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Mark Robertson
@markrobbie.bsky.social
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Aviangelist. Married chap. English teacher. Apprentice to Jesus. Other stuff. They will also know us by our mirth.
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 19h
They always look so thrilled with the cosmos. Or super angry. But mostly thrilled 🪶
Allen's again, I think, wings up with a bright red-orange gorget, straw like beak in pne of the white buds on the Mexican bush sage
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 19h
A terrible beauty to behold. Lovely shot, Janet
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 19h
Can't you just feel his sheer delight in the never-ending tap room that is his world!?

#birds
An sparkly necked allen's hummingbird, beak in a white bloom at the end of a stem of purple sage
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 2d
So good 😅
Thanks for doing the math, Yanyun
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 2d
Size to Attitude Ratio
off the charts 🪶
Molty Anna's hummingbird with patchy pink gorget on some withered stem and making a withering angry glare
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 2d
HERE I IS,
The oak BLOKE!
Size of thumb
but brave as lion
Gimme all the acorns and no one get hurt
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Bright eyed gray bird with cute crest posed sweetly on knobby stem looking slightly to camera right over left wing
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 2d
WHERE ARE THEY
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 3d
Quite a specimen, this guy. Also: "Watch like a hawk" is such a legit idiom #birds
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 3d
Selling knock-off Rolexes 🪶
Hawk perched on curving lamppost, right wing extended as if to show some less than legit products in a trenchcoat
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 3d
I am & will always be a shameless hawk-gawker #birds
Close-up of handsome red-shouldered hawk
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 3d
Lawn Bowling 🪶
Says Phoebe flitting just above the grass, their right wing extended as if rolling a ball
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
Follow the light, wee friend!
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
We must always stop :)
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
So great. I've also been seeing a lot of delightful little scruff monsters out there
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
It was unreasonable🪶 🥹
Same bird with bright yellow background
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
Cottonball on toothpicks :)
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
That lil blirp so much very deserve, thank you!
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 4d
Consider this adorps lil blirp #birds
Little spherical bright gray puffy little gnatcatcher on a dry stem and an olivet background
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you, Anuradha!
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · Oct 21
So I was like, "Maybe just one more time, kind sir?"
And he quoth, "No. Nevermore."
#birds
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 5d
Phoebe, flickering sun-glitter as she fishes for flies #birds
Seven images of a black and white bird looping about a thin post, sunlight showing through their wings
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you Dr. Patrick! I have a Canon 100-400mm USM mk. II lens :)
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 6d
Ahh, the hunt for a red October:)
Love it!
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 6d
He then flew some loops directly above me.
And l imagined a world where we're all assigned a raptor at birth that scouts for us, looks out for us, hunts for us, and then perches on our (thickly gloved) forearm
to rest 🪶
The Red-tailed hawk's underside, wings extended head coked to the left, in a bright blue October sky
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Mark Robertson @markrobbie.bsky.social · 6d
Here he is, not two yards from my left ear. The camera couldn't focus in enough. I had a paroxysm of reptilian terror #birds
The bird in two long frames, both slightly out of focus and extremely close to the camera
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