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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸

@rd-photography.bsky.social
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Birder and hobby wildlife photographer in Colorado. All photos are my own. See more images at rd-photography.myportfolio.com “How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.” ― Dorothy L. Sayers

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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My #BirdOfTheDay contribution for the #CollectingFood theme, a juvenile Wood Stork. Not common in #Colorado, first in almost 100 years! #birds #nature #photography #wildlife
A wood stork eating a small fish
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A barn owl portrait taken last fall during a photography workshop put on with HawkQuest raptor rescue. #birds #owl #fall
A barn owl portrait with a fall color background
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Oliver Twist, what a shame. Put himself out there in front of everyone. And for what? Some gruel? A man must live on his feet. I would gladly kill or die for gruel but I would never let it drive me.
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Amazon Piss Jugs @amazonpissjugs.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Criminal police state must be abolished
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A personal favorite, the Northern Pygmy-Owl. I love any tiny predator. This little guy had just sneezed, adding a nice/disgusting pop of yellow to the image 😂 #birds #owls #npo #wildlifephotography #nature #colorado
A Northern Pygmy-Owl perched on a branch next to the after-effects of a violet sneeze.
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A mountain bluebird taken last spring. I’ve always particularly struggled getting good shots of these guys, they seem to taunt me. I’ll find one posing perfectly, raise my camera, try to get it framed up, and it’s gone. #birds #bluebird #wildlifephotography #colorado #nature
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A broad-tailed hummingbird from last summer. 1/8000 shutter speed. 124(ish) days until they return to Colorado. #birds #colorado #hummingbird #nature #wildlifephotography
A broad-tailed hummingbird with a red and green background
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
An American Avocet for this #WaderWednesday, taken last April. #birds #photography #colorado #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography
A single American avocet wading in shallow water with a bead of water dripping off its bill.
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Grizzly bear in Grand Teton National Park, taken last fall. #mammals #grizzly #wildlife #nature #photography #wildlifephotography #gtnp
Grizzly bear in sage brush
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
An American Dipper hunting on St. Vrain Creek. To capture this shot, I laid belly-down in icy winter mountain runoff. I stayed as long as I could bear the cold. Brutal at the time, but I love that now I have a photo not just of a dipper, but of a memory. #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado
An American Dipper, an aquatic songbird, perched on a log in the middle of a creek.
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Yellow warbler from this past summer. There are things I love about winter, but I really miss the color green. #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado #warbler
Yellow warbler photographed through green leaves
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A horned lark on a rainy day in the Pawnee National Grasslands, CO. #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado #hornedlark
A horned lark in the rain perched on an old gate with barbed wire.
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great Gray Owl in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. #birds #wildlifephotography #gtnp #owl #owls
Great gray owl sitting in a pine tree
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
American Pika. Photographed in the alpine tundra of Colorado at around 12,000 ft. elevation. Hyper sensitive to heat, they can’t survive even brief exposure to temperatures above 77.9° F/ 25.5° C, making them a remarkable indicator species for climate change. #mammals #wildlifephotography #pika
An American Pika perched on a rock in the alpine tundra of Colorado with fall tundra colors in the background
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Sandhill Cranes stopping over in Colorado on their way south #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado
Sandhill Crane portrait during sunrise
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Black-capped chickadee from a couple falls ago. So much personality in these birds, very glad we get them year round. #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado #cobirds #chickadee
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hello, I've officially moved the Content Scrapers blocklist to its own dedicated account. The old list will stay for the time being, but you'll need to manually re-subscribe to the new list if you want to stay up to date with the latest additions to the blocklist.
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bad hair day. Good hair day? Certainly a hair day. Great blue heron, same one I posted earlier. #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado
A great blue heron after just scratching its head, resulting in ruffled crest feathers
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Great blue heron from yesterday’s outing, one of the birds that got me into birding #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado
A great blue heron standing on one leg on a log in the middle of a pond. The heron is backlit and its reflection is clear in the water
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A Killdeer enjoying a snow day in Estes Park, CO #birds #wildlifephotography
A killdeer on a snowy lake shore
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Calling all Lego loving birders! 🦉 We have a chance of getting several new bird-related adult Lego sets. Potential designs are up for a user vote right now, a design needs 10k votes for a chance at becoming a real set. Vote and show Lego they have a market in us! ideas.lego.com/projects/f08...
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Japanese Red-Crowned Cranes
The "Japanese Red-crowned Cranes" Inspired by classic Japanese drawings, the "Japanese Red-crowned Cranes" set brings the beauty and tranquility of a ...
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
White-breasted nuthatch, aka the “upside down” bird #birds #wildlifephotography #colorado
A white-breasted nuthatch walking down a pine tree
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This bird caused quite a stir in northern Colorado this summer. After a large storm, this bird was spotted with a flock of white-faced ibises. Many local birders think it was a glossy ibis blown way off course, but not all were convinced. What does the #birds community think? Glossy or white-faced?
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Red-winged blackbird showing off #birds #wildlifephotography
Red-winged blackbird performing a territorial display
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Okay how about a new #birds theme called #TwoSpeciesTuesday? Belted Kingfisher with a Seagull and they are apparently no longer on speaking terms!
Belted kingfisher with Seagull with backs to each other sitting on a piling.
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Bufflehead diving in the South Platte River in Littleton, Colorado #birds #wildlifephotography
Bufflehead duck diving, half submerged with water cascading over its tail illuminated by the setting sun
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If you love #birds, this should be the first thing you do on BSKY. This is the first thing I saw last year when there weren't too many of us and it made me love this site so much. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸 @rd-photography.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
White-tailed ptarmigan transitioning from its summer plumage to all white for winter. Photographed in RMNP, Colorado at about 12,000 feet elevation. #birds #birding #birdphotography
A white-tailed ptarmigan backlit in the alpine tundra of Colorado
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