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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 4h

Mirror duck.

#bird #birds #duck #whynotaduck #mallard

Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland WA

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 18h

Araneus diadematus, Seattle.

#spider #orbweaver #araneus

Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 1d

"Please stop doing that. I'm trying to sleep, here."

#ducks #woodducks #birds

Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland WA

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 3d

Sea lion, being unfailingly polite, and wondering if you have any sources to back up your opinion.

Mukilteo, WA.

Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 14d

Cooper's hawk. Marymoor Park, Redmond WA.

#bird #birds #hawk #coopershawk #accipiter #raptor

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 23d

Brant (Branta bernicla), a small coastal goose, about the size of seagull (one of which is included for comparison). I've only seen these once, a flock of about 20 on the Edmonds Waterfront, and they took off about 15 minutes after I got there. (from April)

#bird #birds #geese #brant #edmondswa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Sep 3

Heron and Antiheron.

Union Bay Natural Area, Seattle

#bird #birds #greenheron

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Sora, or Carolina Rail, forages for food in shallow wetlands, and is about the size of a robin. Rails are slender, to walk through marsh grasses - origin of the phrase "thin as a rail".

Juanita Bay Park, Aug 28. My second lifer of the day!

#bird #birds #sora #rail #kirklandwa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Aug 30

Northern pintail ducks, female or non-breeding. They are dabbing ducks, meaning that they will plunge their heads into the water, butts in the air, to forage for food below the surface.

Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland. One of three "lifers" I saw that day.

#ducks #northernpintail #bird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jul 17

Spotted sandpiper on the South Fork Stillaguamish River, Big Four Mountain Trail. Expedition led by Neil Zimmerman and Roniq Bartanen of Birds Connect Seattle.

@birdsconnectsea @she_birds #bird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jul 14

Male white-spotted sawyer beetle, on fireweed, Big Four Mountain, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The elytra (wing cases) are open as he unfolds his wings to take flight. #beetle #insect #washington #nationalforest #bugs

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jul 13

Cedar waxwing from not very far away. Big Four Mountain, WA.

#bird #birds #cedarwaxwing

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jul 12

Big Four Ice Cave. July, 2017.

Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jul 2

Rhinoceros auklets, a seabird of the North Pacific, closely related to puffins. The horn-like structure on the nose is present only in breeding adults, and is shed every year.

#auklet #bird #seabird #birds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 29

Reorganized my space museum today. This shelf commemorates the American moon landing and the programs that led to it. Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas, Gemini, Apollo, and Artemis. And under the glass dome, a fragment of the moon itself.

#space #spacecraft #nasa #lego

Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 28

Sister-wives? Red-winged blackbirds are polygynous - several females will share the territory of, and mate with, one male. These three stayed close together as they flew from one location to the next. The male stayed at the top of his usual tree, watching over us all. #bird #birds #blackbirds

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 21

Smith Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the destination of the @pugetsoundexpress puffin cruise. The lighthouse here, built in 1858, was abandoned in the 1950s due to erosion of the bluff, and crumbled into the sea in 1998.

#lighthouse #birds #smithisland

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 20

A belted kingfisher queen is startled, and departs.

From this week's puffin tour to Smith Island on the Swiftsure, out of Edmonds.
@pugetsoundexpress @birdsconnectsea

#bird #birds #kingfisher #salishsea

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 20

Tufted puffin near Smith Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, as seen from the catamaran Swiftsure, operated by @pugetsoundexpress out of Edmonds, WA, in partnership with @birdsconnectsea.

#bird #birds #puffins #salishsea

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 17

Steptoe Butte, WA. June 2018.

#palouse #washington #sunset

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 14

Chicago River, 2018. From the rooftop bar at London House.

Fuji 10-24mm

#chicago #chicagoriver @lhchicago

Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 11

Juvenile great horned owl. Its plumicorns, or horn-like tufts of feathers, are barely there but will grow more awesome with age.

Wiley Slough, Skagit Wildlife Area, WA.

#bird #birds #owl #owls #greathornedowl #skagitcountywa

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 10

Purple martins, the largest swallow in North America. Marymoor Park, Redmond WA.

#bird #birds #martins #purplemartins #swallows

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · Jun 2

wet-ass chickadee

skagit county, wa

#bird #birds #chickadee

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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · May 27

"The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow"

Marymoor Park, Redmond WA

#birds #bird #swallow #treeswallow

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