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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦

@lorichirp.bsky.social

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Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · Mar 4

A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉

A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)

A Barred Owl, a large, stocky owl with brown and white markings, round head, no ear tufts, and a medium-length tail, is perched on a branch in a forest.

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David @burdz.bsky.social · 1h

I almost forgot about Warbly Wednesday! Yikes! Today's is a beautiful blackburnian warbler....
#birds
#birding

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LinfordCZ_Photog7 🏳️‍🌈📸🐦 @zphotog7.bsky.social · 1h

Wilson's Warbler at a spring in the mountains.
#birds 🦉 #birdphotography #photography #nikon #nature #naturephotography #wildlife
#wildlifephotography
#birders
#birdwatching
#photographer
#birdsofbluesky
#newmexico

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Dave Tackett @dtackeye.bsky.social · 51m

Juvenile Bald Eagle from this morning, Rock River:

#birds #eagle #narture #wildlife #raptor

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1d

Don't just stand there ffs...

...it's #TopKnotTuesday! 🪶

🌿 Off early, and heading for the hills! Peace!! ✌️

After many tries, I figured out how to manipulate the Gambel's Quail into coming over the fence on the north side of the yard in sweet morning light, and this cute male was the first one to fall for it. Zen.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1d

When your juvenile Anna's is still young enough to take naps...🥱

✨Starting around September, young males may develop just a few iridescent feathers on the crown and gorget. Now you know. 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Calypte anna, a juvenile male 🪶🌿

#TinyTuesday
#TheLittleThings
#Hummingbirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography

An juvenile male Anna's Hummingbird is slightly enfloofenated in the sunlight while perched on a twig with his eye closed, and you can see enjoy the details of his crown and gorget with only a few iridescent feathers appearing so far in his short life...

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 15h

😖I find most of the verbiage describing a Red-naped Sapsucker's belly plumage woefully inadequate...😍🕸️

👇So tell me, wordsmiths, how would YOU Alt text her. This should be fun! #WoodpeckerWednesday 🪶

📸 Sphyrapicus nuchalis female 🌿

#Woodpeckers
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

Red-naped Sapsuckers are black and white overall with a red cap, nape, and throat. They have a long white bar on the folded wing. A black stripe through the eye is bordered by white stripes. The belly is mottled black and white, with a dingy or yellowish cast. Female Red-naped Sapsuckers, like my sweetie clinging to a Slippery Elm sapling here, have a white patch on the chin while males have entirely red chins. That's what you find on teh google. I would say her belly has a cool spiderweb pattern that radiates from her bib, and mixed in with that yellowish cast it sure looks wicked!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 6h

YESSS!!!

#BirdofTheDay is a Kestrel, ...or any flying tits. 🤘😶‍🌫️

#BirdsOfPrey
#Raptors 🪶
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#BirdLovers

A vibrant Kestrel doing a fist pump up on my power pole against clear blue sky.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 6h

This was a lovely morning, momma watching me like a hawk! 🫶

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 22h

Do you smell that?? 🌿

🦌Deer peeps! That's Eau de #WildlifeWednesday! 🫶

Have a sweet one! 🤘😶‍🌫️

#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#Mammals
#Wildlife

A sweet Mule Deer fawn still in her spots has just stepped out of a 'spotlight' of sun filtering to this clearing from the canopy above so I could take her picture foraging in the shade. Zen.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 3h

We die only once,
and for such a long time
~Molière

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#WaderWednesday
#WaterWednesday
#WildlifeWednesday
#ThinkAboutThatForHumpDay 🌿

Gordo the Great Blue Heron stretches his long neck out in the sunshine against blue ripples.

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 44m

😁I felt like saying "Sorry, dude, the ladies aren't showing any interest!" He'll keep trying though!

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 1h

🌿 What a sweet #WoodpeckerWednesday! 😍

Thanks for sharing all your cool birbs! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Northern Flicker female 🪶

#Woodpeckers
#LookingAtYou
#Photography
#BirdLovers

A young Northern Flicker lets me get close for some eye details and a few polka-dots...

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 1h

The Linnets are back, noticed several flocks on the top of Clunbury Hill this evening #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

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Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 1h

Canadian Goose doing yoga and finding balance in the marsh waters #birds

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

its been entirely too long since i swan-posted #birds

a white swan begins to run on the water to take flight on a lake. theres reeds taller than the swan and trees in the background

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Max Hellicar @birdingtothemax.bsky.social · 1h

I have wanted to see a Varied Thrush for a very, very long time, so I was ecstatic to catch this first year male at Pedder Bay this morning! Our first to be ringed this season. #birdringing

Varied Thrush: upperwing, showing 4 replaced (adult-type) and 6 retained (juvenile) greater coverts

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Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 1h

Mallard & Canadian Geese with a little interspecies preening in the shallow water of the marsh #birds

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gvbodenhausen.bsky.social @gvbodenhausen.bsky.social · 57m

An orange-crowned warbler in the goldenrod 🪶

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nyrak62.bsky.social @nyrak62.bsky.social · 1h

Harvest Moon rising at Glastonbury Tor tonight @sony-alpha.bsky.social @dailymail.co.uk @natgeophotos.bsky.social @telegraphnews.bsky.social @dailymail.co.uk #harvestmoon #moonrise #supermoon #glastonbury #glastonburytor #landscape

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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CatsAreGods @catsaregods.bsky.social · 1h

Check out the #genderreveal sky in these #harvestsupermoon shots!

#moon #photography #landscape

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 1h

Since I have taken so many pix/videos of them in the last week, I have to post something for #WoodDuckWednesday! A male courting 2 females! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

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Stephanie Graham @logicaphotography.bsky.social · 1h

Possibly the worlds funniest Eurasian Magpie #birds

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Stephanie Graham @logicaphotography.bsky.social · 1h

This Buzzard is quite a unit ❤️ #birds

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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 1h

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