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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A black-and-white warbler showing off an earwig it discovered 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 5600, f6.3, 1/400s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If we named all birds by their calls, most would go by "Chip." Fortunately we have the Eastern wood pewee to break that monotony. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1600, f6.3, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A red-necked phalarope darting around the Capitol Reflecting Pool in downtown Washington, DC. These tiny birds breed in the arctic and winter off the western coast of South America. This one was a little off-course mid-migration, but a welcome surprise. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A gray catbird doing some golden-hour preening 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1800, f8, 1/1000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy first #wrensday of autumn to all who celebrate 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1800, f6.3, 1/400s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A well mannered red-eyed vireo covering its beak while it coughs 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f6.3, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A head-turning squeaky little guy: the brown-headed nuthatch 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 560, f8, 1/1000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A snowy egret fishing in a mirror-like, placid lagoon on Kent Island just after sunrise 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A Carolina chickadee enjoying an autumnal snack 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f8, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A backlit, but still bold, green heron 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f6.3, 1/500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An immature Cooper's Hawk hanging out on a neighbor's fence 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 3200, f7.1, 1/320s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A magnolia warbler peeking through a gap in the canopy. You can easily and quickly pick out magnolia warblers in their fall plumage thanks to their eye ring and streaky bellies. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f7.1, 1/500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A black and white warbler watching bird watching 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1250, f6.3, 1/500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The white-eyed vireos will soon be gone for the winter, but this one was kind enough to pose and give me a few looks with its namesake. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f7.1, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Female indigo buntings may not be as brightly colored as their male counterparts, but they are every bit as beautiful. This individual was patiently awaiting her turn at a sunflower at the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f7/1. 1/640s) 🪶

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A green heron taking a plunge for a tiny fish 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f8, 1/4000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

An elegantly understated ring-billed gull on a dock post 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 220, f8, 1/1600s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the American white pelicans hanging out around West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge. The island is Ohio's only Wilderness Area and crucial habitat for numerous heron, egrets, cormorants, and other species 📷 #Nikon Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 560, f8, 1/5000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Osprey holiday card photo: ✅ 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1800, f7.1, 1/400s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An aura-farming green heron 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1250, f6, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A singular black tern put on quite the airshow at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Usually just passing through between its summer and wintering grounds, this bird has been turning heads at the refuge since it first appeared. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 3200, f9, 1/4000s) 🪶

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An semipalmated plover catching air on some rocks near the Kent Narrows 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1000, f8, 1/4000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just when I was starting to accept that August was, in fact, Meh-bruary, I noticed a brilliantly orange eye gazing at me from the shadows of a tree. This yellow-crowned night heron posed for what will undoubtedly be their new LinkedIn profile pic 📷 Nikon Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 720, f8, 1/50s) 🪶

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A song sparrow taking a brief break from foraging to serenade the forest 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2200, f6.3, 1/500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A recently molted indigo bunting hanging around the sunflower fields at the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm + 1.4x TC (ISO 2200, f9, 1/3200s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Photo lifer #250: The horned lark. This species, named for feather tufts that look like horns, calls one of America's most at-risk and declining ecosystems, grasslands, its home. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 400, f9, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A group of young northern mockingbirds were chasing each other and hunting wasps as the insects emerged from their underground colonies. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 900, f9, 1/640s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What better way to experience the golden hour than rolling around in the grass at Antietam National Battlefield photographing grasshopper sparrows? (Luckily the ticks were sleeping in.) 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1800, f9, 1/500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

An uncommonly handsome common yellowthroat hanging out in the reeds near the trailhead at Hughes Hollow at the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm + 1.4x TC (ISO 2000, f9, 1/2500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography #warblers

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A brown thrasher doing its best to avoid the crowds at the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f8, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

An osprey taking a brief break from fishing in the Anacostia River 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f9, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 3600, f9, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A hungry, hungry cedar waxwing hunting for berries 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f6.3, 1/250s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

An American goldfinch posing on a stem and showing off some uncharacteristic white patches on its back, head, and sides. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2200, f8, 1/640s) #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If the caller ID shows red-tailed hawk, you know your bald eagle is a movie star. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 220, f8, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When I moved East, one of the first things I noticed was how green it truly gets in summer. Green herons might not be as verdant as their name indicates, but they too are an abundant and welcome sign of summer. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1400, f6.3, 1/160s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gray catbirds are one of the more unique and ubiquitous sounds of the summer in the Mid-Atlantic. This individual took a break from its meowing to pose for me. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2000, f8, 1/640s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A red-winged blackbird takes to flight 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1600, f8, 1/5000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A Carolina chickadee so voracious it tore into this trumpet vine 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 3600, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A barn swallow in flight 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 800, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A yellow-billed cuckoo hanging out trailside near Goose Pond at the Patuxent Research Refuge 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f8, 1/500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

One of the few warblers that stick around eastern Maryland for the summer, pine warblers are a buzzy presence throughout the warmer months. This individual was foraging near Goose Pond at the Patuxent Research Refuge 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1000, f8, 1/1000s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy #wrensday to all who celebrate 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 800, f8, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One of several snowy egrets hopping around and hunting in the lagoon at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 900, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A worm-eating warbler near its summer home at the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area in West Virginia along the Tuscarora Trail. There was almost no light in the understory, but I managed this one photo. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1800, f6.3, 1/50s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A red-winged blackbird with a great reminder 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2200, f6.3, 1/640s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A group of black-bellied whistling ducks — including this feisty pair — has inexplicably shown up in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 800, f8, 1/2500s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A gray catbird with a freshly caught dragonfly 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f6.3, 1/640s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The indigo bunting is one of the bluest and most vocal songbirds of the summer in the Mid-Atlantic 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2000, f7.1, 1/1600s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Mike Saccone @mikesaccone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A field sparrow calling from a small patch of trees along the Blue Mash Nature Trail 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f8, 1/800s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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