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Patrick

@watchinthesky.bsky.social

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All about Nature - especially birds and reptiles, those will be most of the posts - with some travel and plant photos tossed in! Photos by me unless reposted or attributed Maybe some sky pics cuz watchinthesky 😉 Living in San Diego north county - Ca

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 10h

If the forecast holds up, we may get almost half an inch Tuesday from a storm from the north. That’s a lot for October! But then we may get nothing.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 10h

His presence is more than enough!

Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 11h

Wow, over an inch!!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 13h

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

“HALP”
Betelgeuse complained about being lonely and now there are consequences #Caturday

Silky grey cat held by a person in a green fleece shirt. Cat looks alarmed.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks Ellen, and they sure are

Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks Cory! They are wonderful, showing up in March and staying until July. My birds of summer

Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

It’s awful, something we have to bear 😁

Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

My favorite migratory #birds have been gone over a month but memories of the Hooded orioles remain strong! #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

A very sunny yellow and black male hooded oriole is perched on a blue fence rail facing the camera so his jet black throat patch is visible.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

That’s close but a couple more than I was thinking, youngsters still

Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

A Gary flyby sent all the winged one zooming. First one back was the Monarch butterfly, back to almost the same leaf it was on before the scattering.

Solar panels fully deployed. #invertes

A monarch butterfly is spreading its wings in the evening sun on the leaves of an olive tree.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

😁

Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 12h

They’ve been around the sun a time or two. But not many, right?