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Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Day 2 at Canyon de Chelly (with bonus movie recommendation) There’s no such thing as too many pictures of fall color, so if you’re have good color where you live, I hope you will consider sending in some pics! Albatrossity A few more from Canyon de Chelly and ...

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Surprised not to see Satan's Hemorrhoids, aka Brussels Sprouts, on this list.

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Canyon de Chelly It’s Albatrossity Monday!  How is it nearly November already??? Albatrossity Our time in the desert southwest could be divided into two segments. The first was in Arizona, at Canyon de Chelly, a Natio...

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I feel like Phoenix is LA with haboobs.

small bird with reddish underside, blue-gray topside, white face with black eyestripe, and long pointed bill, perched on a bare branch

Bird of the day — Red-breasted Nuthatch, Kansas 2025

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Bird of the Day — Pied-billed Grebe, Kansas 2025

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Bird of the Day — Osprey, Kansas 2025

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Small bird with large conical beak, white streaky belly, warm brown head, back, and wings, with blue highlights in wings and tail

Bird of the Day — Indigo Bunting, Kansas, yesterday

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yellow bird with large dark eyes and black cap, perched on a twig in front of a leafy green background, looking directly into the camera

Bird of the Day — Wilson's Warbler, Kansas 2022

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Puppy-killer mentality is front and center with her.

One large black-and-white bird with huge pink bill and two other smaller black-and-white birds with yellow-tipped gray bills, sitting on calm blue water

Bird of the Day — Southern Royal Albatross (with two White-capped Albatrosses), New Zealand 2015

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Aotearoa #Seabirds #Albatross

small gray bird with tiny pointed bill, round head, white eye ring, whitish underside, black legs and yellow feet, perched on a branch with yellow leaves in the background

Bird of the Day — Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Kansas, 2023

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Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Looking good! The weeks are flying by, even as some days seem to last forever these days! If you have been thinking of sending in some pics for OTR, this would be a great time.  We have a couple more series left, a...

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Take a lot of pictures, and crop the good ones!

Blue-gray bird with shaggy black crest, white collar, and massive black bill, perched on a brown post

Bird of the Day — Belted Kingfisher, Kansas, yesterday

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gray-brown bird with brown-speckled white chest, white throat, dark eye, and brown face, perched on a tree snag

Bird of the Day — Swainson's Thrush, Kansas 2021

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bird with gray crown, white throat, white chest with brown streaks, banded tail, and yellow feet and legs, perched on a bare twig with blue sky in the background

Bird of the Day — Merlin, Kansas 2022

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small bird with black crown and bib, white cheek, gray wings and pale rufous sides, perched on a bright red pokeberry stem

Bird of the Day — Black-capped Chickadee, Kansas 2023

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How many of those TPUSA wussies will have bone spurs? Inquiring minds want to know!

Bird of the Day — Dickcissel, Kansas 2025
(just in case you were starting to miss these guys)

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Group of soldiers who served in the photo-reconnaissance wing of the US Army Air Corps in North Africa and Italy, 1945

A bunch of Antifa guys, including my dad. They despised fascists.

So do I

And why does Melanoma always wear hats that look like an invitation for alien spaceships to land on her head?

bright yellow bird with duller grayish-yellow head, large horn-colored beak, blue gray feet, and pale yellow eye-ring, perched on a bare branch amidst green foliage

Bird of the Day — Summer Tanager, Kansas, yesterday

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Hovering small long-billed bird with green back and crown, red, green, black and white tail, rufous flanks, and dark wings

Bird of the Day — Rufous Hummingbird, Arizona 2023

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Ashy-gray bird with darker head and wings, white eye crescents, and black bill floating in turquoise-green water

Bird of the Day — Lava Gull, Galápagos 2015

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Two mostly-yellow birds with darker wings and back, dark eyes, and pointed bills, sitting on a branch amidst some out of focus sunflowers.

Bird of the Day — Orchard Oriole, Kansas 2023

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Small bird with black hood, orange epaulets, white belly, and orange, white, and black tail, perched on a bare branch in front of green foliage

Bird of the Day — American Redstart, Kansas, yesterday

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Not to get too conspiracy-theorist about it, but besides the benefit of diverting attention from Epstein, he gets the violence against right-wingers that he needs to help justify violent crackdowns against his perceived enemies and lessers. They need violence, & martyring one of their own works.

Small bird with lemon-yellow underside, gray hood and wings, prominent eye ring, and small pointed bill, perched on a bare branch in front of green foliage

Bird of the Day — Nashville Warbler, Kansas, yesterday

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This is a fun game.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Shoebox
The Grapes of Ennui