Susan McCarthy
mccarthybeast.bsky.social
Susan McCarthy
@mccarthybeast.bsky.social
Wildlife NOW. Current photos. No stock shots. No captives framed to look wild. No “Did you know?” Minimal despair.
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I have no clue how to play the #BirdOfTheDay game🤷‍♂️
Yet I will post #HeronsandEgrets anyway

Here are a great #egret and a great blue #heron
both at the Yolo Causeway
back in September

#bird #birds #birdphotography 🪶
December 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A downy woodpecker.

#birds #wildlife #nature
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes
The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Finally some nice weather and a chance to get out with the camera. 34 species counted on a walk from penarth to Cardiff wetlands today. The cormorants seemed to be enjoying the sunshine too.
#birdingwales
#UKbirding #birds🪶
#NatureTherapy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Now for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #FavouriteThings. I couldn't choose 1, so here's 4 of my favourite things to photograph in 2025.
They are Northern Gannets at Bempton Cliffs, Kingfisher at Minsmere, Robin at Tophill Low & Red Squirrel at Penrith.

#birds #mammals #EastCoastKin #photography
December 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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This was worth watching (even though at one point I was waiting to see if they were going to propose making circular credit cards.)
I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Sunset through snowy trees.
December 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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i mean if this doesn’t sum up what we also did to the Kurds, and so many other “allies” in the entire history of America

Or like how Seattle is named for a local Indian chief who was nice to the settlers and the literal 5th law the settlers in Seattle passed was an order to expel all Indians.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.

My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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One from September when conditions were right for #rainbowwings 🌈
Hummingbird #birds
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Friday night shitposting. Pelagic cormorant. 🪶😂
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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A chickadee taking flight from my daughter’s hand while hiking the Chickadee Ridge trail at Mt Rose, Nevada
#FlyDay #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Me when I'm tripping
A student in 1829 tries very hard to draw an arctic fox :
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Erst mal was ausruhen.
Huch, da ist ja jemand.
Hallo, fotografieren ist hier verboten.
Unverschämtheit.
#squirrel
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Shits AND giggles? In this economy?
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Curlew. Photo taken by Phil Sharpe in the UK. #curlew #wader #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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That white grunt really said ‘shut your mouth’!! 🌶️🌶️🌶️ #whitegrunt #mouthfight #gruntfight #spicy #fishfight #chomp #thatsafirst #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
Here he is taking the photo.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Oliveres centenàries sota la boira persistent de les terres de ponent.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Scape #RuralScape #ColorADay #BWFri #Urgell #EastCoastKin
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Great Egrets flying in to the Yakima Valley gravel pit pond in the morning…flock now totals 13…we’re still there in the afternoon…4th day visiting so far…
#birding #ornithology #audubon #PNW
#WestCoastPhotography #photography
#BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Kolga, Estonia 🇪🇪
#Scape #photography
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Brown Cuckoo-dove in our persoonia.
#birds
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Our #FridayFinch friend this week is an American Goldfinch grabbing a snack at the seed buffet.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
June 2025

📷 #birds #AMGO #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM