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T. Michael Redmond
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Born in Ireland 🇮🇪. Vocation: vision scientist; avocation: traveling natural history and landscapes, and art and architecture photographer. The vast majority of images I post are mine, others not are properly attributed. Dogfather. All opinions personal.
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay #LongTails theme I have a REALLY long tailed Fork-tailed Flycatcher sitting on a wire in Argentina. #Wildlife #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography
A black and white bird with a very long tail sits on a horizontal wire facing left. Its tail is held at a slightly upward angle, pointing right. It has a black head and black back with white underparts. There is a pale green background.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Bonus #Gannets! This is a BIF subadult still showing black variegation on wings, back and tail, but with the adult’s yellowish head. Probably breeding the following year to this photo.
A large black and white bird gliding over the sea on large black tipped white wings that are variegated with black on back and tail. Its eyes has a buff coloured head with blue eyes and sharply pointed grey blue bill with black stripes
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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For the #BirdOfTheDay #Gannets we have actual Northern Gannets doing a greeting display at the Great Saltee colony in Ireland.
Two similar large white birds facing each other and crossing their long pointed bills at an upward angle in a greeting display. The birds both have buffish head colouring, blue eyes, black about the eyes, and bills marked with black stripes. Both have webbed feet with green stripes along their toe ridges.
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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After breeding the family groups flock together and gather in preparation for migration at safe places in MidWest, such as Haehnle, before migration in huge groups to New Mexico or the Gulf of Mexico.
November 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A clever street collage we saw in Padua, Italy, a couple of months ago. Zoom in to see!!
A collage of several thousand images of people, text, etc., put together to represent a movie publicity poster depicting a dark haired woman with black eyes and eyebrows and red lips in an impish smile. She is wearing a V-necked red dress.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Pertussis vaccine is much less effective than the measles vaccine. A rise in pertussis cases will be/is a leading indicator of vaccine hesitancy.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Not really a hurricane! The last time we were by, a few years back, it was a camper van up there!
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay I have a handsome Common Grackle standing on a stone #OnTheEdge of a stream.
A dark brown-bodied bird with a glossy greenish blue head, black bill and yellow eyes stands on a stone sitting in water. There is water to its right and other stones to its left side and in the background. Some grass is evident at the bottom left and upper right corners.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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That is for certain! My wife is almost at 8. I’m only at 1!
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Nice! Halfway to 15…
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Also try Sea Lampreys! We did a project about 15 years ago involving a cooler full of lampreys from L. Michigan. We needed their eyes. What a slithery mess. Still talked about in the lab. Epic!
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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My offer for #BirdOfTheDay #HangingAround is this Alpine Chough I saw hanging on an updraft in the Swiss Alps:
A totally black bird with yellow bill and red legs hanging on an updraft.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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My offering for #BirdOfTheDay #Warblers theme is this pretty Neotropical one, a Chestnut-sided Warbler on migration last May.
A small bird perched in a tree. It has white undersides with chestnut colored flanks, black and white cheeks and black stripe through its eye. Its forehead is yellow. It has a yellowish green wash to its grey wings. It has a short pointed thin black bill and black legs.
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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🎼”We gather together to watch cheesy movies on Comedy Central on Thanksgiving night…” We loved it!!😍
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I loove the “Oregon” race!!
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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“If you are not at the table you are on the menu.”
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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For today's #BirdoftheDay theme #round we have this floof-ball female Black Redstart.
A small dark brown bird with orange-red tail, white feathers in its wings, white eye ring, and black bill and legs, standing on a pebble paved road.
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM