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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Living in Ontario, it is easy to overlook them because they are so ubiquitous, but they really are special birds

Closeup photo of an outstretched hand, palm up with peanuts, and a bright red male cardinal perched on the fingertips contemplating which peanut to choose

Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Birthday! I and @heather147.bsky.social , your friendly neighbourhood birthday twins, saw a King Eider today. A great birthday treat 🎂

Black and white sea duck with blue nape, orange knob, and red bill rising up out of the water for a good flap

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

One of these weirdos is who runs this account. The other weirdo runs @heather147.bsky.social . You decide who is who

Two very similar looking small girls with matching bowl cuts

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The "Splat" a Cooper's Hawk makes on a glass door when making a particularly difficult (but successful) lunch catch in a blizzard. 🪶 #birds

A fogged up glass door, looking out onto a blizzardy landscape, with a big "splat" mark in the moisture on the outside of the door.

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Anything you can sing, I can sing louder #BirdOfTheDay #Singing 🪶

Small lemon-yellow bird with blue-grey wings and tail, sitting atop a broken metal post. Bird is singing its little heart out, with beak open just about as wide as it will go

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

See a fox 🦊 Post a fox 🖤

All black fox with white tail tip turning around to look at photographer pspsps-ing her

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Not in Western Canada, but I definitely have duck butts. Guess what? Pintail Butt

The hind quarters of a male Northern Pintail sticking out of the water, "pintail" at a jaunty angle

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Skipped out on responsibilities today to chase a Townsend's Warbler, lifer for me and first first TOWA for our region. Equally great to finally meet @thebirderbob.bsky.social IRL! 🪶 #birds #liferpie

Small yellow bird with black streaks, sitting however momentarily in a tree with orange/brown leaves

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This purple gallinule contemplating its life choices, wondering how it ended up in Toronto (lifer! Photo taken on Friday)

Small, round marsh bird with patchy brown, green, and purple feathers standing in water looking pensive

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Yes #allegrets. whole pond to land. Lands on turtle. Asshole

Large, white, avian asshole, wings extended, coming in to land on a log directly on top of a turtle just minding its own business

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Show me your forward facing birds! [We seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties, please stand by...] 🪶

Juvenile cooper's hawk standing on a wooden fence. Hawk has head turned around looking behind it. The hawk looks like its head is on backwards

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Capping off my week of warblering in style with the Holy Grail of warblers 🪶

Prothonotary Warbler. Electric yellow bird with blue-grey wings and tail. He's sitting on a broken metal post, beak open and singing his little lemony heart out

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

15 American Avocets in Toronto area! This means I get 15 pieces of lifer pie 🥧, right? 🪶

15 small black, white, a d rusty-pink wading birds with slender upward curving bills. All wading in water in front of large rocks

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

NYOOOOM! Look out! Butterbutts have no concept of personal space when there is a bug to chase!

Small grey and white warbler flying straight towards the camera with purpose, eye fixed on some unseen bug

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Oonk-galoonk! My first American Bittern! #birds #liferpie 🪶

There is no bird here, only reeds. (Small striped rail standing with beak upwards, lurking in matching reeds at the water's edge)

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Put peanuts in your buddy and you'll be sure to get it

Grey woodpecker with black and white wings and red at the base of the beak and back of the head, helping herself to a peanut out of a bird feeder

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

All my best friends are birds 🪶

Photo of a black-capped chickadee, perched on a human finger against a snowy backdrop

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Can confirm. Oop! There he goes under the floating bridge!

Long-tail duck mid dive into clear water

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Committed myself to a 4-day snowshoe trip next week. Time to get out in the backyard and learn how to do this! 😂

View downwards at a snowshoe-clad foot in snow

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Was trying to make some lunch today, but those outside REALLY wanted me to know that their feeder was empty. T'was rectified forthwith 🪶

A window with horizontal blinds on the inside in the open position. 2 house finches affixed to the screen on the outside

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Saw my first cybertruck in the wild today. I've seen so many pictures but I don't think anything truly prepares you for *just* how awful they really are Anyway, also saw these two, who were great and made up for it 🪶

Pair of matching male Harlequin ducks swimming in a matching/synchronized way, each looking to their left into the bright sun on a fricken cold morning

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

That is definitely a tough one. I'm not good enough to ID this. Toronto Tufted

Black duck with white flanks, and a great tuft of "hair" on the back of his head. Swimming in water amongst other ducks

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Who wore it better, Tufted Duck or Snorks? 🪶

Top photo from 1980s animated cartoon Snorks - underwater creatures with snorkels coming out of the top of their heads. Bottom photo of Tufted Duck with "hair" tuft blowing in the wind in the shape of a Snork's snorkel

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

First murder-borb of the year 🪶

Wee American Kestrel perched on a snow fence

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I didn't think the Snoot-Booping Party would boop MY snoot!

Wet mink, having just emerged from the water onto some ice and looking at the camera with an adorably-boopable snoot

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

What about trying to EAT the camera? 😂

Photo taken by/with automatic bird feeder camera. Juvenile starling trying to eat the camera, beak wide and eyes "crazed"

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Apparently today is some kind of "international twin day". Happy Us Day, Thing 1! @heather147.bsky.social

Text "Twin Day" with a picture of Dr. Seuss' identical Thing 1 and Thing 2 creatures

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I've had some pretty close encounters at my home (in a city of nearly a million, so not rural) but I've never had to use my whistle, and only once had to deploy the "clap hands and shout to shoo" for this lovely

Large eastern coyote staring straight into camera and walking towards camera person (me)

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Beth D 🇨🇦 @bethd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Found someone on etsy making felt shrikes (among other things). Now that I think of it, it would make a fabulous adornment on a well-lit Tuba! (Mouse ornament skewered on a thorny branch care of my sister @heather147.bsky.social )