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Susan McCarthy
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Wildlife NOW. Current photos. No stock shots. No captives framed to look wild. No “Did you know?” Minimal despair.
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Allow me to introduce you to the roundest, friendliest-looking dark-eyed junco in the Midwest! #birds #photography #nikon #junco
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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A squirrel eating snow and sticking out its tongue. Slow-motion video.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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“How lovely yellow is!” —Vincent Van Gogh 🌻☀️💛
#ColorADay #yellowthu #sky #sunset #trees #water #nature #hudsonvalley #newyork #photography
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The full set of 5 local herons around earlier in the week on the harbor walk, I didn't snap the Egrets, but here the first of the others, the Green Heron. With the midday sun behind me it almost looks like a cutout. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #photography
A Green Heron next to still water on a weed and mud covered rock.
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 4
We don’t see them every winter, but in an irruption year, they come down from the Arctic and spend some winter time with us!
This Common Redpoll paused a moment while foraging in the spruce trees.
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
A common redpoll, with its tiny red cap contrasting with its mottled brown and white feathers, pauses a moment in a green spruce tree.
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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The Fall palette has settled in on this trail as raindrop rings adorn the calm river way 📷🕊️ …
As the local river is dabbled in raindrop rings the low clouds hug the distant tree tops.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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For this #ThursJay a curious Steller’s Jay wondering what my deal is
#birds
A Steller’s Jay standing on a railing, looking towards the camera A Steller’s Jay standing on a railing, looking towards the camera
December 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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whisper moon whispering
over the band of still marsh and mirrored just-wintering trees held in a blanket of waking cloud, the full moon hovers high in the pale blue and is itself again lingering whispering behind wisped tendrils below
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Well...🤨

🪶...that didn't take too long. 🤘😁

Guess who came to breakfast this morning...🌿

📸 Today's #birding! #BirdOnAWire déjà vu with our Kestrel!

#BirdsOfPrey
#Raptors 🦅
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#yimby
He came in for our bird bath this chilly morning, but by the time I fetched my camera, our Kestrel had jumped back up to the wire for a few including this profile... ...and one looking back down at the bird bath, like he was aiming, but he was a gentleman.
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A singing Robin from mid October for #festivedailyrobin #holidayrobin Taken at Llanelli WWT. 🪶 #birdingwales #ukbirding #nature #wildlife
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Ravens flying around over the house today = A Raven flight path video to show them flying around and the final pattern they created at the end.

#birds
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar: One of my favourite wildlife encounters of the year was watching this Black Bear nursing her cub in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada. #wildlife
A cinnamon-coloured Black Bear nurses her cub while leaning up against a tree.
December 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Eastern Bluebird

Shades of blue tail feathers...
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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This is an image taken in the North Cascades National Park this past summer. Miss that weather! #Photography #NationalPark #Washington #Nature 📷
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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The remains of the Ironweed flowers, still looking lovely.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#BloomScrolling #NativePlants 🌿
Dried brown flowers on a thin stem looking sculptural and still very pretty.
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Where a love
of natural beauty
has been cultivated,
all nature becomes
a stupendous gallery.
~Horace Mann

🌿❄️🦌❄️🌿

#Scape 🍃
#ForestFriday 🌲
#GetOutThere 🧭
#GreenTherapy 💚
#WeekendVibes 🌿
#EastCoastKin ☮️
#LookingAtYou 👁️
#Photography 📸
#Landscape 🖼️
#Snowscape ❄️
#Mammals 🦌
A serene Mule Deer is looking back at you from a snowy knoll out of a Bob Ross painting, naturally framed by Ponderosa Pine trunks, Scrub oaks, and snow-covered boulders in afternoon light.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Song Sparrow

Belting out a tune...
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Time for #3sDay so i'm going with Grey Seals at Donna Nook, captured on a very cold morning in November.

#mammals #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #naturetherapy #PhotographyIsArt #GreySeals #Wildlife
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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To the left.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Look who’s hiding in the tall marsh reeds
(Mule Deer)
#mammals #deer
A mule deer barely visible peering out of thick marsh reeds
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The four faces of #Hummingborb... 🤘🫠

...also this morning! Today's #birding! #BorbAlert Pt. 2 🪶

📸 Calypte anna #borb

#Hummingbirds
#TheLittleThings
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#yimby 🌿
It was chilly this morning, and my borby Anna's male was willing to let me stick my lens in his face while he warmed up on the feeder. First, the innocent look... Then the surprised look...oh, you're taking pictures??? Now he's getting angry, how dare you take my picture when I'm so round... ...and the finale, the face on gorget flare from a borb Anna's so you really feel his vibe this morning.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Chickasquee
#birds 🌿
Ridiculously adorable puffball of a bird with black cap and white cheeks is perched on the tip of a bare twig. It’s real name is Black-capped Chickadee.
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Black-crowned Night Heron with neck extended standing in mud on shoreline of San Francisco Bay, Emeryville, California.

#birds #nature #eastcoastkin
Medium-size shorebird with white feathers on body and face, dark blue on top of head and part of neck, orange eyes. Pale blue water with small area of reflection of setting sun.
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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One of the highlights of today's birding was this Australian Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus).. a small, dainty nightjar with a big head and huge eyes. It is Australia's smallest nocturnal bird. #BirdingAustralia #nightjars #BirdingSouthAustralia
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Round and feathered, they carry warmth where the cold forgets 😊🪶
本日はよくばり盛り盛りタグ祭りにします‼️ #モフ曜日 #ふくふく鳥選手権 #ムチムチの鳥をミチミチに収める さあ、どっからでもかかってきなさい😎
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #EurasianNuthatch #ゴジュウカラ #birds #野鳥
A close-up of a Eurasian Nuthatch perched on a pebble-covered ground. The bird is slightly puffed up, showing its soft, dense winter plumage. Its head is tilted upward, revealing a black eye stripe and a pointed beak. 小石が散らばる地面にとまったゴジュウカラのクローズアップ。鳥はふっくらと羽毛を立てており、冬の密な羽毛の質感がよくわかる。頭を少し上げ、黒い過眼線と尖った嘴が見えている。
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM