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MA Drinkwater
@madrinkwater.bsky.social
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Me: Gen X, liberal, proud Democrat, dog lady & parrot mom, (((AmYisraelChai))), meditative photographer since 1980, born & raised in Los Angeles, will probably die somewhere in the Mojave Desert.

*Except for reposts, photos are mine* Nikon D90, Z50, Z8
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#FeatheredFriday #FlyDay #birds #hummingbird #photography #naturephotography #southerncalifornia 📷 🪶
A young male Costa's hummingbird, with black throat and green back, perched on a thin brown branch in a grapefruit tree. His wings are stretched in preparation for flight. Blurred green leaves and yellow grapefruit in background.
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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#FlyDay #FeatheredFriday #birds #hummingbird #photography #naturephotography #southerncalifornia 📷 🪶
A male Costa's hummingbird (black crown with iridescent blue feathers, and black gorget with iridescent blue and purple feathers) feeds on a red/orange trumpet flower. Green stems/leaves and deep burgundy buds in the background.
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots #birds #hummingbird #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶
A male Costa's hummingbird staring down on me. He has a black crown with some iridescent blue feathers and a black gorget with iridescent purple feathers along its lower edge. Blurred green leaves, thin branches, and a patch of blue sky in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Night 💤
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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#SundayYellow #southerncalifornia #bees #pollinators #flowers #naturephotography #photography 📷
A bee preparing to leave one yellow flower for another. The flower, yellow with dark orange stripes, is from the Esperanza aka Yellow Bell (Tecoma stan 'Sangria') shrub. In the background, trumpet-shaped dark orange pods, green leaves/stems, and blue sky.
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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#NatureIsArt #onlybeautifulthings #hummingbird #birds #flowers #shadows #blackandwhite #monochrome #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶
Black and white. A hummingbird approaches a flower, and the shadows play on its wing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#hummingbird #bees #pollinators #rain #naturephotography #photography #southerncalifornia 📷
A bee enters a yellow flower. Green background, yellow flowers, red buds, and raindrops.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#hummingbird #birds #rain #flowers #naturephotography #photography #southerncalifornia 📷 🪶
A male Costa's hummingbird behind a yellow flower with raindrops. His face is covered in purple iridescent feathers.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Nature calls ...
#hummingbird #birds #silhouette #naturephotography #photography #southerncalifornia 📷 🪶
A hummingbird in silhouette pees as it flies away from the yellow flowers it was feeding on. I lightened the pic and removed the gray sky in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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#FlyDay #birds #hummingbird #silhouette #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶
The silhouette of a hummingbird against a cloudy blue sky as it approaches a yellow flower. Its tongue is out, and you can see a hump as it unrolls.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #shadesofgrey #birds #hummingbird #naturephotography #photography #SouthernCalifornia 🪶
I believe this is a female Costa's hummingbird - white eye stripe, gray cheek, white/grey underside. She is taking off from a thin brown branch. Yellow flowers, green leaves, cloudy blue sky.
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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#SundayYellow #rain #flowers #landscapephotography #naturephotography #photography #SouthernCalifornia
In the center is a yellow flower with raindrops on its petals. Green stems and leaves, yellow flowers, stamens, pistils against a white background.
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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#SundayYellow #rain #flowers #landscapephotography #naturephotography #photography #SouthernCalifornia
In the center, raindrops on a yellow flower, green stems, and yellow buds. On the left is a blurred palm tree trunk, and yellow flowers and green leaves along the edge. On the right is a blue/white sky, green leaves, and a yellow flower along the edge. There is a bee in the lower right.
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#rain #SouthernCalifornia #flowers #naturephotography
Yellow and red trumpet flowers, green leaves and stems, and raindrops.
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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#rain #SouthernCalifornia #naturephotography #photography
Raindrops fall from a beam. Blurred green leaves and yellow flowers in the background are reflected and inverted in each drop from the refraction of light.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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"It is no secret that the Democratic Party in this country is very weak and unable to generate significant grassroots enthusiasm almost anywhere in America. If we waited on the Democratic Party and DC politicians to defeat Trumpism, we'd be waiting forever." Bernie's fundraising email to me
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Lol
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Thanks!
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround #birds #roadrunner #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶
A roadrunner runs across a road. It is reddish-brown, black, and white. It has a head crest, white and red skin outside the eye, long tail and legs, big feet. Roadrunners can fly, but are faster on the ground at about 20 MPH.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround #birds #mockingbird #inchworm #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶
A mockingbird and a green inchworm making eye contact. Green grass in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Hummingbird in a grapefruit tree.
#birds #hummingbird #naturephotography #photography
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A hummingbird in a grapefruit tree. Its crown is green, throat black, chest white, belly green, and underside of tail is white with black spots. Wings are stretched. Yellow grapefruit and green leaves in background.
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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#PinkMon #MacroMonday #birds #hummingbird #naturephotography #photography 📷 🪶 💗
Taken under a grapefruit tree, a young male hummingbird preens after a day of chasing and being chased by other young males. The underside of his tail (white with black spots) is up and tail feathers on the left are stretched and splayed; black wings straight, thin, and back. His head, with a few spots of pink iridescent feathers, is turned around, his beak is behind his back, and he's keeping an eye on me. He is perched on a thin brown branch with leaves and yellow grapefruit behind.
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM