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Marsha8of9
@marsha8of9.bsky.social
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Bird photographer hobbyist. Began birding to give my then 13-year-old child and I something in common. Now years later, I'm obsessed, and they could care less. All photos are my own unless otherwise noted. #exPost #exX #Ohio
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Happy new week friends... Day 8: the reason for migration season, bringing forth the next generation. Great fun watching fledged Purple Martins look of independence, yet still reliant on their parents for nourishment. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶📷🦉
On a diagonal, leafless branch sits three Purple Martins. The top right and center birds are fledged young; the lower right is an adult female attempting to put a midge into the mouth of the center bird.
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
In line to become U.S. citizens, they were asked what country they’re from. If they were from certain countries, they were pulled out of line. Just horrible. The very antithesis of what America is. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this. Every single one.👇 www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Happy Sunday friends... Day 7 of favorites was actually taken this past Friday when I hiked down a snowy trail at an area Metropark and a Barred Owl flew past only to land in a tree less than 30 yards behind me. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Center frame, a Barred Owl is perched, their body facing right, with their head turned left as if looking over their right shoulder. This "Who Cooks For You" Owl is native to NW Ohio but are masters in camouflage. This is the first decent photo (not obscured by leaves, branches or darkness) that I've gotten of a Barred in six years.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Happy Saturday friends, Day 6. Have you ever watched a Baltimore Oriole gather nesting material? Fascinating! Enjoyed watching this female work diligently to pull, tear and gather the necessary threads. Beautiful architects #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶📷🦉
Center right in frame in a Baltimore Oriole female is seen in a vertical position, with sinew like threads of the plant in and around her beak and face. Her wings are displayed behind her as if she's trying to gather the energy to fly. May 03, 2025, Swan Creek Preserve.
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Happy #FeatheredFriday friends... Day 5 hails from my favorite cemetery hotspot when we watched an Osprey not only fly over, but dive into the retention pond. He may have come up empty handed, but we certainly did not. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography
Center right of frame, an Osprey is caught mid-air, with water dripping or splashing if you will, from his body, as he emerged from the retention pond at Woodlawn Cemetery.
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Happy Thursday friends... I have a very early morning appointment then work all day into the evening, so I'm posting my Day 4 entry early. Please read ALT for the full story on this beautiful Horned Grebe and why she's a favorite. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🦉🪶📷
Center frame with the bird in water facing forward, with their head looking left. This is one of my favorite photos because last February while on my way to work, I found this immature Horned Grebe who seemingly mistook the color of the road pavement for water. Horned Grebes are water birds, meaning they cannot walk on land and once she landed, she was stuck. I parked in front of the bird to block traffic from and tried unsuccessfully to contact someone who could help, when a good Samaritan-who lived in the neighborhood arrived and promised to call Nature's Nursery-a rehabber, and take care of her. Later that day, the bird was released into the Maumee River at a park located behind a water treatment plant where the river was not completely iced over. The following day, I made a point of going out and grabbing photos of this beauty-happily living their best life in the best environment.
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday friends. Over this past year, I reported seeing Northern Flickers 125 times. Narrowing down the best photo is a fool's errand. But I really like this one from last January, while it was snowing. #birds #birdingOH #wildlifwite #nature #photography #eastcoastkin
A thin, diagonal tree runs through the photo from top to bottom. Perched atop the tree in the right center of frame is an immature male (note the hint of mustache on their cheek) Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted), perched facing and looking left. If you zoom in, you might see snowflakes falling in the background.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Happy #TwoferTuesday friends and day 2 of favorite shots. Taken @ Huntington Beach State Park in Murrel's Inlet, SC in early January. I'm used to finding Brown Pelicans in South Carolina so finding the American White Pelicans was a treat! #birds #birdingOH #wildlie #nature #photography #eastcoastkin
Center frame, two American White Pelicans are flying across the brackish water, pool found at the Huntington Beach State Park, entrance causeway.
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Happy December friends... over the past 12 months, I've taken over 100k photos of birds & have been slowly narrowing down to my favorite shots. Beginning today, I'll be sharing my best 31 of the bunch. Check ALT for descriptions #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Taken January 6th in Garden City, SC a Brown Pelican on their quest to find fish in the gradually receding waters of the Grand Strand low tide, took to the air, flying right towards me, allowing for a wonderful flight shot of this beautiful creature. Center frame, wings extended, looking straight at the viewer. White cap, brown body and wings and a very long bill. From allaboutbirds.org., Brown Pelicans are huge, stocky seabirds. They have thin necks and very long bills with a stretchy throat pouch used for capturing fish. Their wings are very long and broad and are often noticeably bowed when the birds are gliding.
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Happy Sunday friends... On Friday, we found our winter resident, Merlin Falcon perched low in a tree at the end of our cemetery walk. Made for a nice cap to our day there. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷😊
Center frame, perched on leafless limbs facing left, with head looking back over their left shoulder to the right, with a cloudy colored background.
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Happy Rivalry Saturday friends... #GoBuckeyes Took a nice hike out at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in some heavy wind and cold, where the Green-winged Teals were so dramatic, from a distance they appeared as snow. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #drama
Large flock of Green-winged Teals in flight over the marsh.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
"I co-wrote Trump's first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-2018. He's not trying to stop "left wing" terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag – meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious."

Miles Taylor
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
marsha8of9.bsky.social
Happy #Blackbird #FeatheredFriday friends.. Rusty Blackbird wishing you a happy shopping day! #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶📷🦉
Center frame looking and facing left, a Rusty Blackbird is perched on a limb with a tree trunk in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving friends... A favorite Wild Turkey shot from '24: "Turkey's hitching a ride out of town b4 the Thanksgiving holiday". Have a beautiful day everyone--I'm very thankful you all are in my life. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature 🪶📷 #eastcoastkin #photography
The scene shows four Wild Turkey's on the right side of a road, looking at a car fast approaching on the left as if to say "Stop and get us out of dodge before they try to eat us..."
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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@crystalchappell.bsky.social happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy your holiday!
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Give credit to the photographer otherwise you’re stealing their work.
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Hi, former turkey farmer here who raised flocks of heritage breed turkeys specifically for Thanksgiving:

What?!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Happy #Wrendsay friends... Came across a family of Carolina Wrens last week but only managed to get two of the four in one shot. Still, pretty cool find.
Two Carolina Wrens are featured in this photo. One is in the upper left center, while the other is in the lower right corner. Both are facing right on a jumble of leafless twigs.
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Happy Tuesday friends... nothing marks the start and end of seasonal migration like sight of Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Was surprised to find a couple still in my area, while most others have left for warmer climates. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Center frame, perched on leafless branch, facing and looking left. From allboutbirds.org., Kinglets are tiny songbirds with relatively large heads, almost no neck, and thin tails. They have very small, thin, straight bills. Ruby-crowned Kinglets are olive-green birds with a prominent white eyering and white wingbar. This wingbar contrasts with an adjacent blackish bar in the wing. The “ruby crown” of the male is only occasionally visible.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Happy new week friends... Caught this Brown Creeper yesterday and enjoyed watching as they looked in every nook and cranny of the tree bark for a possible meal. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #Photography #eastcoastkin
Center frame, a Brown Creeper facing left while perched against a tree, head down, examining possible insect larvae for a meal. From Allaboutbirds.org., Streaked brown and buff above, with their white underparts usually hidden against a tree trunk, Brown Creepers blend easily into bark. Their brownish heads show a broad, buffy stripe over the eye (supercilium). Brown Creepers are tiny yet lanky songbirds. They have long, spine-tipped tails, slim bodies, and slender, decurved bills.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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NO DATA CENTERS IN NW Ohio!
Great Lakes Region Unprepared for Increasing Water Use Demands - Alliance for the Great Lakes
CHICAGO, IL (August 20, 2025) – The Great Lakes region faces the prospect of water shortages, groundwater conflicts, and contaminated aquifers as demand sharply increases from large water users such [...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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@rkroepke.bsky.social Hi Robyn— wondering if you’re in FL for Thanksgiving? Hope you are. Have a great Sunday!
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Happy Sunday friends... Just finished making my yearly 2026 calendar; going back through my hard drive to find 12 favorite shots w/a few more thrown in for good measure. Here's 1:90k that did not make the cut. #birds #birdingOH #nature #photography #wildlife #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷
Three Northern Shoveler Ducks on water crossing in front of the viewer. Two females (coarsely marked brown feathers with orange bill) are in the background, while a solitary male (green head, yellow eyes with brown flanks) is in the foreground. Note their shovel-shaped beaks, aptly applied to their name.
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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@skwinnicki.bsky.social FYI I’m not sure how far this is from you, but an Orange-crowned Warbler was spotted today at Lodge Pond trail in Ross, OH this morning… could be a nice day for a road trip 🤩 (reported on Discord)
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM