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Andrew
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“With GPS you can know your location without looking out the window, he had said. You can know your location without knowing your location. You can know things without knowing anything.” - Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
This fellow is an endemic subspecies of the common ground dove, found only on the unpopulated island of Mona, Puerto Rico. Handsome! #birds
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Lot of great bird photography on here if you know where to look!
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This young gallinule balanced like a gymnast on a slender branch to dine on its little fruits. #birds
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wood storks, spoonbills, ibis, egrets, and herons sharing a small and presumably fish-packed wetland at Shired Island, Florida today. #birds
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Working on it.
September 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Testing out the new camera with a Sandhill Crane that could not be bothered to care that I was walking by. #birds
September 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Gulf fritillary(?) on a slender blazing star, one of the native plants that has taken well to our dry, nutrient-poor soil (aka sand). #butterflies #flowers
September 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This little ball of fire showed up in our yard today. Fall migration is really picking up. #birds #cleanseyourfeed
September 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
On a recent trip to Maine this bay-breasted warbler casually fed its recent fledgling with us no more than five feet away. It’s slightly out of focus bc I dropped our camera(!!!) but it will always be a wonderful memory. #birds #baxterstatepark
August 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Good morning to you, too! #birds
August 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I never feel the need to see a hermit thrush to appreciate it. #birds #acadianationalpark
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
From a sandhill to a blueberry farm to a cattle pasture to a development, back to a sandhill (at least a little bit). Apologies for the nonnative species at the end. #wildflowers #flowersofbluesky
July 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This very trusting(!) ruffed grouse walked right up to us - this is an uncropped iPhone photo taken by my wife. #birds #baxterstatepark #maine
July 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Don't forget to look down every so often while you are doing all of that looking up. We ran into this fella minding his own business on the path during our weekend birding. Handsome! #birds
June 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Limpkin can’t be bothered. #birds #sweetwater
May 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Great-crested flycatchers are nesting in the yard and went about their business as my dog and I watched from under the shade of a cherry tree. #birds
May 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Easter brings out the puppy in this thirteen year old girl. #dogsofbluesky
April 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We were there today - it was wonderful.
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Great signage and great birds at Florida's state parks. This Marbled Godwit was strutting its stuff. #birds
April 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
White Ibis and Prothonotary Warbler today at Manatee Springs State Park, Florida. #birds
March 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Your good news for the morning: the population of the Swallow-tailed Kite, objectively one of the world’s most handsome species, has greatly increased in the southeastern US over the past 30 years. #birds
March 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Anhinga with a mouthful, Silver Springs State Park, Florida. #birds
February 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
She fits the bill
February 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Dusky Grouse at Glacier National Park during a recent summer visit. #birds
February 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The sun setting on an American flag in Chokoloskee, Florida.
January 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM