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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The underside of a Northern Flicker tail feather laying among scattered European Beach tree hairy husks and seeds this morning on our patio. Unusual for a feather not land right side up? Those hard husks and seeds are ankle rollers! 🪶 #FeatheredFriday #Woodpeckers #PNW #Nature

An orange feather with a black tip laying on aggregate concrete. Scattered brown seeds and hairy brown husks are close to the feather.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey neighbor, my evening sunset aboard the ferry leaving Kingston heading to Edmonds. ⛴️

Sun setting on mt. Rainier with a ferry in the foreground.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dad had an early morning visitor taking the fence route. 🦝 #PNW #StayAwayFromThatTrashCan #AnimalTracks #Nature

Raccoon tracks visible on top of dewy metal fence covering.

Closer view of Raccoon tracks visible on top of dewy metal fence covering.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After 20+ years of multiple days going without power and losing power multiple times every year, we finally have a whole house standby generator! House camping was getting very tiresome, I’ll gladly pay for the convenience. Yes, it’s a Costco program purchase. 😂 #AnniversaryGift #I’mGettingOlder

New standby generator on cement pad surrounded by rocks and dirt. Side of house with electrical and gas plumbing in the background.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Yellow-faced Bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) exploring a California poppy patch above dad’s bulkhead this morning. 🐝 #PNW #Nature #Pollinators #Bloomscrolling

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The minutes and seconds of musical pleasure. One note and one beat at a time. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteger #Music

Surf Beat CD of early 1960’s surf and garage instrumentals. 33 songs.

James P. Johnson CD. Stride piano solo and with other artists from the late 20’s to mid 40’s. 25 songs.

Sidney Bechet CD from the early 1950’s. Nicely recorded energetic tunes. 17 songs.

The Velvet Underground 45th Anniversary Deluxe Edition CD. 22 songs, including 12 live. Excellent remastering from the late 1960’s recording.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lesser and American Goldfinches in their fall colors continue to devoure our medium sunflower chips. Hardly any sound this time with their feeding frenzy! 🪶 The white looking plant in the background is from powdery mildew on a deciduous azalea.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sunflower sunshine on a cloudy Seattle morning. This volunteer at dad’s house is a beautiful beast. 🌻 #BloomScrolling #PNW #SunflowerSaturday

A large yellow sunflower with huge green leaves. Part of a house is blurred in the background.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A 7” tail or wing feather from a Cooper’s or Sharp-shinned Hawk found at the base of a large cedar tree in our backyard this week. Unfortunately, the feathers of a Dark-eyed Junco were also in the same spot. 🪶 #FeatheredFriday #PNW #Nature #Birds #Lichen

A thin feather with alternating light and dark rusty brown stripes. There are two white stripes at the base of the feather. Background is multicolored lichen on a black surface.

The underside of the same feather shows white and dark brown alternating stripes.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You know what…. I’m happy.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFilms “The Birds” Starring: * American Goldfinch🪶 * Lesser Goldfinch🪶 * Chestnut-backed chickadee🪶 * Purple Finch🪶 * Dark-eyed Junco🪶 *Director’s cut from this morning* #PNW #Birds #AlfredHitchcock #Backyard

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A quick and heartfelt thank you for all the reposts of the sunrises from dad’s patio and Pileated Woodpeckers video. I’m happy you found enjoyment viewing them. 💛😊 A male Mourning Dove resting comfortably?? on one of dad’s landscape light fixtures last week. 🪶 #PNW #Birds #Patina #Water #Nature

A male Mourning Dove sitting on top of a tall outdoor lights cooper patina shade. The light is in grass with the top of a sitting wall just beyond the light. High tide with green seaweed in the background.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Juvenile female Pileated Woodpecker gently and gingerly trying the suet feeder for her first time this morning. She also gets a free meal from mom for encouragement!Juvenile on left, mom on right. 🪶 Filmed through our dining room window. #Woodpeckers #PNW #Nature #Birds #Yum

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dawn this morning without any smoke enhancement! Cascade mts. In the far background. Magnolia bluff and Puget Sound in foreground. Seattle not shown to the right. From dad’s patio on Bainbridge Island. #BlueSkyArtShow #Water #PugetSound #PNW #Clouds #Sunrise #wawx

Fiery red color of scattered clouds reflecting off calm waters. Mountain range in far background. The visible sky is yellow.
The last of the sunrises, going back home today.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@jonjust.bsky.social ☀️ @immachocoholic.bsky.social ☀️ @soletraveler.bsky.social ☀️ @danrange.bsky.social ☀️ @wa-fire-watch.bsky.social ☀️ Good morning and thank you for the reposts! A wide view of the sunrise this morning from dad’s patio Seattle at the far right

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🟠 @danrange.bsky.social 🟠 @wa-fire-watch.bsky.social 🟠 @soletraveler.bsky.social Thank you for the reposts! A hazy Seattle skyline at 9:30 pm last night. #PNW

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The dog days of summer. Sunrise over Magnolia Bluff in Seattle as viewed from dad’s patio on Bainbridge Island this morning. #PNW #Sunrise #PugetSound #ForestFires #WAWX

A red sun rises above a bluff. Red reflection on calm waters.

Sun a little higher, orange color, red reflection on calm water.

Orange sun still rising over bluff, orange reflection on calm water.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A hazy smokey Puget Sound this morning at 7:00am. From dad’s Bainbridge Island patio looking towards Seattle. #PNW #Seattle #Smoke #ClimateChange #WAWX

Orange sun rising and reflecting off calm Puget Sound. Water and sky are orange.

Great Blue Heron standing in calm water. Rocky shoreline in hazy foreground.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A dusty female Pileated Woodpecker feeding peanut suet to her young male offspring this evening. Filmed through a window on a smoky 180-200 AQI day. 🪶 No sound, 1:39 minute video. Hopefully BS doesn’t compress the video too much. #Woodpeckers #PNW #Birds #BackYardBuddies

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh, hello there! I’m just hanging quietly here waiting to meet you face to face. 🕸️ #Spiders #FacePlant #PNW #ItsNotOctober #WatchMeGrow

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We had a visitor in the backyard before daybreak. Hard to distinguish, this was the best track from others in yard. Hind paw, claws towards the top of the imprint. 🐻 One of the reasons we pull all bird feeders in the evening! #PNW #Bears #BlackBears #Surprise

A hard to tell dark bear paw print. The soil was wet underneath dry forest cedar humus.

Same view with measuring tape. The size is approximately 7” which is the size of a Black bear hind paw.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🟢 @suzette.bsky.social 🟢 @danrange.bsky.social 🟢 @pestilence4all.bsky.social Thank you for the reposts! May your day be a green one. 🐸

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just checked and he’s still relaxing in the pot. You can see a little more of his reddish coloration.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The texture and camouflage of our native Northern red-legged frog resting in a pot this afternoon. At first I thought this was a leaf until those sleeping yellow eyes slowly opened. 🐸 #PNW #Amphibians #Frogs

A well camouflaged bronze/yellow/olive frog with scattered black dots resting in a pot. The skin has texture of many different small shapes. Legs are tightly closed to the body, a little reddish color is seen on the hind leg.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fun times this breezy August afternoon on Puget Sound. West Seattle in the background. #Summer #PNW #WAWX #SailboatSaturday

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our 40 year old Red Sunset Maple Tree roots has Kretzschmaria deusta, also known as the burnt crust fungus or brittle cinder fungus. It will need to be removed within a couple years. 🍄☠️🥺 #FungiFriday #AlphabetChallange #WeekDforDark #PNW

The fruiting bodies are the gray with white edges. Over time the fungus becomes brittle and black. Parasitic on exposed roots and lower trunks of living hardwood trees, infected trees are prone to sudden collapse within 5 years.

Some other roots of the same tree infected by the disease. Kretzschmaria is one of the most destructive root and lower trunk rot pathogens of deciduous hardwoods.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The beautiful feather design and contrasting colors of the Hairy Woodpecker. They are year round visitors at our suet feeders. Feathers are from today. 🪶 #AlphabetChallange #WeekDforDark #PNW #WoodpeckerWednesday

Three black feathers with white dots on both sides of the feathers. Feathers are lying on a sun bleached piece of cedar wood.
Daylight is somewhat reflected on the feathers.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

YES, I’m cheating. A nine second video of our chimney silhouette with accompanying sound effects emanating from the dark tree seen at the right. From last February. 🦉 #AlphabetChallange #WeekDforDark #PNW

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@mochy.bsky.social 🦝 @soletraveler.bsky.social 🦃 @suzette.bsky.social 🦃 Thank you for the reposts! My Costco lily wanted to say hello. 👋

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thanksgiving in the backyard this morning. Turkey Tail, Trametes versicolor, on a small maple stump. 🍄 #FungiFriday #PNW #AlwaysLookDown

Multiple multi purple color fungi with white edges. Part of a fern frond is between the mushrooms.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dad left his back door ajar last night to help cool his house down from the heat yesterday. He had a visitor. One shoe missing, candy bowls cleaned out. 🦝 #PNW #Bandit #TrashPandas #MorningSurprise #BainbridgeIsland

A dark tabletop with many grubby raccoon paw tracks. An empty small green bowl on the left is missing candy. Part of a table lamp to the right.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hoo you looking at?! My backyard yesterday. 😃

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Good morning my Barred Owl buddy. Are you the reason I don’t have any birds in the yard? I think so! 🦉🪶 #Owls #PNW #Nature #DidYouLeaveMeAGift?

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

16” Common Garter Snake in a pot that it couldn’t escape out of this morning. It slithered away after I turned the pot on its side. 🐍 #AlphbetChallenge #WeekCforCurves #PNW #Reptiles

A smallish light black snake with light lime green stripes down its top and sides. Between the lines are two rows of orange dots equally spaced the length of the snake. The snake is resting on dark black soil.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Glaucous-winged Gulls are a chatty bunch! Heading home yesterday on the Kingston ferry waiting for the car loading to complete. 🪶 #SeagullSunday #PNW #PugetSound #Birds #SeaSounds

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

As the sun was setting last night our backyard Barred Owl returned, practicing its exorcism posture. 🪶 I didn’t realize that I had accidentally stopped filming.🙄 #Owls #PNW #Backyard

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is ‘Gus’, the Great blue heron this morning on dad’s beach. Gus uses this rock and a couple others to patiently wait for a meal when the tide is coming or going out. Same behavior for many years! 🪶 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind #PNW #PugetSound

A Great blue heron standing on a small rock covered with seaweed surrounded by smooth water with a few ripples. Sun is reflecting off the water making the heron appear in silhouette. Dad named the heron Gus.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@emhonu.bsky.social @wa-fire-watch.bsky.social @suzette.bsky.social Thank you for the reposts! Please enjoy the California poppies with bee butt and the sounds of gentle Puget Sound waves lapping in the background.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Dad's little slice of heaven that I enjoy when we visit. This is Mt. Rainier this afternoon looking south from his patio.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Seattle and Puget Sound looking spectacular this afternoon. The cruise ship moored at the waterfront is huge! #WAWX #PNW #Sunday #Seattle

Viewing the Seattle skyline from my dad’s house. A few scattered clouds and a light blue sky. Puget Sound is dark blue with a little chop. A sailboat is coming into view from the right.

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A female Pileated Woodpecker feeding her female youngster some suet this quiet 4th July morning. Not the clearest video, trying not to disturb them with the window cracked open. 🪶 Have a safe and sane 4th everyone! #Woodpeckers #PNW

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Pacer @raidbug.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

How many mealworms can a female American Robin hold in her beak? Mrs. Robinson has been partially feeding her clutches for 3 years with dried mealworms that I hydrate with water and place inside this crate. We get along fabulously and have multiple feeding routines. 🪶 #PNW #Nature #BirdsofBlueSky

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