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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦
@lorichirp.bsky.social
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Hooked on bird photography (and some other subjects)! Canadian near Vancouver in British Columbia. I love re-posting pix by others on my timeline so please check my Media tab to view my photos/videos. Disabled with MS. Happily married!
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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · Mar 4
A grey day in the park yesterday was brightened when a passerby mentioned he had seen an owl a few hundred yards in the direction we were headed and we found it! #birds #photography #birdphotography #Raptors #owl 🦉

A Barred Owl (my first attempt at ALT Text)
A Barred Owl, a large, stocky owl with brown and white markings, round head, no ear tufts, and a medium-length tail, is perched on a branch in a forest.
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
#FromTheArchives

Red-tailed Hawk *promises* they are hunting only pheasant!

#birds #becurious
Photo of a red tailed hawk perched on a "Pheasant Hunting Only" sign. they are facing away from the camera with their head turned to the right in profile.
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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azgibsonz.bsky.social
#BirdofTheDay has #shadesofgrey!

🤘😶‍🌫️ And I forgot to do a #SnowbirdSaturday, so we'll just call this a #BlueSkyMonday Bluebirb of Happiness! 🌿🐦❄️

💙 Adjust your schedule accordingly... #StunDay

📸 Sialia mexicana 🪶

#Bluebirds
#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
The Leonardo Dicaprio of Bluebirds, a male Western Bluebird leans over his skis...er, the curved tip of a snowy branch in bright sunlight and the canopy in bokeh for background.
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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andreapeterson.bsky.social
A brown pelican with a giant yawn, earlier this year at Pebble Beach, California

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #BeakOpen #ShadesOfGrey #Birdscrolling #Pelicans #WestCoast #California #Photography #Nature
A brown, white, and gray colored pelican with its mouth wide open and head thrown back. It is standing on a large rock on the rocky shoreline of the Pacific Ocean, which is also visible in the background. The rock is covered with bird droppings and there are four other pelicans visible in the image.
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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msj99.bsky.social
For Alan’s #shadesofgrey themed #BirdOfTheDay a Long-tailed Duck from #Norway 🇳🇴
#Birds
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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neilcam57.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #shadesofgrey so here's a Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) that looks to have a significant wound in its wing. #LongPocket #Brisbane
#Australia #birds #nature #wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography
Large grey bird with a large grey beak with a channel along the upper half, and red nostril, and red bareskin around eye sits on a branch. Blood shows on the bird's chest below the dark grey and black wing which appears to show a significant wound.
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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laffingkat.bsky.social
I caught a blue and grey Steller's jay sitting near our feeder this morning, complaining loudly because it couldn't figure out how to get seed from a feeder designed for much smaller birds. #BirdOfTheDay #ShadesOfGrey #BeakOpen #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
A Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) sitting on a branch near a feeder, complaining loudly. It has a dark charcoal grey head with crest, shading into a grey and dark blue body. It has dark eyes and grey beak and legs.
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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andreapeterson.bsky.social
A couple of gulls singing a lovely morning song to wake you from your slumber 🎤

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #ShadesOfGrey #BeakOpen #Gulls #WestCoast #MontereyBay #Photography #Birdscrolling
Two gray and white gulls standing on a rock with their beaks wide open; their beaks are yellow with red marks on the bottom point. There are rocks and the Pacific Ocean in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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colinrichardsphoto.bsky.social
Todays #birdoftheday theme #shadesofgrey Had to be a Greylag Goose for me. Taken at Westhay earlier in the year, spot the gosling. 🪶 #ukbirding #nature #ukwildlife
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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julielfrost.bsky.social
A #ShadesOfGrey tufted titmouse with its #beakopen (albeit stuffed with a peanut) for today's #BirdOfTheDay.

#Photography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nature #Wildlife #Titmouse #BirdsOfBlueSky #Animals
A tufted titmouse is perched on a stump, seeds scattered at its feet and a shelled peanut in its open beak.
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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annaquent.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay von @alan678.bsky.social ist heute #shadesofgrey, Vögel mit Graufärbung im Gefieder.
Weibliche Mönchsgrasmücke, mit braunem Kopfgefieder, in eines Wiese, an einem dicken Pflanzenstengel, teils verdeckt von einem Blatt. Männlicher Mönchsgrasmücke, mit schwarzem Kopfgefieder, badet, mit geöffnetem Schnabel, ausgerichtet zur rechten Bildseite, in einem Brunnen. Über ihr Wassertropfen.
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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pirritin.bsky.social
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #shadesofgrey any bird with grey in their colours.
This little bird, Lesser Whitethroat, is good at hiding, or if can be seen, then too far away, like here 🤷

Falcon Crest
#WeekTforTelevision
#AlphabetChallenge

#BOTD #Nature #Birds #EastCoastKin
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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jenzsky.bsky.social
In shades of grey dreams softly blur…

#BirdoftheDay #Shadesofgrey
#birds #photography #gulls
#EastCoastKin #birdphotography
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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andreapeterson.bsky.social
A great blue heron soaking up the rays on the breakwater rocks at the Port of Edmonds Marina, Washington

#Birds #Herons #BirdOfTheDay #ShadesOfGrey #Grey #BigBirds #PNW #PugetSound #Birdscrolling #Photography #Edmonds #FeatheredFriends #Stunday
A grey, brown, black, and white Great Blue Heron standing on breakwater rocks with a pale blue sky behind it. The rocks are stained with algae and bird droppings, but the bird is gorgeous.
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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rina2012.bsky.social
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #shadesofgrey

Wishing you a wonderful Sunday 🫶

#birds #birding #Stunday #LakeConstance #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #landscape #scape #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #ArtYear #photohour #EastCoastKin
A grey heron is photographed in profile. It is looking to the left, with a bush to its right. The background is a slightly cloudy sky. As the photograph was taken from below, the heron appears to be huge.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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janephuong.bsky.social
#ShadesOfGrey
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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beach-please1031.bsky.social
A red tailed hawk kept harassing the Bald Eagle. #Jerk #birds #watervision
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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billmontei.bsky.social
Departing Halifax #Stunday
#photography
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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cliftographer.bsky.social
I get excited when I can get decent pics of some relatively hard-to-find bird, but these darned gorgeous northern cardinals keep flying in front of me at near eye-level in good light. Algonkian Regional Park, Sterling, Virginia, USA 14-Nov-2025 #birds
A bright red-orange northern cardinal poses in the sun on a diagonal branch with some sparse late Fall green and brown foliage in the background. The bird is facing to the right but has its head turned so it is looking back at the camera.
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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kogoshuko.bsky.social
I am relatively certain these are Sanderlings flying along the beach in either Galveston Texas or Sanibel Florida. I'd lean more toward Sanibel, but it's hard to remember which beach when the picture was taken more than a decade ago! #birds #beaches #shorebirds
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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davidacody.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is theme is #shadesofgrey so this Cooper’s Hawk would love to participate.

#birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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yahiro-photograph.bsky.social
Warm orange in the winter light — a quiet moment with a Daurian Redstart.
#birds
A male Daurian Redstart with bright orange plumage perched on a rope in soft sunlight.
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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robtol73.bsky.social
Eagle in Lofoten. #EastCoastKin
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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rockinbones.bsky.social
#SwanDay 🪶🦆
Nobody likes a showoff .
Landing Mute Swan
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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paulmwall.bsky.social
No better bird for #shadesofgray day #birds #birdoftheday
Gray catbird atop a suet feeder, facing right. The long-tailed, long-billed perching bird is uniform medium gray all over except for her undertail which is ruddy brown and her crown which is black. Her wings hang down by her sides and her tail is angled up. The background is composed of gray below and green leaves above.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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alan678.bsky.social
Sorry folks. I’m going to lie down in a darkened room. Yesterday’s shenanigans have caught up with me. Hope you all enjoyed #BirdOfTheDay today. I know I did. Lots of fantastic captures from around the world. Took this in my garden early morning today. Night night 😴 #birds #EastCoastKin
A female house sparrow perches on a thin twig surrounded by green leaves, bathed in warm golden sunlight. She faces right in a crisp profile view, showing her pale eyebrow stripe, soft brown-and-tan plumage, and short pointed beak. The smooth dark background makes the sunlit sparrow stand out clearly
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM