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Marsha8of9
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Bird photographer hobbyist. Began birding to give my then 13-year-old child and I something in common. Now years later, I'm obsessed, and they could care less. All photos are my own unless otherwise noted. #exPost #exX #Ohio
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Happy #Blackbird #FeatheredFriday friends.. Rusty Blackbird wishing you a happy shopping day! #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶📷🦉
Center frame looking and facing left, a Rusty Blackbird is perched on a limb with a tree trunk in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
marsha8of9.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving friends... A favorite Wild Turkey shot from '24: "Turkey's hitching a ride out of town b4 the Thanksgiving holiday". Have a beautiful day everyone--I'm very thankful you all are in my life. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature 🪶📷 #eastcoastkin #photography
The scene shows four Wild Turkey's on the right side of a road, looking at a car fast approaching on the left as if to say "Stop and get us out of dodge before they try to eat us..."
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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@crystalchappell.bsky.social happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy your holiday!
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Give credit to the photographer otherwise you’re stealing their work.
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Hi, former turkey farmer here who raised flocks of heritage breed turkeys specifically for Thanksgiving:

What?!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
marsha8of9.bsky.social
Happy #Wrendsay friends... Came across a family of Carolina Wrens last week but only managed to get two of the four in one shot. Still, pretty cool find.
Two Carolina Wrens are featured in this photo. One is in the upper left center, while the other is in the lower right corner. Both are facing right on a jumble of leafless twigs.
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Happy Tuesday friends... nothing marks the start and end of seasonal migration like sight of Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Was surprised to find a couple still in my area, while most others have left for warmer climates. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Center frame, perched on leafless branch, facing and looking left. From allboutbirds.org., Kinglets are tiny songbirds with relatively large heads, almost no neck, and thin tails. They have very small, thin, straight bills. Ruby-crowned Kinglets are olive-green birds with a prominent white eyering and white wingbar. This wingbar contrasts with an adjacent blackish bar in the wing. The “ruby crown” of the male is only occasionally visible.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Happy new week friends... Caught this Brown Creeper yesterday and enjoyed watching as they looked in every nook and cranny of the tree bark for a possible meal. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #Photography #eastcoastkin
Center frame, a Brown Creeper facing left while perched against a tree, head down, examining possible insect larvae for a meal. From Allaboutbirds.org., Streaked brown and buff above, with their white underparts usually hidden against a tree trunk, Brown Creepers blend easily into bark. Their brownish heads show a broad, buffy stripe over the eye (supercilium). Brown Creepers are tiny yet lanky songbirds. They have long, spine-tipped tails, slim bodies, and slender, decurved bills.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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NO DATA CENTERS IN NW Ohio!
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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@rkroepke.bsky.social Hi Robyn— wondering if you’re in FL for Thanksgiving? Hope you are. Have a great Sunday!
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Happy Sunday friends... Just finished making my yearly 2026 calendar; going back through my hard drive to find 12 favorite shots w/a few more thrown in for good measure. Here's 1:90k that did not make the cut. #birds #birdingOH #nature #photography #wildlife #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷
Three Northern Shoveler Ducks on water crossing in front of the viewer. Two females (coarsely marked brown feathers with orange bill) are in the background, while a solitary male (green head, yellow eyes with brown flanks) is in the foreground. Note their shovel-shaped beaks, aptly applied to their name.
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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@skwinnicki.bsky.social FYI I’m not sure how far this is from you, but an Orange-crowned Warbler was spotted today at Lodge Pond trail in Ross, OH this morning… could be a nice day for a road trip 🤩 (reported on Discord)
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Happy #featheredfriday friends... Our invasive-resident species, the House Finch is wishing you a fine day and please overlook their inherent, English Accent. #birds #birdingOH #nature #photography #wildlife #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷
A House Finch recognized by their brown striped body, with reddish colored head and breast and one wing bar is dead center in photo, on a lower leafless branch their body facing left but their head is turned to look straight at the viewer.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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repmarcykaptur.bsky.social
This violent rhetoric is unbecoming of the Presidency and dangerous in a time of heightened political violence. We all need to lower the temperature. Dangerous distractions when we should be working to lower costs and make life more affordable for hardworking American families are just wrong.
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Happy Thursday friends... From May, I came across this lovely Common Nighthawk & took about 50 shots while they were waking up to start their evening hunt. Just a cool, camouflage-friendly bird. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷
Center frame, facing and looking right on a leafless tree limb, sits a Common Nighthawk, ruffling their feathers. From Allaboutbirds.org., Common Nighthawks are medium-sized, slender birds with very long, pointed wings and medium-long tails. Only the small tip of the bill is usually visible, and this combined with the large eye and short neck gives the bird a big-headed look.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happy #Wrensday friends... I caught a Winter wren last Friday during my cemetery walk, but the photos were lousy... so I've reached back to Oct. '24 for a better photo to share. A very feisty kind of cute. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin
Center left, a Winter wren is standing on a thin branch, suspended over dead trees, covered in moss. Standing and facing right. From Allaboutbirds.org., The Winter Wren is a plump round ball with a stubby tail that it usually holds straight up. Its bill is small and thin, in keeping with its diminutive appearance. In the dark forest understory, the Winter Wren appears brown overall. With a closer look, you’ll see darker brown barring on the wings, tail, and belly. It has a pale tan eyebrow stripe above the eye and a plain brown cap. Its unmarked throat and barred belly are pale tan, paler than the back.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Happy Tuesday friends... working through my hard drive and found this Wood Stork from my visits to Myrtle Beach over the years. A bird who's beauty is unique only unto themselves. #birds #birdingSC #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin
Center frame on a spat of sand, surrounded by water and oyster shells, stand a Wood Stork. A tall, lanky bird, with beautiful white wings with black tips, a bald head and face with a dagger like bill. From Audubon.com., A Huge and long-legged, with mostly white body, naked gray head, heavy bill. Juvenile has yellow bill and dusky head. In flight, black and white wing pattern.
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Happy new week friends... the great thing about fall migration is, you never know who might show up--like this Common Loon who took a break at an area cemetery pond. Very cool indeed. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Lower center frame, on a very cloudy day, a nonbreeding or immature Common Loon is seen floating merrily along on the waters of a retention pond. From Allaboubirds.org., Common Loons are large, diving waterbirds with rounded heads and dagger-like bills. They have long bodies and short tails that are usually not visible. In flight, they look stretched out, with a long, flat body and long neck and bill. Their feet stick out beyond the tail (unlike ducks and cormorants), looking like wedges.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Happy Sunday friends... One bird I don't photograph often is the Mourning Dove, primarily because I'm not looking for birds near feeders. Nevertheless, I caught this beauty just chilling on the forest floor and thought, why not? #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography 🪶🦉📷
Center right in frame sits Mourning dove in borb form, looking and facing right. From allaboutbirds.org., Plump-bodied and long-tailed, with short legs, small bill, and a head that looks particularly small in comparison to the body. The long, pointed tail is unique among North American doves. Mourning Doves often match their open-country surroundings. They’re delicate brown to buffy-tan overall, with black spots on the wings and black-bordered white tips to the tail feathers.
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Acton: I’m running against a guy, Vivek Ramaswamy, who has said that people are struggling in Ohio because they’re lazy, they’re mediocre, they’re not working hard enough. And I can absolutely tell you that is not the Ohioans I know or see. I think he’s completely out of touch.
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
He never did lower egg prices, instead he just said they’re lower (they’re not).

He never did release the Epstein files, instead he just said they’re a hoax (they’re not).
November 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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repmarcykaptur.bsky.social
When your health care costs go way up 📈next year, just remember the GOP majority in Congress:

🛡️Stopped efforts to save your ACA tax credits
🏥Slashed Medicaid by $1 Trillion
🩺Defunded medical research
🧓🏻Cut Medicare

All to give massive tax breaks to their Billionaire buddies.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
marsha8of9.bsky.social
Happy Saturday friends... while birding Friday, I ran into a chorus of White-throated Sparrows gleefully beeping and singing. Love our winter residents! #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Center left of frame, a White-throated Sparrow is perched on a thin, diagonal branch, facing and looking left--leaving us a profile of the bird. From Allaboutbirds.org., The White-throated Sparrow is a large, full-bodied sparrow with a fairly prominent bill, rounded head, long legs, and long, narrow tail. White-throated Sparrows are brown above and gray below with a striking head pattern. The black-and-white-striped head is augmented by a bright white throat and yellow between the eye and the bill, which is gray. You’ll also see a less boldly marked form, known as “tan-striped,” with a buff-on-brown face pattern instead of white-on-black.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Happy #FeatheredFriday friends... 1st time I saw a Sandhill Crane was at Yellowstone in 2016. Came home, went to the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Curtis, OH and was shocked to see they lived there too. Oh, what a blessing! #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷
Four Sandhill cranes in flight. From Allaboutbirds.org., Sandhill Cranes are very large, tall birds with a long neck, long legs, and very broad wings. The bulky body tapers into a slender neck; the short tail is covered by drooping feathers that form a “bustle.” The head is small and the bill is straight and longer than the head. These are slate gray birds, often with a rusty wash on the upperparts. Adults have a pale cheek and red skin on the crown. Their legs are black. Juveniles are gray and rusty brown, without the pale cheek or red crown.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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If birds were actually government drones, then there wouldn't have been any birds during the shutdown.

It's over.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM