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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶

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Carter Wickstrom
@carterwickstrom.bsky.social

also, Mayday! One of our birds is down! (yes, I know it's not down, but the vignette that inspired this was probably too gross for social media, as it involved the large chunks of an adolescent Canadian goose that a coyote wouldn't eat)

John Schultz
@jwschultz.bsky.social

At the start of the Detroit Marathon, runners cross the Ambassador Bridge into Canada, right around dawn. I don’t know if this ultimately worked out for 🐟, but I swear that when I ran in 2011, I saw a bird fly 20ft above the bridge deck holding a fish—then suddenly drop it back in the Detroit River.

Stuart Malcolm
@birderstuart.bsky.social

Besides the Pelicans “Looks around at 2025 expression’” the fish in the third photo is the most “**** You Bitch, I’m Fabulous” that any fish has ever been. All hail our sassy little overlord!

Jenngarden
@jenstone.bsky.social

Man, fish can’t catch a break. Everybody looks at them as food, never as individuals with agency and dreams 🙄. In all seriousness though, I’m happy for this one lucky-ass fish. May it spawn a thousand new fish.