@tomsaxton.bsky.social
Mac/iOS/web programmer, math enthusiast, puzzler, photographer. Photos posted are mine unless otherwise noted.
The moon rising over the Mariners game last night. Here’s hoping they do better tonight.
05.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Compact car with license plate BOXHERO.
Awesome vanity tag I saw recently. My question: did the owner get the tag for the car or the car for the tag?
10.08.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Seattle Times is publishing one of our owlet photos in the Pacific NW Magazine. There are more photos, plus video of the owlets fledging and swallowing mice whole, on our web site at saxton.org. #birds www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
16.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
young great blue heron taking flight from water.
A young great blue heron taking flight from the Sammamish River at Marymoor Park on July 10. #birds
12.07.2025 18:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red-winged blackbird chick standing on wood railing looking toward the rising sun
A red-winged blackbird fledgling, recently fed, flew up to the boardwalk railing to face the rising sun. This morning at Juanita Bay Park. #birds
04.07.2025 00:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White-crowned sparrow standing on a wood post with beak open.
White-crowned sparrow singing its little heart out at Marymoor Park on June 12. #birds
03.07.2025 03:29 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
young bald eagle sitting on the end of a branch
On June 5, while walking with the Marymoor Park birding group, Cathy noticed this young bald eagle calmly sitting on a branch right above us as the group was looking for birds across the river. It was almost too close for my telephoto lens. #birds
29.06.2025 16:45 — 👍 52 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tree swallow from our outing with the Marymoor Park birding group on June 5. #birds
28.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 35 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Common merganser moving through water reflecting greenery
Cathy and I visited Lake Sammamish State Park yesterday morning and captured these common mergansers. #birds #addBirder
27.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Owl looking out from nest in snag.
Three owlets looking out from nest.
Owlet taking flight from nest, a monochrome infrared image.
For three months this spring, we got to watch owls nest and raise their brood in the woods behind our house. The owlets were so cute! More photos and videos on our web site. saxton.org/2025/owls/
26.06.2025 03:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Travel is weird. One day, you're feeding pollen to stingless bees in the Amazon rainforest and the next day you're back shopping for groceries like you never left.
23.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t, but I know about their repeater. When is their net?
20.01.2025 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cooper’s hawk launching into flight
Cooper’s hawk perched on bird feeder pole
Cooper’s hawk in our back yard. Suddenly, none of the other birds are interested in the bird feeders.
18.01.2025 01:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0KR7TOM
18.01.2025 01:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0✋
15.12.2024 00:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
raw photo of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), just visible against the darkening sky
cropped and processed photo of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), much more clearly visible against the darkening sky
The comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Snoqualmie, WA, on Oct 13. First the raw photo then the same cropped and processed in Lightroom. Credit to Cathy for finding the awesome spot, figuring out where to look, and help with dialing in the photo parameters. Canon R3, RF 70-200mm f/2.8, 70mm 4s, ISO 2000.
17.11.2024 07:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Milky Way over Mount St. Helens with glow from Portland city lights.
Just to get things started, here's a photo of the Milky Way over Mount St. Helens with Portland city lights glowing on the horizon, shot on August 30, 2024. It's a single shot, Canon R3, Sigma 14mm f/1.8, 15-second exposure at ISO 2500, processed in Lightroom.
17.11.2024 02:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
