Matt Hucke

Chan's Place, Woodinville, Washington. Opened in August 1980 by the Chan family, who emigrated from China in the 1970s. Photographed May 2024. Fuji X-T5 with Sigma 10-18 f2.8.

#neon #neonsign #neonsigns #woodinville

Mirror duck.

#bird #birds #duck #whynotaduck #mallard

Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland WA

Araneus diadematus, Seattle.

#spider #orbweaver #araneus

"Please stop doing that. I'm trying to sleep, here."

#ducks #woodducks #birds

Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland WA

Sea lion, being unfailingly polite, and wondering if you have any sources to back up your opinion.

Mukilteo, WA.

Cooper's hawk. Marymoor Park, Redmond WA.

#bird #birds #hawk #coopershawk #accipiter #raptor

Brant (Branta bernicla), a small coastal goose, about the size of seagull (one of which is included for comparison). I've only seen these once, a flock of about 20 on the Edmonds Waterfront, and they took off about 15 minutes after I got there. (from April)

#bird #birds #geese #brant #edmondswa

Heron and Antiheron.

Union Bay Natural Area, Seattle

#bird #birds #greenheron

The Sora, or Carolina Rail, forages for food in shallow wetlands, and is about the size of a robin. Rails are slender, to walk through marsh grasses - origin of the phrase "thin as a rail".

Juanita Bay Park, Aug 28. My second lifer of the day!

#bird #birds #sora #rail #kirklandwa

Northern pintail ducks, female or non-breeding. They are dabbing ducks, meaning that they will plunge their heads into the water, butts in the air, to forage for food below the surface.

Juanita Bay Park, Kirkland. One of three "lifers" I saw that day.

#ducks #northernpintail #bird #birds

Spotted sandpiper on the South Fork Stillaguamish River, Big Four Mountain Trail. Expedition led by Neil Zimmerman and Roniq Bartanen of Birds Connect Seattle.

@birdsconnectsea @she_birds #bird #birds

Male white-spotted sawyer beetle, on fireweed, Big Four Mountain, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The elytra (wing cases) are open as he unfolds his wings to take flight. #beetle #insect #washington #nationalforest #bugs

Cedar waxwing from not very far away. Big Four Mountain, WA.

#bird #birds #cedarwaxwing

Big Four Ice Cave. July, 2017.

Rhinoceros auklets, a seabird of the North Pacific, closely related to puffins. The horn-like structure on the nose is present only in breeding adults, and is shed every year.

#auklet #bird #seabird #birds

Reorganized my space museum today. This shelf commemorates the American moon landing and the programs that led to it. Mercury-Redstone, Mercury-Atlas, Gemini, Apollo, and Artemis. And under the glass dome, a fragment of the moon itself.

#space #spacecraft #nasa #lego

Sister-wives? Red-winged blackbirds are polygynous - several females will share the territory of, and mate with, one male. These three stayed close together as they flew from one location to the next. The male stayed at the top of his usual tree, watching over us all. #bird #birds #blackbirds

Smith Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the destination of the @pugetsoundexpress puffin cruise. The lighthouse here, built in 1858, was abandoned in the 1950s due to erosion of the bluff, and crumbled into the sea in 1998.

#lighthouse #birds #smithisland

A belted kingfisher queen is startled, and departs.

From this week's puffin tour to Smith Island on the Swiftsure, out of Edmonds.
@pugetsoundexpress @birdsconnectsea

#bird #birds #kingfisher #salishsea

Tufted puffin near Smith Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, as seen from the catamaran Swiftsure, operated by @pugetsoundexpress out of Edmonds, WA, in partnership with @birdsconnectsea.

#bird #birds #puffins #salishsea

Steptoe Butte, WA. June 2018.

#palouse #washington #sunset

Chicago River, 2018. From the rooftop bar at London House.

Fuji 10-24mm

#chicago #chicagoriver @lhchicago

Juvenile great horned owl. Its plumicorns, or horn-like tufts of feathers, are barely there but will grow more awesome with age.

Wiley Slough, Skagit Wildlife Area, WA.

#bird #birds #owl #owls #greathornedowl #skagitcountywa

Purple martins, the largest swallow in North America. Marymoor Park, Redmond WA.

#bird #birds #martins #purplemartins #swallows

wet-ass chickadee

skagit county, wa

#bird #birds #chickadee

"The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow"

Marymoor Park, Redmond WA

#birds #bird #swallow #treeswallow

Chestnut-backed chickadee leaving its nest in a woodpecker hole. Kirkland, WA.

COMPOSITE IMAGE made from two consecutive shots at 1/10 fps.

#bird #birds #yesitsaphotoshop

"Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am." Sid and Nancy, the resident ospreys in the cell tower next to my condo building, caught in the act. The whole process took about twelve seconds. Sid then flew off in the direction of the river, probably thinking of his next meal.

#bird #birds #osprey #birdporn

#chicago #popeleo #popeleoxiv

Same here. First with reading, around 5th grade, then math a year or so later. Self-study at a cafeteria table alongside one other advanced student. In high school, they let me do the same with Latin, though I had to remain in the room.