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Wesley Dean
@wesleydean.bsky.social
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Sociologist of the food system at the University of Copenhagen, interest in food poverty and food access, lapsed Fed, lapsed philosopher, lapsed baptist, lapsed Texan, Malmönian, he, him, his. My avian friends mostly keep me from going off my rocker. 🇵🇸🇱🇧
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Snails I met in a Moroccan cemetery.
Light brown snails with a band of white with black dots around the shell. They’re hanging out on a some big green leaves next to vivid orange and yellow flowers.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A handsome feral pigeon on the docks here in Malmö.
A nearly black feral pigeon with red eyes and exceptionally dark purple and green highlights. It stands on a concrete plinth with a couple of bokeh lines in the background.
August 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A scene from my old daily commute in DC. This baby beaver was very pleased with its leafy twig.
A baby beaver in the middle of a green pond, perched on a log, and hunched over a leafy green stem that it had proudly fetched home moments before. A scene from my usual idyllic bike ride home from work at my former government job in DC.
August 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A pleased looking Starling shows off its tasty snack. I snapped this image on the Swedish coast at Lomme Beach near Malmö. 🪶
A dark colored bird with lots of shimmering color variation looks left and stands upright with an insect in its yellow beak. It appears satisfied with itself. It stands among the grass.
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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It is Cygnet season here in Malmö. I spotted this recently hatched Cygnet perched on its parent's back in the moat right by the Malmö castle. I've been visiting daily another pair on the canal near my apartment with about six eggs but they hatched later last year than this pair. 🪶 #birds
Rippling water in the background. In the midground, a white swan with black eye patch and orange beak begins to stick its head under water. It has a tiny cygnet perched on its back. In the foreground are a few more cygnets and some reeds.
June 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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A moist jackdaw gets out of the ever present Skåne drizzle under the platform at Malmö Central. My phone's camera did something odd to this image. Can't say I like it but I adore the chagrined expression on this down and out corvid. 🪶 #birds
A moist jackdaw with its dark feathers all fluffed out and a chagrined expression, sitting on a railing.
May 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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My arch nemesis taunts me. 🪶
A common gull with its pink mouth wide open stands atop a concrete post with rusty chains at either side. The background is a canal with motor boat.
May 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Mama's pissed and hissing away at some small dark long and furry thing! I glimpsed it of it out of the corner of my eye before it scurried away into the reeds. It's most likely a big rat or maybe a mink. We visit her daily to admire her and watch her mate chase boaters! On a canal in Malmö. 🪶 #birds
A mute swan is in the middle of the frame, rearing up with her wings stretched out and her beak open, standing over several pale green eggs. She's hissing at something. She's framed by reeds, shrubbery, some trash, and canal water.
May 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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A wood pigeon lurking in the shrubbery. 🪶
A large pale bluish and gray wood pigeon partially submerged in green shrubbery.
May 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Great Crested Grebe on one of the canals in Copenhagen getting ready to make another dive. 🪶 #birds
Great Crested Grebe with bright red cheeks and its feet tailing out behind, just bobbing away in a canal.
April 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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A brass statue of a hare seated on cobblestones.
April 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A white Wagtail on the banks of the canal by Malmö Central Station. It stopped scurrying about just long enough to snap this shot. #birds 🪶
A small white, grey, and black bird perched on a wooden beam against a watery background.
April 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Let's build a nest! This jackdaw patiently awaits its partner who is at this very moment collecting more nesting material from the base of this fence. Image taken next to the Malmö Central train station. 🪶 #birds
A small corvid with a dark grey body and light bluish-grey head and a beak stuffed full of grass perches atop a green fence.
April 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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A hooded crow rests next to the canal near the Malmö Central train station. 🪶 #birds
A light gray and dark gray corvid stands in partial profile on a rock surrounded by grass in front of a watery background.
April 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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You get the hell out of here and leave us alone. 🪶 #birds
A mother mallard with her two chicks is visibly annoyed at a mallard drake headed right at her. He and his male companion off screen quickly went the other way.
A mother mallard with her beak wide open and feathers ruffled stands off against a mallard drake with two chicks in the foreground.
April 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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My archnemeses conspire against me. 🪶 #birds Photo taken on the canal at Malmö Central train station.
Two gulls look straight ahead as they perch above a light pole against a cloudy sky.
April 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This rook on the Malmö docks is in a good mood. It is ready to head home after a long day at work to gossip with its friends and family in Parliament. 🪶
A large black corvid with a heavy beak stands in profile, facing left, against a background of paving stones. It has a jaunty spring in its gate.
April 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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I thought of your book when I saw this notice. I happen to like all four of these critters.
April 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A Common Woodland Pigeon on a wire in Malmö, SE near the Central Station. 🪶 #birdbutt
A pigeon perches on a wire with its head tilted to the left with that quizzical expression pigeon's are known for. The photo is taken from below so you have a clear view of its plumage from underneath which is mostly a variation on light brown to tan with hints of blue green and dark brown tips to the end of its tail feathers. A pigeon perches on a wire with its head tilted to the left. The photo is taken from below so you have a clear view of its plumage from underneath which is mostly a variation on light brown to tan with hints of blue green and dark brown tips to the end of its tail feathers. A pigeon perches on a wire with its head turned to the right. The photo is taken from below so you have a clear view of its plumage from underneath which is mostly a variation on light brown to tan with hints of blue green and dark brown tips to the end of its tail feathers.
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Here's one of my local Graylags just outside of Malmö, getting ready to cross over to the wrong side of the tracks. 🪶
A Graylag Goose from behind, looking to the right, and standing on a train track. Its express reads as if it's daring a train to move its way.
April 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Large billed crow silhouettes from Beijing, CN. 🪶
A large billed crow in silhouetted profile is perched at the top of a kind branch. It is leaning forward and letting lose with a big caw. Two large billed crows silhouetted against a gloomy sky while perched stop a single branch. They both look up. Two large billed crows atop a vertical branch silhouetted against a gloomy and featureless sky. They both look off in the distance.
April 7, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Oriental Magpie, Seoul SK.🪶
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A shot from below of a largish corvid. It is white and a dark blue with a bit of an iridescent green tint. It is perched on a tree branch.
April 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Little Egret in the Cheonggyecheon Stream, Seoul SK. 🪶
This elegant Egret with all white feathers, grey beak and legs, black eyes, and big green feet is facing left in profile and standing on a man-made stone stream bank.
April 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Grey Heron in the Cheonggyecheon Stream, Seoul SK. 🪶
A grey Heron wading in a briskly running stream. The water is clear enough to see it's big feet on the riverbed.
April 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A pair of Eider ducks at the Malmö docks.
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On the left, a large brown female duck with two small vertical white stripes on her side. She stands in profile. To her right is a black and white male duck looking out to sea. They're standing on the concrete shoreline of a dock and viewed through a steel railing.
April 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM