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Bev Paulan

@bpaulan.bsky.social

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Former crane mama, current conservation pilot, environmental educator and lover of 🦇🐝🦋🪶🌼🐸 All photos my own unless otherwise credited. Being kind is a choice.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3h

Boy, that's scary. Birds don't stand a chance.

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Eykyu - The solution is unification🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿🌊🇺🇸🦅 @eykyu.bsky.social · 10h

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful pictures!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Auntie Megz ♿😼💙 @auntiemegz.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

Great image!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

I am very appreciative of both @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for doing the #BirdoftheDay. Its been fun to go through my archives and has given me a goal for the winter -- to get out and photograph more birds.
Today's theme of #droplets. Belted kingfisher in northern Illinois.

A gray, white and orange bird sits on a branch having just shaken water off her feathers. Water droplets fill the air and sparkle in the light.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Great capture.

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 2d

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

I have always loved all things with #wings. But some definitely more than others. Red headed woodpecker for #BirdoftheDay

A black and white bird with a red head and silvery beak, flies from right to left across a green background. The bird has a peanut in its beak.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 2d

#goodmorning from northeastern Illinois. A spectacular start to the day. May your day reflect the beauty and peace of a sunrise.
#nature #photgraphy

Sunrise is reflecting on a layer of clouds turning them vivid orange. A tree line bisects the frame with the sky reflected in water below the trees

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite images. A Tufted titmouse with something to say for today's #BirdoftheDay theme of any bird in the Paridae family. 🪶

A small gray bird with a slight peach colored tint on its side, sits on a branch with its head tilted back and beak open. It is surrounded by green leaves

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

One of the most beautifuls tits I have seen. The Varied tit. From my archives. Taken in a Tokyo park in 2014. #BirdoftheDay 🪶

Against a blurred brown back ground, a small roundish gray and orange bird with a black and white face, sits on a stick looking out to the viewer's right.

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Ray Akey @rayakey.bsky.social · 3d

I also got this frame of a Yellow-rumped Warbler aka "butterbutt" catching a small bug in the air. 😮

#photography #birds #warblers #thewarblers #newworldwarbler

I also got this shot of a Yellow-rumped Warbler aka "butterbutt" catching a small bug in the air.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

Great capture!

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TallFroGuy [🔜critterposting hours] @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 4d

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TallFroGuy [🔜critterposting hours] @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 4d

beakful heron / closeup
#critterposting #alttextposting

Crude drawing of a bird swallowing a fish. Shaped like a fish being swallowed by a bird.

Crude drawing of a fish being swallowed by a bird. Shaped like a bird swallowing a fish.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

This is so great!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. Right place, right time!

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 4d

It is a great book, but mine stays in the car. I'm gettin' too old to lug that much weight around!

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 4d

Dammit. Very sad news.

Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 4d

A Green heron attempting to swallow a fish seems to qualify for #BirdoftheDay theme of #beakful. Also, #wader. A twofer!

A green and brown small heron has a fish halfway down its throat. The tail of the fish sticks out of the beak. The bird stands on a green mudbank with 2 fallen logs lying horizontally behind the bird

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 5d

More young birds for #BirdoftheDay. Yellow-shafted Northern flicker and chicks.🪶

A brown spitted bird with a black moustache and red patch on the back of his head clings to the side of a tree. Two young birds of the same species poke their heads out of a hole in the same tree with open beaks begging to be fed

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 5d

Since it is Friday and this week seemed verrrry long, I think y'all could use something cute. Canada goose goslings for #BirdoftheDay theme of #chick. 🪶

2 fuzzy yellow and brown goslings face each other. One is standing & one is lying.

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Bev Paulan @bpaulan.bsky.social · 5d

I have worked on a crane project for almost 20 years and will not apologize for continuously posting photos of both North American species. 😆
#BirdoftheDay theme of #chick

A very tall and a very small brown bird stand facing each other in a field composed of green grasses and yellow flowers.

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