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Susan McCarthy
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Wildlife NOW. Current photos. No stock shots. No captives framed to look wild. No “Did you know?” Minimal despair.
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drbrianpet.bsky.social
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 🪶
Great egret standing on the dirt road Great blue heron standing in the grass along the dirt road
December 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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laurelgale.bsky.social
A downy woodpecker.

#birds #wildlife #nature
A photo of a black and white woodpecker clinging to the side of a tree.
December 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
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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rookman.bsky.social
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
This photograph captures two Cormorants perched closely together on a metallic railing against a bright, clear blue background. This is a close-up photograph of a Cormorant, a large, dark waterbird, perched on a metal railing. The bird has glossy black-green plumage, particularly noticeable scale-like patterns on its back, a long neck, and a prominent yellow patch at the base of its bill, which is hooked. A group of cormorants is perched closely together along a metal railing overlooking a wide body of water.
December 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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robcrank68.bsky.social
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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shastingssimon.bsky.social
This was worth watching (even though at one point I was waiting to see if they were going to propose making circular credit cards.)
rningscissors.bsky.social Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 1d
I hate how much I enjoyed this

BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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skittlesmom.bsky.social
Sunset through snowy trees.
December 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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poppyhaze.bsky.social
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.
alisonkilling.bsky.social Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 1d
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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irishrainforest.bsky.social
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
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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watchinthesky.bsky.social
One from September when conditions were right for #rainbowwings 🌈
Hummingbird #birds
A hummingbird photographed with backlighting is displaying diffraction as light passes through the wing feathers and is split into a rainbow of colors.
December 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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socalleslie.bsky.social
Friday night shitposting. Pelagic cormorant. 🪶😂
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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imacd.bsky.social
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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sarahday.org
Me when I'm tripping
cleefouti.bsky.social Xiaoyi @cleefouti.bsky.social · 2d
A student in 1829 tries very hard to draw an arctic fox :
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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annaquent.bsky.social
Erst mal was ausruhen.
Huch, da ist ja jemand.
Hallo, fotografieren ist hier verboten.
Unverschämtheit.
#squirrel
Roteauf einem Ast im Baum. Das hockt auf den Hinterläufen und dem bildseitig linken Vorderlauf. Der bildseitig rechte Vorderlauf ist angewinkelt, die Pfote liegt an der Brust Der Kopf ist teils von einem Zweig verdeckt, der Schwanz ist über den Körper gelegt. Das Eichhörnchen schaut in Richtung linker Bildseite. Im Hintergrund Nadelzweige. Das Eichhörnchen, in selber Position, hat den Kopf nach vorn gedreht, und schaut, mit leicht geöffnetem Mund, in Richtung Kamera. Das Eichhörnchen zeigt seinen Rücken, der Schwanz hängt über den Ast herunter, der Kopf ist mit leicht geöffnetem Mund in Richtung rechter Bildseite gedreht.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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stimpycole.bsky.social
A passing storm tower⚡️✌🏻
#Scape #EastCoastKin #WxSky #CloudscapeClub #Cloudscape #Skyscape #Canon #photography
Last July- The grey base of a storm tower passes overhead head with an almost mini “eye” revealing the bubbling storm tower and clear blue skies
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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itsabbyyep.bsky.social
Shits AND giggles? In this economy?
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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worldwildlife.bsky.social
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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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
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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jenleepa.bsky.social
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.
davidbeckler.bsky.social David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social · 2d
Here he is taking the photo.
Charles Ebbets standing on a steel beam as he takes the iconic photo of construction workers having a lunch break on the beam.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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albert-ibars.bsky.social
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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lindaking78.bsky.social
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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billmontei.bsky.social
Kolga, Estonia 🇪🇪
#Scape #photography
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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davidcsimon.bsky.social
Brown Cuckoo-dove in our persoonia.
#birds
Photograph of a small pigeon with a long tail perched in a persoonia tree. The bird is shades of brown, orange, and cream, with red and blue rings in its eyes. The tree has short spikey leaves with clusters of small yellow flowers.
December 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
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
A gorgeous bright yellow songbird with black and white wings and a black cap on its head (male American Goldfinch) is perched at a birdfeeder filled with seeds, facing to the left and looking at the camera.
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM