@npwalker.bsky.social
Moron’s search for meaning. - Birder & photographer - Applied math graduate student - Medical device R&D engineer
Your video quality is exceptional!
26.01.2025 18:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Male orange-collared manakin perching in his lek in Costa Rica. Photography by Nolan Walker, March 2024.
Approaching slowly on my belly, the tip of my lens just barely clears the foliage to see his tiny lek.
The orange-collared manakin’s display movements were so erratic, I kept my view on one perch, hoping he would return for one instant. Voilà!
#birds #birding #costarica #wildlife #photography
Wow as far north as Cave Creek?? I had no idea!
25.01.2025 08:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Great picture! We had a stray brown thrasher all the way out here in Arizona last year.
24.01.2025 16:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you! And I wish you safe travels :)
24.01.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow! What an adventurous hummer!
24.01.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Broad-billed hummingbird in full sun perched on a feeder with its wings spread back in Madera Canyon AZ. Photography by Nolan Walker, July 2023.
I have been YEARNING for a good camping trip in AZ sky islands lately. Reminds me of this board-billed hummingbird we saw in Madera Canyon.
#birds #birding #photography #nature #wildlife #arizona #hummingbirds
I was so surprised how quick it was. Within 10 minutes we saw Bendire’s and sage. Both new lifers for me! I have to go back for LeConte and Crissal.
24.01.2025 02:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh cool, I assume corner of Olgelsby and Hazen. I’ll have to make a drive out there soon!
23.01.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nice!! Where did you see it?
23.01.2025 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Northern pygmy owl posing at the top of a pine tree in Zion National Park. Photography by Nolan Walker, November 2024
In Zion National Park, we saw what appeared to be a fluffy Christmas tree ornament. In fact, it was norther pygmy owl!
He sat and posed silently for a while on the upper emerald pool trail.
#birds #birding #photography #utah #nature #wildlife
Omg you captured the flexible bill tip in that first picture! So cool!
22.01.2025 22:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0American coot is literally my spark bird. I can’t get enough of watching them fight!
22.01.2025 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Such a wonderful species! I hope their population may recover within my lifetime.
22.01.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Round 😌
22.01.2025 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So much song! You must have a very lively garden 😄
22.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh man, the way I would be absolutely combing that flock for a Ross’s goose. Great shot!
22.01.2025 20:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wow you’re on a serious streak with great owl shots!
22.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They are so cute being held 😭
22.01.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey cool, I use the same lens as you! Great shots 😊
22.01.2025 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another throwback to Costa Rica last March. The scarlet-rumped tanagers had the deepest, darkest black I’ve ever seen on a bird.
Watching this one bathe in a stream was a rare moment of privacy in their otherwise very social lives.
#birds #wildlife #photography #costarica #birding #nature
The moment I saw it, I knew this silly take was coming. The fact that he turns around and does it a second time at Trump puts the intention beyond any doubt. 😐
21.01.2025 04:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is a really beautiful video! I’ve tried embedding video on bluesky before and have been disappointed in the quality. Do you have any tips or recommendations on achieving this quality with bluesky video? Thanks!
21.01.2025 00:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bendire’s thrasher hiding among the branches of a mesquite tree. It is fluffed up to insulate from the cold. Photography by Nolan Walker, January 2025.
The “world famous thrasher spot” is an awfully lofty name for a dumpy intersection in the middle of nowhere to live up to. But it delivered!
Bendire’s thrasher was such a treat to finally see. He loved to hide and softly sing his complex song.
#birds #nature #wildlife #photography #arizona
Great spot! I agree with your first instinct. I believe that the Eurasian sparrow hawk, even when juvenile, will have a much more scaly/horizontally marked chest.
20.01.2025 05:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Say’s phoebe with common green darner dragonfly in its bill. Photography by Nolan Walker, October 2024.
Absolutely love this bird. During peak dragonfly breeding in October later year, I got this one with its lunch at Tempe Town Lake.
20.01.2025 05:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This keel-billed toucan deftly uses its enormous bill to pick small fruits!
A throwback to my unforgettable trip to Costa Rica last March.
#birds #nature #photography #costarica
Better quality video please!
19.01.2025 06:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sweet thank you! Yes I’d love to contribute to the feed 👍
19.01.2025 05:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rock wren in a cute pose looking upward. Photography by Nolan Walker, January 2025.
This adorable rock wren fearlessly hopped right up to us this morning. The old Gillespie damn on the Gila River is a little out of the way, but offers a nice mix of riparian, grassland, and desert scrub habitat in Arizona.
#birds #photography #arizona #nature
