Peter Nguyen
@dptbirder.bsky.social
Vietnamese-American he/him
Brain physio🧠, avian druid🧙♂️, photon catcher📷, cat dad🐈
📍Orange County, California, USA
All bird thoughts and photos are mine
Life list: 552 Olive-backed Pipit
Socials: @dptbirder
Brain physio🧠, avian druid🧙♂️, photon catcher📷, cat dad🐈
📍Orange County, California, USA
All bird thoughts and photos are mine
Life list: 552 Olive-backed Pipit
Socials: @dptbirder
Most folks have seen an Indian Peafowl from the front showing all of the feathers presented
Found this peacock #hangingaround so I used the opportunity to photograph it a an unusual angle for the #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🦚🪶 #BOTD
Found this peacock #hangingaround so I used the opportunity to photograph it a an unusual angle for the #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🦚🪶 #BOTD
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Most folks have seen an Indian Peafowl from the front showing all of the feathers presented
Found this peacock #hangingaround so I used the opportunity to photograph it a an unusual angle for the #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🦚🪶 #BOTD
Found this peacock #hangingaround so I used the opportunity to photograph it a an unusual angle for the #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🦚🪶 #BOTD
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hello there! Don’t let Monday wreck you!
It helps me to look back at past bird photos from trips to transport me back!
Join me in reminiscing about this Brown Violetear from my first trip to Colombia this past March to lessen the Monday suck 👍
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It helps me to look back at past bird photos from trips to transport me back!
Join me in reminiscing about this Brown Violetear from my first trip to Colombia this past March to lessen the Monday suck 👍
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November 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Hello there! Don’t let Monday wreck you!
It helps me to look back at past bird photos from trips to transport me back!
Join me in reminiscing about this Brown Violetear from my first trip to Colombia this past March to lessen the Monday suck 👍
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It helps me to look back at past bird photos from trips to transport me back!
Join me in reminiscing about this Brown Violetear from my first trip to Colombia this past March to lessen the Monday suck 👍
📷🌿🪶
Fairview Park lured me into birding with these sightings of beautiful raptors year after year
We figured out that they nest throughout the greater park system around Fairview Park
Each year we get a chance to see the #Mr&Mrs of all these raptors create the next generation #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
We figured out that they nest throughout the greater park system around Fairview Park
Each year we get a chance to see the #Mr&Mrs of all these raptors create the next generation #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Fairview Park lured me into birding with these sightings of beautiful raptors year after year
We figured out that they nest throughout the greater park system around Fairview Park
Each year we get a chance to see the #Mr&Mrs of all these raptors create the next generation #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
We figured out that they nest throughout the greater park system around Fairview Park
Each year we get a chance to see the #Mr&Mrs of all these raptors create the next generation #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
Bonaparte’s Gull 🪶
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bonaparte’s Gull 🪶
Heermann’s Gull 🪶
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Heermann’s Gull 🪶
One of the hardest things is to continue to be creative with bird photography when you’ve ran through the gamut of close portraits
I’m committing to find time and use my Leica more for wide angle bird photos which include more landscape
Let’s start with some gulls and the ocean
Western Gull 📷🌊🌿🪶
I’m committing to find time and use my Leica more for wide angle bird photos which include more landscape
Let’s start with some gulls and the ocean
Western Gull 📷🌊🌿🪶
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
One of the hardest things is to continue to be creative with bird photography when you’ve ran through the gamut of close portraits
I’m committing to find time and use my Leica more for wide angle bird photos which include more landscape
Let’s start with some gulls and the ocean
Western Gull 📷🌊🌿🪶
I’m committing to find time and use my Leica more for wide angle bird photos which include more landscape
Let’s start with some gulls and the ocean
Western Gull 📷🌊🌿🪶
My current Luna Sandals are still my go to daily wear
I love that they upcycle their sandals
Used their annual sale to grab me an extra pair of treads in case I get a flat 🥰
#birdinggear
I love that they upcycle their sandals
Used their annual sale to grab me an extra pair of treads in case I get a flat 🥰
#birdinggear
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
My current Luna Sandals are still my go to daily wear
I love that they upcycle their sandals
Used their annual sale to grab me an extra pair of treads in case I get a flat 🥰
#birdinggear
I love that they upcycle their sandals
Used their annual sale to grab me an extra pair of treads in case I get a flat 🥰
#birdinggear
One of the United States most recognizable #silouette
I saw my first Sandhill Crane as they winter at the Salton Sea in Southern California
I couldn’t resist a second #BirdOfTheDay because this might be one of the first photos I print and frame
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
I saw my first Sandhill Crane as they winter at the Salton Sea in Southern California
I couldn’t resist a second #BirdOfTheDay because this might be one of the first photos I print and frame
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
One of the United States most recognizable #silouette
I saw my first Sandhill Crane as they winter at the Salton Sea in Southern California
I couldn’t resist a second #BirdOfTheDay because this might be one of the first photos I print and frame
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
I saw my first Sandhill Crane as they winter at the Salton Sea in Southern California
I couldn’t resist a second #BirdOfTheDay because this might be one of the first photos I print and frame
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
One of the most common tanagers in Colombia, I found this blue-grey tanager #BirdOnAWire within the city limits of Solento, Colombia
This was one of 78 birds on a 2 hour walk around town in March earlier this year; 70 lifers on this walk 😅
Good one for #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
This was one of 78 birds on a 2 hour walk around town in March earlier this year; 70 lifers on this walk 😅
Good one for #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
One of the most common tanagers in Colombia, I found this blue-grey tanager #BirdOnAWire within the city limits of Solento, Colombia
This was one of 78 birds on a 2 hour walk around town in March earlier this year; 70 lifers on this walk 😅
Good one for #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
This was one of 78 birds on a 2 hour walk around town in March earlier this year; 70 lifers on this walk 😅
Good one for #BirdOfTheDay
📷🌿🪶 #BOTD
Our coast is the home of very many western gulls. After the storms, our beaches get littered with critters and gulls come by and attempt to clean it all up
#GroundedGulls for #BirdOfTheDay
Western Gull 📷🌿🪶
#GroundedGulls for #BirdOfTheDay
Western Gull 📷🌿🪶
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Our coast is the home of very many western gulls. After the storms, our beaches get littered with critters and gulls come by and attempt to clean it all up
#GroundedGulls for #BirdOfTheDay
Western Gull 📷🌿🪶
#GroundedGulls for #BirdOfTheDay
Western Gull 📷🌿🪶
My best #thrush photo for #BirdOfTheDay! Hermit thrushes winter in our county and we get the joy of hearing them 🎵 chup chup 🎵 all winter 🥰
📷🌿🪶#BOTD
📷🌿🪶#BOTD
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My best #thrush photo for #BirdOfTheDay! Hermit thrushes winter in our county and we get the joy of hearing them 🎵 chup chup 🎵 all winter 🥰
📷🌿🪶#BOTD
📷🌿🪶#BOTD
I love a good drift by from a sepia spectre 🥰
Northern Harrier 📷🌿🪶
Northern Harrier 📷🌿🪶
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I love a good drift by from a sepia spectre 🥰
Northern Harrier 📷🌿🪶
Northern Harrier 📷🌿🪶
Our fanciest non-native species, a #round pin-tailed whydah, for the #BirdOfTheDay
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our fanciest non-native species, a #round pin-tailed whydah, for the #BirdOfTheDay
Vermilion Fairview Park Ranger
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November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Vermilion Fairview Park Ranger
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#BirdOfTheDay is of #mottled birds or alternatively #blurred moving birds.
I have a Ruff in flight! Kinda blurry! 😅
We annually get at least one returning Ruff every year in our county. Very fortunate to be able to see this long traveler
Ruff 📷🌿🪶
I have a Ruff in flight! Kinda blurry! 😅
We annually get at least one returning Ruff every year in our county. Very fortunate to be able to see this long traveler
Ruff 📷🌿🪶
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#BirdOfTheDay is of #mottled birds or alternatively #blurred moving birds.
I have a Ruff in flight! Kinda blurry! 😅
We annually get at least one returning Ruff every year in our county. Very fortunate to be able to see this long traveler
Ruff 📷🌿🪶
I have a Ruff in flight! Kinda blurry! 😅
We annually get at least one returning Ruff every year in our county. Very fortunate to be able to see this long traveler
Ruff 📷🌿🪶
Fairview Park will always have a place in my heart as the place I learned to bird!
It’s also the home of the largest collection of vernal pools
These ephemeral pools revive endangered fairy shrimp that emerge to life as the rain pools
I love the subtle green glow of new plants hours after rain 📷🌿
It’s also the home of the largest collection of vernal pools
These ephemeral pools revive endangered fairy shrimp that emerge to life as the rain pools
I love the subtle green glow of new plants hours after rain 📷🌿
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Fairview Park will always have a place in my heart as the place I learned to bird!
It’s also the home of the largest collection of vernal pools
These ephemeral pools revive endangered fairy shrimp that emerge to life as the rain pools
I love the subtle green glow of new plants hours after rain 📷🌿
It’s also the home of the largest collection of vernal pools
These ephemeral pools revive endangered fairy shrimp that emerge to life as the rain pools
I love the subtle green glow of new plants hours after rain 📷🌿
I think this has to be absolutely my closest warbler #staredown for #BirdOfTheDay
Black-throated Gray Warbler 📷🌿🪶
Black-throated Gray Warbler 📷🌿🪶
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I think this has to be absolutely my closest warbler #staredown for #BirdOfTheDay
Black-throated Gray Warbler 📷🌿🪶
Black-throated Gray Warbler 📷🌿🪶
Anna’s hummingbird wishing everyone a good Monday
Things can be looking rough out there, but keep it up folks!
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Things can be looking rough out there, but keep it up folks!
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November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Anna’s hummingbird wishing everyone a good Monday
Things can be looking rough out there, but keep it up folks!
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Things can be looking rough out there, but keep it up folks!
📷🌿🪶
Special made to order Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull and Dark-eyed Junco feet pics 😅
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November 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Special made to order Iceland (Thayer’s) Gull and Dark-eyed Junco feet pics 😅
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I do love going out for a stroll after a storm
This Bonaparte’s Gull had the same idea
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This Bonaparte’s Gull had the same idea
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November 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I do love going out for a stroll after a storm
This Bonaparte’s Gull had the same idea
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This Bonaparte’s Gull had the same idea
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Gulls define the love-hate relationship I have with birding
Love that I don’t have to chase after a gull and can walk right up to one
But hate that I can survey thousands of gulls before you see something uncommon in the sea of varying #ShadesOfGray
Thayer’s and Western Gull
📷🌿🪶 #BirdOfTheDay
Love that I don’t have to chase after a gull and can walk right up to one
But hate that I can survey thousands of gulls before you see something uncommon in the sea of varying #ShadesOfGray
Thayer’s and Western Gull
📷🌿🪶 #BirdOfTheDay
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Gulls define the love-hate relationship I have with birding
Love that I don’t have to chase after a gull and can walk right up to one
But hate that I can survey thousands of gulls before you see something uncommon in the sea of varying #ShadesOfGray
Thayer’s and Western Gull
📷🌿🪶 #BirdOfTheDay
Love that I don’t have to chase after a gull and can walk right up to one
But hate that I can survey thousands of gulls before you see something uncommon in the sea of varying #ShadesOfGray
Thayer’s and Western Gull
📷🌿🪶 #BirdOfTheDay
Always love a chance to spot a swamp skulker! Sora are plump marsh birds in the rail family of birds
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November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Always love a chance to spot a swamp skulker! Sora are plump marsh birds in the rail family of birds
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Rain in Southern California is already a rare thing. But we’ve had nonstop rain for six hours now and I don’t even remember the last time that has even happened!
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Rain in Southern California is already a rare thing. But we’ve had nonstop rain for six hours now and I don’t even remember the last time that has even happened!