Mark Robertson

Mock Wallbird 🤺🪶

Ha. Yah, intensity of ten cities in every one :)

Launching off the stump wings back and wave rolling in behind him

Moments later, wings engaged

OUT 🪶

Mockingbird perched on some wrangled stems, the thrumming gray-green sea behind him

Mocky Mock and His Funky Stump #birds

Gull with dark gray back, lighter gray mottled neck and head, and smart red beak. Posed smartly on a sand bank with breaking aquamarine waves in the BG

The Heermann's, our most upscale gull
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So, so fun to see them zipping around Madrid and Ronda. Splendid grab!

As the world terns... #birds

It's truly insane. That primieval look in his eyes, too

Heron bolting the not small fish in fell swallow, his throat engorged and with a wild primieval look in his eyes

Moments later—like me with my multivitimin 🪶

Side view of a white winged dove. The bird is facing left, into the sun, and has a brilliant red eye, cream colored beast, red feet, and a nice white stripe along the inner wing. Out of focus bright blue watery background.

I was scanning the marsh for harriers when my lifer white winged dove landed right in front of me and sat there in good light for a whole minute #birds

Big ol GBH with a fairly sizable fish hanging from his capable beak. He's standing on some dock shed with looming eucalyptus in the BG

It's good to be king
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Largish wren with cool dappled bronze and beige patterning showing up clear in a chaos of pricklypear cacti

Full metal wren cozying up on his throne of spines #birds

It's crazymaking and rare but so delightful when it happens :)

I love this so much! Brava

Great choice!

The detail in their teeny eye! Lovely

Love them so much...common elsewhere, I guess, but I'm thrilled when I find one. They're grand.

I apologize for the above skeet

Whydah and mate.
I asked her how they met, and she just rolled her eyes and said, "it's a long tale.

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Bluebird taking off and cutting left, blues sparkling in the light

A fraction of a second later, wings fluttering down

Blue Flame
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Thanks, friend. How's the star-chasing going?

Yellow oriole youngster gliding toward tonight's waxing gibbous

Directly under here, wings back

Moon o'er my Oriole 🪶

NOICE

Goodnight, summer.
Goodnight raccoon.
Goodnight, scrub jay jumping over the moon.
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Exactly.

Black phoebe, mid tail-flick, standing on a dirty root in an otherwise very grassy knoll

Moments later: take-off

You can find me with the phoebes 🪶

White-throated swift cutting across the moon

A closer view of a swift passing into a grove of cassia trees

Swiffer insect picker uppers
exterminatin' beneath the halfmoon
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Thanks, Steve. Agreed. They have sweet expressions, too. I love the Nutall's so much and count myself lucky they like to hang around our neck

Same guy doing a chinup at the feeder to score a few of the seeds the finches left behind

He's awkward as heck but so cute at the Dangling Diner #birds

Nutall's Woodpecker pecker clinging to a dwarf palm and looking sweetly more or less in my direction. He let's me hang out by him and take his photo so long as I'm calm

My new yard bird and sweet fren, Mr. Gregory Peck #birds