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Randy Beacham

@randybeacham.bsky.social

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Freelance photographer for three decades. No ai, no captive wildlife, all real photography. Looking for a social media site without an overwhelming amount of ads & ai generated content. Glad I'm here. Website: randybeacham.photoshelter.com

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · 4d

Leaves are falling, winter is calling. From NW Montana. #fall#winteriscalling#lanscapephotography#montana

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · 7d

October Photos: Here's a snow bunting during fall migration in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #octoberphotos#snowbunting#fallmigration#birdphotography

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · 9d

October photos: An aerial view of the West Fork Yaak Roadless Area, looking north to British Columbia. #octoberphotos#westernlarch#landoflarch#roadless#dronephotography

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · 10d

October Photos: A rough-legged hawk during a fall snowstorm in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #octoberphotos#roughwingedhawk#snowstorm#yaakvalley#montana#wild

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · 12d

October photos: Here's a western bluebird, one of many in flock that was migrating through in fall, Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #octoberphotos#westernbluebird#yaakvalley#montana#birdphotograph

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · 15d

Good morning. A beautiful moonbow greeted me when I rose the other morning, 6:30 AM in the Yaak Valley, MT. #moonbow#nightsky#yaakvalley#montana#landscapephotography

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Sep 16

Good morning. After almost an inch of rain, with the sun setting and the fog rising last evening, I had to launch the drone for a good view! Yaak Valley, MT

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Purcell Mountain Inventoried Roadless Areas - Images | Randy Beacham Photography

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Sep 7

From yesterday's walk, Sheepherder Mtn. Trail in the Roderick Mountain Roadless Area, Purcell Mtns. (the yaakl) MT.
"Keep the Roadless Areas Roadless!" Comments accepted until Sept. 19 here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Sep 4

Good morning. Here's one more from the top of Mount Henry in the Mount Henry Roadless Area, Purcell Mtns. (the yaak) MT.
"Keep the Roadless Areas Roadless!" You can comment here:
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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Sep 3

A beautiful night up in the Mount Henry Roadless Area, MT. Keep the Roadless Areas Roadless! Comment by Sept. 19. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 24

Good morning. From yesterday morning at sunrise, in the Northwest Peak Roadless Area, MT, a boreal chickadee! 🪶

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 16

Good morning. Here's a beautiful cinnamon phase black bear photographed high up in a roadless area of the Purcell Mtns., NW Montana. #blackbear#roadlessarea#keeptheroadlessareasroadess

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good morning. August photos: Northern Harrier, flying over to check me out, at home in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #northernharrier#birds#birdphotograhy#wildlifephotography#montana

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 12

Good morning. August photos: Here's a cedar waxwing, one of a large flock that were feeding on service berries in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #cedarwaxwing#wildbirds#wildlifephotography#montana#songbirds

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 11

Good morning! August photos: a cluster of aspen fleabane, reaching for the sky, NW Montana. #fleabane#wildflowers#naturephotography#summer#flowerphotography

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 10

Good morning! Golden Chanterelles and bunchberry, the forest floor is thriving with all the summer rain in NW Montana. #goldenchanterelles#bunchberry#forestfloor#summerrain#montana

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good morning. August photos: Here's a juvenile spruce grouse, 1 of 3 mountain grouse in the Purcell Mtns, MT. The other 2 are dusky and ruffed. 🪶 #sprucegrouse#montanawildlife#wildlifephotography#montana

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 7

Good morning. August photos: Here's a pair of young gray wolves in the conifer forest of the Purcell Mountains, Northwest Montana. #graywolves#montanawildlife#northwestmontana#wildlifephotography

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 6

Good morning. Here's a pika, normally a mountain dwelling mammal closely related to the rabbit. Here in northwest MT it actually lives as low as 2700' elevation in the Yaak Valley. #pika#wildlifephotography#montana#naturephotography

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 3

Good morning. This cinnamon phase black bear was out foraging during an intense rainstorm when it crossed my dslr camera trap. NW Peak Roadless Area in the Kootenai National Forest, MT. #blackbear#cameratrapping#rainstorm#wildlifeinthelandscape

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Aug 2

Good morning. It's a warm and wet summer in NW Montana. Lightning in the air with lots of rain to go with it. #northwestmontana#summer#lightning#rainstorm#strikefinder

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Jul 22

Good morning. This great blue heron gave me a nice flyby at sunrise the other morning. 🪶 #greatblueheron#wildbirds#birdphotography#montana

Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Jul 19

Good morning. The huckleberries are loving the weather this summer in NW Montana! #huckleberries#northwestmontana#foraging#kootenainationalforest

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Randy Beacham @randybeacham.bsky.social · Jul 15

Good morning. A whitetail deer eyes a porcini mushroom, ready to eat. Photographed remotely with a DSLR camera trap system. #whitetaildeer#porcinimushroom#cameratrap#wildlifephotography