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Okay maybe I should put something else here. Hi! I duno what to put here. Uh, there will be wildlife stuff, craft stuff, photos, ramblings?, my cat, yard plants, bugs that sit still enough for me to photograph them, maybe screaming into the void.

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 18h

Still trying to squeeze in some embroidery. This gila monster is by @a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social
I wanna try a stumpwork moth next, but I have to finish this first before I turn this house into a WIP graveyard.

A pattern of a hula monster on fabric
French knots are being used to fill in the gila monster.

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 21h

#Birdtober day 14 is irruptive species. THIS was a rough one because I could only think of waxwings. But I think I managed to pick a few more species.
#Photography #birds

Grey-crowned rosy finches
Yellowstone National Park

Snowy owl, my only time spotting one, thanks to the Bird Alliance of Oregon doing a fiend trip out to Ocean Shores oh so long ago.
Ocean Shores, WA

Bohemian waxwings. They tend to blend into the cedar waxwing flocks, so it's quite the scavenger hunt.
Bozeman, MT

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 21h

I am currently deep into Metaphor: ReFantazio. Staying up all night to progress further in the game is very, very tempting. I haven't cried yet, somehow, (I blame Expedition 33 for taking all my tears) but I have done plenty of screaming at the game because, holy freaking plot.

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Zoo Boise @zooboise.bsky.social · 21h

Halloween is Toogle's time to shine. The male southern ground hornbill is an excellent pumpkin carver! 🎃

📷: Lauren

A male southern ground hornbill holds pulp and seeds from a pumpkin while standing on a branch.

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 1d

#Birdtober day 13 is scavenger! One of my favorite groups of animals, those that clean up a carcass! Vultures was an obvious choice, but I had to include a few other birds as well.
#photography #birds #scavenger

California condor nibbling on a bit of carcass
Oregon Zoo

American crow with a mouth full of food stolen from some Amur tigers
Oregon Zoo

A bald eagle next to a carcass that has a bunch of black-billed magpies on it.
Yes, bald eagles are prone to scavenging, especially in the winter time.
Ennis, MT

A marabou stork. These birds are frequent visitors to carcasses
ABQ Biopark Zoo

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Kate 🍄 @kateammann.bsky.social · 1d

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 2d

#Birdtober Day 12 is FREE BIRD. Or, bird of your choice. My brain went to the song and just kinda fizzled out.
So here are some ravens! One of my favorite birds!
#photography #birds #ravens

Common raven portrait
Yellowstone National Park

A common raven with some, stuff, it picked out of the bear habitat at Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center

A pair of ravens doing some allopreening, my favorite bird couple behavior.
Yellowstone National Park

Raven couple playing 'got your beak' where one raven grabs the others' beak.
Yellowstone National Park

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 3d

#Birdtober day 11 is birds of prey!
Here are a few sharp birds!

Cooper's hawk perched in the light of the setting sun.
Bosque del Apache NWR

American kestrel female with a prey item in her talons. She was headed to a snag where 3 of her fledglings were hanging out waiting for breakfast.
Tualatin River NWR

Osprey with a fish! Ospreys have developed a hunting strategy that is mainly around fish hunting.
Tualatin River NWR

Steller's sea eagle, one of the larger birds of prey.
Woodland Park Zoo

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 4d

WHY DO WE STILL HAVE THIS

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 4d

#Birdtober day 10 is Yellow! Here are some birds with yellow in their name. Because that's all my brain could think of!

Yellow-breasted chat
Bosque del Apache NWR

Yellow warbler
Headwaters State Park Montana

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 4d

She is a superstar!

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 4d

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 5d

Still up to some fibre art shenanigans. I was hoping to get this and another piece done way earlier, but they may end up being solstice presents for some family members.
#embroidery

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 5d

#Birdtober day 9 is juvenile! Here's a couple of not quite baby birds.

Juvenile eared grebe doing a BIIIIG wing stretch (with such tiny wings). As chicks, grebes of all species spend all of their time on their parents' backs awaiting food deliveries. When they become too large to be passengers, they become little floaties, still waiting for food deliveries.
Benton Lake NWR

A group of mostly juvenile harlequin ducks. During the fall, young of the year and possibly their mothers can be seen in the rapids preparing to migrate to the coasts around lateish October.

Yellowstone National Park

A juvenile osprey caught in a rainstorm.
I was also caught in this rainstorm.
Yellowstone National Park

Cape griffon vultures, the middle one is the youngest of the group.
ABQ Biopark Zoo

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DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 6d

Barrow's goldeneyes in the gold foil at Le Hardy Rapids in Yellowstone National Park.

A trio of ducks swimming in gold colored water

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 6d

#Birdtober day 8 is Nocturnal migrant! A lot of smaller birds that would be prey for other critters tend to migrate under the cover of darkness!
#photography #birds

Snow geese silhouettes at sunset.
Bosque del Apache NWR

American robin with a hawthorn berry
Tualatin River NWR

A HUGE group of shorebirds. Mostly western sandpipers, dunlins, least sandpipers and a sneaky semipalmated plover.
Newport, OR

A yellow-rumped warbler amongst the flowering trees
Steigerwald Lake NWR

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 7d

#birdtober day 7 is Alternate Plumage (non breeding plumage). Ducks were an easy choice (it's just a matter of digging through all the photos), but managed a few extra birds!
#photography #birds

A wood duck drake in non-breeding plumage
Albuquerque, NM

A pied-billed grebe in non-breeding plumage
Bozeman, MT

A Kōlea (pacific-golden plover) in non breeding plumage. They do creep into their breeding plumage before heading up to Alaska.
Honolulu Airport (funny story, the airport was the first place I saw them and I didn't think I'd see them again. Turns out they are ALL OVER the place)

Ruddy duck drake in...sorta not all the way there breeding plumage. The body feathers are a little more rich brown.
Bosque del Apache NWR
Also bonus Ross' goose.

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 8d

#birdtober day 6 is coniferous forests! There's a lot of those around me!

Mountain chickadee
Yellowstone National Park

Williamson's sapsucker
Bandelier National Monument

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 9d

I love magpie jays!!! I'm also familiar with the whole, draw a bird, oops drew it too big and now the tail gets chopped off.

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 9d

#birdtober Day 5 is Spotted! Here's a couple of fancy polka-doted birds, some even have spotted in their name!
#photography #birds

A male northern flicker perches on a branch
Bozeman, MT

A male Palawan peacock-pheasant, mostly brown and black feathers with iridescent turquoise feathers that make spots on the wings and tail.
Oregon Zoo

A spotted sandpiper in breeding plumage, showing off the spots on the breast. Non-breeding birds have a clean chest.
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

A spotted towhee. The spots are white feathers on the wings.
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 9d

such good birbs

DWMM Photography @dwmmphotography.bsky.social · 9d

It is Scavenger Sunday, and the raven contemplates.

photograph of a raven perched in a tree, head tilted

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 10d

#birdtober day 4 is extravagant tails! I think these bird tails are pretty neat.
#photography #bird

A small family group of scissor-tailed flycatchers.
Southeastern NM Rest area

A northern pintail drake in breeding plumage. Maybe not as long as a long-tailed duck, but still pretty fancy.
Bosque del Apache NWR

A red-billed blue magpie. A very aptly named bird with a very long tail. Most magpies have pretty long tailed when compared to other corvids.
Woodland Park Zoo

An adult red-tailed hawk with its signature red-tail. A lot of red-tails I see are juveniles that still have barred brown tails. The adults have the brick red tails.
Southern Idaho

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Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 11d

This is too cute!!!!! I absolutely love hornbills!

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 11d

Hornbill Ruby’s got the bases covered! ⚾ She’s fetching baseballs and rooting for our Seattle Mariners to bring home the win. Wear your Mariners gear and score $5 off general admission at the Zoo’s ticket window (offer valid through the Mariners’ postseason run)! 💙 #SeaUsRise #GoMariners

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 11d

#birdtober day 3..yeah day 3! I'm already losing track this is great. The 3rd prompt is pollinators! I had a time trying to find something other than 4 hummingbirds!
#birds #photography #pollinators

White-winged doves are important pollinators for the saguaro cactus! And I happened to spot one on top of said cactus, sadly no flowers at the time.
Saguaro National Park, AZ

A Green honeycreeper from the San Diego Zoo

Black-chinned hummingbird humming around some cactus flowers.
Bosque del Apache NWR

An ʻIʻiwi going after some yellow flowers (I think it's Māmane, I'm awful at plant ID)

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 12d

#birdtober day 2 is upon us! Sparrows for today! There's a decent variety of sparrows in my neck of the woods/places I've visited.
#birds #photography #sparrow

A fox sparrow against some autum foliage and bright green moss. They're one of the larger sparrows I've spotted.
Seattle, WA

A green-tailed towhee on the ground.
Santa Fe, NM

Dark-eyed junco, Oregon morph, plumage, type? There's so many different kinds of dark-eyed juncos. The Oregon variety is my favorite (totally not bias)
Portland, OR

THIS bird had me lost for SO LONG when I started birding. I saw a very similar looking bird on the coast of California and could not figure out what the heck it was for the longest time!
Eventually I figured out it was a juvenile white-crowned sparrow. Does not look like the adults at all. Most sparrows are somewhat similar to their adult counterparts, but these guys have brown caps for a while!

Bosque del Apache NWR

Dee @mochamustelid.bsky.social · 13d

It's #Birdtober 1st! And possibly the most difficult prompt, favorite bird!
Taking advantage of the 4 picture post to post 4 different birds!
I haven't done much picture posting, so birdtober for me will feature bird pictures!

A pair of California condors perched on a canyon ledge near the Navajo Bridge in Arizona. One condor has wing tags #19 and is displaying his wings wide to another condor who is sitting in front of them. The second condor has tags #P8

A female southern ground hornbill stikes a post amongst some fallen autumn leaves. The female SGHs have a violet throat pouch while the males have an all orange pouch.
Oregon Zoo

A black-billed magpie with iridescent feathers walks amongst some fallen leaves, yet the grass is still green.
Bozeman, MT

A marsh wren perches atop a cattail singing their little heart out.
Bozeman, MT