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During a brief pause in its foraging, an American Robin strikes a pose. Majestic af. FWR Dickson Wilderness Area, Ayr, Ontario. March 2025 Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography

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Sunrise a few days ago, before all of this weather moved in. East Tennessee mountains #naturephotography #PhotographersUnited

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From my recent trip to Nova Scotia... Piles Brighton/St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia. Apr 2025 Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #novascotia

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"Choose only one master -- nature.” – Rembrandt Tree Swallows Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025 Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Lightroom #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography

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Doing a stare-down with a Palm Warbler. I lost. Birds always win. Grand Allee Trail, Cambridge, Ontario. May 2025. Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography

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Splish-Splash! A Common Grackle takes a bath in a puddle. Riverside Park, Cambridge, Ontario. March 2025 Nikon Z8 + Z 180-600mm + Adobe Lightroom #birds #birdphotography #photography

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Great gray owl This beauty was down in a ditch feeding on a meadow vole, and decided its next perch was on the telephone pole behind me. Right place, right time. Ontario, Canada. #birds #nature #photography #owl

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I think the shade of blue here is really nice. And the details in the tree stump remind me of a tiny mountain lol 😌 Field of Blue Bannister Lake Conservation Area, Ayr, Ontario. April 2025 Nikon Z6III + Z MC 105mm + Lightroom #photography #blue #landscape

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#Wrensday! Cactus wren in my backyard #bird #birdphotography 🪶

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I'm back. I think. It's been a rough few months. Job loss, stress, depression...you know, all that fun stuff.😕 Anyway, on the topic of hopeful, here's a Yellow Trout Lily.

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My, what a handsome fellow! Photographed at FWR Dickson Wilderness Area in Ayr, Ontario, in Feb of 2025. #birds #birdphotography

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Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy? My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Want to start your week off with some good news? Check out this story from @abcbirds.bsky.social about the rediscovery of two birds in Peru that hadn't been seen in over 10 years. #ornithology

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Sunsets and dawn photos... Ok here are a couple of mine - First from Tasmania... With the sun rising behind me... Near Grindelwald Tasmania. #photography #goldenhour

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The true harbinger of #Spring! 🪶Red-winged Blackbird ❤️ #BlueSkyArtShow #VermontBirds

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The Sparrow (Sept 2015) #photography #escanaba #puremichigan #yooper #906life #birds #sparrow #birdsky #bird

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This Rufous Hummingbird was in the Yarmouth County NS in August 2015. Still the only one I've seen in NS, although I did miss one by five minutes in Queens County once. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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My life has been a bit chaotic lately due to some employment issues. It certainly hasn't been as serene as this shot, let me tell you. Taken at Amherst Point Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia. July 2022. #landscape #landscapephotography #novascotia #blackandwhitephotography #nikoncreator

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Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants. This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US. @benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

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Restoring #Predators, #Restoring #Ecosystems - #Yellowstone #Wolves & Other #Carnivores Drive Strong #TrophicCascade - alturl.com/bsayf alturl.com/vwrtc - #GIS #spatial #mapping #willows #ecology #biology #biodiversity #vegetation #wolf #elk #riparian #stream #tree #herbivore #spatiotemporal #model

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"AI is a cruel technology. It replaces workers, devours millions of gallons of water, vomits CO2 into the atmosphere, propagandises exclusively for the worst ideologies, and fills the world with more ugliness"

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I don't want to doom-scroll anymore this morning, so here's about 10 seconds of Adele penguins swimming and jumping through the ice for everyone to reset. Keep fighting for science. NBP23-03 East #Antarctica. 🧪🦑🌎🐧🇦🇶

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Some good news for a change Scientists found solar farms had a greater number of species & individual birds per hectare than surrounding arable land Solar did not pose a threat to national food security, esp when built on low or moderate grade agricultural land www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'Afternoon Glow' The winter here in southern Ontario has been pretty brutal (constant snow and very cold), and I'm really missing some colour in my life. Hopefully spring is not far around the bend.🙂 #photography #landscapephotography #landscape #hopeful

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A male Scarlet-rumped Tanager doing its absolute best to impress. Works for me!😁 From my Costa Rica excursion in December 2022. #birds #birdphotography #photography #nikoncreator #wildlifephotography #costarica

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Kingfisher #Birds #Yorkshire #Wildlife wildlifeandtravel.com

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Here is a picture I took of Silver Falls at the base of Mount Rainier in Washington. We were fortunate to avoid rain and crowds. Have you visited this area? #washington #waterfall #waterfalls #mountrainier #rainier #forest #mountains #pacificnorthwest #wilderness #nationalpark

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A Willet and a Whimbrel hang out on the beach on Panama's Pacific coast. August 2023. #birds #birdphotography #photography #nikoncreator #panama #wildlifephotography

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Two Trees Pentax 17 Kentmere 400 Film #blueskyartshow #reflections #filmphotography #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #believeinfilm #ohiophotographer #ilovefilm

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Here, nothing is real. Each of us is reduced to ones and zeros. Lost in nature, the numbers fade. We exist once again. #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature

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Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds | The Conversation theconversation.com/hard-bites-a... #ornithology

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The morning encounter with a sleepy kitty. Notice how Siber, our Siberian fur baby, enjoys lap time. He is so content after breakfast that his dessert is a nap on the lap. #cat #cats #pet #pets #animal

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One White-breasted Nuthatch. One classic pose. Photographed somewhere along the Grand River in Cambridge, Ontario. October 2024. #birds #birdphotography #photography #nikoncreator

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Suppressing climate data and research doesn’t stop climate change any more than suppressing gravitational data means you can step off a cliff and just float in midair. 🧪 🌎 insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

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Wood Duck. Such a handsome fellow. Snapped this one at Toronto's High Park in November 2022. #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #nikoncreator

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