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Michelle

@aveclesplumes.bsky.social
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Follow me for Birding content. North end of Central Park in New York City is my patch. Living as kindly as possible.

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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Surprised and delighted to see this barred owl this morning. 🪶
Barred owl perched on a branch looking forward.Barred owl perched on a branch looking down at a squirrel.Barred owl perched on a branch yawning.Barred owl perched on a branch napping.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I think he was annoyed with me taking his picture. Too cute! #goldencrownedkinglet 🪶
A golden crowned kinglet bird squats down on a branch.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Spring migrants are starting to show up. How exciting! #NatureNYC
Northern Flicker bird on a tree showing the heart shaped feathers of their nape.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What a beauty! Nice shot Nap! Merlin is one of my fave birds. Couldn't help myself, sorry, I recropped & enhanced a bit for extra drama. 👀 Hope you don't get upset. 🤎
A gorgeous Merlin bird looking forward.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is a gorgeous photo! Hope you'll print & frame.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A hooded merganser paddling on Central Park's Turtle Pond. Peak leaf colors paint a bold reflection on the water. 🪶
Male hooded merganser duck paddling on a pond.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Adorable!
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Oh that's a nice one!
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Red tailed hawk leaving a fence by the ballfields in Central Park. 🪶
Red tailed hawk with wings up flying away from a chain link fence
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
That's a cool bird. Nice one!
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Took a good look at us before carrying on. #caroliawren 🪶
A Carolina Wren standing on a rock looking with one eye directly at the viewer.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Nashville Warbler in a patch of Jimsonweed. Central Park. 10.26 🪶
A Nashville Warbler, looking sideways, while sitting in the sun on a patch of Jimsonweed
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Tomatoes growing wild in a city park? I guess so! 🍅 #riversideparknyc #naturenyc
Yellow blossomsGreen tomatoes A green leaf closeup
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Here's a closer look.
Closeup of a Fiddler crab
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Stumbled across a large number of Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crabs on the move at Stone Harbor Beach.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
You betcha! Here's a few from Cape May, NJ.
Sanderling on some rocksSemipalmated Plover on a beachSemipalmated Sandpiper on some rocksRuddy Turnstone on some rocks
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Gray tree frog. Cape May Meadows. I'm in Cape May all week & I'm having a blast. Hopefully I've got some good bird pics that I can share when I get back.
A gray tree frog rests on a metal trail rail that is covered with morning dew.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Whoa! No idea what species of mushroom this is but it's huge and amazing looking. Check out the guttation or sweating. #naturenyc
Huge mushroom on a living oak tree trunk.Closeup of a huge mushroom on a living oak tree trunk.Closeup of a huge mushroom on a living oak tree trunk showing guttation
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
At first I thought a snapping turtle was killing someone but, as I got closer, I realized it was two snapping turtles in love. 🖤 So prehistoric looking. Claws were going everywhere! Today at the Central Park Pool.
Two snapping turtles, covered in duckweed, in a pondTwo snapping turtles, covered in duckweed, in a pondTwo snapping turtles, covered in duckweed, in a pondTwo snapping turtles, covered in duckweed, in a pond
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly with a piece of wing missing. Seen at the Central Park Butterfly Garden today. #naturenyc
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly with a piece of wing missing.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Good number of migrants showing in Riverside Park this morning. 103-116. Lots of redstarts, couple of black & whites, waterthrush & ovenbird. Get out today there if you can. Seems birdy.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A petunia (?) growing in the cracks of the sidewalk. #NatureNYC
A pink flower, perhaps a petunia, growing in the cracks of a sidewalk
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Hello July! #RiversideParkNYC #NatureNYC
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The napping birder @thenappingbirder.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A White Admiral
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Was not familiar with More Than Weeds but love that! Thx for mentioning.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
That's excellent!
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ohmigosh! 🧡
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I love the expression, bloom where you are planted. Also love the composition you made with the type on that pretty pic.
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gees @gee-or-gia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy #NationalPollinatorWeek this #WildFlowerWednesday!
bee on milkweed flowers
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Looking forward to all the butterflies that will visit this pretty Japanese Spirea plant. Every year the blooms are so vibrant & cheerful. So needed these days. #WildflowerWednesday
Closeup on a bright pink bloom of Japanese Spirea
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Bluebird350 @bluebird350.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Daisy Fleabane Aster #WildflowerWednesday #TinyFlower #BloomScrolling 🌱
Three tiny white daisy like flowers 

Erigeron annuus

Flower heads
Conservation status

Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Erigeron
Species:	E. annuus
Binomial name
Erigeron annuus
(L.) Pers.
Subspecies[2]
E. annuus subsp. lilacinus Sennikov & Kurtto
Synonyms[2]
Basionym

Aster annuus L.
Alphabetical list
Erigeron annuus (formerly Aster annuus),
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Ohmigosh! What a nice find!
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Recommending this short doc, Seaweed Stories. Loved this! youtu.be/zpHzvE_HLGY?...
youtu.be
Seaweed Stories
YouTube video by Leonardo DiCaprio
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A delicate herbaceous plant, Honewort, with a spray of pretty white flowers and a terrible name. So many "worts" which makes remembering them a challenge. #WildflowerWednesday
Closeup of a patch of Honewort
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Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The first plant for #WildflowerWednesday is Japanese Mazus (Mazus pumilus) which is often seen growing in soil that has collected in sidewalk fissures. #NatureNYC
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Looks like the kind of flower that hummingbirds might like.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
With so much rain recently, I've been looking closely for mushrooms & to my delight, I spotted a giant puffball! Never fails to impress me. You might mistake them for actual balls. If you see a large white blob, do take a closer look. Love these! #WildflowerWednesday
A giant puffball mushroom, growing out of the leaf litter, surrounded by plants
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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A few more I saw blooming today. #WildflowerWednesday
Butterfly weed. Clusters of tiny orange flowers and also some unopened buds. Lavender Bee Balm. A group of yellow coneflowers (Black-eyed Susan). The tallest one has red at the base of each petal. Some unripe wild blackberries are behind them. Wild meadow garlic, in the process of blooming. Lavender flowers with stipes are emerging from a brown shell.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Whoa! Those are amazing, both pics & plants! Bryophytes are new to me.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
While you're looking for wildflowers, you might come across these really cool Royal Ferns. The rusty-colored spore producing (reproductive) part, at the top, looks like a crown thus the common name Royal Ferns. #WildflowerWednesday
A group of Royal Ferns growing in a park
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Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It’s officially #summer in #NYC only when Chicory begins to bloom. #NatureNYC
Blue aster-family flowers on mostly leafless flowering stems, Chicory in bloom.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wait, you're not seeing this bird now right? That's way late.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Wandering on the Beautiful Path: I love bug & flower season. ~ Behr’s Hairstreak (Satyrium behrii) Snowbrush Ceanothus (Ceanothus velutinus) 🌿
A small grey butterfly with iridescent wings sipping nectar from a cluster of very small white flowers.

Butterfly from Butterflies & Moths:
Tailless. Upperside orange with wide brown borders on forewing. Underside of male brown, female brownish-white; both with postmarginal and submarginal lines of irregular small black spots.
Wing Span: 1 - 1 1/4 inches (2.5 - 3.2 cm).

Flowers/Shrub from Wikipedia:
Ceanothus velutinus grows up to 4 metres (13 feet) tall but generally remains under 3 metres, and forms colonies of individuals which tangle together to form nearly impenetrable thickets. The aromatic evergreen leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 8 centimetres (3 inches) long. The leaves are oval in shape with minute glandular teeth along the edges, and shiny green and hairless on the top surface. The plentiful inflorescences are long clusters of white flowers.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
😍😍😍
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Aww!
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Fantastic photos! Also, I really like this grid format. Great idea.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
When I think large USA cities I would say, pigeons, house sparrows, gulls, red tailed hawks, house mice, rats, racoons, squirrels.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
You captured a swan in this photo too. How lovely.
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Michelle @aveclesplumes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yes!
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