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Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk, Newark, NY on August 24, 2025

Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk, Newark, NY on August 24, 2025

Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk, Newark, NY on August 24, 2025

Found this stunning leucistic Red-tailed Hawk in Wayne County, New York yesterday. 8.24.2025
#birds #birding #rarebirds #hawk #leucistic #newyorkbirds #roadsidebirds

Close-up of a seagull’s head in profile, showing its sharp yellow beak with a red spot near the tip, bright yellow eye with a black pupil, and smooth white feathers. The background is blurred green foliage.

How about today we just post our favourite gull captures or artwork. Any gull you want. It’s all about the eye. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #photography #EastCoastkin

A small, green pumpkin grows on a chain-link fence

Pumpkin's progress.

#pumpkin #curcubita #plants #garden #fence #squash #backyard

"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ..."

-- John Adams, who died #OTD 1826

Mama turkey and a dozen poults

Mama turkey leading her own baseball team

#wildlife #flx #turkey #roadsideattractions #birds #birding

Baby bunny eating weeds

Baby bunny Blueberry doing some weedeating

#backyard #wildlife #rabbit #bunny #flx

Woodchuck Mommy and Me

Watching the baby chucklets takes up a lot of time. But how to resist? This was a Mommy and Me moment from the back yard.

#woodchuck #groundhog #whistlepig #babywoodchuck #wildlife #backyard #upstateny #flx

Osprey chicklets having dinner with mom and dad. This is the first nest I found in my hometown, and I've probably blown through a set of tires checking it out from March to September every year.

#Osprey #birds #birding #flx #nys #nest

A very hot and young juvenile Bald Eagle looking for water

This youngster popped up out of a ditch next to the road yesterday. I was expecting a vulture. Go find some shade, buddy!

#baldeagle #roadsidebirding #birds #birding #flx #fingerlakes #nys #eagle

Woodchuck in tree watching me

These whistlepigs are incredibly entertaining and amusing.

#woodchuck #groundhog #whistlepig #backyard #wildlife #willow #rodentia

Female Flicker with ruffled tailfeathers

This female Flicker may be losing a tailfeather; hope she leaves it here.

#birding #flicker #backyardbirds #birds #birdwatching #woodpecker

Waxing crescent moon in black and white

Despite the record-smashing 28 consecutive weekends with precipitation in these parts - rain for the last two months - the clouds parted long enough for a brief view of the gorgeous crescent moon tonight.

#moon #crescentmoon #moonshots #weather #skywatch #sky #upstateny #flx #witchtok #moonphases

Cheers to grape beginnings.
Sorry.

#plantlife #grapes #vines #spring #May #flx #winecountry #upstateny #concordgrapes

A good resting place under an apple tree for a days-old fawn on a cold, wet May day.

#deer #fawn #spring #May #nature #wildlife #FLX #trees

May's full moon through some clouds

What, me miss a visible full moon? Never!

#fullmoon #moon #Maymoon #witchsky #seasons #moonphase #skywatch

Juvenile male Baltimore Oriole on feeder

I've waited 2+ years to again host a Baltimore Oriole, and am thrilled to see this one! With the blotchy black and orange head, and still-yellow back end I'll call this a juvenile male.

#birds #backyardbirding #baltimoreoriole #oriole #feederbirds #May #upstateny #flx

May on Sodus Point beach while it's still covered in driftwood

I love the beach in May, when it's still covered in driftwood. I don't understand the obsession to burn it all up the moment people arrive.

#driftwood #beach #May #spring #lakeontario #flx #savethedriftwood

Canada Goose and gosling aside Sodus Bay

Early May, new life on Sodus Bay

#birding #canadagoose #gosling #babybirds #sodusbay #lakeontario #greatlakes #may #flx #birdwatching #birds

A bench overlooking Sodus Bay and full moon at twilight

A great spot to view the rising full moon over Sodus Bay, prior to changes to the waterfront.

#bench #bay #SodusBay #twilight #fullmoon #calmwater #upstateny #flx #islands #lakeontario #greatlakes #inlandsea

The Historical Marker Database Public history cast in metal, carved on stone, permanently marked.

My fact-gathering, map-loving, history-adoring mind loves this site. The Historical Marker Database www.hmdb.org

#history #historicalmarkers #database #historic

Underwater rocks at the edge of Lake Ontario

Clear waters of Lake Ontario with my precious rocks beneath.

#rocks #rockhounding #beachrocks #lakeontario #greatlakes #stones #pebbles #water #watersedge #april

A spring stream

A spring stream gathering water

#water #stream #spring #April #flx #upstateny #alive

Ospreys on the nest

It's spring and the Ospreys have returned to fill their nests.

#osprey #birding #springbirding #nest #flx #upstateny #birds

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

Sandhill Cranes at the edge of Lake Ontario

My yearly glimpse of Sandhill Cranes as they pass through.

#crane #birds #birding #flx #upstateny #lakeontario #sandhillcrane #migration

Muskrat on a spring swim

Nice spring day for a muskrat swim

#wildlife #muskrat #april #post #swim #upstateny #flx

Fantastic clouds on April 1

Very cool and real clouds and sky for April Fools' Day

#clouds #storm #stormsky #aprilfools #greatlakes #lakeontario #springsky #spring #auntieem

Gallos (power in Cornish) a bronze sculpture inspired by the legend of King Arthur, and by the historic kings associated with Tintagel. Created by artist Rubin Eynon, this 8' figure of a king watches over his realm, the land ahead of him, the Atlantic sea.
#FolkloreThursday

Folkloric stamps! (And they include selkies and, one of my faves, Blodeuwedd!)
"Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore."
(Designed by London-based artist Adam Simpson)
#FolkloreThursday #folklore #folkloresky