill Cranes flying in silhouette against the hot pinks, purples, and blues of a brilliant sunset
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM