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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 13/10/2025

A new addition to my “birds on the telephone pole” collection. Crows, scrub jays, mockingbirds, and hawks perch here; woodpeckers love climbing the pole. Mourning doves often perch on the wires. But this is the first I've seen one on the pole. #BackyardBirds #MourningDove #Birds #BirdPhotography

A mourning dove sits on top of a utility pole. The background is blue sky and the gnarled branches of an old oak.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 03/10/2025

A little collective “me time” for the mourning doves after our first rain. #BackyardBirds #Birds #BirdPhotography #MourningDove #Autumn

Five tan and gray-colored mourning doves perch high up on a telephone line that runs diagonally from lower left to upper right. The birds and telephone wire are against a backdrop of a very old oak tree that is covered with orange lichen.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 16/02/2025

My first #Honeybee of 2025! One of dozens on the #Rosemary this morning after the storm. I'm sure they've been out there awhile; I've just been sulking too much to get out and take pictures. #BloomScrolling #Pollinators #Flowers

A European honey bee explores the tiny, rather scruffy-looking light purple flowers of a rosemary bush. There are many little flowers, and the succulent-like leaves of rosemary in the background.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 14/02/2025

Jack and Jill survey their domain. This is the third year they've taken over the three adjacent back yards on our corner, from which I infer their nest has to be nearby, perhaps even in this old oak tree. #BackyardBirds #ScrubJay #Birds #BirdPhotography

Two California Scrub Jays — large songbirds with a white body, azure tail, back, and wings, a dark blue head, and very stout black beak — perch in the scraggly winter branches of a large oak tree.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 09/02/2025

For those who celebrate. 🙂

A shaggy barred owl (who is none the less superb) is perched on a high branch in a shaggy tree in a forest.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 18/01/2025

A rather scruffy but also quite determined nasturtium, which randomly showed up in a coconut-husk planter that I'd kinda forgotten about. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nasturtium

Two circular yellow flowers with red centers bloom from a plant of circular green leaves and naked-looking red stems.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 15/01/2025

Another of my wife's plants on the front porch that seems happy to bloom in winter. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography

A plant with broad light-green leaves produces a number of five-petaled petunia-like blossoms.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 12/01/2025

My wife's geranium looks very nice right now. 🙂 She has many plants on the front porch, but this is the only one blooming. #BloomScrolling #Geranium #Flowers #FlowerPhotography

Three intense red flowers with flat ragged-edged split petals and curly red stamens in their centers burst out from a head of 8-pointed-star shaped red and green leaves.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 10/01/2025

Yuletide Camelia, spied in my brother-in-law's front yard on New Years Day. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Camelia

A red flower with five nearly circular petals and a very busy cluster of dozens of intense yellow stamens in its center.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 08/01/2025

I love climbing nasturtium, but they grow like weeds which means I really need to keep them neat so the yard guy doesn't rip them out. #BloomScrolling #Nasturtium #Flowers #FlowerPhotography

A single yellow/orange split-petal climbing nasturtium blossom pokes its head out from its bed of dark green leaves.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 07/01/2025

Another sign of things to come, although this double hibiscus should be fully open in a day or two. (The roses won't start blooming for another three months, if history holds.) #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Hibiscus #DoubleHibiscus

A large orange/red flower bud, just starting to open, stands on the end of a woody stalk with bright green leaves.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 06/01/2025

There is a tradition that narcissus blooming before New Year's Day indicates good luck for that year. Ours has been blooming earlier and earlier every year, which I don't think is what they meant. But the flowers still make me happy when they bloom. #BloomScrolling #Narcissus #Flowers

A row of white flowers, some open, some just budding. The individual blooms have 6 ellipse-shaped petals, with little white cups full of pollen in the middle. It's winter and the background is very dark green.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 05/01/2025

The first sign of Things to Come: Budding branches on one of my rose bushes. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Roses

A dead-looking woody branch, marked with angry-looking thorns, with small tufts of new growth in greens and reds bursting from its sides.

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 05/01/2025

Cabbage white butterfly on my wife's gerberas. Late fall. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Butterflies #Pollinators

A cabbage white butterfly stands with its wings partially open on a bright orange gerbera flower. The flower stands on a bulky green stem. There are other orange flowers out of focus in the background.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

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Carl S. Gutekunst @alameth.org · 14/11/2024

Top of the morning, BlueSky folks. Just checking out the feed, looking around, and checking the threat landscape. Much like this oak titmouse. 🙂 #BackyardBirds

An oak titmouse — a small songbird with a gray head and back, lighter gray breast, and distinctive gray crest — looks sidewize at the camera while perched on a bird feeder.

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