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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁

@stevewaycott.bsky.social

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Hubby, daddy, lawyer, photographer. This account is primarily filled with wildlife and nature photography by yours truly, with maybe a bit of snark here and there. If this is your vibe, welcome aboard!

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · Oct 2

Hello to everyone who recently followed along! (and also to those who've been here a while) I'm Steve and I'm a hobbyist wildlife photographer in eastern Canada. I post a new wildlife photo every day. I hope you enjoy the photos, and don't be shy to engage if you see something you like!

An american robin is leaning over the edge of a tree branch containing a bunch of red berries and it is grabbing a berry in its beak.

An image of the April 2024 full solar eclipse, showing the full black circle of the moon as it eclipses the sun, with a halo of warm sunlight emanating from the periphery of the moon's orb.

A lone eastern painted turtle rests on a semi-submerged log with a reflection of turtle and log clearly visible on the glass-like water.

A blue jay is perched on a lichen-covered tree branch with an out of focus soft green background. The jay is looking over its shoulder at the camera with a sunflower seed in its beak.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 5h

If you can hold off until Black Friday, they always have a sale. 20 or 30% off, if I recall correctly.

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 11h

It is Helicon Focus. It only does one thing -- focus stacking -- and it does it extremely well.

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 16h

You're welcome!

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 17h

These buggers really did a number on my garden this year. "Infestation" is the word that comes to mind.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 17h

If you say "beetle poop" three times, it might appear. (Hey, it works for juice.)

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 17h

It's poop in 3D!!

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 17h

Helicon Focus

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 17h

My focus stacking software has this really neat feature where it will take the constituent photos from your stack and make a 3D model based on the focus depth in each photo. And it will even export it into a little video to show it at different angles So cool!

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 17h

A focus stacked image of a Japanese Beetle with one of my potato plants going in one end and out the other.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2025

📸 #Invertebrate #insect #beetle #nature #wildlife #macro #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor

A close-up top down view of a gorgeous beetle with iridescent green and brown carapace on top of a green leaf which it is simultaneously eating at one end and pooping out at the other.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 20h

A female Purple Finch from one of our evening photo sessions last spring. #FridayFinch

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
May 2025

📷 #birds #PUFI #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor800pf

A mottled brown and white songbird (female purple finch) is on a lichen-covered tree branch with a soft yellowish-green background. She is facing to the left and is looking at the camera.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 20h

A runner-up for me is the nearby community of Rusagonis. What's that you say? Where is [Russ-a-gonn-iss]? Ahh, I see you're from away. [Rush-a-gorn-ish] is near Fredericton.

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 20h

Easy-peasy!

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 21h

Sounds like maybe some words had been spoken over the summer and now the speakers of those words are catching up on things.

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 22h

Here in southern New Brunswick we have an embarrassment of choice. But my go-to is Apohaqui, a small farming community. Go ahead, give it a try.

If you pronounced it any way but 'Appa-hawk" you're not from here. :)

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

They are a very multi-faceted looking bird.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

We were thrilled to see this dark morph Pomarine Jaeger on my #pelagic birding tour in the #BayofFundy.

Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

#birds #POJA #marinelife #nature #photography

A brown gull-like bird (pomarine jaeger) is flying toward the camera with its wings spread wide. The background is the dull grey of a rainy day.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

That's what usually happens. This year, however, it was above average hot summer weather right up until, well, yesterday. And then today just a couple degrees above freezing, and calling for the same for the next little while. So it seems someone has flicked the big Summer/Fall switch in the sky. :)

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

A Wild Turkey hen pokes around the ground, looking for something to eat. Just out of frame was a small group of prancing toms vying for her attention.

St. Andrews, #NewBrunswick, Canada
December 2024

📸 #birds #turkey #WITU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

A large brown bird with an iridescent sheen on her feathers is walking with her head lowered to the ground in short grass in a clearing in the early morning sunlight.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts and prayers to you.

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s the latest for us too. Mind you, it was 30 degrees C a couple days ago…

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I performed the somber ceremony of Switching the Heat Pump from A/C Mode to Heat Mode. Always a sad day each autumn. Please respect my privacy at this difficult time.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely a cool one. Had to finally turn on the heat, as it isn't going to get any warmer for a while. Sigh.

Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 2d

We saw a number of Common Terns on my #pelagic birding tour in the #BayofFundy. Here is a beautiful photo of a tern set against the soft pastel morning sky. As it takes a dump. :)

Bay of Fundy, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

#birds #COTE #marinelife #nature #photography

A smallish grey and white bird (common tern) is flying from left to right across the frame, with a stream of shit silhouetted against the beautiful golden orange morning sky.

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Steve Waycott Wildlife Photography 🍁 @stevewaycott.bsky.social · 2d

This, too, is a bird.

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