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A black and yellow bumblebee perched on a cosmos flower with pink petals shading to a deeper magenta at the center. Look closely and the bumblebee is covered with bright spots of golden pollen.

A bumblebee on a bicolored cosmos flower. Poodle and I are headed out to hike and escape the dreadful news cycle for a bit.
#FlowersOnSunday #Stunday
#flower #nature #photography #inverts
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Swans swimming out among the tall marsh grasses at Ridgefield national wildlife refuge. This is the refuge in winter when rains have brought more water into the marshy areas.

Trumpeter Swans
Ridgefield NWR

#BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore
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The bright blue of a peacock’s head and chest; the yellow of an American Goldfinch, and the red head of a Red-breasted Sapsucker.

Red, yellow, and blue… Though not in that order.

#BirdoftheDay #PrimaryColours
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Thank you, Robyn. 😊 Wings are so glorious

Thank you! 😊

Thank you, Shantha 😊 I happened to be looking at Bluesky this morning on my laptop screen, and I was amazed at how the larger screen called out details of everyone’s posts over my usual cell phone. Wow

Thank you, Rob 😊 BOTD is like a treasure hunt through my photos. And it’s so lovely seeing everyone’s fabulous work.

Thanks so much, Alan 🙏

Thank you Linda 😊

A sandhill crane colt with outstretched wings, facing away toward the blackberry bushes of autumn, both speckled with orange hues among the grey of the wings and the green of the leaves. 🍂 And look at those dark wing tips!

#BirdOfTheDay #WideOpenWings
#PNW

Reposting One of my favorites, a Sandhill Crane colt from November. Ridgefield NWR.

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Thank you 😊 I know what you’re saying about that blue grey color, I had to read the description in Sibleys to see what they said, and it’s just gray there. Maybe because this was in the shade?

Thank you Rob 😊

Thank you! 🙏

Beautiful portrait, Jonathan ❤️

Reminds me of when a friend texted that her apartment was so dirty that the health department might condom it. 🤣

A White-breasted Nuthatch perches near a feeder at the richfield NWR auto tour start. It is enfloofenated in a nice pear shape. Mostly white, it has a sharp black beak, a black forehead, and grey-blue shoulders and back.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borb, a bird looking round or pear shaped.

White-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis
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Thank you! 😊 using the teleconverter on the macro lens has really helped in capturing greater detail from a bit of distance.

Good morning Shantha 🙏😊 I’m trying to match the bright-eyed look and industriousness of that bee 🐝 … But I think it’s going take several more cups of coffee!

A European honeybee, shining golden with gossamer wings, approaches the cup of a crocus flower and it’s orange center that holds a bounty of pollen. Pollen is dusted across the bee’s legs and body.

A Honeybee harvesting for the hive.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHForHs
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Photography #Inverts #BloomScrolling

👍 Likely due to their resemblance to mosquitoes, they were called 'gal nippers' by my family when I was growing up. And it was probably Orkin who convinced everyone that the larva destroyed lawns... But I always delighted in the days of free-range chickens running across the lawn for these insects.

90 mm macro with a 2x converter on an OM-1 Mark 2 camera. The center of the crocus blossom glows red orange as a black and yellow bumblebee queen with a fuzzy face and pollen flecks on her face and legs clings to the petals, heading to the center of the flower.

#MacroMonday
A Queen bumblebee clings to a crocus blossom on a cold and windy day in early Spring.
#BloomScrolling #Bumblebees #Inverts
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I don’t know where I’d be without them! 😄

This is a colorized black-and-white photo, I am guessing from the 1930s of the maternal lineage great grandparents. They are dressed somberly, and their expression is also unsmiling, and perhaps a bit distrustful.

An ancestor’s photo found moldering in an upper closet this afternoon at the Homestead. I do love it. (But I also realize that I come by my resting bitch face quite naturally! 🤣)

I love this sentiment, Linda 💖 and also your beautiful, sparkling photograph

Oh, this one is fabulous. I love that the swan appears to be calling out as it lands. 👍😄

A tundra swan wings outstretched coming in for a landing with some pintail ducks in the background.

A Tundra Swan coming in for a landing.

#wildlifephotography #birds #naturephotography #swans #ridgefieldNWR #BirdOfTheDay #WingsOverWater

Thank you, Alan 😊 Your replies always make me smile

I must plant some doubles for next spring. I really love the look of them. 💚🤍💚

Thanks Helen 😊

Perhaps a Ring-billed Gull, flying over the incoming tide waters near the boardwalk at the refuge on a sunny day this month.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOverWater any bird flying over water. Here is a gull taking off from the water at Billy Frank Jr Nisqually NWR.
Happy #FlyDay
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