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Bob Bell 🇨🇦

@thebirderbob.bsky.social

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Avid birder, Lyme patient, author of "Out of the Lyme Light and into the Sunlight" Read about my frustrating journey with Lyme, and how birding helps me cope with chronic pain. Photos all by me. #birds #cats #Lyme #naturetherapy #wellness #birding

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 24d

Proud to post this link to the article that I wrote in the September issue of @aba.org's Birding magazine - much easier to read than the scanned jpgs I posted earlier. Thank you ABA and @birdizlife.bsky.social! #birds #birding #Lyme #Lymedisease #wellness

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Birding and Wellness - American Birding Association

After Lyme disease forced him into retirement, geologist Bob Bell found healing in birding, improving wellness, sharing knowledge, and inspiring people to connect with birds.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 5h

You never know - I've seen drunk robins!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks Heather, and the same to you!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 11h

It's Happy Thanksgiving here in Canada! Here's a collection of photos of Wild Turkeys taken in my backyard. #Thanksgiving #Ancaster #HamOnt #turkey

An extreme closeup of a turkey from the neck up, with his head tilted back a bit, looking at me

A large wild turkey strutting into my backyard

A family of turkeys, including two adults displaying their tails, along with a bunch of poults

A large male turkey displaying, while a hen looks on with what appears to be disinterest

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks very much!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 16h

Thank YOU!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 17h

A Cedar Waxwing perched in an apple tree near our camp in northern Ontario in late May. This was one of dozens of waxwings, along with an Indigo Bunting and Purple Finch, that stripped the tree of blossoms in about three days. #Algoma #Waxwing #birds #birding #BirdOfTheDay

A cedar waxwing perched in an apple tree that is in blossom, so it is surrounded by white and pink petals. It is looking over its shoulder to the left side of the image.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Beauty!

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

and, thank you!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

THE looks seems to be universal!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly not happy with me taking its photo!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

🤣

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

I can't imagine Loshi ever setting foot in snow! Not a chance his highness would do that!

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

thanks!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Nice shot!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #caturday to those who celebrate! Here's Loshi out for a walk at the end of August. He's not quite so keen now that the days are cooling off.

Our Russian Blue cat Loshi sitting on a limestone block in our backyard, with brown-eyed susans behind him. He's wearing his bright orange collar which really stands out against his gray fur.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

An Osprey giving me "the look" - perhaps I was looking fishy. #birds #birding #osprey #BirdOfTheDay #HamOnt

An osprey is perched on the edge of his nesting platform, which has weathered lime green with some sort of lichen on it. He's looking very intently at me.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

Great capture!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 2d

On their way!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 2d

They're on their way!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 2d

The Dark-eyed Juncos have settled in for their winter vacation. Here's one soaking up the sun in the backyard a few days ago. #birds #birding #sparrow #Ancaster #Bobsbackyard #HamOnt

A dark-eyed junco is resting on a limestone block in my backyard. Its back is to me, and it is looking over its shoulder towards the right, showing off its pink beak.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 3d

What an honour to be hosted by @naturecanada.bsky.social to speak about #birds and #birding as therapy for coping with chronic illness, in my case #Lymedisease. Join us on October 21st at 2 pm!

Nature Canada @naturecanada.bsky.social · 3d

Join Nature Canada and Canadian Author, Bob Bell @thebirderbob.bsky.social for an outstanding free webinar where we explore the intersectionality of disability (both visible and not) and birding.

Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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