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A chickadee (a tiny, mostly grey bird with black and white face) flying horizontally against a blurry forest background. Its wings and tail feathers are entirely fanned out, with a sunbeam hitting one wing to reveal its delicate, translucent wing feathers. Because it is flying on an angle, it's as if you were viewing the bird from the top, looking down. However, its head is turned so you can see the right side of its face clearly.
December 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC
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A side angled view of a snowy "row house" of three simple wooden birdhouses (plain wood, just a small hole with a perch below it) with a shared platform against a snowy/bare tree background. There is a pile of snow on top, cascading down to cover some of the front. Tiny squirrel faces are peeking out of the closest two of the three houses.
December 1, 2024 at 11:06 AM UTC
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A quizzical blue jay, sitting on a branch amid green foliage, with its head tilted to the side as if wondering what's up.
November 24, 2024 at 8:28 PM UTC
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A grassy hill with the silhouettes of three crows standing on top against a clear blue sky. A concrete wall covered in colourful graffiti is built into the side of the hill. Most of the artwork is in shades of purples and reds and includes the words in yellow, "When life gives you lemons, add vodka."
November 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM UTC
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A blue jay standing in a "bird house" attached to a tree in the forest that is built to resemble a motorcycle bar. "Members ONLY: Peanut Bar" is stencilled on the front, and the "parking lot" is roped off. A toy motorcycle is parked outside, and one of the wooden blocks holding the rope has a Harley-Davidson logo.
November 3, 2024 at 2:56 PM UTC
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A determined red-breasted nuthatch coming in for a sideways/horizontal landing on a wooden post with birdseed on top of it. Wings are up and outstretched, and tiny feet are extended out front, like a ski jumper. (A red breasted nuthatch is a tiny bird with a long pointy beak, red underside, white face with black eye stripe and grey wings/back.)
October 6, 2024 at 4:29 PM UTC
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A black capped chickadee (tiny bird with white face and belly and a black "cap" and throat) perched with its teeny, tiny feet wrapped around a delicate branch. It is looking up at reddish, cylindrical catkins (flowering shoots).
September 29, 2024 at 3:16 PM UTC
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A blue jay flying low across a wooden boardwalk with wings fanned out and outstretched so that it makes a perfect shadow underneath.
September 22, 2024 at 7:03 PM UTC
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A white throated Sparrow (tiny bird brown speckled bird with a grey head, black eye/head stripes, a yellow "eyebrow" and, you guessed it, a white throat!) facing away from you, head turned to the side with a calm look amid green foliage.
September 8, 2024 at 10:56 PM UTC
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A big fuzzy bumblebee flying towards pale purple flowers against a blurry green background. It's moving wings are blurred, but you can see legs and antennae clearly. There are bits of yellow pollen around it's face.
September 1, 2024 at 9:16 PM UTC
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A deep green northern leopard frog (I think!) sitting in clear water with a muddy bottom about an inch deep. Dozens of small tiny skinny fish (killfish?) are visible swimming around it, but giving it a wide berth!
August 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM UTC
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An American Black Duck, wings flapped up so you can see the band of shiny blue on one of its wings, flying over a mostly calm body of water. It's beak is slightly open and it looks almost like it's smiling. There is a thin band of entirely blue s y above the horizon.
August 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM UTC
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A monarch butterfly mid-flight, with both wings pointing down, flying through sunlit-illuminated green leaves.
August 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM UTC
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A chickadee (tiny bird) coming in for a landing on an outstretched hand, feet sticking out ahead, wings spread and beak open. In the background, a second chickadee is flying away.
July 28, 2024 at 9:43 PM UTC
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A grackle (medium sized bird with a shiny purple-blue head, bright yellow eyes and iridescent brownish body) perched on a curved metal lawn ornament.
July 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM UTC

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