Two ducks with light cream and brown underparts, brown top plumage, and gray-blue bills fly side by side from left to right in the frame, against the backdrop of of a clear blue sky.

A uniformly light brown bird with a bit of black mask around its eyes and a short pink-beige bill is standing on the ground in a desert setting, with sand and pebbles around and the lower trunks of shrubberies in the background.

A bright red songbird with black wings, a small black bill, and a black face mask is perched at the top of a leafy green tree, looking right to left in the frame, with a clear blue sky.

A few birbs from a visit to Arizona's Sweetwater Wetlands:
🦆 american wigeons
🐦‍⬛ a canyon towhee
🐤 a vermilion flycatcher

In this simple composition a bay pony mare with a fuzzy coat stands in the upper left of the image on the slope of a grass covered sand dune which slopes slightly down to the right. The sky in the background is light blue with streaks of clouds.

The same pony mare is walking down the dune in the right side of the image, towards the camera, as she looks towards the left side of the frame.

Same bay pony mare on the flat sand of the beach, with the grassy dune rising behind her. This image is zoomed in to capture the front half of her body as she walks with her neck outstretched. The wind picks up her mane and partly obscures her face, and her left front hoof is raised as she walks right to left in the frame.

This cute lil bay mare is part of the Shackleford Banks wild pony community
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

Surrounded by hemlocks and some faint yellow-orange fall colors, a small 4-foot-ish waterfall is in the lower-middle of the image, spilling into a creek pool reflecting the brown of the trees and rocks around it. It is a wide angle image causing the trees to kind of lean in towards the waterfall.

Tolliver Falls, a pocket size waterfall in western Maryland's Swallow Falls State Park #photography

So many layers of the classic "the person or persons who designed this have never walked or ridden a bike anywhere, or been disabled and are profoundly unable to imagine being such a road user"

a picture of a small tired looking kitten with the caption “Baby.”

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Dangit, spelled that wrong and we can't edit: Postteich

A goose with mixed gray and brown plumage and an orange bill paddles on calm green-reflecting water left to right in the frame, with a stand of reeds and a eurasian coot out of focus in the background.

Another goose floats quietly, facing right to left in the frame, on pond water reflecting the green of the forest around it. There is an out of focus stand of brown reed stalks in the background.

Greylag geese in the Possteich, the pond behind my mother in law's house in Detmold #photography #birbs #wildlife

A rabbit with a light brown coat is caught in a head and shoulders portrait, looking strait at the camera with calm confidence, one ear focused on the camera and the other swiveled towards the right of the frame. It is a vertically oriented image with low-light underbrush out of focus in the background.

A friendly and curious desert cottontail at the Gilbert Riparian Reserve #photography #wildlife

Against a backdrop of tall grass covered sand dunes and with an overcast day, a bay horse with a faded Maine and tail is small in the frame in the lower right corner, walking purposefully right to left.

Although Sable Island does not cover a whole lot of area, it is a BIG place in so many ways including these soaring huge grassy dunes that make up its landscape. The dunes really dwarf the resident wild horses. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A white-gray mare with a wind knot in her mane ambles left to right in the frame among knee-high grasses and weeds, with a river just behind her in the background, and a line of trees just beyond the river.

On a day that seems a bit cloudy, a stout gray mare with a lot of mud residue in her coat stands at alert, facing away from the camera and looking over her right shoulder towards whatever is happening out of frame to the right. Her companion is head down and grazing off to her left. They are standing in tall grass with an oak and evergreen treeline in the near background.

Members of the Shawnee Creek herd in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways hang out by the Current River #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

In a rich pink-orange sunrise glow, a palomino pinto wild horse walks in an oblique right-to-left track headed for the left side of the image. He is in sagebrush country with a low ridge in the distant background and a couple of out of focus horses grazing well behind him. The moon is setting in the upper-left quadrant just above the ridge.

Meteor Monday with the MOST handsome fella in Sand Wash Basin #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A white-gray mare with a yellowed tail and mottled pink muzzle trots across short grass quietly from left to right in the frame. Her setting is a winter field in the Ozarks, with a line of bare trees in the background.

This image is zoomed out a little, of the same mare who has come to a relaxed walk with her head and neck stretched out and down.

When I visited the Ozarks wild horses back in December, the Shawnee Creek herd was hanging out in the Broadfoot field. This gal is one of the elders of the herd. #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography

A snowy egret in flight - a medium sized white shorebird - has its wings outstretched to the side and is flying left to right across the top of the frame from the top left corner. The lower left corner of the image shows out of focus tree tops, and the sky is light blue with faint clouds.

A snowy egret flied right to left in the frame against a light blue sky, legs stretched out behind and wings in a position straight out from its body.

This snowy egret is banking somewhat in flight on a trajectory from the lower left corner to the right side of the image, with a clearish light blue sky background.

Snowy egrets in flight at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #birbs #wildlife

A stunning gray stallion with a dark-gray mane and tail is walking carefully along the high ridgeline of a badlands formation, with a broad valley below in the background stretching to another butte formation. The sky is cloudy. The image is taken at the same level as the horse, who walks right to left in the frame.

A gray horse with a a lot of mud residue in his coat, and a dark gray mane and tail walks with purpose right to left in the frame across a grassy butte in a badlands setting, with a cloudy sky above.

It's a Gray Stallion Sunday with these two fine gentlemen of Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Teton, and his brother Wildrye. #photography #wildhorsepc #wildhorses

Against the backdrop of a clear light blue sky, a black vulture is perched at the top of a dead tree stump, facing right to left in the frame.

A black vulture, on Assateague Island
#photography #wildlife #birbs

A small black pony stallion nuzzles the shoulder of a silver-bay pony mare who is grazing. They are standing at the top of an Appalachian mountain next to a wide dirt trail, as we see ridge tops in the far distant background. There are assorted trees scattered about the background.

The black stallion's head rests over top of the silver-bay mare's back as she stretches towards him.

THe black pony stallion and a different bay mare with a round belly stand face to face, each reaching forward to scratch at the other's shoulder and neck.

A few pocket-size free-roaming ponies of Grayson Highlands State Park enjoy some scratches time up on Massie Gap, right along the Appalachian Trail. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A chestnut Sabino horse with a white face stands calmly facing left to right in the frame, ears pricked forward as she looks at something out of frame to the right. Her setting is a grassy slope of the short grass prairie with a light blue sky above.

The same chestnut Sabino mare walks across the base of a steep grassy hillside, head and neck stretched down as she considers which grass to nibble next. The slop is dotted with a few sagebrush shrubs, a big boulder, and the trunk of a dead pine.

This pretty girl is Dolly, of Theodore Roosevelt National Park
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A close-in image of the head-shoulders-upper body of a bobcat as she stalks right to left in the frame, with wetlands reeds just behind her She is looking intently towards the left of the frame.

Happy #Caturday, with this beautiful lady bobcat from Arizona
#photography #wildlife

In a closeup, a wild bay mare with her forelock lifting a bit in the wind is grazing - the image includes the front half of her body. Her bay colt stands upright beside her, to her right, and is facing the camera but looking a bit sleepy. They are in a grassy plain with a light cloudy sky behind them.

A head and shoulders portrait of a leopard appaloosa stallion who has a white base body coat color with scattered brown spots. He faces right to left in the frame while looking slightly towards the camera with a quiet expression. His setting is a sagebrush and grass plain with a light blue sky.

When I visited the Lost Creek HMA herd, the noted appaloosa stallion Looking Glass had a little family band with this bay mare and her bay foal. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A large songbird in medium brown plumage with a mottled brown breast is perched on one of the top twigs of a sagebrush, facing generally right to left in the frame. The background is the golds, browns, and greens of an out of focus sagebrush steppe, with a clear blue sky above.

A sage thrasher, in Sand Wash Basin, Colorado
#photography #birbs #wildlife

A bay pinto pony foal gallops across a beach flat, with low sand dunes under a clear blue sky in the background. The foal is moving right to left in the frame and in this stride is breaking over his front legs with the rear hooves in the air.

Same pony foal, different stride moment, with the front hooves outstretched

In this moment the foal is gathering up for the next reach phase in the gallop stride

And here, breaking over the fronts again, ears pricked forward and clearly having a great time

A scampering tinybabypony on Assateague Island: N2BHS-APTV Braveheart, Morning Glory's 2023 baby
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A very solidly built curly bay stallion is standing, taking a nap, in the center of the image, while a chestnut mare with a flaxen mane and tail grazes behind him. Two chestnut foals are sleeping on the ground between the two horses. The sky is cloudy above this grass and sagebrush hilltop, which shows a dirt road intersecting it behind the horses.

A different angle on the sleepy bay stallion, with the two foals sleeping on the ground like little lambs to his right and a chestnut mare sleeping on the ground just behind him. A hill rises up behind them under a very cloudy sky.

One morning during my time at Salt Wells Creek I woke up at my campsite to find this stout boy and his band napping nearby. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A waterfall with two cascades tumbles over a 20 foot high stone bluff into a pool below, with the creek continuing towards the lower left of the frame. Deciduous trees in various stages of fall colors and lost leaves surround the waterfalls, with a low mountain ridge below a blue sky in the background

A pretty fall day at New York's Pixley Falls
#photography

Three snow geese fly side by side across a cloudy sky, wings in different flappy phases

the same three geese here, flying across a cloudy sky.

Snow geese at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
#photography #wildlife #birbs

A chestnut horse with a white face and hind socks is standing next to the trunk of a pine tree - he is standing facing the camera and looking towards the right side of the frame. The setting is a forest of widely spaced ponderosa pines.

A chestnut horse with a star marking is standing among ponderosa pine trunks in this forest of widely space pines. The horse is facing the camera looking a little bit sleepy.

Both horses in the prior two images are here in this image together. The chestnut with the white face is peeking out from behind a pine trunk, and the chestnut with the star is standing slightly akimbo with his front legs. They are both looking towards the camera with mild curiosity and also the quiet mood of impending nap time.

Two bachelor stallion buddies, in the Heber herd in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
#wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography

A chestnut pony stallion with a star marking walks casually down the slope of a beach sand dune dotted with grasses, moving generally left to right in the frame and with a light blue sky with clouds above.

Here is the same chestnut stallion still walking casually left to right, now on the beach flats with low dunes in the background with lots of light blue sky.

A stout bay mare in a fuzzy coat, ears pricked forward, walks left to right in the frame among low beach sand dunes. In the distant background we see a line of pine trees under a light blue sky.

Here the same bay mare is high up on a dune, traveling down with her head low and neck outstretched as she looks where she is going in the loose sand. The dune is dotted with grasses and the sky above is light blue with a few clouds.

Foxy's Gift and Sapphire are all that's left of Assateague Island's state line band, who live in the area around the fence between Maryland and Virginia. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc

A small brownish sparrow, very small in the frame, is seen in the lower left corner of the image. the birb is standing on a tiny hummock of sand, with a small inlet of tidal water and more distant grassy dunes out of focus in the background.

On Sable Island, this ipswich savannah sparrow perches on a little hummock of sand and dune grass
#photography #birbs

A black pinto mare with reddish mud residue in her coat fills most of the frame. She has a wide blaze and her ears are pointing forward, looking cheerful and confident as she walks left to right in the frame across a short grassy prairie setting.

A closer-in head and shoulders profile of Taylor, with a prairie grass and blue sky background.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park mare Taylor has been rolling in the mud! #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography

Two horses stand close together in a sonoran desert setting of cholla and saguaro cactus and palo verde plants. A dark liver chestnut horse is mostly hidden behind his bright chestnut friend. They both have blaze markings on their faces and are looking curiously at the photographer, and standing such that they face right to left in the frame. We can also see a mountain ridge rising in the background.

In these three photos we see the same two horses standing in the same position, just zoomed in a bit more. Here we have zoomed a bit closer.

This image is zoomed all the way in to a head, shoulders, upper body shot of the two horses, who continue to look towards the camera.

Wild horse buddies in the Salt River herd near Mesa, Arizona in the Tonto National Forest
#wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc

In this black and white image, a palomino pinto stallion stands alert, facing right to left in the frame. He stands among knee high sagebrush and the sky behind him is full of storm clouds.

Meteor Monday!
#wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography