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Objects in mirror are as ridiculous as they appear.
#wankpanzer

A beautiful Grey harrier flies low over the snowy landscape.

Gliding over the snow. Grey ghost harrier hunting at the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge near the border of Oregon and California. #bird #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature

Dirt road on the left passing a long, still expanse of water that for many years has been dry due to drought.

My trusty husband jay.newman.bsky.social waiting for some owls to pop out for an evening of hunting.

Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge yesterday. It's a bit of a way to go for a day trip but it's the one thing keeping us sane these days.
With jay.newman.bsky.social.

#nature #photography #wildlife

This is Ashland Creek. It's where I taught myself how to do landscape photography. Even more importantly, I was standing barefoot in this creek when I proposed to @loaf11.bsky.social. Best thing I ever did.

In the foreground a red-winged blackbird perches on a wire. The wire leads to a utility pole in the background where an out-of-focus bald eagle rests.

Behold! The magnificent red-winged blackbird!

And friend.

#birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature

Stringy red witch hazel flowers with a good layer of fresh snow on them.

Clash of the seasons.
#gardening #flower #snow

Butt view of my siamese cat stretching, but with a color pencil-type filter on it.

My siamese cat squirming with joy making the photo so blurry I put a color pencil-type filter on it.

I swear Mogwai is the wiggliest cat I've ever had. Very hard to get pictures of! So I have resorted to filters to make it seem like I totally meant to only take blurry photos becuase art and stuff. Happy #Caturday.
#cat

Mt. Shasta in northern California. Sage, rabbit brush and juniper in the foreground. The mountain is snow-capped and a spaceship-looking lenticular cloud hovers around the peak.

Shasta's Peculiar Hat. What's with these majestic mountains and their weird fashion sense? Mt. Shasta usually gets these lenticular clouds whenever I'm unavailable to photograph them, but somehow I got lucky this time.
#nature #photography #clouds #landscape

Yeah. I wouldn't mind any edit feature as well.

Fizzgig the silver smoke kitty looking up at the camera with a shallow cardboard box flat on resting on his back. He's very silly.

Happy #caturday to all that celebrate! Here's Fizzgig enjoying his newest box in a less traditional manner than usual.

#cat

An adult bald eagle looks out from its massive nest that is covered in thick frost.

Frosty Nest. The bald eagles have returned to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge.

#birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature

I follow too. As much as I'd like to believe I'm all good in the race department, I realize that I'm a middle-aged white lady that probably still needs to unlearn some things.

A purple blue sky teeming with hundreds of flying snow geese.

Snow Goose Migration. The Klamath and Tule Lake Wildlife Refuges in Northern California have long been a stopover spot for these and many other migrating birds, turning winter into my favorite season.

#birds #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature #migration

An alert osprey atop a tall post takes a break from eating a fish and stares down the camera.

This osprey was enjoying a fishy feast when I rudely interrupted for a photo. Little did he know I wasn't interested in scaling a forty foot pole that day... or any day, really.

#bird #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature

I can't say I'm feeling very optimistic about the coming year, but this guy seems ambivalent.

#facesinthings #photography #nature #rockface

My wife, @loaf11.bsky.social and I have two very strange cats. Here is the head of one of them. The rest of him is under there somewhere. #fizzgig #cats #caturday

Not a lot of wildlife at the wildlife refuge today, but the skies were off the charts! #landscape #photograpy #wildlife #mammatus #bluesky

I love these little grebes. The western and Clark's get most of the attention, but these and the little eared grebes are my favorites.

Silhouette of a hawk with wings and feet extended, taking off from a rocky meadow against an orange sunset.

Late Light Flight. Many thanks to this hawk for posing so nicely as the sun went down.
#birds #usbirding #hawk #wildlife #photography

A blue-eyed seal point siamese kitten cheekily peeks out from behind a shower curtain.

It's already #caturday again? What a week. Here's a pic of our little blue-eyed terror as a tiny kittlet.
#cat #catsofbluesky #kitten

A cloudy day at Bryce Canyon National Park when a shaft of sunlight bursts through the clouds and illuminates the orange, psychedelic, castle-like hoodoos.

Lovely light. The sun was in and out this day... mostly in. I set up and waited, hoping the perfect window would open in the clouds and, it did. #BryceCanyonNationalPark #landscape #photography #nature

Bright blue eyes of a seal point siamese cat glow against her dark face which is clearly full of mischief as she plots her next move from the top of the cat tree.

Those eyes. 😍
Happy #caturday

#cat

I think you mean a purrito. 😍

Curious Floof. This juvenile great-horned owl was keeping an eye on us while its lazy sibling napped.

#owl #bird #usbirding #wildlife #photography #nature

People are tired of being disposable. I know I didn't choose to not feel empathy for this man. I just didn't. I heard the news and was shocked, but not sad. For me this is unusual and I'm not proud of it, but it's honestly where I'm landing on this one.

Tiny tree frog is climbing up a mossy tree trunk.

Mosses and frogses. This little pacific tree frog seemed unbothered by the paparazzi (me).
#wildlife #photography #frog

I love that feature! Even though I have like no social media presence. I wish it was more common.

I love these! This only ever happens to me with bugs.

Quiet waves wash against scattered sea stacks with a pink and orange glow in the aky.

Sunset and Sea Stacks. The Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor along the Southern Oregon coast is my favorite stretch of coastline. We don't get out there often but when we do, a nice sunset really makes the trip.

#nature #landscape #photography #oregon

Three layers of frost. Thickly frosted grasses in the foreground, middle layer of frosted shrubbery and tall frosted willows in the back.

Open, frosty landscape with one grand willow on the right. You can see sky through the fog in places.

Frosty grasses and reeds along a frozen canal.

Wide shot of frozen canal and dirt road heading toward a heavily frosted bank of willows on the left and one lone willow on the right.

Getting frosty out there.
#nature #photography #frost