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SUCK-UP: A cow muskox keeps watch as its calf (wee rump visible below her belly) suckles in the tundra wilderness outside of Nome, Alaska. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animals #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EMERALD EMBERS: Same drake wigeon as seen in prior image, but at a wider angle. #birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A drake wigeon feeds on clover near a wetland in Anchorage, Alaska. #birds #birding #birdphotography #ducks

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RED CROSSBILL male, photographed near my home in Anchorage, Alaska. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

FALL WONDER: A spruce grouse hen peers from a spruce limb near Southcentral Alaska's Skilak Lake. Spruce grouse males feature black chin patches, defined scarlet eye combs, and black-barred chests. Females are a more even mottled brown, as seen here. #birding #birds #birdphotography #wildlife

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A loon in flight calls overhead as I ease the hook from the rainbow’s jaw and lower it into the creek. There, among the reflections of cottonwoods, I find a gap in the foliage, let go, and watch the fish vanish into the sky. #fishing #trout #writing #literature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

These are good days to be a bear. Or anyone else, for that matter, who enjoys the early smells, colors, and overall dimensions of (dare I say it?) … fall, here in Southcentral Alaska. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A collared pika stands lookout from its stone post in Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains. #wildlife #nature #photography #animals

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's late. An inky dusk rises from the ground shadows, muting the light between the lynx and I. It looks away, then rises, turning on lanky legs. Without looking back, it pads away, short tail twisting in an abbreviated wave as it disappears for the night. #wildlife #photography #writing #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

WILLOW PTARMIGAN IN FLIGHT: Alaska's state bird is a colorful creature during the breeding season in late April and early May. I captured this male showing off for a hen in the mountains of Chugach State Park, overlooking Anchorage. #birds #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A BROWN CREEPER sneaks its way up a spruce trunk in Southcentral Alaska #Birds #Bird_Photography #birding #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

RED EYES IN THE RAIN A horned grebe rests in an Interior Alaska pond during a light sprinkle. #Birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Pic 1: Mamma bear pauses from her dandelion meal to see if I'm to blame for her missing cub. Pic 2: The devilish little ginger (called a cinnamon color-phase black bear) had scampered across the road and into the brush in front of me. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animals

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

VANITY, THY NAME BE DRAKE: A flamboyant mallard drake seems to conduct a winter symphony orchestra only he can see and hear. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #waterfowl

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Flashing its colors, a mallard drake scratches an itch at twilight on a pond not far from home in Southcentral Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #ducks

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

SHAKE IT OFF: A ring-necked drake dries off in the shallows of a Southcentral Alaska lake. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #ducks

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

ANSWERED PRAYERS: An Arctic tern, just in from South America, prepares to gobble a stickleback caught in a Southcentral Alaska stream. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Belted kingfisher with freshly-caught salmon fry. Anchorage, Alaska. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

CURIOSITY: A beaver, photographed in Interior Alaska, paddles in close to get a better look at my lens. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animals #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

GOOFY GIRL: A Barrow's goldeneye hen, photographed in an Interior Alaska pond, shows off during a breeding display for a male (out of frame). #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A Barrow' goldeneye pair courts on a pond in Interior Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

SPLISH SPLASH: A spectacled eider drake bathes in a tundra pond outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A male pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, inflates air sacs in its chest to draw mates in a wetland near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. Pectoral sandpipers winter in South America and migrate north to Alaska each spring to nest and rear young. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

FLAPS DOWN: A long-tailed drake in breeding plumage comes in hot for a landing on a tundra pond in Alaska's high Arctic. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A king eider takes wing from a tundra pond outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

FALL FLASHBACK: A bull moose feeds on devil's club leaves deep in Southcentral Alaska's boreal forest. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #moose #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

WHAT'S UP? A willow ptarmigan peeks over a snowdrift in Southcentral Alaska's Chugach State Park. The park and its mountains overlooking the state's largest city are alive with wildlife-viewing opportunities. #wildlifephotography #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #birdphotography #birding

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A RED PHALAROPE pauses beneath a high-Arctic ice shelf in a tundra wetland outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

AN AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER forages on the high Arctic tundra outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #wildifephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

DON'T FORGET YOUR EASTER BASKET! Yep, word has it he's on his way. 🐣🐣🐣 #Easter #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #hare

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

SINGLED OUT: A spruce grouse hen pauses near a trail in eastern Alaska. To achieve the look for this image, I used a 500mm f/4 lens with 1.4X extender for 700mm. The image was shot at f/5.6, ISO 1000, with shutter speed of 1/500. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birds #BirdPhotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

NORTHERN NESTER: A Wilson's snipe pauses on a tussock in the tundra outside of Nome, Alaska. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

BEWARE MAMMA BEAR: I bumped into this one and her twin cubs while photographing songbirds one fine May day. She sternly suggested I turn around and go back the way I came. I didn't argue. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

FIRST CALL: A collared pika sounds revelry as the morning sun tops Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

ON THE HUNT: A long-tailed jaeger patrols the tundra outside of Nome, Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

BOHEMIAN ELEGANCE: If elegance wore a black mask under a pastel crest, it might be a waxwing on another snowy Southcentral Alaska day. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #BirdPhotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

ASPEN TRUNKS. I like them because they're pretty and generally good about standing still to have their picture taken. 😉 #nature #naturephotography #art #trees #still_life

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

SUMMER COLORS: A willow ptarmigan hen pauses suspiciously against a background of pink fireweed blossoms and verdant wild grasses. At the moment, this same bird would be snow-white to match its winter environment. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #BirdPhotography #nature #wildlife

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

INCOMING ... I MEAN, DUCK! A mallard drake appears ready to land in my lap recently in Southcentral Alaska. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #birding #nature #photography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A Bohemian waxwing pauses during a light snowfall from its meal of fermented crabapple. Southcentral Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

LOOKING FOR LOVE: It's mating season for Alaska's red foxes, and this one seems to be on the lookout. #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #foxes #naturephotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

POSER: A Bohemian waxwing strikes a pose yesterday in Anchorage, Alaska. Flocks of the birds winter in and around the city where they feed on berries and the fruits of ornamental trees. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #BirdPhotography #nature #wildlife

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A RED CROSSBILL male, distinguished by its vibrant red and orange plumage, pauses from feeding in a Southcentral Alaska crabapple tree. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

COLORS: A northern shoveler drake preens in the shallows of an Interior Alaska beaver pond. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #ducks

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I BEG YOUR PARDON! This young bull moose's bath was interrupted one June evening by a rude photographer. Spoiler alert: He got over it. #moose #wildlife #photography #nature #wildlifephotography #animals

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

COMING ATCHA' ... a mallard drake, seen here screaming over a snow-covered background, was captured yesterday in Southcentral Alaska. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #ducks

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

AIRBOURNE: A common goldeneye drake takes off from a lake in Southcentral Alaska. #BirdOfTheDay #openwings #birds #birding #BirdPhotography

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A semipalmated sandpiper calls out from the high-Arctic tundra near Barrow, Alaska. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #birding #openbeak #openwings

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

KING OF THE SEAS: Land takeoffs, like this one, are relative rarities for king eiders which spend most of their lives at sea. This colorful drake was photographed near Utqiagvik, Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A LOCAL MALLARD sails by in a flash of color. Mallards are hardy ducks and some weather subzero temperatures to winter in Southcentral Alaska. This one was photographed in Anchorage. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

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