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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 16h

St. Cooper of Capistrano 🪶

A juvenile cooper's hawk, atop a telephone line post, the setting moon behind him like a holy nimbus

Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sanderlings and black-bellied plovers—party, often, to the best sunsets in the world. And I could swear that while they're working hard part of the time, they also pause, like us, just to be thrilled with it all. 🪶

It mostly silhouIt mostly silhouetted plover in front of rose colored water with waves streaking antarctic gray blue

A minimalist image of four sanderlings piping in the sand with streaks of white seawater, washing on the shore, and the merest hints of a wave in the background

A broader view of five sanderlings sitting on the rocky shore with waves raging in the back and the hint of dana point and the top right hand side with a yellow gold sky above.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Little Butter Bandit up to some fresh mischief right there in broad daylight for a change #birds

Common yellothroat male, yellow breasted, black masked, and white top, standing in the grass

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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Ovenbirds have arrived, skulking around in the shadowy leaf litter as Ovenbirds are want to do. ISO8000. #birds

An ovenbird peeking into the oak leaves and Pine needles

A second ovenbird that I scared up from the oak leaves and Pine needles onto a low Branch. Sorry dude.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday is that one time I almosted collided with a pelican whilst surfing 👀🪶

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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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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is maybe the most cute bird I've ever heard of #birds

Little yellow, black-capped Wilson's Warbler sitting contentedly in his ditchwater bath

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good God, I fear we're merely guests in this, the Kingdom of the Crows. Caw, caw 🪶

Two crows, one perched in crying the other crow zipping past the rising harvest moon, the other's beak broaching about one third through the moon.

a good chunk of the sizable murder as it all flutters past the moon get almost hereget almost here the caws in this still image

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"And further still at an unearthly height, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night." R Frost, "Acquianted with the Night" #awoo 🌕

Nigh full moon at dusk through a broom of thin, hanging, wiry branches, looking as though it were the veins in a transparent hand placing a pearl on the earth

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

See Lulu watch the fresh buds and saplings, well, like a hawk 🪶

Red-shouldered Hawk on some metal trellis system upon which some fresh plants are growing

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cormorants are such charming goofuses. Here's one at dusk with landing gear deployed #birds

The silhouette of a large cormorant, with its tail flayed and its two paddle-like feet extended. He's whizzing past the gibbous moon, as he prepares to land in his eucalyptus tree. Roost

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lord Munia saddling up to the bar yet again to order yet another an old fashioned 🪶

Coppertoped bird with a black and white ringed breast. He's in shadowy area but is held in a patch of sunlight that makes him shine and zing.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” ― Sarah Addison Allen

A photo of a highway going west to Portland Oregon. The photo shows a damp road with trees on each side, in front and in the background on the foggy mountains. I took this a year ago and it remains my favorite.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This cormorant is not laying an egg it is laying a waxing gibbous moon 🌓 🪶

A double-crested cormorant, big black waterbird, flying directly up to his roost, and as he does so, he passes the bright half-moon

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Black throated magpie jay in the Tijuana River Valley here in San Diego. 🪶

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a so cute and active Wilson's Warbler. I don't know much but I do know he is an extremely busy little bird and he could care less that I wanted to take his photograph #birds

Yellow, sooty bird with a fain head-cap, clung to a small branch and staring down into some ditchwater

A different, more impressively toupeéd Wilson's warbler up high on a sycamore stem

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"I come from a long line of Finches" 🪶

A line of house finches on a curving lamppost, one in the air with his right wing glancing the crescent moon setting in the BG

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

O, life. Humm & Sage season is begun. Hazoo. 🪶

Anna's hummingbird mid-flight in a small sea of purpling Mexican sage

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All hail the Queen 👸 Belted Kingfisher 📷🌿🪶

Belted kingfisher hovering over channel for fish

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The moon is a magnet. Everyone's at it 🪶

Birds on a curling wispy branch of a bare tree, which bends in the direction if the waxing crescent moon

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This bird is not a bird it is a kindergarten art project involving cotton balls and googly eyes 🪶

A so cute youngster Hutton's Bireo with a big button eye with a white ring, a smol beak and tail and a puffy egg shaped body

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nuthatches — infinitely charming lil honkers 🪶

White nuthwrch on the top curled wire of a softball backstop

Same bird clinging to the side of a large "2" sign, indicating the second field

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Pan: The Reverist @ok2panic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Too foggy to go outside and play this morning so here's some birds i found on the far end of the levee. #birds

An Indigo Bunting boy in thick brush. He is just starting to get his blues on.

A juvenile Mystery Hawk, I kind of think its a Red-Shouldered.

White Breasted Nuthatch doing the classic White Breasted Nuthatch thing.

Adult White Eyed Vireo briefly stopped hunting and making those weird Vireo noises. I do love a bird that wont stop talking about it. It really does make it easier.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The pretty, non-toxic pest control at our new community garden. She's there all the time and a local kid named her Lulu 🥹 #birds

A red shouldered Hawk atop some kind of overground irrigation lines with plants budding up beneath her. She has a dignified look, as if she's surveying the land make sure there's no wriggly pests chomping on the fresh little plants

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kestrel floating, fluttering, & soaring on some hell-hot thermals #birds

Beautiful checkered kestrel, wings and tail stretched out just above the hazy coastal foothills

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We hear you! Top Tip: you need to be very careful when carrying your Grååteheeröon home in your big blue IKEA bag. They're feisty!

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Herr Heermann standing nobly with hurricane waves thundering behind him #birds

Gray gull w smart red beak on a beach rock. Green sea and walls of white water echoing in the BG, and further still the marina tree-lined and beyond, brooding mercurial hurricane skies

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kestrel and a Red-tail tussling at the top of the town. That's the San Juan Capo Mission Basicala down there in the valley #birds

Hawk lurching off a lamppost as a smol but fierce kestrel comes keek-keek-keeking by. Red domed church at the base of the photo

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extremely ancient and incredibly weird. The inimitable GBH. #birds

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Sky Ray is back! The no-sting sing ray is back! The who-what-where-when-and-WHYDAH's, saying "Hiya!" The hip-hop-hooray-Jay, chirping, "Y'all miss me yet!?" 🪶

Pin-tailed whydah atop a spindly stem, chirping assertively

Same perch, here pointing his smart red-orange beak emphatically at me

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They rattle into our trees in spring, into our hearts by May, stay just long enough that lull into the sense they're always here. And, on Sept. 3, they're gone 🪶

Male oriole deep in the brush of sundry leaves and eucalyptus and palm leaves and branches. Cloudy day so the orange and black pops smartly

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Scrublord at the tip top o' the morning 🪶

Scrub Jay all white breast and ascot and sparkling blue at the edges, standing way up high on some spindly stems, a blotchy pine tree looming in the distance

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Lizzy Esau 🌱 📸 🐾 ✍️ @lizzyesau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought I was photographing a Snowy Egret. Nope. White-morph Reddish Egret. 🤍 I didn't realize what I had until I ran into a local photographer! #birds #photography

White-morph Reddish Egret captured mid-stride over shallow water, both feet lifted as its broad white wings sweep forward. Its long neck and dark bill point ahead, with windblown white head feathers and a blurred flock of shorebirds in the background.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lil Lord Blue at play in the Hexagons #birds

Young male Bluebird perched in hexagonal soccer goal netting

Young male Bluebird leaping from a hexagon as if to save a tiny attempt at goal

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” ― John Keats

A photo of different types of grasses stretching to the mountains with one bare tree on the right.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Prophet of the Hole 9 Hazard 🪶

Great White Egret looking cloaked in a white shawl, standing one-leggedly and grumpily at the lip of a little pond. Deep shadows in the BG

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