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Molly Bangles
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stage manager, night owler

she/her

mostly birds and nature here

pictures and videos are mine unless otherwise noted

arts & crafts: https://mollybangles.etsy.com
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Happy Friday, please enjoy this minute of Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks 🪶🖤🦆

Audubon Park, New Orleans, December 2025
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Thinking about vultures, one of the best and most important creatures
🖤🪶

Turkey Vulture in Thibodaux, Louisiana, December 2025
A Turkey Vulture - a large raptor with dark brown/black plumage and a bare red-pink head with a formidable hooked beak - perched on a bare horizontal branch on an overcast, but very glare-y and bright afternoon. The vulture has their head turned in 3/4 profile, giving them the appearance of coyly posing for the
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Hello 🪶
Cropped photo of the same Cooper’s Hawk in flight in a blue sky, now angled more directly towards the camera, still catching the sunlight, wings half closed, at an angle on either side
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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The culprit of the mass pigeon flyout 👀🪶

Cooper’s Hawk in Astoria, 2.8.2026
Cropped photo of a Cooper’s Hawk in flight in a blue sky, wings out to wait her side, red eye and rust-orange chest plumage catching the sunlight
February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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My only day off in a three-week span had sub-zero windchills, which was rude, but it was not enough to keep me from going outside to stare at birds 🐦✈️🪶

Pigeons over the East River, Astoria, 2.8.2026
A blue sky with 42 pigeons in flight, over most of the frame. At the far left is a large commercial airplane, white and red, appearing to be no larger than about 4 pigeons from this perspective Closer crop of the airplane and blue sky in the previous photo, with one pigeon in frame to the right of it, appearing larger than life in comparison
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Mood II

Anhinga in Audubon Park, New Orleans, December 2025 🪶
Close up side-profile of an Anhinga - a large water bird with black and gray and white plumage - in front of water that is reflecting green foliage nearby. The Anhinga’s long point beak is open.
February 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Mood

Anhinga in Audubon Park, New Orleans, December 2025 🪶
Close up of an Anhinga, a large water bird with gray and black plumage and a long pointy orange-ish beak. The bird is perched over the water, in 3/4 profile facing the camera, wings hanging open, wispy feathers around their face and neck catching the sunlight.
February 6, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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tfw there are crows nearby and u must become a pom-pom 🟠🪶
Flaco the Eurasian Eagle-Owl on the same perch as the above photo. In this photo he is on high alert, and has all of his feathers puffed out to make him appear larger to any potential threats. It gives him the appearance of being constructed out of pom-poms
February 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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To commemorate the anniversary of the first time I saw Flaco, here he is providing us all with A Mood

Flaco the Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Central Park, February 2023 🧡🪶
Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl, perched on a large diagonal branch, many another bare diagonal branches in the background making angular shapes against the gray sky behind him. He is facing the camera, but his head is turned slightly to the right, large fluffy eyelids mostly closed
February 3, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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🖤🖤✈️✈️

Common Raven pair in Astoria, January 2026 🪶
February 2, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Screm 🗣️

Common Raven, Astoria NY, January 2026 #birds #birdoftheday #openbeak
A Common Raven in flight in a blue sky. Their wings are folded down and close to their body, mid wing beat. The raven’s formidable beak is open, and their tongue is visible
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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a few moments later . . .

🪶
The same blue sky with wispy clouds in the picture above, sans-gull, with the exception of part of a wing, extending upwards from the bottom left of frame
February 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Ring-bill flyover ✈️🪶

Ring-billed Gull in Astoria, January 2026
A Ring-billed Gull in flight in a bright blue sky with wisps of white clouds. The gull’s black-tipped wings are extended out and angled downward, almost in an “M” shape. The gull’s face and part art of their white undersides are illuminated by the afternoon sun
February 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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This formidable Red-tailed Hawk often visits the neighborhood to coast the thermals and give the pigeons a fright. She is always a beautiful sight to behold 🪶

Astoria, New York, January 2026
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Smooth Mode™️ 🪶
The same Tufted Titmouse, still perched on a bare branch, facing out, and looking out/to the left. The white plumage on their front illuminated by the afternoon sun, their signature gray head crest still not visible. The background is other bare tree branches and blue sky, out of focus
January 29, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Good morning 😦🪶

Tufted Titmouse in Central Park, January 2026
A Tufted Titmouse perched on a bare branch, facing out, and looking left, beak slightly open. The white plumage on their front illuminated by the afternoon sun, their signature gray head crest not visible. The background is other bare tree branches and blue sky, out of focus
January 29, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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Eatin’ snow 😋❄️🪶

(thanks to the Mallards and random passersby for providing additional scoring on this video lol)
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Snow birb ❄️🪶

White-throated Sparrow in Central Park, 1.25.2026
A White-throated Sparrow looking very floofy on the snow and ice-covered ground. Two thin branches with a clump of snow-covered dead leaves is in the background, matching the overall buff/brown color palette of the sparrow
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Mood 🪶
January 27, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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😴🌨️😒🦆

Wood Duck in Central Park, 1.25.2026
(feat. preening Mallards) 🪶
A male Wood Duck - a smallish duck with ornately-patterned green and black and white and purple plumage and a fantastic head crest - on a snowy shore during a sleet storm, with his face tucked into his back, eye closed. In the foreground out of focus are two Mallard ducks, preening A male Wood Duck - a smallish duck with ornately-patterned green and black and white and purple plumage and a fantastic head crest - on a snowy shore during a sleet storm, with his face tucked into his back, one eye open. The focus of his side-eye is in the foreground out of focus - two Mallard ducks, preening.
January 27, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Someone was caught off-guard by the weather today
On the snow covered ground, someone has dropped an empty red and black box with a picture of a white long-sleeve t-shirt that says “The Warmest” and “Ultra Warm” and “Heat Tech”
January 26, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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lol
Another angle of people standing on the frozen pond in Central Park. In the foreground is a large red sign with white lettering that says “DANGER: KEEP OFF ICE” and there is a red rescue ladder
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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I made it to the park 🤍
A snowy landscape in Central Park featuring people dressed warmly in big coats and winter gear. Bare trees on the horizon, and a small stone bridge. The people are all standing on the frozen 59th St Pond
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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🌉✈️

Gulls and Bridge
Astoria NY, 1.23.2026 🪶
January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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✈️🌒

Gull and Moon
Astoria NY, 1.23.2026 🪶
A waxing crescent moon hangs in a gray-pink sky. A gull in flight is just above/to the left of the moon, mostly in shadow.
January 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM