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Peter Nguyen

@dptbirder.bsky.social
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Vietnamese-American he/him Brain physio🧠, avian druid🧙‍♂️, photon catcher📷, cat dad🐈 📍Orange County, California, USA All bird thoughts and photos are mine Life list: 587 Scripps’s Murrelet Socials: @dptbirder

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 3h
Walking around in the bush with my head down again this morning. I’m absolutely in love with the gills on this mushroom. I think it might be a type of oysterling. 🍄🌿
Looking at the underside of a frilly oyster mushroom. The different lobes overlap, each other kind of like a nudibranch, it’s tan gills form, beautiful, ripping patterns.
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 3h
Hearing white crowned sparrows on my morning walks again make me so happy
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E-Gahhd 🪶 @e-gahhd.bsky.social · 15h
There are American Wigeons visiting :) #birds 🪶
3 American Wigeons at varying distances from the camera. I believe they are Eclipse males based on Merlin but idk. they look cool
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 21h
His “health issues” POTS can be managed but not when you need your heart to work harder than 99.99% of other humans Sorry doesn’t work that way
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No Orcas but lot of Murres! And 1000s of shearwaters Common Murre 📷🌿🪶
Common murre black and white alcid on water Common murre with black vented shearwater in waterCommon murre and black vented shearwater on or flying above water
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh dear, I am tempted to respond to a person with Influence In Birding who has a belittling, dismissive thread on here but then I’d give them more attention. ARG! Also it may be on purpose to provoke people? Which has definitely worked on me. Posting an awesome bird instead. (Ruddy Duck) #birds 🌿
A small, extremely adorable brown duck floats in lightly rippling blue water.
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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Great Blue Heron wading through a pond #birds
A great blue heron standing in shallow dark green colored water
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Declan Troy @troydeclan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A feeding frenzy of kittiwakes is a dinner bell for jaegers. It took them a bit to arrive but before long 8 or so Pomarine Jaegers arrived to persuade the kitties to share some fish. Resurrection Bay #Alaska 🪶🦑
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m getting on my 10th whale watching trip to waters near Newport Beach. Yesterday 2 Orcas were seen in our waters I’ve been mostly using these boats to help myself self ID pelagic birds, but the possibility of seeing wild Orcas for the first time is quite exhilarating
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Art of kylin @kylinvdm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finished this Townsend warbler drawing. It was inspired by the talented @dptbirder.bsky.social seriously, check out their work the photos are lovely. #art #birdsofinstagram #birdaday #birdsofbluesky #digitalart #procreate
A digital drawing of a yellow and black bird.
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A mola mola crashing into a group of gulls 🪶🌿🦑
A gull sitting on the ocean’s surface behind a drifting mola A gull sitting on the ocean’s surface behind a drifting mola A gull soaring just above a mola, looking down at itA gull soaring just above a mola, looking down at it
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve seen many Blackburnian warblers in Colombia on a trip there in 2025 This is a country bird for me as I’ve missed every time to find one of these beautiful birds in my home county Not anymore!
Blackburnian warbler flying out of trees
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Black headed grosbeak enjoying a little break before continuing on its migration path Black-headed Grosbeak 📷🌿🪶
Black headed grosbeak on ground perch
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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Have another. 🪶😎
Sanderling portrait. On the beach this morning.
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The days are getting much shorter and it’s now a race to get home before the sun sets. But this little female Downy Woodpecker arrived just in time to forage just before sunset! #Birds 🪶
A female downy woodpecker perches on the side of a spruce tree trunk. 
It is just before sunset and the sky is orange behind her. She is black and white while the tree trunk is quite dark. There are also some green blurry spruce branches showing in the background.
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Tam @supertamtam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Brown is the alt #birdoftheday theme. Cedar Waxwing #bird #birder #birding #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #photography #birdsky
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I haven’t participated in a #birdoftheday in a while, but #borbs 🟢 Hutton’s Vireo 📷🌿🪶
A Hutton’s vireo. Olive green bird. Freshly bathed and fluffed
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lovely chonks, Rob. I submit this micro-borb with a tinge of ging to your adorborble collection #birds #borbs #BirdOfTheDay
Up-close and personal ruby-crowned kinglet on a teeny stump. He's looking up with a curious, googly-eyed expression, his pate aflame with the eponymous crown.
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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning folks. Alan as asked me to cover today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, which is #Borbs, birds looking plump. The Alt theme is #Brown, birds with Brown in their plumage. #birds #photography #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #ukbirding #ECK #ForJanet #birdphotography #BirdLife #NatureTherapy
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reason #1313 why I L💙VE Steller's Jays! Takes a lot of preening to be THIS gorgeous! (okay, light didn't hurt...at all) #birds #becurious
Close up photo looking up at a preening steller's jay. they are showing from mid wing up. they are in profile, body facing left, head is turned back around and down - their beak is hidden from view by floofy, downy shoulder feathers.
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Richard Z @whalemaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here are two little #Borb for #BirdOfTheDay - a male Northern Cardinal his White-Throated Sparrow buddy. #Birds
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Curtis Burns @thatturtle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #borbs #junco #EastCoastKin #ECK #scape #FlyDay #birds #photography #PhotographersUnited
A dark-eyed junco with a pinkish beak perched on a bare branch in light snow.
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Woah! Look at that! Holy smokes! I wish I can draw. I can’t. But I’m glad my photos can be inspo for drawing 🤙
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey Siri, do Vermilion Flycatcher, but baby 📷🌿🪶
A juvenile male vermilion flycatcher on a green branch
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This Townsend’s warbler got uncomfortably close to me today Had to use manual focus to catch this bird with 840mm at like 2 meters away through some leaves But look at that cute look 🥹 📷🌿🪶
Townsend’s warbler, a yellow black and white bird looking through leaves at birder
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tongue 👅 Black-throated Gray Warbler 📷🌿🪶
Black, gray, and white bird with yellow lores on swampy ground
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s a warbler Bonanza! So many birds have come into our county! This one however could be a summering bird as northern yellow warblers breed in our county Northern Yellow Warbler📷🌿🪶
Yellow bird on diagonal branch
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wilson’s warbler migrating into and through our county! Most breed in Canada! 📷🌿🪶
Yellow bird with black hat on curved branch
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Lazuli Bunting in my patch! These birds come through in both spring and fall They’re all kinds of shades of dull gray and blue in the fall. Much brighter in the spring! 🌿🪶
Lazuli Bunting in front of grass
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Your friendly neighborhood birder ✌️
Man looking into binoculars Asian man peace sign with camera in holster and binoculars in hand
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Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kingfisher perched above the Kish #birds
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Leo Write @leowrite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Green Heron finding balance #birds
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is this my second migrant Blackpoll Warbler in two days? Yes, yes it is 😎 🪶
Blackpoll warbler. A greenish warbler with white vent and bold white wingbars
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s migration season. And I let myself get too complacent over the summer Need to get my hiking fitness back up and my eyes to focus on small fast flitting things The new 10x bins are a game changer. Good and bad Good, my goodness the looks are fine! Bad, stability goes as I tire from hiking 😭🪶
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And today in adorable -- Allen's Hummingbird - seen in Laguna Beach a few days ago. #birds
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Migration is full force on! Last week we had very few warblers. Now there are rare and uncommon birds in every corner of the county! Here a blackpoll warbler and Wilson’s warbler are sharing a natural bird bath! 📷🌿🪶
Blackpoll and Wilson’s warbler on ground next to each other
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John Locke @jlocke4101.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A male Northern Cardinal checking you out from the wire. #birds
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Dogofthedesert @dogofthedesert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As this immature Forster's tern (Sterna forsteri) yawns in the morning sun, its nictitating membrane is covering its eye. A protective reflex, I assume. Photo taken at Tingley Beach in Albuquerque, N.M. on September 19, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #birds
A bird seen in profile with its head to the right and with its wingtips and tail extending off picture to the left. It's in the middle of a huge yawn, with a pointed orange tongue sticking out between the upper and lower bills. The eye looks cloudy and blue, due to the nictitating membrane (inner eyelid). From this angle the plumage mostly looks pale gray, and the extensive white undersides aren't apparent. The throat is white, however. The black mask on the face hasn't fully grown in yet, and looks more like a black smudge extending back from the eye. There's a bit of leftover brown pumage on the back, next to the base of the neck. The bird is standing on a rough-looking bit of shoreline, with the blue of an out-of-focus pond for a background. The sunlight is raking in from the right, indicating that it's an early morning photo.
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White-breasted Nuthatch giving its famous look 📷🌿🪶
White breasted nuthatch. A blue and white bird perched on the side of its tree
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hosted 15 birders on a whale watching boat today. Many of them were first timers on a boat that didn’t want commit to a pelagic We were able to see a few offshore species today! Highlighted by a common murre
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tree swallow wallflower 📷🌿🪶
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No one will ever convince me alcids aren’t just flying penguins 🐧 Craveri’s Murrelet 📷🌿🪶
Craveri’s murrelet, chunky black and white bird flying over the ocean
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Swallows are slowest in the mornings when they’re feeding and dust bathing lowly across the sand Although slow is relative as these birds continuously zip through the sky I crouched low for this moment; watching the barn swallows bank and steer their way across the sand path ahead of me 📷🌿🪶
Portrait of Barn swallow in flight with a second in the background
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Its #FlyDay. This great blue heron did a low and slow pass right in front of me as I photographed black skimmers. Locked on and mashed the shutter down. Thank you you beautiful thing. #photography #wildlife #ECK #birds #BirdsInFlight #birdsky #birders #biodiversity #nature #herons
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I did it. Netted. And worked
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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Might be okay.
A backlit hummingbird, whose wings are acting like a prism and showing the color blue
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very early arrivals have started to proliferate OC, but in just another week or so, our county will see this warbler be the most abundant bird in county I saw this bird at devil’s postpile. As the day breaks and against a near full moon, a yellow-rumped warbler let out its wet howl! DRIP! 📷🌿🪶
Yellow rumped warbler perched atop a conifer with the near full moon as a backdrop
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Help! I arrived 1 hour earlier than my team to a networking event in LA and I know very little people here What do I do? 😭
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Back in Town! Townsend’s Warbler 📷🌿🪶
Townsend’s warbler in flight at eucalyptus tree
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This was on my very first whale watch I did myself. I found myself with OC’s birding royalty Edana (middle) is frequently a top 5 OC birder And Shirley (right)… well… is OC’s 7x(will be 8x) reigning top OC year birder I have seen many life birds in OC, many with much help from these ladies 🪶
Myself and two of OC best birders on a whale watching boat
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