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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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Wanda Carmel @wandacarmel.bsky.social · 8h

#photography #nature #Swan #bird #pond #fall #Rochester #NY

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Lawrence Connolly @lawrenceconnolly.bsky.social · 8h

Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio)

Pretty late when this owl showed up in near darkness.

Images edited in Lightroom. #birds 🪶🦉

Nikon Z6 III, FTZ, NIKKOR 600mm f/4 D II

f/4
1/3 sec
ISO 1600

Boston, MA
Formerly 🇺🇸

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 11h

Tons of White-throated Sparrows too. I love it when they eat the flowers off whatever this bush/tree is. :) #birds

Photo of a White-throated Sparrow sitting on some green leaves near a stem of tiny pale flowers, its bill full of petal shreds

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 11h

Last year, I didn't see a single Red-breasted Nuthatch. This year, I see them every time I go to the sanctuary. I definitely understand what an irruption year means now! #birds

Photo of a Red-breasted Nuthatch sitting on a thick white rope just where the rope passes through a wooden fence post, against a dark shadowed background

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 12h

There were simply massive numbers of Hermit Thrushes yesterday too. I had 5 in sight at one time, I think, and they were curious, flitting and hopping close. First year birds, maybe? Lovely to see. #birds

Photo of a Hermit Thrush, a brown bird with a rufous red tail, facing away from me and looking left as it sits perched on the broken end of a thick vertical branch against a background of blurry leaves

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 8h

I really like when great blue herons perch in trees.

#🪶
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#birding
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
#greatblueherons
#naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon #nikonZ8 #nikonphotographer

Bird with lavender, blue and white feathers perched in a dead tree.

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Eric Auer Lee @ericauerlee.bsky.social · 8h

the yellow-rumped warblers were LOVING the juniper berries today #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birdphotography

A yellow-rumped warbler is perched on a juniper branch that is plentiful with berries. The warbler has a berry in its beak

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Marga @margasib.bsky.social · 8h

My first Eastern Phoebe this fall!
The unmistakable call was coming from one of the trees by the lake, so I started looking for it. Suddenly, he flew out and perched in full view 🧡 🪶

#birding #wildlife #photography #fall

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Marina Mueller 🇨🇦 @marinamueller935.bsky.social · 8h

Great Blue Heron in flight 🪶

Large bird in flight over water with cattails along the top and leafy branches on the left

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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 8h

Like me, the Canada geese and mallard ducks were trying to avoid the people in the park.

#🪶
#birds
#nature
#wildlife
#birding
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
#geese
#ducks
#naturephotography #birdphotography #nikon #nikonZ8 #nikonphotographer

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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 8h

My buddy is back.
#birds
#owls

A rufous Eastern Screech Owl in his tree hole.

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Nicole Adams 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 ❌👑 @blathin384.bsky.social · 1d

#FloralFriday
Came across this single #Waterlily and I just had to capture it. Especially this late in the year 🤯

#Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography

Photo of a single waterlily surrounded by its green petals in a small pool of water. There’s a reflection of the bloom in the water as well

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Nicole Adams 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 ❌👑 @blathin384.bsky.social · 1d

Found a spot today for Belted Kingfishers!!! So stoked. Now I have to get closer to them .. somehow 🤨

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds

Photo of a belted kingfisher sitting on a small tree branch. The background is on almost white sky, which is some blue shining through the clouds

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Nicole Adams 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 ❌👑 @blathin384.bsky.social · 21h

Good Morning ☀️
Per @alan678.bsky.social, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Beakful (anything in the beak from food to nest material) and the alternative is #wading

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #birdphotography #birds

Photo of purple Martin with a mass of dragonfly in it speak

Photo of great blue heron as it caught a crab and it’s in its beak as it pulled it out of the water

Photo of to American coot. One of them has some green plants in its beak/bill.

Photo of an osprey at top a wire pole while it consumes a fish

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Nicole Adams 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 ❌👑 @blathin384.bsky.social · 20h

For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow the #sunrise, hidden by clouds, provided the #glow of the red morning sun over Bombay Hook NWR.
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#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography

Photo of a sunrise over the marsh land in Delaware. The sun is hidden by clouds, but the red glow is widely seen all across the image.

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 9h

This had to be done and I was a little busy earlier sorting yesterday's photos, so here goes with what I missed out in my earlier post for the BOTD theme of #Beakful

Various Kingfishers with fish and the 3rd one is expelling a pellet

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #ukbirding

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Mstreefrog @mstreefrog.bsky.social · 23h

A hummingbird in Autumn

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
📷🪶🍂

A male Anna’s Hummingbird catches the evening light, sparking a glow of brilliant fuchsia feathers about his head and neck. He is sitting in a weigela bush with leaves turning bronze.

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Not My Inside Voice 🇨🇦🦊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @janmac.bsky.social · 13h

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

A golden doorway at the ruined monastery of San Galgano.

#photography #EastCoastKin #Italy #SanGalgano

At the ruined monastery of San Galgano, near Siena, Italy, it was late afternoon Golden Hour and the sun was shining through grey-green gothic arches casting a golden glow on this doorway.

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📷 Sveinn Nifl 📷 🇮🇸 Landscape and nature photos @svenninifl.bsky.social · 17h

Saturday is #BlueSkyArtShow and today its #Glow.
Glowing ice under the sunset.
#Iceland #EastCoastKin

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 20h

Cloud over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise. The #glow for the #BlueSkyArtShow provided by a wide angle lens from the 1980s that was submerged in Georgian Bay and dried out in an oven in 1985.

Part of my #GettingBackToBasics project using a set of three manual focus prime lenses.

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Trilobyter @trilobyter.bsky.social · 17h

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #moon #photography #night #nightphotography

Color photo of a full moon glowing in a misty sky with a silhouetted thin tree branch with some leaves sticking up branch in front of it.

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📷 Sveinn Nifl 📷 🇮🇸 Landscape and nature photos @svenninifl.bsky.social · 22h

#BlueSkyArtShow todays theme is #Glow #Iceland #EastCoastKin

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Isabel Caves @isabelcaves.bsky.social · 1d

Mona Lisa
where the garden ends
petal glow

✏️ + 📸 both by me

#BlueSkyArtShow #glow #EastCoastKin #HaikuSaturday #photography #flowers #flowerphotography #macrophotography #naturephotography #haiku #poetry #writesky #poetrysky

A red and yellow chrysanthemum glows in the shadows

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David Brooks @dgbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

The quintessential #glow photo of #sunset over Delegal Creek, #Savannah #Georgia for #BlueSkyArtShow
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

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Gary C @gkc62.bsky.social · 1d

Lichfield Cathedral across Stowe Pool, Staffordshire

A #Monochrome #Glow

#BlueSkyArtShow
#ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#Landscape
#Staffordshire
#Lichfield
#Olympus #E-M10
#photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

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