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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚

@gwen4braves.bsky.social

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Give me a book on the porch with birds chirping and I'm happy. Daughters, a granddaughter, husband and the dog. 🧢⚾️🐦

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · Oct 14

Sorting stuff into albums, I found my favorite Hummingbird video. It was in September 2022 not long before they migrated south. I did actually live outside that month. 🪶🌱 #birds #FlowerReport

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 53m

Tufted Titmouse 🪶

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 2h

Gorgeous! 💚

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 3h

It's a cutie patootie!

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 4h

Pictures from Tuesday when I stayed out as late as I could and still take photos.
Ruby- throated Hummingbird, Gray Squirrel, Chipping Sparrow 🪶🦊

A very small hummingbird in silhouette on the tip of a twig. The tiny red feather on his gorget is a ruby color in daylight.

A fussy squirrel is high in a tree on a broken branch

A hummingbird resting in small branches in the fading light

A chipping sparrow is just the right size for the finch feeder

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 4h

Oh! It's #WoodpeckerWednesday! Yesterday the Downey Woodpecker lost me in the leaves. 🪶

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 4h

They make it easy!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16h

The full moon was best seen from a kitchen window since clouds and trees blocked it outdoors.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16h

Downey Woodpecker 🪶

The black and white woodpecker is going up the side of a tree then on to a branch.

The black and white woodpecker is seen from the back on a branch in two photos

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16h

That's going to be a big squash casserole!

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing pictures!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 16h

Beautiful!

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Audrey Sargent @stoutheartstudio.com · 19h

Ohhh my goodness, this painting makes me feel like a badass!
Making a real effort to work digitally on fewer layers with traditional paint technique and I feel improvement!
A Common Loon, a beautiful 🪶, in the water.

#SciArt #Birdtober #BirdArt

A loon paddling in the water, its feet barely visible under the water. It’s feathers have iridescent shades of brown, purple, blues and grays. The striking white bands of dots line the black feathers and wings until the white breast. The collar around the neck and head are more iridescent, framing the bright red eye.

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debmaluk.bsky.social @debmaluk.bsky.social · 20h

a little Hairy side-eye.... #birds

A Hairy Woodpecker on a thick branch. She is looking back over her left shoulder. She has a white chin and chest and black and white bands on her face. Her wings are black with white spots and she has a patch of white feathers on her back.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

That's long enough for 20 trips ⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️ on every tree around! They're so much fun!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

Lucent and calming 🤎

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

Beautiful 🖤

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 18h

Sleep is pulling me into its nocturnal embrace. Good night

A just past full moon glowing in some orange pinkish clouds with a deep blue sky and a dark horizon.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

I've been thinking about you today. This is good to hear! Screening exams are exhausting and cause anxiety to ramp up.

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

He's so happy and handsome!

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

More video of the fascinating crawlie thing.
#invertebrates

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

😳 The crawlie thing was moving fast! 2/3
#invertebrates

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 17h

What was trying to get me out on the porch? First I almost propped my legs on the footstool, then noticed an interesting thingy. I took pics then shook it off onto shrubbery. Later one came crawling down my kindle prop on my lap. When you're getting a video it's scary up close! 1/3
#invertebrates

Pictures are of two crawling insects. One was on a cushion on a footstool, the other later on a book prop.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 21h

I think they had a route with starlings that would circle back around every now and then. Details were lost. 😅

Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 22h

The sweetest floof!