TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature 📸

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Cheers, John ✌️

A medium-sized Red-whiskered Bulbul is perched centrally on a thick, horizontal tree branch covered with white and gray lichen, looking to the right of frame. The bird has a distinctive pointed black crest, a white throat, and a vivid red patch below its eye. Its back is reddish-brown, and its chest is light beige. It has a brown wing and tail with white at the tip. The foreground and background are filled with soft, out-of-focus green and yellow leaves, suggesting the photo was taken in a sunny, forested area.

How much 80s hair gel does this Red Whiskered BulBul use to get that crest so high?
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No! I am so sorry to hear that. Sending so many healing vibes your way. Please take good care of yourself. I hope you have some lovely Christmas and New Year plans with family and friends. 🫶

A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (a large white parrot with a pale yellow crest) is perched in the dense, dark green foliage of a conifer tree. The bird's head is tilted camera lefts looking toward the camera with its black eye and dark gray beak. Its white feathers are bright, contrasting with the shadowed green background.

This sulphur-Crested cockatoo likes to dine in at the Neighbour's Conifer Tree. 🍽
🌲 If they see me on the deck, they'll come over, strut around like they own the joint, then leave. 🦜

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Haaaaa!!! How are you Michelle?

It is hard to believe that in 2025 (a year that sounded like science fiction when we were young, yet now we are in this far flung future) atrocities against women - because they are women - still exist.

Peace is my north star. Emotional sovereignty is everything. Beautifully said.

Heya AJ, yes all okay. Sometimes I go a bit quiet on here. Thank you. How are you doing? 🫶

Woweeee.

Close-up profiles of a male Pied Currawong, identifiable by its bright yellow eye and black plumage, feeding a fledgling currawong (also black but with a grey eye) a small insect or grub. The adult is gently placing the food into the wide-open, bright pink-lined beak of the young bird.

This male pied currawong flew in the air, caught a bug and fed its fledgling on my deck. 🐦🪶🦗 Nature up close and personal. 🌿👀

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Trump dumping 160 truth social posts overnight is about one or multiple staff flooding the zone to say look over here while Trump pardons drug traffickers, holds up releasing the Epstein files, goes for Venezualan oil, does Putin's bidding, deflects from the economy and commits war crimes.

Under customary international humanitarian law (IHL) — and under several treaties/manuals governing armed conflict at sea — it is forbidden to order hostilities on the basis that there shall be no survivors.

Once they are no longer able to resist, they may not be deliberately killed.

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Cheers, Rob. ✌️

Beautiful. Knowing grief builds deep empathy.

​Two Australian Pied Currawongs are photographed against a pale sky, perched on a metal rooftop antenna. On the right, a young, brown, fluffy juvenile bird sits with its beak wide open and we see the bright pink of its mouth, actively soliciting food from the adult. On the left, an adult Pied Currawong, identifiable by its sleek black plumage with striking white patches on its wings and under the tail, is captured mid-flight, swooping in with its legs extended toward the juvenile to deliver food.

I just caught this image of a Pied Currawong bringing food for its baby on the neighbors' TV antenna. 🐦📸 Earlier in the day, the adult landed on my deck and introduced me to its fledgling. 🏡

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The GOP are splintering. Anything can happen at this stage.

Beautiful. Dare I say AMAZing.

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Danke.

Divine! I can feel myself soaring and I feel free.

Oh nice. You have a whole colour palette of birds going on.

Thank you. Yes so interesting with that red brow! 🤨

Beautiful writing by AJ (Audrey). @audjde.bsky.social Sounds like a great place to be!

Wow! Sooo regal. 👑

Magic. The pale olive tones are gorgeous.

That's probably about right.
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Cheers, Leo. So majestic. 🦅