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Auto settings did a weird overexposure on this Rufous Hummingbird feeding on salvia. I really like it. #birds 🪶

Glen's amazing series of Sora photos is one of my favorite things. Wishing him a speedy recovery so he can spend hours hunkered down at the marsh again.

A late addition to #MallardMonday: Spooky Season weird ducks -- They're back!!! 😱 #Birds #ECK @banditelli.org

A Surfbird tucking in for a nap. 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay #OnOneLeg #SpottySpeckled #TwoFer #ECK

Gadwall Shenanigans. 🪶#ECK Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is from @mr-write.bsky.social #FightingFeathers-- birds in conflict with other birds

"Sing, sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong" #SparrowSunday #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BrownBirds #ECK

The cutest born (imo). #SmallBirdSaturday #Birds #ECK

Rob has chosen #LMNO for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme so I'm sharing a couple of Nuthatches from my yard this afternoon. It also works for #SmallBirdSaturday. #Birds #ECK

Somebody hit the jackpot! #FlyDay #birds #Corvids #ECK

Going back to spring when I had the good fortune to see these Killfawns several times. #BirdOfTheDay #Juveniles #Green #birds #2fer

Jay Borb. #ThursJay #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Corvids

American Robins feasting on the autumn bounty of haws. #Seasonal #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

I don't have many #Black&White birds to share, but this Western Grebe fits the bill. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

Sorry not sorry, I'm posting another photo of the Red-tailed Hawk on its favorite perch. I see it there several times each week. #Birds #Raptors #TalonTuesday

A Red-Breasted Nuthatch showing off its #LittleLegs #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK #BackyardBirding

Scoter + Surfer #MallardMonday #Birds

From a few weeks ago, a Wilson's Snipe feeding along a stream bank with a pretty lovely #Reflection #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #ECK

Style is everything. #birds #SparrowSunday #WhiteCrownedSparrow

Reflection perfection #StunDay #Birds #ECK

I stayed up late waiting for the #BirdOfTheDay prompt and now I am ever so sleepy. 🥱 #Larus #Birds #ECK #WesternGull

Cute little Fox Squirrels have been hanging out in the maple tree this fall -- they feed on the spinners! #SquirrelSaturday

Democrats don’t just need to win, they need to win by margins that make Republican ratfucking ineffective and pundits‘ efforts to downplay a mandate laughable. Pour it on. Do not let up.

Spied this Anna's Hummingbird through a gap in the leaves and branches of a blooming Elaeagnus pungens shrub in my front yard. The tiny yellow flowers have a lightly sweet scent, and the humming birds & bees are drawn to them in the fall. #birds #SmallBirdSaturday #ECK

Every September the Vaux's Swifts put on a show at #dusk as they enter their roost. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

When a Bald Eagle decides to visit while you're watching some Elegant Terns. Straight from the camera. #FlyDay #Birds #ECK

Nothing to see here but us sticks. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #JKLM #Grey #ECK

A Surfbird on the rocky shore of the mighty Pacific Ocean. #ShoreBirds #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

Just a couple of young gulls. #Birds #TwosDay

A Great Egret #LookingDown at the tiny fish clasped in its long bill. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Herons #ECK

Like water off a duck's back #birds #MallardMonday #ECK

Another image of one of the female/immature Purple Finches that visited my yard yesterday and again today. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Brown #ECK

Going for the Alt theme with this lovely Mourning Dove from July. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Pigeons&Doves #ECK

I finally got a seed feeder in preparation for Feeder Watch and it's been active for about a week now. Today it brought in a "yard lifer" - a small group of female/immature Purple Finches visited!! (In past years I've had suet + sugar water only.) #Birds #SmallBirdSaturday

A female Anna's Hummingbird stretching as gracefully as can be in dappled light under the canopy of a plum tree. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #Green #SmallBirdSaturday #ECK #Hummingbirds

Do Great Egrets look at their reflections and notice how beautiful they are? #Waders #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Herons #ECK

Last weekend we went to Ft. Stevens to see some birds and as we were driving out of the park, this magnificent creature posed in a tree along the side of the road. I was driving so my brother captured this for me through the passenger side window. #Birds #ThursJay #Raven #ECK

An Olive-sided Flycatcher singing it's "quick 3 beers" song from a month ago. Odds are it has migrated quite a bit further south by now. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Crooners #ECK

I had my first Sanderling experience over the weekend and I am already plotting another visit to to coast. #Birds #WaderWednesday #BlueWater #BirdOfTheDay #ECK

A small flock of Surf Scoters flying in front of the waves of the mighty Pacific. #BlueWater #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

GBH really selling the drama. #Birds #Herons #BirdOfTheDay #BirdSupermodels #ECK

Went to the coast yesterday and caught these beauties flying by. #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BlueSkies #ECK

Savannah Sparrow found the spotlight. #Birds #SparrowSunday #ECK #StunDay

A Gadwall flapping its wings. #WingsOpenNotFlying #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK

One of the smallest. #SmallBirdSaturday #Birds #ECK

Since I live near a cattail marsh and they tend to pose nicely, I have a silly quantity of photos of Red-winged Blackbirds. 🤷🏼‍♀️ This one is from April. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #Birds #ECK

The Black Oystercatcher has a glorious bill and a keen yellow eye so fits both prompts for #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks #YellowElements #ECK #Birds

Golden hour California Scrub Jay. #ThursJay #Birds #Corvids

A Rufous Hummingbird feeding on blackberry blossoms. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&White #Birds #ECK

Went on a bird walk Saturday morning and my favorite siting was 4 Wilson's Snipes foraging along the shore with a background of yellow flowers. #WaderWednesday #Birds