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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #EFG Great Egret on the wide flood plains of the Whitewater River, southeast #Minnesota

The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BokehBirds Eastern Bluebird American Goldfinch in winter plumage House Sparrow Cooper's Hawk - juvenile #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So many Ring Billed Gulls along my Mississippi River commute this week. The Mississippi Flyway is a major migration route, guiding multiple species of birds on their north/south migrations. Sneaky juvenile Bald Eagle in one of the shots too. Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Pairs A mating pair of Bald Eagles watch over their territory. American White Pelicans on the Mississippi River Bald eagle pair on Mississippi ice Sandhill Cranes on the backwaters #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay Alt theme #Brown Coincidentally for the alt theme, I shot these yesterday on the way home from work. Minnesota has the highest resident nesting population of Bald Eagles in the lower 48 states. Plenty of this season's juveniles can be seen along the Mississippi River. #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Raptors Immature Bald Eagle over a part frozen Mississippi River Female Peregrine keeping us in our place during banding Fledgling Peregrine at an urban site Adult Bald Eagle #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Elegant A leggy bird is usually an elegant bird. Great Egret, feeding in flooded fields by Mississippi backwaters. #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdyLongLegs Lesser Yellowlegs Sandhill Cranes Great Blue Heron Great Egret All on the Mississippi River and backwaters in southeast #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #MammasAndPapas It doesn't get any more mamma and Papa than a Peregrine pair doing the wild thang! From 2024. A nest site that I monitor for a Midwest Peregrine falcon project. #minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hostas and Goldenrod are blooming well. Insects are busy collecting pollen. Sony a6400 Sony E70-350G Meike 16mm auto tube.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay Alt theme #MyBestSide Killdeer foraging in the shallows Bald Eagle looking over the Mississippi River Lesser Yellowlegs on the backwaters Trumpeter Swan foraging in the recently harvested corn fields #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #AngryBirds A pissed off Red Tailed Hawk looking for prey it just lost on the ground Juvenile Green Heron Ring Billed Gull screaming into the void With a very pronounced supraorbital ridge, a Bald Eagle never fails to look angry #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsInAbstract Migrating American White Pelicans on the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I like big butts and I cannot lie.... This 7.5lb beauty is brined, scored, rubbed and now in its nice smokey bed for 8 hours. Hickory and cherry wood. Lots of pulled pork on the way. Plenty of time for me to now go out finding birds. Nerdsville here I come!

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Mouthful Female American Goldfinch with seed American Bald Eagle with a still flapping fish Great Blue Heron with a little snack Crop of the feeding eagle to show the adapted papillae on the tongue that help pull food down to the crop #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdBuddies Very similar but different species, Greater & Lesser Yellowlegs Great Blue Heron with Mallards & Ring Billed Gulls American White Pelicans & Ring Billed Gulls All on the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #SittingOnWater Wood Duck - becoming a more common sight for me Two of a group of American White Pelicans, had to add the shot with bigmouth 😁 Trumpeter Swan #Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #InFlight Ring Billed Gulls Ruby Throated Hummingbird Turkey Vulture (happy International Vulture Awareness Day) Urban Peregrine Falcon #Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdNaps Two different shots of a female fledgling Peregrine. One of 4 that we banded in May, all four fledged. They're now occasionally visiting the site, but are becoming the wanderers their name suggests. A 600mm close-up and a 70mm wider shot showing location & reflection

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Contrast Sunlight hits a small group of Sandhill Cranes foraging in recently harvested corn fields An immature Bald Eagle catches some rays A female Peregrine Falcon keeps watch Another immature Bald Eagle sunning. This one had a malformed beak and struggled to feed. Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #RedHeaded Two of my favourite migrants to southeast Minnesota. Turkey Vulture - part of Mother Nature's clean-up crew. Sandhill Cranes - with their distinctive red caps and my favourite of all bird calls. True dinosaur! Sony a6400 Sony FE200-600G Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOfAFeather American White Pelicans gather on their southward migration Greater & Lesser Yellow legs Ring Billed Gulls Bald Eagles congregate, sometimes in their hundreds, by open water in southeast Minnesota to over-winter All on the Mississippi River, Minnesota

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #UpClose I feel a bit of a fraud on this one. I volunteer with 2 raptor non-profits, and get close birds. Bald Eagle at bath time in the Mississippi - captive Female Bald Eagle - captive Spectacled Owl, a visiting captive bird Wild female Golden Eagle - capture/release for study

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Piggy Back.... It was nice to see the bigger grasshopper giving a piggyback to the smaller one. Even when the little one was jiggling around and rubbing its legs up and down, biggie still didn't give up. 😜 Sony A7RM4A. Tamron 25-200 VXD G2.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #CoastalAndRiver Alt #Rocky Covering both themes. Lesser Yellow legs on the rocky Mississippi shore Turkey Vulture at Lake Pepin (a Mississippi river widening) Mother Peregrine on her rocky, river valley ledge American White Pelicans as they migrate down the Mississippi valley

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I visited the migrating American White Pelicans on the Mississippi River today after work. I loved the little group on the dead tree, quite entertaining. Another pair were bathing and preening, causing quite the splash with their huge wings. It's that time of year. Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Woodland European Robin, Nottingham, England (one from the old home country) Juvenile Cooper's Hawk Laser focused Red Tail Hawk Eastern Phoebe Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #ReflectionsAndShadows Trying to track a fast moving Peregrine but only capturing its shadow as it passed. Trumpeter Swans on the backwaters Great Blue Heron stalks in the Mississippi Killdeer feeding on the Mississippi River backwaters Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Simple Turkey Vulture against a clear, blue sky Immature Bald Eagle soars across the pale blue yonder Mother Peregrine keeps us at bay on an overcast day Female American Goldfinch fronts a bokeh bush Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdInABush Female American Goldfinch Palm Warbler Yellow Rumped Warbler Sparrow (can't remember which kind) 🤣 Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #StrikeAPose Peregrine fledgling giving some 'tude. Peregrine momma looking cool AF. Juvenile Bald Eagle posing the flexibility of 14 cervical vertebrae. Great Blue Heron just looking chill. Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Alt #BirdOfTheDay #SereneBirdScene I spotted this Belted Kingfisher at a local state wildlife management area a couple of winters ago. Winter is my favourite time to shoot, despite being in Minnesota. Nobody around except me and nature.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A bald eagle encounter from yesterday's trip to the Mississippi River. Likely a female, due to size, she looks a little bedraggled. Laying eggs and raising young is exhausting. Now they've fledged, momma can moult out and restore her energy for winter. Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #50ShadesOfGrey #50ShadesOfGray Part two of today's subject. Ring Billed Gulls galore by the Mississippi River. Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #50ShadesOfGrey #50ShadesOfGray Coincidentally, I spent a very windy 45 minutes yesterday observing four Great Blue Herons feeding in the also grey Mississippi river. Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Raptors Feeding Bald Eagle Momma Peregrine landing at the eyrie Red Tailed Hawk Osprey All in southeast Minnesota with a few miles of home. Sony a6000/a6400 Sony 55-210/70-350G/200-600G

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Got these two beauties cleaned, tested and loaded today. Each has a roll of Kodak XT 400. Time to re-discipline myself to work for the shot and not be so click-happy. 1958 Agilux Agimatic 1970s/80s Olympus Trip 35

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #ASplashOfColour The bright yellow beak of the American Bald Eagle The red head of the Turkey Vulture The magnificent Eastern Bluebird The Ruby Throat of a Hummingbird Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BestFootForward Two of four urban Peregrine fledglings that I've been monitoring in southeast Minnesota. Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #DownyFeathers All wild birds, but ones that I have interacted with during my volunteer work with a Peregrine falcon project. Banding helps us to collect valuable data and learn more about the species and how we can help sustain them and their habitats.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BestOfJuly Not my best shots ever, but best in July for various reasons. 1 & 2) My first ever Green Herons on the last day of July. 5 in total, including 3 juveniles (one on the wire) 3 & 4) Red Tailed Hawk that I watched lose its prey then fly to a tree to look for it.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #SmallBirdSaturday They don't come any smaller. Ruby Throated Hummingbirds. Taken while sitting on my back porch, so lighting is from above and not perfect. 🫤 Sony A7RM4A Sony FE200-600G Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #EgretsAndHerons What a coincidence. Today's theme coincides perfectly with a bird first for me. Despite steady rain and a gloomy sky, I went out for a drive. Looking for a local eagle nest, I spotted my first ever Green Herons. A family group of five. Sony A7r4ma Sony FE200-609G

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #OneTwoThreeFour One Peregrine fledgling Two Peregrine fledglings Three Cliff Swallows Four Peregrine eyasses (two of the are the fledglings in the first two shots)

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #ForJanet A couple of beautiful Robins from various Nottinghamshire woodlands. ❤️

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Red Tail.... I saw this Red Tailed Hawk wrestling its prey on the ground. It got away. Immediately it flew up a tree, watching for its likely injured catch. I rolled slowly past, stopping a few seconds to snap a few shots. Sony A7r4ma. Sony FE200-600G. Minnesota.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Per my previous post.... This is Dennis........Hopper. Also the Eastern Pondhawk.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A wonderful day to get outside and take a walk around our pond. So many dragonflies, mainly Blue Dashers, but also an Eastern Pondhawk. As I was taking dragonfly pictures, I felt eyes watching me. On a Coneflower next to me, a grasshopper. I called him Dennis. Sony A7r4ma. Tamron 25-200 VXD G2.

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The Gee M @gee-emm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #SummerLovin Turkey Vultures are a good weather migrant here in Minnesota. They start moving up as the last of the snow recedes and start heading back south as the first frosts appear. This dead tree by the Mississippi is always host to them in great numbers during summer.

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