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Mstreefrog
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💙 in a red county of a blue state. Retired and enjoying hiking, photography, cooking, and crafts. Two 🐈 and a standard 🐩 Planning jaunts around the PNW.
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#BirdOfTheDay #Headshots
#Bittern #RidgefieldNWR
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A close up photo of an American Bittern in a sunlit marsh with bright spots of bokeh.
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Black Oystercatcher
Haematopus bachmani
#BirdOfTheDay #OnTheEdge
#WaterWednesday
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Black Oystercatcher with its bright orange beak, red eye, and pink legs in the splash zone on the rocks at Washington Park, Anacortes. They were hunting for mollusks as the tide receded.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Wishing you a very good #TwosDay

#HolidayRobin
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Two American Robins splash 💦 in a rain puddle at Ridgefield NWR earlier this month.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Black-capped chickadee ( Poecile atricapillus), foraging for sunflower seeds.

#BirdOfTheDay #HangingAround
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A small songbird hanging upside down from a dried sunflower blossom with a seed in its mouth.
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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(I apologize in advance for the weirdness. Can I blame Sheena? 😉)

And Evidently I Occasionally Utter
UVULA.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVowels
Say ahh, and look into your your mouth in a mirror. At the back of your throat is the uvula, the small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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A repost for #MacroMonday
A male bumblebee 🐝 covered in pollen and sleeping it off on a dew-covered cosmos blossom.
#ColorADay #PinkMon
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Male bumblebees do not have a nest, living the life of a season, sleeping on flowers or in other sheltered places.
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #YellowEyes
Here is a Hooded Merganser with its hood down in a slouch.
Striking lines of black and white with a brown lower body. A bright yellow eye and sharp black beak.
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Just another #MallardMonday
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A Mallard Drake with its bright green head and water sheeting off its yellow beak. The brown and buff body is a smooth reflection in the water.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The Antlers of Autumn

For the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels.

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A Columbian White-tailed buck at Ridgefield NWR last week. I saw four or five boys of Autumn on the refuge that day.
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Here is another view of the same American Bittern.
This photo shows the wading through green algae the bittern has done, hunting for frogs, small fish, and other tasty offerings.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy to see a couple of American Bitterns my last trip to Ridgefield NWR. It had been a few weeks.
#Birds
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A close up of an American Bittern, down in a boggy area of the refuge, peeping out from behind a nightshade, or bittersweet plant.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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For #StunDay
Our local millpond’s smokestack has a memorial painted on it, and the purple background in this photo is a reflection in the water of that painting. #GreatBlueHeron #10MinutesFromHome
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A great blue heron sits on the edge of fish rearing tanks. The local high school has raised salmon, steelhead, and rainbow trout. My favorite local walk.
November 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#Mr&Mrs Sandhill Crane hanging out in a muddy pond, reminding me of Muddy Buddies. That’s Chex cereal tossed in melted butter, peanut butter, and chocolate, then dusted with powdered sugar.
#BirdOfTheDay #RidgefieldNWR
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What can I say? It’s the holidays and my mind is on all the treats. Seeing Sandhill Cranes is also a big treat this time of year.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Very late to the game today with an Anna’s Hummingbird on a wire garden trellis for the grape arbor.
#BirdOfTheDay #BirdOnAWire
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The hummingbird sits within an easy reach of the hanging baskets and can also keep a watch on approaching adversaries for the hummingbird feeder. They guard their nectar sources fiercely.
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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An abandoned house left to the elements, the moss, and ferns in the rainy #PNW

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekUforUnloved
#ColorADay #GreenSat
A dilapidated green painted house growing ferns above the doorway and moss on the roof that is beginning to collapse. Another view showing the collapsing roof and indeed a collapsed room.
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Small
A Wooly Bear caterpillar, looking arty.
Classic Un-ICM with a slow shutter speed. 😜
#Invertebrates #nature #photography
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OM MII 400 mm f/22 1/20 sec An interesting mistake of unintentional camera movement on a cold day with sun, when this caterpillar was out and about on my local walk. Trails of light gleam from the highlights of the caterpillar, leaf, and gravel.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Preening the pantaloons.
An eagle pair was up in the trees above the water (and ducks) of Ridgefield NWR yesterday afternoon.
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A Bald Eagle, doing some preening on a branch high up in the trees at the refuge yesterday. This was the smaller male, the female was a few branches over. Bright yellow feet and beak, rather dirty white head and tail feathers (lots of mud this time of year,) and dark brown feathers on the remainder of the body.
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Move along, there is nothing to see here --
A Wood Duck, perfectly hidden and invisible beneath the rushes at Ridgefield NWR yesterday afternoon.
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A colorful male Wood Duck, hoping not to be seen, lingers beneath overhanging rushes on the canal at Ridgefield NWR. He has an iridescent sheen to his green head and blue back feathers, and various colors of orange, tan, purple, maroon, and black. His eye is bright red.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I thought of this Red-winged Blackbird for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #singing, though he does look like he’s more of an angry shouter doesn’t he? 😉
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A blackbird on a post at Ridgefield NWR guarding his patch. His wings are spread with his yellow and red shoulder patches showing and his beak is open. He looks like he is glaring and shouty.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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It’s #ForestFriday
My nearly daily walk takes me by this beautiful decaying stump that is a home to moss and lichen, and a shelter funneling rainwater to sword ferns. Not shown at the very top is a red huckleberry bush.
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The beautiful green patina of moss and lichen on this old stump makes it seem like a friend in the forest with so much character.
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Waiting out a dense fog advisory down at the wildlife refuge this morning, so here’s an iPhone snap of the sunrise out of my front window this morning.
#Scape
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Looking across the fields towards the big leaf maple and some fir trees in the distance at right. The sky is lit up with bright pink clouds, and a yellow glow on the horizon, where the sun is rising.
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Pick a feather, any feather—
A Hooded Merganser fanning his duck tail.
#RidgefieldNWR
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A Hooded Merganser drake was having a little preening session when he fanned his tail wide and looked to the right. His black and white ‘hood’ is fully raised, and his eye gleams gold. The canal has dappled sunlight and duckweed.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This is a juvenile American Robin, for #BirdOfTheDay #Thrushes. And as I was on holiday back in June, I’ll also tag it for #HolidayRobin.
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I think this youngster was waiting for a parent to bring breakfast. Juvenile Robin with a speckled breast on the hill above Yaquina Head Lighthouse. I can practically hear the thoughts of this young bird- ‘Mom?’ ‘Dad?’ ‘Feed me!’
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A Great Blue Heron fishing in the rain at the local millpond for #BirdOfTheDay #Waders
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A heron, standing tall at the edge of a creek in the rain. ☔️
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Another shot of the California Scrub Jay from earlier in the week with a tiny bit of #ColorADay #YellowThu thanks to the cottonwoods that are still holding their bright leaves.
Happy #ThursJay #RidgefieldNWR
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A beautiful California Scrub Jay sits on a metal gate structure at the wildlife refuge looking back over its shoulder. They are a combination of bright blue, grey, and grey-brown.
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM