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Wendy Miller

@burrowingowl.bsky.social

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Nature photographer, public defender representing young people, lover of burrowing owls. RPCV Niger.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · Sep 1

I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶

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Chris Haunted Houston @chrishouston.bsky.social · 3h

Tough time for mental health for people who aren’t horrible monsters so I took some pictures of things in my garden that made me happy yesterday. Pomegranate, passionfruit blossom, banana. 🌱 #gardening

Bunches of small green bananas around a purple flower and green leaves

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 5h

G’mornin!

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 14h

Lunchtime lizard flashing its flashable bits 🚩

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 7h

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl peeking out over her burrow.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 20h

I was trying to photograph Groove-billed Anis this morning, but I was photobombed by his scofflaw.

At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapirs #birds #nature

A tapir resting in green grass with two small black birds nearby—one perched on its back and the other on the ground in front.

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 9d

Incredible footage of a rarely filmed large 3 dimensional school of circling Cownose Rays. I was really psyched to have captured this. The 3 dimensional school was circling on a horizontal plane and also on a vertical plane.
#nature #amazing #animals #awesome #ocean #wildlife #mesmerizing

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 2d

The largest schools of rays I've seen in over 10 years in the Tampa Bay area. These are a few more of the shots I've taken of the Cownose Rays schools (aka fevers) during the 2 month period they were in the area.
#nature #amazing #animals #wildlife #naturephotography #ocean #florida #awesome

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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 20h

Dolphins doing high jumps this morning in the intracoastal waterway near Clearwater, Florida. I've probably captured close to 1,000 jumps on camera over the years but I think these might be the highest I've filmed.
#nature #amazing #animals #awesome #dolphins #wildilfe #thanksforallthefish

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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 1d

It's what's for breakfast. This juvenile reddish egret (I think) was fishing in the shallows this morning at the local wildlife refuge. Successfully, I might add. That's some serious focus. #photography #birds #EastCoastKin #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Frauke Adrians @frauke.bsky.social · 1d

Monday morning. It was no use ignoring that a new week of woe-inducing work and tedious toil had begun. One had to risk an eye, Owliver concluded. "But no more than ONE eye", Owlga pointed out.

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Elizabeth Kennen @elizabethkennen.bsky.social · 1d

Burrowing Owlet Buddies 🪶 Two little owls for a happy #Twosday!
My original framed 16x20 watercolor is available at Moraga Art Gallery. 🎨 moragaartgallery.com #art #BayArea #owls #birds #nature

Fine art prints & gifts 1-elizabeth-kennen.pixels.com/featured/bur...

Watercolor painting of two burrowing owlets. Rocks in the foreground, green leaves behind the owls.

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Alex Kwanten @sportzagato.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning!

A Stellar's Jay hopping around on a tree branch

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

A red cardinal looks around from the side of a feeder

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Susan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @drsusan.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning!

Female downy Woodpecker on a seed cylinder

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acorncarver.bsky.social @acorncarver.bsky.social · 1d

A Peregrine puts up a wave of birds as they explode into the air at #RSPBSnettisham this morning @rspb.bsky.social

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #ToadallyTuesday and you should post toads and toad-related content. #herps

A 4-panel comic with tips about identifying spadefoot toads vs western toads. Spadefoot have vertical pupils, true toads have horizontal pupils.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl couple-- the male is standing and tilting his head to the side while blinking one eye. Only the top of the female's head is visible and one wide eye is showing from behind a plant.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 1d

Ready for launch! The lovely little black-fronted dotterels were my (almost) constant companions at Lake Hattah.

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 1d

A life endlessly being stared down upon by birds is a life worth living 🥰✌️

Plumbeous Vireo 📷🌿🪶

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 1d

"GET OFF MY DUNE, BRUH" 🪶

Same whimbrel on the sand dune moments before takeoff, beak parted, exposing the long sloping pink of his gullet. Looks grumpy

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 1d

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY. 😍 Lifer! I didn't get a pic of the first one I saw, but I was confident of the ID, and then this gorgeous creature just *posed* for me. Nelson's Sparrow might be my favorite sparrow now. #birds

Photo of a GORGEOUS Nelson's Sparrow, with its gorgeous orange eyebrow, throat, and streaked bib and that striking grey cheek patch, on a thick twig against a blurred background of green and yellow and orange fall dune grasses

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 2d

Goth band album cover.

Groove-billed Anis are fabulous birds. A type of cuckoo, this species lives in social groups of up to 10 birds and they collectively guard their territory and even share a nest together!

These birds were taking a break today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social to groom each other.

Five black birds perch closely together on a branch, their glossy feathers and long tails standing out against a blurred green forest background.

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Monday is already too busy. I’d rather be birding the migration 😭

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Snowy egret chasing off belted kingfisher

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 1d

This was supposed to be the #SundayFishSketch ...
The bumby snailfish is refusing to get painted at the moment :/ ... I may return to it later or try again.

tiny watercolour of a bumpy snailfish looking ahead
pencil stump for size reference
It looks like a pjnk bumpy blob withe spiky fins

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Sep 8

IT'S ADORABLE!
New fish species just dropped: the bumpy snailfish at 10,000 ft down in the ocean
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

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