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Erin Freeman
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Hobbyist nature picture-taker in the mid-Atlantic, USA trying desperately to keep my tiny spot in the online world positive.
All images I post are mine unless otherwise stated.
If they bring you a smile, a laugh, or some bit of joy, then I've succeeded.
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How about my largest commission piece ever for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 6 morning.

Bison Valley
84x46 in 213x117cm
Oil on Canvas
2024
abstract painting of a mountain scene with a range in back and a greenish valley with a creek through the middle and a waterfall in the foreground.
December 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
The night sky with its full moon had a cool vibe to it.

#BlueSkyArtShow #sky #ArtAdventCalendar #moon #nature #photography
A bright full moon shines in a dark cloudy sky creating a large halo that dissipates into black near the edges of the frame. In the foreground black bare twisty branches frame the moon.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
Just droppin' in.

Evening Grosbeak

#BirdOfTheDay #movement #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #nature #photography
A sunlit pale gray bird with a pale yellow beak, a black and white wing, a bright yellow patch along the side of her neck and pale yellow underparts is caught mid jump down to a concrete bird bath in front of three similar birds in the background. She is hovering above the surface in profile facing right.
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Female Dark-eyed Junco on a chilly, overcast morning. #birds #sparrows

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is all about #Borbs, Birds looking round, and the Alternative are #Black birds.
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon coloration) A dapper looking bird with a dark grey head and pink beak is perched on a small stump. It is a mostly profile view with the body slightly angled towards the camera. The head is turned a bit more toward the camera.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
"How much borb do you want? Any more, and I'll lose my shape completely!"

Northern Cardinal

#BirdOfTheDay #borbs #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #nature #photography
A bright red bird with an upright crest, a black face mask, a triangular, orange beak, and a long, thin tail perches on a thin branch in profile facing right against a background of blurred, tangled branches and whitish-gray sky. His head is turned just slightly toward the camera and is tucked into his enormous body of feathers puffed up against the cold with a bit of a strained look to his eye as if he is trying to hold his shape which is looking a bit like a square with a triangle perched on top.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A #songbird singing for #BirdOfTheDay: Male lazuli bunting in Oregon.

📷🌿🪶
A photo of a male lazuli bunting (Passerina amoena), a small finch-like songbird with a vivid blue head, back, and wings and a burnt orange chest, perched on a thin vertical dried stalk set amongst purple blooming lupine flowers. Its beak is open mid-song.
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
Shyly peaking out to ask, "Is it ok to borrow some peanuts? I promise to return them. In one form or another."

Blue Jay (both a songbird and a good actor)

#BirdOfTheDay #songbirds #birds #ThursJay #corvids #nature #photography #ArtAdventCalendar
A sunlit blue bird with a partially raised crest, a white face and throat, a sharp, black beak, a black necklace and pale gray underparts sits on a thick branch peeking out from behind another, vertical, thick branch against a bright blue sky. The sun glints off its black eye as it looks curiously at the scene in front of it.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Do not disturb: he's entered his circle of silence to think deep thoughts.

Downy Woodpecker

#WoodpeckerWednesday #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #nature #photography
A small, sunlit bird with a thickly-striped black and white head, a bright red patch on the back of his noggin, black wings with white barring, and white underparts hunkers down on a thin tree branch in profile facing left against a deep blue sky. A very thin offshoot of the branch curves up and around the bird before trailing back down to the branch, encircling and framing the bird. He is kind of tucked into himself and is slightly puffed up, giving him a contemplative look.
December 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
"Don't think I don't know what you did. Yeah, I'm #LookingAtYou!"

American Goldfinch with danger in his eye 😂

#BirdOfTheDay #birds #BirdPhotography #nature #photography
A small, sunlit, olive-yellow bird with a brighter yellow head and black wings with white wing bars stands on a thin branch in profile facing left but with his feet facing away from the camera and his whitish tail coverts prominently displayed. He is looking slightly back over his left shoulder, his head held at about a 45 degree angle, and his eye is half-closed. His short, pale orange beak has a slight downward curve at the base which, coupled with the eye, gives him a sneering, angry look as if he's about to turn and put the hurt on whoever wronged him.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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happy #TongueOutTuesday 😛
this friendly beauty is not in my yard, but on a neighbor's farm
#nature #wildlife #ArtYear #goat
brown goat has his pink tongue sticking out and the ground has some frost patches. this goat is at my neighbor's farm and is 1 of many rescues they lovingly care for. photo taken 11/28/2023
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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She's beautiful no matter the conditions.

Northern Flicker

#BirdOfTheDay #stripes #birds #birding #nature #photography
A rich, creamy, reddish-brown bird with a light gray cap and nape, a bright red patch on her nape, and a black barred back clings to the side of a tree trunk with her back to the camera and her head turned to the side. A small icicle dangles from the trunk to her left, and she is puffed up a bit against the cold, nicely displaying the barred stripes along her back and wings and just a hint of the yellow shafts of her wing feathers. Northern Flickers dig in the ground for insects, and a bit of dirt clinging to her sharp, black beak testifies that she's been doing that recently.
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
On the lookout for intruders who might want to steal the last of his pokeberries.

Eastern Bluebird

#BlueSkyMonday #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #birding #nature #photography #NativePlants
A sunlit, bright blue bird with a rusty red chest and white belly perches on top of a brown, dying stalk of vegetation with his belly towards the camera and his head turned to the right against a blurred background of browns and greens. Below him and to the left of the stalk, a small group of dark purple berries droop on a pink stalk that he has pushed down with his foot. The sunlight glints off his black eye and makes his feathers shimmer a bit.
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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To celebrate the start of #ArtAdventCalendar here's my watercolour of the pesky Wood Pigeon who keeps eating all the bird food! That guilty expression and full cheeks says it all! 🪶☺️

Happy December everyone 🕊️👋

#Birds #Art #BirdArt #Painting #EastCoastKin
A watercolour painting of a Wood Pigeon. A portrait showing the pigeon's grey head with a pinkish breast and a white patch on the side/back of its neck a large. There is a metallic green and purple patch of feathers above the white patch and darker feathers to create shade. The pigeon is in side profile looking to the left as viewed with a wide yellow eye appearing to look surprised or guilty. Its beak is pinky red at the top with a yellow tip. Its cheek of the pigeon appears rounded as if it is full of food. The background is a golden buff coloured wash with a light wash on the pigeons face as if to appear illuminated by sunlight.
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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#BlueSkyMonday #TidesOutTuesday
Mawbray Banks, Solway Coast National Landscape, Cumbria.
Looking across the Solway Firth yesterday afternoon towards Criffel Hill.
The tide is out, it looks as if you could walk across to Scotland
#mawbray #cumbria #solway #coastal #nature #photography #eastcoastkin
A coastal view at low tide on a sunny November afternoon. At Mawbray Banks, Solway Coast National Landscape, Cumbria, England. Looking across the Solway Firth with the tide far out to Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and the distinctive shape of Criffel Hill. In the foreground is a brown sandy beach with patterns in the sand from the movement of the tide. Behind this in the middle of the scene are some very shallow pools of water and rocks in different sizes and shapes. The beach appears to continue to the horizon. The sky is pale blue with a line of white clouds on the horizon above the land in the distance.
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Das heutige Thema zum #BirdOfTheDay von @robcrank68.bsky.social ist Spiegelung #reflections.
Ein Buchfink trinkt an einem Brunnen, mit klarem, unbewegten Wasserspiegel, und spiegelt sich darin. Der Buchfink sitzt auf dem hinteren Rand des Brunnens, und beugt sich nach vorn, so dass der Schnabel den gespiegelten Schnabel in der Wasserfläche berührt.
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
beachrelaxin.bsky.social
Happy Hour at the local watering hole

Snowy Egrets, Great Egret

#BirdOfTheDay #reflections #birds #BirdPhotography #nature #photography
A group of five large white birds with long, black beaks, long black legs, and yellow-orange patches connecting their eyes and their beaks stand in shallow water in various poses on a gray day. One much larger white bird with a long, orange beak, but otherwise looking much the same, stands among the crowd on the left with its head raised above the rest. Their reflections mirror their poses on the calm water below.
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"You're not thinking of taking this from me, are you?"

Gray Catbird, determined to keep that raspberry

#BirdOfTheDay #BerriesAndBeaks #birds #birding #nature #photography
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Snoozin' in a sunny patch and takin' a break from the farm life.

#BlueSkyArtShow #warmth #photography #caturday #CatsOfBluesky
Near the end of a very large fallen log that is starting to resemble a rock more than a tree and against a background filled with green vegetation, a large black cat with white paws and whiskers reclines with his head down on his front paw and his eyes closed, just soaking up the sunlight shining down on the scene.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Even as the sun rises, the star of the show is ready for the spotlight.

Great Blue Heron

#BirdOfTheDay #MorningLight #birds #birding #nature #photography
A large gray-blue bird with a long, s-curved neck, a dark gray cap on its head, a yellow eye, and a long, dagger-like beak stands in a gently rippling stream in profile facing right. Taken very early in the morning, the rising sun has brilliantly highlighted the bird while leaving the rest of the photo dark and indistinguishable. Its reflection shines just as brightly on the surface of the water while the water also reflects rippling waves along the lower half of the bird.
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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If you're living life #OnTheEdge, the ocean is a pretty good place to do it.

Hudsonian Whimbrel

#BirdOfTheDay #WaderWednesday #birds #nature #photography
A sunlit, mottled brown bird with a thickly-striped dark brown and white head and long gray legs ending in thick toes digs in the sand with its long, curved beak in profile facing right along the edge of an ocean. A thin, foamy line of bubbles runs along the edge behind it as the water recedes.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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For once I knew she was there before she knew I was, and even then, I'm not sure she saw me well enough to puzzle out what was standing there. Their eyesight is not as good as ours during daylight.

White-tailed Deer

#deer #mammals #nature #photography
The upper half of a grayish-brown deer emerges from a field full of tall, brown vegetation. She is looking directly toward the camera with her large ears filled with long, white hairs standing at attention, her gentle eyes ringed in white hair looking uncertain, and her black nose with a white strip of hair at the base glistening wetly in the morning sunlight.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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A White-breasted Nuthatch in what I suspect is their normal, upright position;
a Carolina Chickadee showing off its leg strength;
a Downy Woodpecker showing it can hang with the Chickadees;
and a Northern Parula defying gravity. All just #HangingAround. 🪶

#BirdOfTheDay #birding #nature #photography
A small gray bird with a white face and underparts and a black cap and nape has wrapped himself around the right side of a thick tree branch to hang upside down, head to the left, and explore the underside of it. A small puffball of a gray bird with a black cap, white cheeks, a black collar, white underparts, and a long, thin, gray tail hangs upside down, in profile with its head to the left, beneath a small clump of dried crab apples it is clinging to, as if it is doing pull ups. In its beak is a small, white seed it has extracted. A small woodpecker with a black and white barred back, white underparts, and a small red patch on the back of his noggin hangs upside down, in profile with his head to the right, from the lower of two decaying black walnut globes against a pale blue sky. His powerful tail feathers brace him against the walnut as he looks to drive his short black beak into the flesh of the walnut casing. A small, blue-gray bird with a white eyering, bright yellow chin, blue-gray collar, bright yellow chest with rusty-red highlights, and a white belly hangs on the right side of a very thin, vertical tree twig looking directly into the camera against a pale blue and white sky. If you were to rotate the photo ninety degrees, it would look like he was standing upright and leaning to the right just a bit. It's a bad, washed out photo, but I kept it just because the ability of birds to cling to tiny things and still maintain their posture absolutely amazes me. If I tried something like that, I'd be a splat on the ground.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This morning's sunrise before the storms hit this afternoon.

#sunrise #clouds #trees #landscape #nature #photography
A deep pink and orange cloud-filled grayish-blue sky hovers overs a silhouetted tree line filled with the skeletal limbs of bare trees.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Just a cutie enjoying the last of the evening light.

Eastern Gray Squirrel

#mammals #squirrels #nature #photography
A gray squirrel with a brown face, ears, and patchy highlights on its body and white underparts crouches at the end of a roughly-barked, thick, fallen log against a warm, brown background in golden-hour sunlight. It is in profile facing right with its head turned just slightly to the camera, and its floofy tail curls up along its lower back before curling back over itself and down toward the ground.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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American Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). It was enjoying the sun and happily posed for me in a Fir tree.

#squirrel #red #wildlife
An American red squirrel standing on a Fir's branch with a little bit of snow on the branch. It was enjoying the sun and stayed put long enough for a photo. The back of the squirrel is more red than it's sides.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM