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Ken Marsh

@alaskaken.bsky.social
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#Alaska based #wildlife #photographer, #writer. See me at www.wildcountryreflections.com American 🇺🇸 supporter of ❤️ Canada 🇨🇦, ❤️ Denmark 🇩🇰, ❤️ Ukraine 🇺🇦 and others weathering bullying by today’s twisted U.S. and its Billionaire Bozo Criminal In Chief.

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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Basically, he suggested a novelist place the completed manuscript in a drawer and leave it there for a year. Then take it out and read it. If you like it, it’s probable others will, too. If not … well, more work needs to be done.
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I understand. It’s difficult to be objective about your own work. Is it possible you’re being too hard on yourself? Author Truman Capote said something once that I’ve found helpful (though not always entirely practical). Continued …
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sadly, that may be the case for many. Along those same lines, American novelist Ernest Hemingway famously said, “The first draft of anything is sh*t.” 😉
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
Thanks very much, Rob. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you, Vincent. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 It is such a beautiful green - and the morning light really helped bring the color out.
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks, Brett. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 It was a perfect morning for photography. 😊
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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
Thanks very much, Rob. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I was amazed at close I was able to get to this wigeon by crawling slowly through the grass.
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank you, Janet. 🙏 He was a pretty one. 😊
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sweet! 👍
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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
Thank you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
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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
Yes, classic spruce grouse pose. 😉
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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
Yep, dude was a toad. Should have no trouble getting through winter. 😉
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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
Pikas are the cutest. 😊
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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
Yes, I saw several bunnies recently on the road to Arctic Valley. Left me feeling just a hare optimistic about future lynx prospects.
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Seeing lynx is such a rare treat. I’ll certainly send the next one your way. 😉
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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 · 16/06/2026
Yes! 😄🐻
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I wasn’t. I’d paused to photograph the 2 from a safe, respectful distance. Mom ignored me, but Junior began to romp. Suddenly, the rascal scampered 30 yards across a parking area & adjoining road … and into brush 15 yards from me. Mom missed that, but eventually realized the little guy was missing.
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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
Thank you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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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
Thanks very much, Dan. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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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
Thank you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thanks very much, Helen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
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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 · 25/05/2026
Franklin needn’t be concerned. God has plans for Putin.😉
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thanks very much. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
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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 · 09/05/2026
#birds #birding #birdphotography #nature
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks very much, Tor. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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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 · 29/04/2026
He was a big baby, though. Probably 30-35 pounds. Full-grown beavers can weigh up to 50 pounds. 🦫🦫😊
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Thanks very much, Dan. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I was fortunate in this critter to have a very cooperative subject. 🦫🦫😊
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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 · 28/04/2026
🙏🏻🙏🏻😊
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thanks very much, Glen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thank you so much, Mary. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Sorry for the late response - I missed seeing your comment. 🦆😊
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Ken Marsh @alaskaken.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Thank you, Mike. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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