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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚

@gwen4braves.bsky.social

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Give me a book on the porch with birds chirping and I'm happy. Daughters, a granddaughter, husband and the dog. 🧢⚾️🐦

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · Oct 14

Sorting stuff into albums, I found my favorite Hummingbird video. It was in September 2022 not long before they migrated south. I did actually live outside that month. 🪶🌱 #birds #FlowerReport

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

There's a red shouldered hawk and the smaller one is a mockingbird.

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

The red cedar tree on another property is a favorite power perch for birds to feel on top of the world. In a short time three different birds claimed the high perch. Can you identify any? Answers are in the alt text. 🪶

Red winged blackbird is at the tip of a tall red cedar tree

A red shouldered hawk commands the top our the red cedar tree.

The sun came out to spotlight a northern mockingbird on top of the red cedar tree.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

We may have to move the feeder! The Downey Woodpecker is drilling a hole in the tree and possibly creating a lazy bird's stash. I'm used to woodpeckers and nuthatches holding a seed in a crevice to shell but this is new. 🫣🪶

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure how my camera did this! One of the late arriving Ruby- throated Hummingbirds in extra small perched up high and had some good scritches. 🪶

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, my heart. 😍 If only they could visit Portland...

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

🥰🥰🥰 I love it more every time you share an update! The close up of the squares is beautiful.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

When I went back out later there were birds! Complaining does work!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine having blood pressure problems barely under control.

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DiRebecca @direbecca.bsky.social · 11h

#Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) for #BirdOfTheDay. 💚

#Birds #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🪶

Close-up of medium-sized black and white bird with rufous side and red eye is perched on a conifer branch.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 9h

Gorgeous!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty! Who knew?

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 10h

It has to be one of this years babies. 😊

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 10h

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 11h

You're always expecting the next bad thing to happen, whether it does or not.

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 11h

Later Caroline Wren went up in a tree and continued to flounce in anger. I think today the other small bird has moved on and isn't trying to takeover Wren's safe place. 🪶 3/3

On a tree branch a carolina wren bounces around in anger in four pictures.

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 11h

Carolina Wren was very dramatic going up the post of the shepherd's hook and tried going in the cone of the baffle. Oops. 🪶 2/3

A carolina wren bounces around on the post holding two feeders in four pictures.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know exactly why a Carolina Wren has been so hyperactive and cranky this week. There might be territorial spats with either a visiting Northern House Wren or Song Sparrow. There were loud spats in the shrubbery close to the house, where Wren was (?) born in a geranium pot on the porch.🪶 1/3

Four pictures are of a carolina wren bouncing around on top of a feeder

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 12h

Do something for yourself soon, you deserve it. Every level of caregiving its exhausting.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 12h

That's a great hat! My kids just steal my hats when they come to town. 🧢

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 12h

What!? Congrats! Grumbles..... just the usual suspects here today. I caught myself taking pics of a mourning dove preening in a leafy tree.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 15h

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 15h

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #spotted, meaning you've been spotted by your subject or a bird that has spots.
These two Downey Woodpeckers stared off at each other, then tumbled through the leaves with play battles for a while. It was furious, then the next day they did it again. 🪶

A downy woodpecker looking up on a branch.

An angry downey woodpecker glares down at another on the branch.

This picture barely gets both woodpeckers in the frame together before they start play fighting and tumbling in the leaves.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16h

Elegance 💙