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Steve Harvey

@lightdrawing.bsky.social

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Not necessarily the Steve Harvey you are looking for Generalist photographer shooting things that interest me; perhaps you too UK-born high Mojave desert dweller More images on Alamy (http://bit.ly/3C8AOnj)

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 5h

I see the #BirdOfTheDay is the #kestrel
This one hunted from this post at the back of our property for a few days this summer.
#birds #raptors

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 1d

It's #twosday
Rock doves in formation last week
#birds #doves #pigeons

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 2d

At Cottontail Acres: we've had quail on the property every day since April 29 - more than five months! They arrive in the morning, hang out all day, then wander off somewhere around sunset. This has never happened in previous years.
#birds #quail

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 3d

At Cottontail Acres: randomness from the week - turkey vulture catching the sunrise, Anna's hummingbird on a stick, immature white-crowned sparrow, Eurasian starling claiming its territory.
#birds #vultures #hummingbirds #sparrows #starlings

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 4d

At Cottontail Acres: this white-tailed antelope ground squirrel appeared in the yard earlier this week. We've had a couple over the years that have stayed for a few weeks but not this one; we haven't seen him since.
#squirrels #mammals #nature #mojave

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 5d

Above Cottontail Acres: about 50 turkey vultures flew in from the east at sunset last night and roosted in the neighborhood. At sunrise this morning they circled for about 15 minutes before heading back east.
#birds #vulture

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 6d

The nuthatches are late this year. Where oh where can they be? This is a white-breasted from a previous year.
#birds #nuthatch

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 7d

At Cottontail Acres: this Anna's hummingbird is growing out a new head of feathers.
#birds #hummingbird

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 8d

Street art, Nottingham, UK (1988)
#streetart #TagTuesday #graffiti #streetphotography #urbangaze

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 8d

Very cool, indeed. That frigate/eclipse shot, though... Pretty close to once in a lifetime.

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 8d

These are fab
#birds

From the Swiss Alps to a solar eclipse: the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year – in pictures

An image of a magnificent frigatebird silhouetted against a total solar eclipse by Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman was chosen from more than 25,000 images as the grand prize-winner in 2025’s larg...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 9d

At Cottontail Acres: most mornings the Merlin ID app tells me there are 4 or 5 species of sparrow around. I can often hear them but can't spot them. But I did catch this sagebrush/Bell's (I can't tell the difference). And the photo also works for #BlueSkyMonday so: bonus!
#birds #sparrow

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 10d

At Cottontail Acres: I spent 30 minutes following a Cooper's hawk around the yard this morning
#birds #hawk #raptor

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 12d

At Cottontail Acres: from last night as the sun was starting to set, a Nuttall's woodpecker and a kestrel
#birds #woodpecker #kestrel

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 14d

At Cottontail Acres: the yellow-rumped warblers and white-crowned sparrows returned this week. Winter's coming.
#birds #sparrow #warbler

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 16d

At Cottontail Acres: Nuttall's woodpeckers visit a few times daily at the moment. This one came by late yesterday afternoon.
#birds #woodpeckers

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 17d

At Cottontail Acres: the black-chinned hummingbirds are still hanging around
#birds #hummingbirds

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 17d

Very sad to hear of the passing of Keith McIvor (aka #JDTwitch, one-half of DJ team #Optimo) following the announcement of his condition two months ago. Optimo included us - #MediumMedium - on their eclectic and influential How to Kill the DJ (Part 2) CD 20 years ago, for which we were grateful.

Optimo - How To Kill The DJ [Part Two]

YouTube video by scraam!!

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 18d

At Cottontail Acres: Not-Hoppy spent about 10 minutes grooming Hoppy yesterday morning. They spend a lot of time just sitting in our trees.
#birds #ravens

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 19d

At Cottontail Acres: it's been a moment since we've had a warbling video here. But there was one this gloomy morning.
#birds #vireo

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 19d

It's #scape day. Here's one from the archive:
Athens, Georgia, 1988
#cityscape #streetphotography #blackandwhite #bnw #b&w

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 20d

At Cottontail Acres: early this morning I walked around the side of the house and was more or less eye level with a red-tailed hawk. It flew to a higher perch where it was mobbed by ravens and left soon after.
#birds #hawk #raptor

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 21d

That peacock I saw one time at a now defunct wild cat preserve here in the Mojave desert some years back.
#birds #peacock

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Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 21d

Facebook has just paid me $31.22 damages in a class action suit against them for releasing private data to Cambridge Analytica. Not that Zuck will notice.

Steve Harvey @lightdrawing.bsky.social · 22d

Our feathered friends are taking a rest today, so here's Dr. John in 2016.
#DrJohn #rockphotography #livemusic #rockphoto

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