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Dr. Robert Maunder

@boiby.bsky.social

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Psychiatrist, writer. I write about attachment, health, trauma… University of Toronto Press. 🇨🇦 Away from the office, I post pictures of birds. https://linktr.ee/bobmaunder

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · 14h

Eastern Phoebe in autumn pond colour collage 🪶

Small grey bird on branch. Blurry background is green, yellow, brown and orange.

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · 21h

Kingfisher on the lookout 🪶

Squat bird with long beak and tufted head perched on a branch, overcast background.

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for sharing that with me

Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · 19d

#notabranch 🪶

Red tailed hawk perched on yellow fire hydrant

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · 21d

I am preparing to pitch a book I have been working on for three years. There are few things in my experience that make one feel as exposed as pitching a labour of love. #writing

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · 21d

A wood duck in the duckweed 🪶

Duck on water. The duck is small with a red eye, white circle around eye, and a couple of right blue feathers in tail - otherwise brown and grey. Little green leaves float on water.

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Sep 6

Red-tailed hawk today. Looks young, maybe? 🪶

White and brown raptor perched on thick branch

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Sep 2

Osprey scanning Lake Ontario for lunch 🪶

Bird of prey in flight, wings spread, white underbelly, white on head

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 31

Spotted Sandpiper at Frenchman’s Bay, Lake Ontario on Sunday 🪶

Shorebird with long grey beak, white belly, subtly speckly grey head perched on dead log. Blue water in background

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 21

New species to me: Red Knots. Very sharp-looking shorebirds 🪶

Medium sized shorebirds - grey and white feathered wading and pecking in water for food

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 20

It is always a treat to see a tiny Piping Plover on north shore of #princeedwardisland. 🪶

Small grey-speckled shorebird walks on wet sand near seaweed

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 19

Layers of #princeedwardisland colour and a heron fishing 🪶

Heron leg deep in blue water with weeds with wet red sand, dry red cliffs, green and brown in background

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 18

Willet pair in perfect camouflage. 🪶

Two grey speckled shore birds, one standing one sitting, in similarly speckled dried seaweed

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 17

They were new to me when we first came to this shore

Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 17

Willets in #princeedwardisland 🪶

Two speckled long-legged shorebirds at edge of water

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 16

Least Sandpipers frolicking 🪶

Two shorebirds in blue water. One is taking off, one standing.

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Monique | California Bird Photographer & Tour Guide 🇺🇸 @moniquedao.bsky.social · Aug 15

Joining Bluesky, thanks to @dptbirder.bsky.social. 😅

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 13

That’s unexpected. My relatives were long gone by then. I didn’t know that

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 13

As we approach an AC flight attendants strike, I think of my grandfather leading the CPR firemen in a strike in 1957, to save jobs threatened by new diesel trains. His home and family received threats. It lasted 9 days but accomplished little. Trains & unions are part of my #colonial #familystories

Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 11

Rev. J.S. Woodsworth, the “conscience of Canada,” supported equity, social obligation, and civic responsibility as a CCF MP. However, his Strangers Within our Gates was a plainly racist warning of the dangers of unassimilated immigrants. His Methodist roots resonate with my #colonial #familystories

Black and white portrait of an older white man with a beard sitting, wearing a suit, reading a book

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 10

Workhouses were places for the poor who were sick or homeless. Terrible conditions - caused more illness than they cured - think of Dickens’ stories like Oliver Twist

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 10

My GG grandfather was >60 when he married his 3rd wife, my GG grandmother at 16. He was tried & acquitted of assault once, admitted sick to a workhouse several times & was a street vendor of old tinplate in a London slum. His sons came to Canada looking for something better #colonial #familystories

Old black and white photo of Southwark industrial neighborhood of London

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 10

Least Sandpiper on the red sandstone of #princeedwardisland 🪶

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 10

Moon tonight

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Dr. Robert Maunder @boiby.bsky.social · Aug 9

Women’s baseball was big in Winnipeg in the 1930s & 40s (A League of their Own years). My grandfather managed a team. When the African American Chocolate Co-Ed’s came from Chicago to play they were segregated in a different hotel from other teams #colonial #familystories

A large team photo of women in baseball uniforms and men in suits.

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