blippy

blippy

@blippy.bsky.social

hobbyist wildlife photography (mostly birds) | plants | nerd | pro-trains | floridian all photos posted are my own, shot on Sony a6700 or iPhone, no AI use

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🐦 Anhinga 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds #birdphotography One of our neighborhood Anhinga, trying to get some rest this past Saturday morning

I like how chill they are when they are in sleepy mode, you can walk up and get some pretty close snaps of them and they don't seem to mind much

At Disney Springs for a bday, impressed with the easy birding out here 😍 Snowy Egret, Great Egret, Great Blue Heron, Double-breasted Cormorant, Pied billed Grebe, Limpkin

🐦 Blue-crowned Parakeets 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds #birdphotography these guys were up to no good

here's a snap I have of a European Starling in that very same dead palm tree, taken a few weeks ago (the Starlings are always in that palm tree)

she came back alone this afternoon, guess her mate wasn’t impressed with my setup 💔

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Painted Bunting and his mate just showed up while I was on a work call, I gasped and my coworker was like what, you saw a bird? 😭

Still hyped I saw this guy today, I hope they come back for more food 😍

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Painted Bunting and his mate just showed up while I was on a work call, I gasped and my coworker was like what, you saw a bird? 😭

Painted Bunting and his mate just showed up while I was on a work call, I gasped and my coworker was like what, you saw a bird? 😭

new update to Birds just dropped

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This year's taxonomic update of North American birds is out! There are a host of exciting new splits and other rearrangements, including changes to Willets, Marsh Wren, Great Egret, and Yellow Warbler. Plus, Guatemala's first endemic bird species! americanornithology.org/split-decisi... #ornithology

reposting since I've been shadow banned by the Bluesky moderators, and even my replies to my own posts are not being delivered but on saturday I was finally able to get a clear view of the Banded Kingfisher that lives around our lake, that I previously have only been able to get UFO footage of 😍

I love how there's so many bot auto-follow accounts on here, ai content grifters, all the alt govt department accounts posting AI misinfo constantly, politics bots, bigots, etc. but my bird account is the one that gets moderator action on it and shadow banned

there's a bug with bluesky alt text where if you select the middle of the alt text and type, it goes to the end of the line and not where the cursor is i thought i was going insane or had computer issues, but no it's a bsky bug

Oh yeah, also forgot that I saw the Green Heron at the park again, heavily fixated on something around the Cypress knees

Migration's fast at our park. All the Yellow-throated Warblers seem to be gone, replaced by Palm Warblers. Counted nearly about 20 of their very noticeable yellow bottoms, but only one Cape May and one Northern Parula among the mix. #birds Also, with Vegas am now at 27 new lifers since Oct 1st 😅

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5 new lifers today at our local park, 25 total between last week and this week, kind of overwhelmed and paralyzed with things to post about I'm now up to 144 birds in my life list Cape May Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Northern Parula among my gets today #birds #birdphotography

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I screwed up, that last one is a Blackpoll Warbler, not a cape May. I got my photos mixed up!!😭 It was a new lifer for me though!

Migration's fast at our park. All the Yellow-throated Warblers seem to be gone, replaced by Palm Warblers. Counted nearly about 20 of their very noticeable yellow bottoms, but only one Cape May and one Northern Parula among the mix. #birds Also, with Vegas am now at 27 new lifers since Oct 1st 😅

blippy@blippy.bsky.social

5 new lifers today at our local park, 25 total between last week and this week, kind of overwhelmed and paralyzed with things to post about I'm now up to 144 birds in my life list Cape May Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Northern Parula among my gets today #birds #birdphotography

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I also got closer at getting a good snap of the Banded Kingfisher. It flies all around our lake and only stops briefly, every week I get progressively closer to her That tree was also full of very large camouflaged iguanas

Migration's fast at our park. All the Yellow-throated Warblers seem to be gone, replaced by Palm Warblers. Counted nearly about 20 of their very noticeable yellow bottoms, but only one Cape May and one Northern Parula among the mix. #birds Also, with Vegas am now at 27 new lifers since Oct 1st 😅

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5 new lifers today at our local park, 25 total between last week and this week, kind of overwhelmed and paralyzed with things to post about I'm now up to 144 birds in my life list Cape May Warbler, Palm Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Northern Parula among my gets today #birds #birdphotography

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I GOT IT! I know it's a high bar, but this might be my favorite close proximity pelican in flight video of my life so far! 🪶 🎶 Avantasia - Against The Wind (Instrumental)

Hoping to sneak in a Sanderling Sunset before the Storm, and as I drove down the beach I saw a pelicans riding the wind above the sand. oh the chill!!! bring it on!!

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welcome to the jungle we’ve got fungus games we got lots of mushrooms with surprising names

🐦 Sabine's Gull 🗺️ Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Nevada 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds for today's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme of #Grey, a Sabine's Gull, a rare for the Las Vegas area, and a new lifer for me very lucky to get a mostly west coast sea bird on my recent trip to the desert

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一羽が水浴びをしている隣に飛んできて、自分も水浴びをしたそうなシジュウカラ。でもその場所は思ったより水深があり、水に入るのをかなりためらっているようだった。 A Japanese tit flew over next to one that was bathing, wanting to bathe itself as well. But the water at that spot was deeper than expected, and it seemed quite hesitant to enter.🏊‍♂️ #Birds Taken in Tokyo, Japan

🐦 Green Heron 🗺️ South Florida 📷 Sony a6700 Sony E 70-350mm #birds #birdphotography came across this goofy looking henchman on Saturday, their expressions always amuse me

female common yellowthroat just slammed into my office window, and landed on this leaf, resting there for like 5 minutes until she finally flew off hope you’re okay girl, not the way I wanna get a spot 😭

interesting to me how bluesky's overly zealous content filters censors things like shirtless homer simpson as adult content but a video of a trans woman getting brutally beaten on the street is not a problem and i don't get as much as a warning for graphic content

🐦 Verdin 🗺️ Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Nevada 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds I think this was my favorite snap of the trip, I got so lucky with the lighting, most of the birds wanted to stay in the shade with how hot it was

🐦 Common Raven & Osprey 🐟 ? 🗺️ Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Nevada 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds we got to see a bit of a dogfight last weekend, a Common Raven gave chase to an Osprey that had just caught a fish in the preserve's lake in the end the Osprey got away with its meal