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Bill Stedman
@steddybirds.bsky.social
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Retired weekly newspaper editor who now dabbles in bird/nature photography. Urge everyone to support local and independent journalism. We need a strong free press more than ever!
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steddybirds.bsky.social
Before I call it a day, here’s a bonus #borb from my files. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #juncos #nature #birdphotography 🪶
It’s not winter in New England until the dark-eyed juncos are back in force. This slate-colored junco is half white as it shows its underbelly while perched on a snowy branch facing the camera. Its head is turned in profile looking right to show its dark eye and light beak. Photo taken in Walpole MA USA
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
This is journalism malpractice by @usatoday.com: Trump said some of the most racist things he had ever this week (and that’s saying a lot) and this headline & story completely ignores that. It’s Trump PR, not journalism.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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jancasavant.bsky.social
For today's #BOTD, here's a very cute #White-throatedSparrow all puffed up and tucked into the branches of a bush by the trail in Norfolk, Massachusetts (Dec. 2024) 😍

#birds #sparrows #BirdOfTheDay #Borbs #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #nature #StickSeason #Massachusetts @robcrank68.bsky.social
A White-throated Sparrow with a gray front, brown wings with white wing bars, a white chin and head with black stripes and a yellow streak near the eye. The bird's feathers were all fluffed up to help keep it warm on a cold day, and the bird was tucked in and behind some brown branches of a bush, with a blue sky in the background.
December 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Borbs I offer a round robin of choices including a cold American robin, a fluffy white-breasted nuthatch, an introspective Carolina wren and a proud eastern bluebird. #birds #robins #nuthatches #wrens #bluebirds #nature #birdphotography 🪶
An orange-breasted American robin stands on the snow facing the camera but looking a bit off to the right. A fluffed-up white-breasted nuthatch perches on a snow-dusted branch facing the camera but looking off slightly to the left. A Carolina wren perches on a thin branch facing the camera and looking off to the right. An eastern bluebird shows its orange breast as it sits on a railing facing the camera with its head tilted just slightly to the right. All photos taken in Walpole MA USA
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
Brings back a lot of memories, starting with the newsroom for the Wayland/Weston Town Crier and the Sudbury Town Crier and Fence Viewer.
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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technewslit.bsky.social
Here's a #songbird for #BirdOfTheDay, a northern mockingbird warming up for La Traviata in Cape May Point State Park, N.J. Photo'd June 2024.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin
#CapeMay #JerseyShore
#Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic
#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited
Photo of a northern mockingbird with beak open at the top of a pine tree.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
steddybirds.bsky.social
And now here’s a #songbirds #fail as I heard this song sparrow up above, finally located him and waited to catch his next tune …
#birds #BirdOfTheDay #birdfail #sparrows #nature #birdphotography 🪶
Song sparrow perches on a branch facing left. Song sparrow on branch facing left lifts its head to sing, but it is blocked from the camera’s view by another branch.
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
Quiet for the moment, but this northern mockingbird knows the entire #songbirds playlist! #BirdOfTheDay #birds #mockingbirds #birdphotography #nature 🪶
A gray and black northern mockingbird perches on a wet feeder poll facing toward the camera but with its head turned all the way to the left. A gray northern mockingbird perches on a wet feeder poll away from the camera but with its head turned all the way to the right. You can the stripes of white on its wings and tail.
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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marynh.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LookingAtYou. This #MourningDove is always looking at me, the big flirt.
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Close up on Mourning Dove on feeder gazing into the camera.
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
You ever have the feeling someone is #LookingAtYou when you step out in the morning? #birds #BirdOfTheDay #mourningdoves #doves #birdphotography #nature 🪶
A tan and gray mourning dove perches in the rafters of my open carport and peers down at me with its large black eyes that have a bit of white around them.
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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jancasavant.bsky.social
For today's #BOTD looking at you, here's a cute Black-capped Chickadee perched on a branch and looking down at me (Topsfield, Massachusetts - Oct.) 😍👁️

#birds #Paridae.#Black-CappedChickadee #BirdOfTheDay #LookingAtYou #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography #NikonP950 @robcrank68.bsky.social
A Black-capped Chickadee with a white head, black cap and chin feathers, and a light brown front, perched on a brown tree branch and looking down at me. There are more branches and green leaves in the background, plus a couple of red leaves. Seen at Ipswich River W.S. in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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wphoto.bsky.social
A Titmouse from this afternoon with a bit of snow in the air.
#titmouse
#birds
#nature
#photography
#birdphotography
December 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social
Ok, journalists, can we as an industry talk frankly about the administration’s white nationalism agenda now? I mean everyone other than me?
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
Happy #TitmouseTuesday !
#birds #titmouse #nature #birdphotography 🪶
A tufted titmouse peers out from behind a blurred yellow rhododendron leaf in the late afternoon sun that lights up its gray head and black eye.
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
A song sparrow proudly shows its #stripes !
#birds #BirdOfTheDay #sparrows #nature #birdphotography
A song sparrow perches on the bud of a rhododendron bush, facing the camera and showing the stripes on its head that converge at its beak. Photo taken in Walpole MA USA
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
Hey! Heads up! It’s #Mallard#Monday
#birds #mallards #nature #birdphotography 🪶
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
Some sanderlings reflect on their #reflections for the #BirdOfTheDay theme. #birds #shorebirds #sanderlings #nature #birdphotography 🪶
Two sanderlings, each reflected in the wet shoreline, poke their beaks into the sand to pick up something to eat. Photo taken in Dartmouth MA USA A breeding adult sanderling stands in shallow water, facing right, and turns its head towards the camera. Its reflection is broken up by bits of seaweed. Photo taken in Dartmouth MA USA
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
The U.S. president speaks and relates information like a mentally disabled person or a person with a head injury. I will never understand how this is not front-page, top-of-the-hour news.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results

Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.

Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?

Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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parkermolloy.com
A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
AP Trump MRI results Make a year-end gift Sign in AP Top 25 Stockton shooting Lane Kiffin Nick Fo POLITICS Trump says he'll release MRI results; he doesn't know what part of his body was scanned President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on Air Force One from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Sunday, Nov Read More Updated 5:33 PM CST, November 30, 2025
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
steddybirds.bsky.social
This bluejay doesn’t have a berry in its beak — he’s clasping a sunflower seed in his claws so he can break it open — but he is a #corvid and makes it as a #BirdOfTheDay alternate. #birds #bluejays #nature #birdphotography 🪶
A bluejay perches facing left with its claw holding a sunflower seed on the branch while he works on it with his beak.
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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noplanetbphoto.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your day is filled with food, football, friends, and family! #BirdoftheDay
#EastCoastKin #birds #birdwatching #nature
#wildlife #bird #birding #wildlifephotography #birdsofbluesky
#naturephotography #birdphotography
#birdlife #photography #turkey #thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
In honor of our American Thanksgiving here in Massachusetts, our #Headshot for #BirdOfTheDay is a wild turkey who kept his head! #birds #turkeys #nature #birdphotography #GiveThanks 🪶
A profile of a male wild turkey, facing left, with a red waddle on its long shiny neck and a tuft sticking up from above its beak.
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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marygemignani.bsky.social
Well it's Thanksgiving tomorrow here in the US. I am grateful for all the growing followers and the great community here. Thanks everyone! Here's a set of Wild Turkeys from my archive.
#birds #WildTurkey
A young Wild Turkey female who had her own brood at her feet. A vibrant Wild Turkey in the woods. A spectacular display by this Tom Turkey. A Wild Turkey is strutting in a field while the males display for the females. The many colors of the bird's feathers are so beautiful!
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
The nuthatch (this one is white-breasted) is the champ when it comes to #HangingAround ! #birds #BirdOfTheDay #nuthatches #nature #birdphotography 🪶
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
steddybirds.bsky.social
This red-bellied woodpecker is still #HangingAround the suet feeder as the sun goes down! #birds #BirdOfTheDay #woodpeckers #nature #birdphotography 🪶
A red-bellied woodpecker is barely seen in the shadows of late afternoon as it hangs upside-down off a suet feeder. Its head on left is twisted right-side up and glimpses of its redcap and red above the beak are just visible. Photo taken in Walpole MA USA
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM