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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 19h

I saw my #lifer Yellow-throated Vireo, thanks to the reconnaissance work of @dptbirder. Alas, no photodocumentary evidence. My consolation was an great look at a second lifer vireo, the placid and dignified W Warbling Vireo, looking cute in the subtlety of the SoCal fall. #birds

A little olive green warbler little olive gray warbler sized bird with a subtlewith a subtle white eye bands and a short blunt beak, tilting itstilting its head up as he purchtilting its head up as he purchases on a sycamore stem beside a green and speckled red leaf

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you just chill there for a bit calmly, they'll scamper up and snuggle up in a footstep right next to you 🥹🪶

A plover so very close, squinting its eye a bit making a Mona Lisa smile as it settles down in a depression in the sand

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no possible more floofing than this

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

¡LITTLES! Found quite a few beeebs this weekend. 1. Le Femme Kestrél 2. Upstart Whydah 3. White-crowned princeling #birds

Young femme kestrel, and it seems like she's practicing her tough bird pose

A splatter-painted finch-sized bird with a bright red orange beak and a just budding tail. That will soon be very long.

A happy looking sparrow with a sweet fro that's striped like a skunk hopping along on a grassy field

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe the most boopable bird of all 🪶

A snowy plover, here standing in a small depression in the sand, an orange and pink band on either leg.

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Red rover red rover send plover right over #birds

Snowy plover mid-flight, left wing up and right wijg down, exposing an extremely boopable belly

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm so glad he and me were ever such good friends and the affection is mutual and if I were some lizard or toad he'd just protect me and take me places 🪶

Same bird, same perch, but here he's staring me down with an adorable but murderous glare

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pls look at my merry murderous little munchkin 🪶

Glam shot of an American Kestrel atop of an aluminum fence post. Fluffy orange and white fluffy breast, masked face, rakish dignified demeanor

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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A sage in the sage on the stage of the fall 🪶

Allen's hummingbird on a long strand of sage, as seen through a mazd of purple and tawny sage stems

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

OK, this cookies'n'cream dude is ridiculously cute, too #birds

Hey, black and white warbler with a little yellow beauty mark beside his eye and then behind his little black beak, bending a long thin stem.

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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 · 28/09/2026

As if the sea and sanderlings were not enough, the Pixies (!!) were performing at the Ohana Festival a mile up the beach, and they played "Where Is My Mind?" as the sun set and the sky and water and shore all turned to rose fire 🪶

White shorebirds picking at the sand in the shallows, a vague blue-gold glory filling the world behind and before them.

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

Play only if you can stomach the carnage 🪶

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

That little speck...on the far right...IS DOOMED #birds

The same yellow bird in a crouching position, eyes and beak trained ruthruthlessly on a little flying bug just above the grass.

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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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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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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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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 · 23/09/2026

Here he is regretting the third old fashioned #birds

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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

Ha, YES and YES. They also look so refined and formal, but also wouldn't mind a quaffable potable or two after a day of intrepid exploration :)

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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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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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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