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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, my Dback-fan UPS driver can probably be caught bouncing a few packages for a week or two. ❤️⚾️🏟️

Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Raptors #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography in Hawaii, waiting on a red eye flight before the next hurricane. Here’s a Hawaian hawk coming in (sadly, behind a stick). Great 10 days on Oahu and Hawaii! #hawaiibirdingtours

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#BirdoftheDay #ODG #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Got to spend a couple mornings photographing barn owls last week in Cali, as we evidently do now.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is just so awful. The anguish people go through just trying to live their truth and be the self they envision. I will never understand the desire to force conformity.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Something different: my other passion, besides birds, is astrophotography. Ran to Monument Valley with the promise of clear skies - and it delivered!

Back side of Monument Valley with the Milky Way towering over the rock formations.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#BirdoftheDay #BirdsinGreen #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography There are some green birds in the USA, but here's where travel shines. An emerald toucanet from Costa Rica - on the side of a volcano.

Emerald toucanet in the jungles near Turrialba, perched on a mossy tree branch.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Herons&Egrets #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography I see them all the time (including yesterday), but I guess I've gotten picky about when to take the snap.

Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron with a photo-bombing turtle on a log behind him.

Rarity for AZ: juvenile Yellow-crowned Night Heron visited Willcox this summer.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Iredescent #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Been chasing birds at the SE AZ Birding Festival this week; finally looking at what I was shooting. Little Broadbilled hummingbird posing.

Broadbilled hummingbird showing off his gorgeous blues and greens.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026

do not take medical advice from Santa Monica Goebbels

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

According to Alan H., Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #BestFootForward #ASplashOfColour #birds #photography #ECK #Nikonphotography #Wildlife Love me some yellow-headed blackbirds, especially against a pretty blue water.

Yellow-headed blackbird stepping in a blue-water pond.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He's excellent- defies critics but also runs circles around inept legacy media interviewers playing gotcha

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Written in 2019. The future is now.

excerpt of Sarah Kendzior book Hiding in Plain Sight. "there is a difference between expecting an American autocracy and acceptig it and i refuse to accept it."

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Do you think he ever hears what he writes? The projection is so loud!

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #EyeoftheWild #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography This Brandt's cormorant's eye blends in nicely with his blue gular pouch and the sea in La Jolla, CA.

Brandt's cormorant pondering the beauty of the world with his blue eye, gular pouch and sea.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #LastBird #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography On a wild horse scouting trip, they were photo-bombed by an American Avocet flying downstream.

American avocet flying low along a river with deep greenery on the opposite bank.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #TantalizingTextures #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Haven't seen a roadrunner in a minute; this is one from the Salt River in AZ. Floofy crest and brilliant feathers - with a pop of orange!

Great roadrunner standing in a desert habitat with his crest fluffed up.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #SummerLovin' #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Date with my husband around Bubbling Ponds yesterday: small flock of vermilion flycatchers, tons of summer tanagers, yellow-breasted chat and lark sparrow showing off sunlight.

Vermilion flycatcher on a velvet mesquite tree.

Summer tanager (male) in a velvet mesquite tree.

Yellow-breasted chat unusually at eye level for several snaps before she flew off.

Lark sparrow with his white belly reflecting the morning sunlight.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #ScreenFiller #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography White-faced ibis were in abundance at Bolsa Chica this June. This one was unperturbed by my presence as I walked past.

White faced ibis in breeding plumage, standing in water.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The packaging for both looks like the photos below. They're sold everywhere, including in our little mountain town. And for infants and elders, or those who are immunocompromised/immunosuppressed or with certain other conditions, cyclosporiasis can indeed kill.

Earthbound Farm Organic [part of Taylor Farms] salad mix packaging.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #BlueSky #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Taken on the trip of my lifetime, not corvidae, but these blue-eared starlings against a blue sky in Laikipia, Kenya, still fit the category.

Two iridescent blue-eared starlings perched against thorns and a blue sky.

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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

At a time like this, is there anything more important to our democracy than an independent judiciary?

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Lifer #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography I was fortunate to add several new birds to my life list on the trip to the British Isles; my favorite might be learning that "Blackbird singing in the dead of night" is actually a thing.

European blackbird in a tree with a mouthful of a spider or something.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Cuties #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Pair of yellow-chevroned parakeets found in Buena Park last Christmas. Cali gets the escapee flocks occasionally.

Pair of yellow-chevroned parakeets found in Buena Park last Christmas. Unusual, but Cali gets the odd flocks occasionally.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #EbonyandIvory #AllWhite #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Black-necked stilt from a couple of days ago at Gilbert Riparian Area; two great white egrets in a territory fight at Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge back in 2024.

Pair of territorial great white egrets, fighting for the ladies.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Quackers #Swans #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Probably have posted these before, but Hyde Park had so many birds that are quite rare in my neck of the woods. Mandarin ducks and mute swan.

Mute swan doing its best swan boat impression.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

#BirdoftheDay #BestofJune2026 #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Not terrific (protip - don't try a 2.0tc on a long lens handheld), but I waited my whole life to capture chicks riding on their parents' backs - bonus for the western grebe!

Western grebe with baby grebe hitchhiker.

Two Western grebes with baby grebe hitchhikers.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#BirdoftheDay #LittleBrownBirds #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Discovered San Joachim Marsh in Irvine, CA this trip. What a delight! Scaly-breasted munia were feasting on the grasses in front of the parking lot.

Scaly-breasted munia sitting in the middle of his bounty.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Food #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Terrible shot of a double-crested cormorant with his catch of the day - a baby ray of some sort, I think. Bolsa Chica, CA. (He did get it down; cormorants are amazing what they can swallow)

Cormorant with a baby ray in his beak, maneuvering it so it can swallow it whole.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Stripes #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Good afternoon! I had the great pleasure of seeing an ornate hawk-eagle soaring in Costa Rica last fall. Stripey birds.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Nesting #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Good morning! We had a northern Pygmy owl family nesting in the local park; here the owlet waits for breakfast. (I was quite a distance and cropped in with a 600mm lens)

Northern Pygmy owlet peeking out of their nesting cavity, a repurposed woodpecker nest. It’s about three inches in diameter; the owls are no bigger than a starling.

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Michelle @mountainbirdfan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#BirdoftheDay #Geese #Birds #WildlifePhotography #NikonPhotography #BirdPhotography #Birding #ECK #Photography Lovely weekend of shooting Sandhills cranes and snow geese at Bosque del Apache, NM last November. Misty mornings made it extra-special.

Flock of snow geese flying over 100s more in a pond with misty trees and brush on the edge of the pond in the background.

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