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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When civilization crumbles around you, but you're stuck with the one party outfit.

Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Tail movements, including spreading or flashing, can be an alarm signal to alert other birds of potential photo-ops. #birds

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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Dipper dance! A fledgling American Dipper practices its new moves. #birds #bird #nature #wildlife

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Extra credit: Can you identify the bird this falcon is carrying? Just kidding, it's a pigeon. It's always a pigeon.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you find a chick without fully formed feathers, it should be returned to the nest if possible. If the bird is a fledgling, hopping about, but unable to fly, then hands off. Let the fox have him. It's the only way he'll learn. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

When Spring migration transitions to fall out of your nest migration. #birds #naturephotography #nikonphotography

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The ibis is a sacred figure in Egypt, closely associated with the god Thoth. In folklore, they represent courage - the last bird to take shelter during a hurricane. In Australia, they're called bin chickens. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"Are you my mother?" asks the baby bird. It seems a valid question. Mother pauses and stares out the window. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The OED says that "frangible" means easily broken, as in "Strut around your room ... to the manifest terror of all frangibles in your reach." Apparently, the word died out in the 19th century, but I hope to bring it back. Apropos of nothing, here's a Night Heron tending to its children. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A lifer for me! The elusive Bay-breasted Oak Leaf.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

An Eastern Kingbird looking suspiciously like a Victorian greeting card. I swear, no backgrounds were harmed in the processing of this photo. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This Yellow Warbler looks like an easy mark for cowbirds. But evidence suggests that yellows have developed an alarm call that alerts other species when cowbirds are near. It’s only a matter of time before they form a militia. Happy Migratory Bird Day. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Black and White Warblers are elegant dualists, able to cling to trees both right side up and upside down. They look good in uniform but are preoccupied with boundaries and will attack Chickadees, Nuthatches, and American Redstarts without provocation. Hobbies include: Moss. #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Schoolyard bully off to go beat up an Osprey for lunch money. #birds #naturephotography

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I was of three minds. Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. - Or maybe just one really indecisive blackbird. #birds #poetry

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"Common Yellowthroat" is an odd name for what is clearly a masked hero from the golden age of comics. #birds #naturephotography #nature

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm finally a seasoned pro at hawk identification. This is the body of a Cooper's hawk with the tail of a Sharp-Shinned Hawk and the slightly bulging eyes of Peter Lorre. #Birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I learned Mozart's 17th piano concerto in college. I did not know Mozart taught a line of it to his pet starling. An early sign of my obsessions? No. But it gives me a newfound fondness for these wretched, noisy, parasitic, invasive, moribund mob-birds.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A mockingbird can learn to imitate up to 200 different bird songs, including some lesser-known species like a feral cat, a rusty gate, and the car alarm of a 1994 Buick LeSabre. #birds #naturephotography #nature #zoomusicology

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

At the local cemetery. Bluebirds lack the strength to make holes, so they make their homes in old woodpecker holes, bird boxes, and, I guess, mausoleums? #birds

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Mockingbird studying car alarms, prepping for the 2:00 a.m. quiz

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since the camera is busted all you get is this old photo of me reading the comments section.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

When I first took up birding photography, I bought the chunkiest camera I could. Cell phone photography was all the rage, so I went the other way. I even eschewed the newfangled mirrorless cameras. I wanted something that looked like it could shoot surface-to-air missiles.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In spite of my handle, I did not know that zoömusicology was a thing until I came to BlueSky.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I've known this writer since I was 33 and now I'm 53, and I'm proud to see the youngster getting the recognition he deserves.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If song birds sing for pleasure, do shrikes just kill for fun? Natural music critics – savages, each one.

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Ostinato-fox.bsky.social @ostinato-fox.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This wasn’t the blue wave I was hoping for, but I’m here for it.

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