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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the many spam text messages I'm getting right now this election season. What does this even mean? At first glance it sounds like they're encouraging voter fraud 😕

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lots of #birds migrating over the US tonight. Should be great birding here in Virginia tomorrow.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy birthday to @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, whose courageous character Luke Skywalker got me through some tough times in my life. But he's an even bigger hero in real life, defending democracy in the US 🇺🇸 and helping the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 in their time of need.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I realized I hadn't taken a good #butterfly photo all year long. Fortunately my yard is full of native plants like Wild Bergamot that attracts them. 390 snaps later I was able to get this image of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail yesterday afternoon. #insects #nativeplants

A large yellow and black striped butterfly feeding on a pink flower.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Poor little Tree Swallow fell asleep at the entrance to its nest box. This my yard's third brood of this species this year. We also had two broods of bluebirds. Pretty good as I only have two bird houses. #birds

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy Victory at #Gettysburg day to all who celebrate it. This monument commemorates the role that my great-great uncle's artillery battery played in repulsing Pickett's Charge.

A white pillar monument on a grassy field at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here are some more. It's really an amazing place, it's the best place to see butterflies in the entire US and the birds are amazing too. They unfortunately survive in the tiny pockets of protected land that haven't been developed (mostly for agriculture).

American Snout enjoying a small remnant of prairie habitat.

Burrowing Owl outside of Harlingen, Texas.

Queen Butterfly. They were everywhere at Resaca de la Palma NWR.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Here's an idea of the incredible wildlife you can find in southern Texas, currently threatened by rapid border wall construction, environmental damage, and SpaceX's lust for wildlife refuge land. And these are just the #birds and #butterflies. All of these photos are mine from Dec. 2023.

Common Pauraque roosting in the ground in Harlingen, Texas.

Mexican Bluewing Butterfly. Unfortunately my settings were off and this is a very high-ISO shot.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The male Tree Swallow who's nesting in my yard gave me the business but then posed perfectly. #birds

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Good combination of frogs singing tonight in the pond behind my yard. Spring Peepers, Gray Tree Frogs, Fowlers Toads, Cricket Frogs, and a brief Bullfrog. Unfortunately the fireflies don't show up in the video. #frogs #toads #virginiaherps

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I love red mulberries. It's one of my favorite native plants to eat. So why not drink it as booze when you can? Last week I enjoyed a bottle of Mead that was made with native persimmons. I love foraging native persimmons after a frost. Probably the second best native fruit after mulberries.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

We finally got rain. And the frogs are out in force. This large toad was on my driveway. #frogs #toads

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I've been trying to grow this plant for four years now and I finally got one to bloom! This is False Indigo, a plant native to Virginia. I may have to get more of it now that I know a spot where it is happy!

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Right, we're already talking about that in other replies to my OP. My point was that so far it's a close margin. But I will take it.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Happy Grant kicks Lee's traitorous ass at Appomattox Day to all who celebrate. #Union

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Part of an email I got from my Congress person. Barf.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please join me in supporting this important initiative to defend Ukraine from Russian terrorism. @u24.gov.ua

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Ice is so bad here my dog slipped down a hill and couldn't get back up to my house. I grabbed him up in my arms and carried him back, all wiggly 55lbs of him.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Happy birthday to the bravest leader on the planet, President Zelensky! 🎉🎂

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Resplendent Quetzal I saw last week in the Saverge Valley, Costa Rica. It was the most beautiful wild bird I have ever seen. #birds #quetzal

Brilliant green bird with red chest and spiky head feathers with a three foot long streamer of two tail feathers hanging below it perched in a tropical tree.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I just donated! Please help out this important charity with a few bucks. #Ukraine

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This beautiful tiny hummingbird... wants you to support #Ukraine. Todos los dias!

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Buenos Dias from Costa Rica! Muchas gracias for all of #NAFO and may God bless and protect Ukraine!

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Another try for a good Snowcap photo. Good light but I will have to check on my computer to make sure it's good. #birds

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Proof of my Snowcap Hummingbird lifer today!!!!! #birds Horrible light will try again tomorrow for better photo. My favorite hummingbird and now I have seen it.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Lesson's Motmot. A life species for me which I just saw today in Costa Rica. #birds

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Latest Health PSA from my kids' pediatrician. They are resisting and fighting the good fight

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Pumpkin pie 🥧 is really excellent when you use roasted pumpkin.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year Bluesky! Here's my favorite shot from last year, decorations and fireworks added later of course 😁

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I didn't realize how small Snowcap hummingbirds were until I got this "life size" hummingbird photography book. That's my thumb for reference.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I just told my in laws about Major General Dan Sickles, who was a notorious rogue and all around egotistical weirdo. They weren't impressed. I guess it's funnier if you are a Civil War historian.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Today is the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count in Charlottesville, Virginia. When I started the ground was covered in frost, but it warmed up a little. #birds Best bird of the day was a Merlin!

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

So here's another cool monument that just went up in Charlottesville. I did a lot of research on him in my old job and argued he deserved a statue.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sourdough bread. Started making it 24hrs ago. It required a lot of different rises/proofs.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

As a Civil War Historian and resident of Charlottesville, I approve.

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Two photos turned out well. Great Blue Heron and Song Sparrow. #birds

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It's so cold out this is the first time I have seen the pond frozen. While the geese don't mind, the ducks are all huddled in a small spot of open water. VA Today

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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Ocellated Turkeys are so freaking cool looking.

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