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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #mouthful, any bird with a mouthful of food. Baltimore Oriole, Red-bellied Woodpecker, and American Robin, each with its own personal cicada, Chicago. Photos by Mikhail Mokeyev #birds #cicada

Bright orange bird with black velvety head and massive golden cicada in its bill. In a leafy tree.

Black-and-white stripy woodpecker with red stripe on its head and nape, on a tree, with a cicada in its bill.

Red-breasted American Robin standing on pavement, with a cicada in its bill.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Since #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdButt, I guess I ought to repost this Common Yellowthroat flaunting his best side! Photo by the late Mikhail Mokeyev.

Small bird with a black mask and white stripe above it, holding onto an upwards-curving branch with widely-spread legs. OH, yeah, facing away, displaying his bright yellow butt

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Come see my birds, animals, book-themed art, figures, live painting, abstraction, and assorted hybrids on canvas and paper: BOOTH 16, WEST LOOP CONTEMPORARY FINE ART EXPO, Oct 17-19, Stephen Bailey Auditorium, 1340 W. Washington, Chicago. Cf. pesmen.com (art) & westloopartexpos.com (details)

A largely abstract painting inspired by the Iliad. Vertical and primarily reds, white, with black, blue, and yellow, it has waves, a trident, greek lettering, and a striding flaming unknown thing that may have testicles

horizontal oil painting of semi-abstract flaming-red rabbits on a dark green and pale yellow ground. Water, maybe; a carrot

Horizontal rather expressionist encaustic painting of a graphite-grey bust holding down fragmented manuscripts

Expressionist painting of an odd and intent long-eared owl turned to face us. black, grey, brown

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Fulton St Collective (re: my previous post) hosts terrific concerts several times a week. I do live painting there about once a month. This is from Wednesday night, a painting of the wonderful Matt Mallinger

vertical painting in black, white, and grey on a white background. very loosely painted, semi-abstract image of a drummer in black playing, brush and sticks flying. Some people see the figure more easily, others mostly see abstract work.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

🪶Seriously, darn those windows. Why don’t they pick on someone their own size? Rose-breasted grosbeak, his beautiful spotty side, on a Chicago sidewalk

lovely black bird with white spots and marks, dead on a sidewalk, on a bright blue spray-painted squiggle

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🪶 Today would've been Mikhail Mokeyev's 51st birthday. I've been posting photos he took, mostly at Montrose in Chicago; a little tribute to a kind, talented human who's missed. After misidentifying a Magnolia as a Canada yesterday, I double-checked today's. This spectacular hot mess is a Downy.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🪶Black-throated Green Warbler. Pic by Mikhail Mokeyev.

Umbrella of green leaves sprouting out of a small branch. Small bird perched at the base of the umbrella facing our right, head arching a bit upwards, beak pointing 45 degrees upwards. White breast, black at the throat, yellow head with dusty swirls of dark color in the yellow. Green blurry background

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🪶I posted a Canada Warbler way at the beginning of this series, in March. Here's the same guy. Pic M. Mokeyev

Striking little bird on a branch. Bright yellow breast with a "necklace" of dark pendant-like spots hanging down from the neck. Brown head with a white stripe. This one is facing us, with his head cocked to our left and a pensive look. The leg on the same side is stepped out sideways, like a dance step. Green leaves

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🪶 2. Northern Parula...head. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

Just the head and top of the breast of a small bird otherwise hiding in very green leaves. Medium silvery grey side of head and shoulder, yellow throat and breast, a hint of yellow showing at the top of the back. Beak tilted upwards. White spots above and below the eye, on the eye ring, look like bright reflected light, but are not. Watching us

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🪶Two birds today: 1. Dark-eyed Junco, looking sharp (for an all-grey bird), albeit either entitled or affronted. Pic M. Mokeyev

Small bird on a branch, chest out and looking to our left in a dignified manner. Sooty grey all over except for breast, which is a silverier grey. Pale greenish-grey blurry background

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🪶 Unlike the birds I've posted the last couple of days, this Palm Warbler is not immature and not discombobulated. Pic M. Mokeyev

Fat yellow bird on thicker branch. Facing to our left, photographed a bit from below. Light brown wings, chestnut stripe on head. Looks quite pleased with itself.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🪶Another immature, beautifully spotty bird: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Photo by M. Mokeyev.

Largish bird with its black-and-white fully spotty back to us, on a dark tree trunk, with some pale blue and green shapes of blurry leaves in the top left background. Bird has head tuned to our right, probably keeping an eye on the camera, displaying its long sturdy woodpecker bill, dark eye with light buff feathers above and below it, and a bit of red above and below the bill.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🪶Red-Winged Blackbirds are a menace, but I like this immature male. He's stunning if you appreciate spotty things (cf Gerard Manley Hopkins). Mikhail took two detailed photos of him. In this first one he looks lost and somewhat diapered 😂

Bird on a white rope, facing right. It's spotty, streaked, and patterned all over in dark brown and black with white. It has a darker eye stripe and area over the eye; a small orange-red cluster of feathers make an epaulette. His butt is dropped down a bit and fluffed up

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🪶Another pic MM took of the same bird (I posted a picture of it earlier), looking fatter and cuter, more as if he has aspirations, and not exhibiting his tongue.

same bird as in the previous post (see alt text), chest out, beak slightly open, head feathers just a bit fluffed up. We see the yellow spot above the eye and a black stripe on the head more clearly. 3/4 view, to our left.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🪶 White-throated Sparrow. Bonus - tongue. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🪶Chestnut-sided Warbler (one photo here, one in replies). Pics by Misha Mokeyev.

Small bird facing to our left, on a thin branch, with pale green blurry background. Bird has a soft white breast, brown wings with white stripes, strong rust-colored bar at the armpit (wingpit?), a white cheek and greenish-yellow top of the head. There are more details, but that's what I've got in me ;) It's looking about 45 degrees upwards

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🪶Baltimore Oriole with its cicada. Pic by M. Mokeyev

Bright orange bird with velvety black head perched on a branch, with a pale cicada in its beak. green leaves in the background

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🪶 weighs 6.1g, less than a quarter of an ounce, and finds this position perfectly normal (Golden-crowned Kinglet) photographed in Chicago by M. Mokeyev

tiny brownish bird with a bright yellow stripe on its head, flanked by black stripes, hanging upside down from a twig, glancing casually to its left, because, clearly, hanging upside down takes zero effort

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🪶Couple of Downies climbing around. Photo M. Mokeyev

Two spotty black-and-white woodpecker birds, climbing up the same leafy branch, one above the other

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🪶The same Cape May as in yesterday's photo. Such a pretty one. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

Yellow bird with brown streaks on its breast, a brown eye stripe, and brown wings, hunched low on a branch, leaning forward, focused intently on something in front of it. Green leaves.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🪶Cape May Warbler, photo by Mikhail Mokeyev.

photo of a small, lovely, yellow-and-grey bird on a leafy branch. soft yellow breast with streaks. bars on wings, stripe across eye.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🪶It's a Baltimore Oriole, probably female, but but but please note, that looks like HUMAN HAIR

Bird on branch with leafy green background. Bird is bright yellow with brown wings with white stripes and speckles of dark brown on its head. Has a substantial beakful of long straight blond human hair. Go figure.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🪶The same critter, fixing to go somewhere. Maybe to eat bugs. Photo M. Mokeyev.

Small bird with very dark shiny head, forked tail, streaky white and brown body, and raised wings, fixing to take off from the pipe it's perched on. blue sky background

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🪶🪶Purple Martin, probably a first-Spring male, according to Paul Clyne. Pretty shiny, huh? Pic by Misha Mokeyev

Sleek shiny dark bird with forked tail, pointy wings, and lighter, streaky breast, perched on a pipe, looking downwards. Blue sky.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🪶Shiny Grackle. Thanks to @psopheigh.bsky.social for setting me straight. Photo by Mikhail Mokeyev.

Against a flat pale grey sky, a jet-black bird with shiny blue-green iridescence showing like a necklace and up the side of the head. Massive black beak. We only see the top 2/3 of the perched bird, not its feet. Head turned to our right.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

🪶A juvenile Coopers Hawk I saw fling itself and fling itself at foliage that may or may not have contained birds and small mammals, with no concept of how that might translate into a meal. Here meditating on the puzzling, hungry universe. Photo by M. Mokeyev.

Tall, slim, striking hawk; white breast flecked with brown teardrop shapes, streaked brown head and wing, and striped tail. On a branch, looking at an angle downwards.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🪶The rarest Red-breasted Nuthatch is a right-side-up one. Pic by M. Mokeyev

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🪶Red-breasted Nuthatch, nuthatching. Photo by M Mokeyev.

Bird with a pale-orange breast, brown wings, black eye stripe, and sharp old beak clinging UNDERNEATH a tree branch with both legs, looking down below itself. Green blurry background.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🪶🪶Inappropriately-named Woodpecker 😉 (Red-bellied). Photo M. Mokeyev

On the left side of a tree trunk, stunning woodpecker with curved black and white lines like a cape across its back, merging into black-and-white-striped wings. Head is craned to the side so that the long sharp beak points straight up. Bright red cap, ivory face with some yellow under eye and under beak. On the right side of the tree trunk: a woodpecker-shaped spot of sunlight.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🪶 Yellow-throated Warbler flaunting his best side. #birdbutt pic by M. Mokeyev

Foreshortened photo of a small songbird from behind. It's perched with a wide stance on a curved branch. Mostly we see its rump. Yellow under its tail. Top of head is buff-colored, then there's a white stripe, then a black one, in which the black eye sits, and we see just a bit of the yellow throat that gives the bird its name.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Black-capped Chickadee making sure we got the message 🪶 #birdbutt pic by M. Mokeyev

photo, from below, of tiny bird with black-and-white stiped face on branch. It’s either looking down and under the branch at us or making sure we see its entire white, peach, and grey underside. Maybe both.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🪶🪶 Bird ID notes: Ruby-crowned Kinglet, busted, despite its “who-me-what-crown” expression, because cute. Photo by Mikhail Mokeyev

adorable round bird facing to our right, on a branch. Mousy brown-grey-olive all over, except for a tiny bit of yellow on the tail, almost invisible at this angle. black eye, black beak, looking a bit upwards. Blurry light green background

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Brown Creepers rock. Especially when you see them. 🪶🪶Pic by M. Mokeyev

A brown bird clinging to a brown-barked tree trunk. It has a white breast, but we don’t see too much of it because the bird’s flush against the tree. It’s spotty, which makes it blend right in and vanish if you’re not paying attention. Needle-sharp beak pointing straight up

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ruby-crowned Kinglet taking perching lessons from chain-link fence. #birdbutt 🪶 photo by M. Mokeyev

Close-up of a tiny light-grey-and-pale-yellow bird, foreshortened and from behind, perched on a branch in front of a chain-link fence. The angle of the bird's legs almost exactly echoes the 90-degree angle of the fence wire. The wind is ruffling the feathers at the back of its head, exposing a flash of bright cadmium red.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Black-throated Blue Warbler🪶🪶 photo by M. Mokeyev

a compact small songbird on a branch with spring buds and leaves. The bird has a dark blue back and wings, a pure white underside, and black throat. It’s looking somewhat upwards

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🪶These are BOTH male American Redstarts. The pale one is a juvenile, his black feathers just moving in. "Redstart" is, etymologically, a bird with a red tail; "start" here comes from Old English steort, "tail, rump." Pic by Mikhail Mokeyev.

Velvety-black bird with bright orange patches on wings, the shoulder-underwing area, and tail, on a branch with leaves and clusters of round pale green buds. The bird is elongated, reaching for something.

Bird with yellow underwing spots and a yellow area on the tail, which has a dark tip. The bird has a white breast with a few black spots across it, a black patch at the throat, and a grey cap. On a twig that angles up and to the right of the photo. Green leafy blurry background

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

🪶🪶Black-capped Chickadee photo M. Mokeyev

very round small bird standing on human fingertips: black top of head and part of throat coming down from little, sharp beak; grey back, white breast

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

🪶🪶Coopers Hawk, juvenile, I think. Fearless. I got up right close and it just stared. But I also saw it badly screw up a few attempts at taking birds and squirrels. Pic by M. Mokeyev.

Close-up of a beautiful hawk on a leafy branch, looking regally off at an angle. Elongated dark teardrop-shaped marks covering white breast, brown back, long striped tail.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🪶🪶 Indigo Bunting by M. Mokeyev

in the grass, close-up of an intensely indigo blue bird with mistrustful black eye, partially obscured by fluffy white dandelions gone to seed. Bird has one strand of white dandelion protruding from the side of its beak

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Golden-crowned Kinglet making sure we know who. 🪶 Photo by Misha Mokeyev

tiny round fluffy bird on a branch, photographed from above. pale yellow, white and grey, except for the top of the head, which has a bright yellow stripe flanked by a jet-black stripe on each side. Deadly-sharp beak pointed up and to the left

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

3/3 🪶🪶🪶Black-Capped Chickadee

On a pipe with a twisted cable, a small bird is busy tending to something under its wing with its head upside down, such that light shines through the spread wing feathers, silhouetting the half-open beak.

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🪶🪶Black-Capped Chickadees are usually fluffy-clean, but here’s a scrappy one all sticky with resin and hell-bent on getting stickier, taking a second to give us the hairy eyeball 😂 photos by M. Mokeyev 1/3

little black-and-white Chickadee hanging upside down from just needles on a conifer branch, head cocked in our direction

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