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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Once again, only my phone camera was on me. I don’t know why I even bring the big one. Here is a slightly edited photo to show more detail. 🪶

Blue indigo bunting on top of a tree with grey sky in the background

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Another lifer. A very gregarious indigo bunting. 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I’ve been dying to see a red-headed woodpecker, and of course when I do, it’s damp and rainy so I don’t have my binoculars or camera. I was able to use my phone to get this crappy photo on which I had to really adjust the light to get the details to show. But anyway, a lifer! 🪶

Red headed woodpecker on a bare tree trunk. Taken from the ground

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I think it’s time we flip the script.

Cate Blanchett in a suit jacket and undone bow tie, looking down. ,

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The most recent meme in your camera roll describes your current mental state.

Microsoft’s Clippy with a text bubble showing two middle fingers and the statement “I’ve got two bullets for you”. The caption reads “FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME”

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Imagine making AI slop when pileated woodpeckers already exist. 🪶

Pileated woodpecker on suet feeder with wings outstretched

Pileated on arch of shepherds hook pole.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

An image of Kenneth Branagh playing Hercule Poirot.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

Dinosaur friend.

(Pileated woodpecker with wings outstretched at a feeder)

Crow friend.

(Crow eating a goldfish cracker)

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Not the best picture, as I don't have the camera on me. However, I did want to announce that dinosaur friend is back ❤️🪶

Pileated woodpecker eating from a caged suet feeder hanging on a shepherds hook

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Last lifer to report (for now). Hooded mergansers. 🪶 We learned from other birders that they lost a chick to a blackbird earlier in the day. They were far away so photo's not great but I did the best I could.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Another lifer, common yellowthroat 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Red winged black birds can make for a dramatic #silhouette. 🪶

Red winged black bird in silhouette singing on a dead branch

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Red winged black bird. 🪶 My husband likes to describe their call as "pretty angel whistle whistle, SCREAMING FAX MACHINE". Gorgeous birds.

Red winged black bird on a cat tail with wings and feathers fluffed out.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

My first sighting of a beaver too! I love how this photo came out. #wildlife #photography

Beaver swimming in glassy water with a leafy branch in mouth.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Green winged teal. Lifer for me. 🪶 They were somewhat far away and I didnt have my tripod on me. :(

Green winged teal duck raised out of the water and flapping wings.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Has anyone seen a pileated with this much white on the body? 🪶

Pileated woodpecker on a tree trunk with black and white patterning on the torso

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Mr. Chipping Sparrow, however, couldn't be less bothered while he takes a break from housing down all the seeds in our feeder. 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Crow friend wants to know why we voted an autocrat into the White House. I just shrugged at him helplessly. He shrugged back, took a peanut and flew off. 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We have made a new crow friend. 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Make it make sense. If the subsidies and increased costs were supposed to offset losses, then where did the extra $504M come from? #eggs Reminder to buy local when possible.

Screenshot from WaPo saying

5 - As egg prices soared at supermarkets, so did producer profits.
The numbers: The nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine, announced quarterly profits of $509 million yesterday. In 2021, before the avian flu outbreak, it averaged $5 million per quarter.

Why? The company more than tripled its prices, while receiving tens of millions of dollars in government relief for bird flu. Smaller farms have struggled

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

He just came and hoovered up a bunch of bird seed into his mouth pouches and I ain't even mad. 🪶

Chipmunk packing away bird seed on a patio table with lanterns behind it. And he came back like 3 more times while carrying what he'd already taken.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

NO!!! Can we focus on the blatant attempt at voter suppression?!

Screenshot showing an alert from WaPo:
"Editor's Picks: An Oval Office mystery: why did Trump replace the iconic ivy plant with gold objects?"

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I only had my phone camera for this really pretty grackle, and the camera didn't do this guy justice. Grackles are quite pretty birds. 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

And this chipping sparrow with a gorgeous backdrop. 🪶

Chipping sparrow on a thin branch with maple tree buds blurred in the background. Light is low evening light. The entire image has a serene, rosy tone.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In honor of World Sparrow Day, here's a throwback to a very round white throated sparrow. Between health issues and the world threatening to end, I've been behind on taking/posting bird pics, but hopefully this will change soon. 🪶

White throated sparrow with a sunflower seed in the snow

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Me: Psst psst. Cat: ....what?! Me: You're cute Cat: *leaves* #cats

Cat sassily looking at camera. She has grey and white fur and green eyes.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Another portrait in snow, this time of a cardinal. 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Cardinals are so darned photogenic. Here it looks like it's practically glowing red. Other than cropping to frame, I didn't process this photo at all. 🪶

Cardinal glowing bright red in front of the gloomy background

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A junco with particularly beautiful coloring. 🪶

Junco posing ever so sweetly for the camera. It's gray plumage has shades of brown mixed in.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I don't have any July 9th photos, but I do have a July 8th #FallBack one of the baby pileated, which I am hoping is an acceptable substitution.🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Also, I sort of love that mourning doves just have that perma-80s eyeshadow look going for them 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

And a windswept cardinal ❤️ 🪶

Cardinal on a tree branch, feathers lifted in the wind.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Was able to find some time in between family madness to take the camera out and snap some junco photos during our snow day. Here's one. #birds #nature

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

And this fluffy little junco 😍🪶

Dark eyed junco eating snowy seeds, with snow on the ground.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Also, this munching blue jay 🪶

Blue jay with peanut looking right at camera

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Fierce borb looking straight into a camera. 🪶

Carolina wren looking right at the camera while perched to a black, caged bird feeder.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Happy #Caturday folks! Here's a cat who wanted his contribution to be moody and broody.

Persian cat in a turtleneck and blue blanket facing away from the camera.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Why do titmice always look like they're up to no good? 🪶

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

One of the things I am loving about this new lens is--when I get it right--the absolutely crisp and lovely detail I can bring out in a shot. I particularly love the eye in this. Here is a downy woodpecker eating some suet. 🪶

Downy woodpecker upside down on a suet feeder.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Have a donut kitty before the night is over. 🐈

A shaved ginger Persian cat in a ligot blue sweater inside a shaggy peach doughnut bed.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Emily Calandrelli aka The Space Gal is the 100th woman to go to space, and it's beautiful. However I feel about Bezos, Emily's joy is palpable and I rejoice with her. But I am so angry at the world for sullying her biggest moment. Screenshots taken from @thespacegal on IG 🧪 #WomeninSTEM

Emily in microgravity looking out the window at space and the curve of the earth

That same photo, but now with words:

24 hours

That's how long it took for hoards of men online to sexualize my reaction to achieving my dream and seeing our planet from above.

It got so bad that the video was taken down across all platforms.

Mediocre men across the world saw an accomplished woman achieve something monumental and needed to find a way to try and make her feel small.

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Dinosaur Keeper @materialize.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The power is out, but it sets up the scene nicely for this candle-lit moon landing.

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