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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 1h

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Picture of a greeting card on a dark red background. The card features a cute owl-cat monster with a pile of pumpkins.

Picture of a greeting card on a dark red background. The card has a painting of a cedar waxwing bird holding a red berry in its beak, perched in a tree with green leaves and more red berries.

Picture of a greeting card on a dark red background. The card has a painting of a goat-like monster wearing a blue jacket and carrying a mail satchel over its shoulder. It has a letter in its mouth and more letters flying away behind it.

Picture of a greeting card on a dark red background. The card has a painting of a mailbox with an owl sticking its head out, holding an envelope clasped in its beak.

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 21h

Before it was Mount St. Helens, it was Lawetlat’la—Loowit, the smoking mountain.

To the Cowlitz (Upper Cowlitz/Taidnapam) and Yakama (Klickitat), the volcano is alive—a place of story, balance and renewal.

Today, we honor those who have cared for it since time immemorial. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

View looking south toward Mount St. Helens from the Johnston Ridge Observatory area on August 6, 2017. The wide panorama shows the open crater of the volcano beneath a hazy summer sky, with the North Fork Toutle River valley stretching across the center. Replanted forests and natural regrowth patch the gray landscape of ash and debris left by the 1980 eruption.

Photographed by Chris, August 6, 2017.

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 12h

Last pij repost for the day I swear

Barnabas Bulpett @bbulpett.bsky.social · 1d

New York photo of the day.
Manhattan.
60°F (16° C), cloudy with increasing rain.
#NYC #City #Rain #Autumn #River #Park #PublicPark #TidalEstuary #CarlSchurz #JohnFinley #GroupNap #Pigeons #Siesta

Daytime scene on a rainy day in a large city on a riverfront promenade which is part of a public park, facing across a wide river; the river itself is actually a tidal estuary with mildly brackish water; all along there promenade is a curved safety rail, upon which hundreds of pigeons are lined up single-file, mostly of whom are resting with eyes closed; they are likely taking the opportunity to rest here because the rain has lightened some, and there is more heavy rain to come soon; in the distance is a smaller island which is still part of the same borough and has its own high-rise buildings; it is nice over there; the floor is all wet and the sky is overcast.

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Dopple

#pigeonSky 🪶

A photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon, with one white nail on the outer toe of each foot, stood outside on a window sill looking politely at the viewer

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Desert Fox @desertfox.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Columbidae! Now go feed the birds :3

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gin-and-chthonic.bsky.social @gin-and-chthonic.bsky.social · 20h

Columbus Day?
oh no, you misheard me. I said “COLUMBIDAE”
It’s pigeon time, bitch

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 12h

Happy Columbidae to all who rightfully celebrate the pure and beatific love of the pij
💕🕊️

alvin @alvin.myatproto.social · 14h

Real Columbus Day
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbi...
🐦

Columbidae - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

es.wikipedia.org

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 15h

Seems like a good day for my Yellow Peril Supports Black Power shirt!
🤜🏿🤛

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16h

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 15h

I'm upset* about the detail on that savoy cabbage.

*in abject awe

James Gurney Art @jamesgurneyart.bsky.social · 19h

Painting the Pre-Electric Night open.substack.com/pub/jamesgur...

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 1d

Bird as the ultimate Anime Hero

LittleBrownBirdPhotography @tessamurray.bsky.social · 1d

You have to twist your brain a little to understand this one 😆. An Australasian Gannet twists as it starts its dive to plummet into the water after a fish. #birds #birdphotography

$An Australasian Gannet twisting in mid air to go from horizontal to vertical and from cruising to warp speed in the fraction of a second.$

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Diana Stein @dhstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 1d

Doggo appreciate skeet.

She's 14.5 and has been one of my best friends. Her name is Frieda, like joy.

Photo of a black dog lying in a gray bed, her front paws curled over the edge. She has prominent white on her muzzle, eyebrows and paws.

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 4d

🐸🐸🐸🐸🦄🐻‍❄️🐼🦝🦈🦖🦚🙌

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 3d

Some recent kitties from the sketchbook.
CSA members get to see this and much more much sooner: if you'd like to join the community, check it out:
goldeenogawa.com/csa
#cats 🐈🐈‍⬛😽

A drawing in purple and pink pen of a fat fluffy kitten. In pink are the words: "Introducing Rosy Pussytoes!"

A drawing in black brush pen of a black cat holding a big stuffie in the shape of a five-pointed star. Below is the caption: "Kitten caught a star!"

A drawing in black pen of a long-haired cat sitting outside a window, looking hopefully up at the viewer. In the bottom left is the caption: "Hopeful."

A drawing in black pen of a tortishell cat with a snaggletooth, from the shoulders up, as she appears to be sitting in a sink. Caption below reads: "Boss in the bathroom sink."

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 4d

Oh Tom Lehrer I miss him

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 8d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 4d

Benefits of home solar generation:
✅ Grid independence
✅ Reduced electric bill
✅ Local, sustainable energy source
✅✅✅✅✅ More fun to watch the live generation feed than doomscroll 💯

Screen cap of an app displaying solar generated electricity powering a residential home and being exported to the grid (the batteries are at 100%)

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 5d

*BOOP*

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 5d

I'm sorry but this is iconic

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 16d

The war zone at the Portland ICE facility.

Protester in a Fall Guys costume holding a sign that says “SHAME”

Protester in a chicken costume and an American flag cape (with hearts for stars) holding a sign that reads “Portland will outlive him”

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 7d

So many happy memories!

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 7d

A large flock of crows have been cleaning the neighborhood gutters of pine nuts, but today I heard cooing along with the cawing and came out to see the pigeons have come too!
#pigeonsky 🪶

A crow comes in to land on a roof, startling a group of feral pigeons.

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 9d

This is @warriorchicken.me levels of owl-love!

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 9d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 9d

That's not a jackdaw that's a jack-awwww! 🥰

Debbie Knight @marburybirds.bsky.social · 9d

As you have probably gathered corvids are my favourite. As well as the Ravens and numerous Crows, I also feed a flock of Jackdaws every day and here is one posing for a photo this morning. Isn't it beautiful! #ukbirding

Jackdaw sat on a wall with gardens behind

Close up of a Jackdaw showing it's amazing eyes

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 9d

Me toooooo

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 9d

I can't stop watching this.

Plz can we nominate Christine for an Oscar

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 10d

[Jeff Goldblum voice] infrastructure, uh, finds a way.

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Goldeen "Rhondi" Ogawa @goldeenogawa.com · 9d

Aahhhh just a regular old city bike commute…

…via the Deschutes River Trail! 😉
#bikesky

A wooden boardwalk leads away through golden-green marsh grasses with conifer trees beyond and a cloudy gray sky.

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