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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 28/08/2026

I totally forgot it was tonight and did not have time to set up the telescope when a neighbor reminded me, so this is the best I got.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 22/09/2025

The most stunning thing we saw diving Sund Rock yesterday though was the biggest GPO I've ever seen in the wild. It was fast asleep, out in the open, in only 18 feet of water. I've never seen one asleep out of its den and so shallow before.

An enormous Giant Pacific Octopus asleep out of its den in shallow water at Sund Rock on the Hood Canal.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 22/09/2025

I spent the morning diving in the Hood Canal and got a pretty decent shot of this beautiful golden dirona. Biggest one I've ever seen, at least as big as my palm.

A golden colored dirona albolineata in the Puget Sound

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 13/09/2025

And then it heard me and shot me quite a look.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 13/09/2025

Here's the back end of a great horned owl that I shot in Bainbridge Island WA yesterday evening.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 13/09/2025

I got a shot of the great horned owl that lives at my friend Amber's place. It was hooting at the owl that lives next door when we interrupted it, which probably accounts for the withering look. 🪶

A great horned owl looks irritated, but they always look irritated.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 25/08/2025

A couple recent shots of a cormorant on a riverbank, just before and just after taking flight. 🪶

A cormorant about to take off from the shore.

The back end of a cormorant just taken off from the shore

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 24/08/2025

Here's a cute little sandpiper I saw hunting for breakfast at sunrise on a river bank a couple of weeks ago.

A sandpiper reflected by the river at sunrise

A sandpiper hunting by a river at sunrise

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 17/08/2025

The eagle then flew off to the east and I lost sight of it.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 17/08/2025

The fight continued for about a minute; the osprey did eventually drop the fish but the eagle did not get it.

A bald eagle fights with an osprey over a fish.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 17/08/2025

I was just going for a little walk at Shilshole Bay, said to my wife "I'm going to grab the camera in case there's an eagle" and literally 30 seconds later, an eagle was fighting with an osprey over a fish directly above me.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 17/07/2025

And of course, a great blue heron hunting in a beaver pond.

A great blue heron is reflected in the beaver pond at the west end of Carkeek Park, Seattle.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 17/07/2025

We also saw two common dragonflies, the 8-spot skimmer and the cardinal meadowhawk.

A male eight-spotted skimmer, a large, common dragonfly in Washington State. So-called because of the eight large brown spots on the wings.

A cardinal meadowhawk photographed in Carkeek Park, Seattle.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 17/07/2025

I was just out for a walk in Carkeek Park (bring shoes you don't mind getting wet, the stream is overflowing onto the path by the beaver dams) with @thursdayrome.bsky.social; she spotted a brown creeper. Though fairly common, this is my first ever non-blurry photo of one.

A brown creeper on the edge of a tree in Carkeek Park, Seattle. I was lucky to get the shot; brown creepers try to avoid tree edges when photographers get near so as to be almost perfectly camouflaged against the body of the trees they hunt on.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 11/07/2025

If you're at oregon country fair do stop by and see the Fremont Players in Sleeping Beauty and the Pea, noon and 3 every day at Morningwood. It's a fun show for all ages!

Nigel and the King consider Esmerelda for the position of fairy godmother to the princess.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 06/07/2025

I just shot an eagle on the Moon! At Union Bay in Seattle.

A bald eagle at moonrise in Union Bay, Seattle.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 19/06/2025

Crows vs eagles is one of my favorite subjects! Here's one from Union Bay a couple years ago.

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Eric Lippert @ericlippert.com · 19/01/2025

Ring-necked duck looks unimpressed -- at Meadowbrook pond with @thursdayrome.bsky.social.

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