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penguins1984 · 1 month

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doingitfortheexposure · 4 months

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Acorn woodpecker on a platform feeder.

We don't use the old portable firepit for fires, but the DIY platform feeder that I made from a scrap piece of plywood and some old thick wooden garden stakes fits neatly inside, due to the slanted edges of the pit.

Most of the spillage of husks and shells gets collected in the pit, making this much cleaner than when I had the platform feeder on the grass. Sometimes I'll even find a sprouted sunflower seed under the platform.

I'm really happy with this picture. It's not often that I have the correct lens, good light, and am outside when one of these birds comes by to nibble on seeds. They're much more likely to hang onto the far side of the suet feeder.

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Photo by Xer S. Rowan, Creative Commons Attribution license

I take photos for the love of photography and share them under a free-to-use-as-long-as-I-am-properly-credited license. I'm disabled, neurodivergent, and living on a poverty-level fixed income. My linktree has a couple of wishlists, if you'd like to enrich my life a little.

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cjjasp · 5 months

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#FineArtFriday: Winter landscape with bullfinches by Bruno Liljefors 1891

Artist: Bruno Liljefors (1860–1939) Title: English: Winter landscape with bullfinches Date: 1891 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: height: 40 cm (15.7 in); width: 50 cm (19.6 in) What I love about this painting: This is a Christmas card kind of scene, and I’m sure I have seen it featured on many cards over the years. However, the birds are what attracted me to this painting. Birds of all…

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#19th century landscape paintings #birds of the Pacific Northwest #Fine Art Friday #Winter landscape with bullfinches by Bruno Liljefors 1891

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backroadsphotosphotography · 7 months

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September at Titlow beach in Tacoma WA. Love this place. It is a great place to shoot photos with the bridge in the background and plenty water fowl. The photo on the left is one of may faves with one lonely Cormorant on the pylons. I alos love the way the skies and clouds looked that day. I have a few more to post as well. Enjoy!

#tacoma wa #tacoma washington #photography #photographer #tacoma #pacific northwest #pnw #nature photography #bird photography #water fowl #cormorant #birds of the pacific northwest #birds

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seabeck · 1 year

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Enjoying the view

#raven #bird #animals #wildlife #nature #lensblr #artists on tumblr #original photographers #photography #photographers on tumblr #Washington #vsco #pacific northwest #p

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rafefar · 5 days

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Osprey stretching its lethal claws before the hunt

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#osprey #suavie island #original photography #photographers on tumblr #raptors #birds #bird photography #photography #nature photography #oregon #PNW #pacific wonderland #pacific northwest #om system #om 1 #rafefar

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orofeaiel · 20 days

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Tree Swallow

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rebeccathenaturalist · 3 months

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Today is apparently ANGRY STABBY BIRB DAY.

I was taking a walk on the boardwalk out near Bolstadt in Long Beach, when I came across this western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) stranded on the path ahead of me. It looked alert and uninjured, so chances were just that it couldn't take flight off of the hard surface, but I called Peninsula Wild Care anyway to see if they wanted to bring it in for a checkup.

They quickly coordinated a couple of volunteers to meet me nearby, and I needed to get the grebe out of the way since a lot of people walk their dogs there and not all of them are on leashes. I figured okay, this is a relatively small bird, not as big as the muscovies I've carted around on the farm, and it seems calm, right?

NOPE. As I tried to gently reach for the grebe it turned from a calm, if confused pile of feathers on the decking to Stabby McStabberson, and I very nearly got jabbed and nipped a few times by a long, pointy beak attached to a surprisingly agile and very much NOT happy bird. I ended up having to take my hoodie off and dropping it over the entire grebe, and only when the lights were out could I bundle it up and carry it over to the meeting place.

Since it was pretty energetic, not obviously sick or injured, and its body condition felt decent (at least through the hoodie) I'm hoping it's going to get released soon enough after a checkup and a nice meal of fish. Many waterbirds have a lot of trouble taking off from hard surfaces because their feet are so far back on their bodies--which is great for swimming and water takeoffs, but not so helpful on land. If the bird had stayed stranded there they could have been injured or killed by another animal, or ended up dehydrated.

So let's hear it for Stabby the Angry Grebe, and wish them a good release back into the wild!