@bpaulan.bsky.social
Former crane mama, current conservation pilot, environmental educator and lover of 🦇🐝🦋🪶🌼🐸 All photos my own unless otherwise credited. Being kind is a choice.
Happy Indigenous People's Day!
14.10.2025 00:10 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Great image!
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A gray, white and orange bird sits on a branch having just shaken water off her feathers. Water droplets fill the air and sparkle in the light.
I am very appreciative of both @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for doing the #BirdoftheDay. Its been fun to go through my archives and has given me a goal for the winter -- to get out and photograph more birds.
Today's theme of #droplets. Belted kingfisher in northern Illinois.
Wow! Great capture.
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Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"
🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...
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A black and white bird with a red head and silvery beak, flies from right to left across a green background. The bird has a peanut in its beak.
I have always loved all things with #wings. But some definitely more than others. Red headed woodpecker for #BirdoftheDay
13.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunrise is reflecting on a layer of clouds turning them vivid orange. A tree line bisects the frame with the sky reflected in water below the trees
#goodmorning from northeastern Illinois. A spectacular start to the day. May your day reflect the beauty and peace of a sunrise.
#nature #photgraphy
A small gray bird with a slight peach colored tint on its side, sits on a branch with its head tilted back and beak open. It is surrounded by green leaves
One of my favorite images. A Tufted titmouse with something to say for today's #BirdoftheDay theme of any bird in the Paridae family. 🪶
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Against a blurred brown back ground, a small roundish gray and orange bird with a black and white face, sits on a stick looking out to the viewer's right.
One of the most beautifuls tits I have seen. The Varied tit. From my archives. Taken in a Tokyo park in 2014. #BirdoftheDay 🪶
12.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I also got this shot of a Yellow-rumped Warbler aka "butterbutt" catching a small bug in the air.
I also got this frame of a Yellow-rumped Warbler aka "butterbutt" catching a small bug in the air. 😮
#photography #birds #warblers #thewarblers #newworldwarbler
Great capture!
12.10.2025 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0bsky.app/profile/tall...
12.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0This is so great!
12.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you. Right place, right time!
12.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is a great book, but mine stays in the car. I'm gettin' too old to lug that much weight around!
11.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dammit. Very sad news.
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A green and brown small heron has a fish halfway down its throat. The tail of the fish sticks out of the beak. The bird stands on a green mudbank with 2 fallen logs lying horizontally behind the bird
A Green heron attempting to swallow a fish seems to qualify for #BirdoftheDay theme of #beakful. Also, #wader. A twofer!
11.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 51 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 1
A brown spitted bird with a black moustache and red patch on the back of his head clings to the side of a tree. Two young birds of the same species poke their heads out of a hole in the same tree with open beaks begging to be fed
More young birds for #BirdoftheDay. Yellow-shafted Northern flicker and chicks.🪶
10.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
2 fuzzy yellow and brown goslings face each other. One is standing & one is lying.
Since it is Friday and this week seemed verrrry long, I think y'all could use something cute. Canada goose goslings for #BirdoftheDay theme of #chick. 🪶
10.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
A very tall and a very small brown bird stand facing each other in a field composed of green grasses and yellow flowers.
I have worked on a crane project for almost 20 years and will not apologize for continuously posting photos of both North American species. 😆
#BirdoftheDay theme of #chick
#GoodMorning from northern Illinois. An awe inspiring sunrise to start my Friday. Sets the tone for a great day.
10.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A bird perches on a branch and bends all the way foreward to look backwards between its legs. The background is mottled green.
I think I was #spotted. Tufted titmouse trying to figure out what the great big single eye was - friend or foe.
#BirdoftheDay 🪶
Fantastic!
09.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fabulous image!
08.10.2025 23:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you Rob.
08.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you.
08.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That has to be really great to watch.
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An autumnal field is filled with tall gray birds.
More Sandhill cranes stage up prior to #migration. Central Wisconsin. (Might have to tap image for full effect.) #BirdoftheDay. 🪶
08.10.2025 00:54 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1
A full moon glows orange over a marsh. It has risen between a break in the treeline and is reflected in the water. Several Sandhill cranes fly across the face of the moon.
#Migration season is definitely upon us. Sandhill cranes gather by the thousands at staging areas prior to moving to their wintering grounds. This image of Sandhills in front of the full moon was taken at Crex Meadows in northwestern WI. #BirdoftheDay 🪶
08.10.2025 00:51 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!
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