Flyingcorgi

A Redhead Duck floats by in side profile on still water.

A Redhead Duck for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #PerfectLighting.

#Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #Photo #EastCoastKin

Peregrine Falcon flying low with Teal and Wigeon on the water in the background

Amazing moment at RSPB Greylake yesterday when this stunning Peregrine Falcon shot low across the water! 😍😊
This is the fastest animal on earth!🐦
#BIrds 🪶

multi-hued poppy in shades of pink, ochre, & white seemingly painted on the petals

white poppy is a symbol of a commitment to peace and non-violent conflict resolution- a symbol of remembrance for all victims of war—both military and civilian

A group of fifteen cardinals sits among the many thin branches of a drooping tree limb in the midst of a snow storm against a background of distant bare trees and snowy ground. The six males are brilliantly red with black face masks, triangular orange beaks, and red crests while the remaining females are a much more subdued but also stunning creamy brown with pale red highlights in their crests, wings, and tails.

Standing stalwart against the storm.

Northern Cardinals

#BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore #StunDay #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Pyrrhuloxia / cardenal desértico (Cardinalis sinuatus) at San Pedro House.
from: www.tumblr.com/fatchance

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs
A hillside near Glossop.
📷 #photography #landscapephotography
#PeakDistrict #Derbyshire #hillwalking

A close-up of green moss with many small, round raindrops hanging on it. The background is blurred.

Raindrops on moss 🌱💧
#BlueSkyArtShow #round
#MacroMonday #nature #photography #EastCoastKin

The side profile head shot of a peacock.

We live in a world which becomes increasingly volatile with the madness & destruction of world leaders. Periodically, tune out and tune in to nature. We all need balance.

#BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #Birds #Ornithology #PrimaryColours #Peacock #Photography

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

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We’re not being governed, we’re being looted.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

There is still beauty in the world.
(Norway) Source: FB

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Even if the regime is out of office, the voters who thought this was a great idea will still be out there. That is obviously on the minds of our former allies.

One of these plaques may be in my future lol...

A raindrop hanging from the pistil of a white flower with yellow stamen and anthers

Raindrop on a Carpenteria californica, or bush anemone
#flowers #bloomscroll #photography #art #macro

Close-up macro photograph of a cluster of Forget Me Not flowers growing in the grounds of Springhill House in Moneymore. The largest bloom in the centre is soft sky-blue with five rounded petals and a bright yellow eye, its surface gently textured and luminous in natural light. Nestled beside it are vivid pink buds and a partially opened magenta flower, their stems covered in fine bristly hairs. The background falls away into a smooth, dark green blur, making the colours appear almost jewel-like against the shaded garden setting. Springhill House, a 17th-century plantation house near Moneymore in County Londonderry, was built around 1667 by William Conyngham, a Scottish settler granted land during the Ulster Plantation. The house remained in the Conyngham family for generations and is known for its distinctive thatched roof, elegant Georgian interiors, and estate woodlands. Today it is cared for by the National Trust and is appreciated for both its historical significance and its tranquil, carefully tended gardens.

For Sabine’s #PalacesandGardens #LittleWonders I’m going with these woodland Forget-Me-Nots taken in the grounds of SpringHill House in Moneymore, north of Ireland.

All info in alt

#flowers #photography #EastCoastKin

People do what you pay them to do.
You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products.
You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well.
You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth.
And so forth.
Be aware of what you pay people to do

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us.

It sucks.

We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this.

I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

Very much this right here. The federal government is hindering the people of Minnesota from exercising their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The Horsehead and Flame Nebula.
55 years ago I saw an image of the Horsehead in a book on Astronomy, that image sparked a lifetime love of the subject.
This is 1 hour of data from last night in SHO.

#astronomy #astrophotography

Legislation to criminalize dissent in the ‘Free’ State of Florida? Proposals quietly moving through the Legislature would create a new counterintelligence unit in state government, echoing the FBI’s controversial COINTELPRO in the 1960s.

DeSantis plans on making it illegal to have altering viewpoints than the state or the country and we can be arrested if we hold such viewpoints. Talk about authoritarianism.

#USDemocracy

www.wgcu.org/investigatio...

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A super sunset in Woodbridge worthy of stunning Suffolk country 😁💕

#Woodbridge #Suffolk
📷 Courtesy of Maria Margarida @ Stunning Suffolk

I may be coming down with something, so it is imperative that I take the day off and do a studio shoot. 😜

A 'Drama Queen' 𝑃𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑚 from my friend's yard last summer. This species has medicinal properties.

#flowers #photography

A brown and white/grey mottled songbird (song sparrow) is perching on a thin, bare tree branch with a blurred brown background. The bird's body is facing the camera and its head is turned to the left as it looks at the camera.

Good morning from this exquisitely borbish Song Sparrow, demonstrating today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Borb (bird looking round or pear shaped).

#birds #photography