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American White Pelican,
beak resting at Lake Merritt,
downtown Oakland, California.
December 2023

Florida man and woman. I just donated to St Pete Audubon. Can’t move there, hate Florida, but love the birds.

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Mallard on the grass, late on a winter day, December 2023:
Miller/Knox Park
San Francisco Bay

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#HeadShots

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

According to the The New York Times, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent interceptor drones and a team of drone specialists to Jordan to help protect U.S. military bases.

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#Reflections

A handsome reflection being admired by a handsome mallard.
Coyote Hills, California

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Confused rooster in the parking lot of the Winco grocery store today, in Yuba City.

A face only a mother could love.

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#SteppingOut

Getting ready to step out.

Image from Wikipedia:

Bosco Verticale

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Hybrid goose squawking for all to hear!

Male mostly-mallard in low but bright sunlight, with his long shadow beyond on green grass.

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#perfectlighting
Mallard (hybrid?) enjoying low sun angle.

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Brown pelican stretching his wing
Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline
San Francisco Bay
September 2021

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Eurasian Magpie
St. Stephen’s Green
Dublin
April 30, 2024

Magpie showing off iridescent blue on the Green.

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#Serenity

Miller/Knox, SF Bay, October 2020

Pelican at rest.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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European Starling showing off her stars in San Francisco’s Crissy Field.

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Northern Shoveler
Colusa NWR, California
January 2020

Taking a break from shoveling.

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#Iridescent

The female American Wigeon tries to ignore the badly applied green eye-shadow on the her male companion.

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Buff duck
Heather Farm
Walnut Creek, California
November 2024

Light brown is beautiful, too!

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#Paddling

Paddling and honking, too!
Greater White-fronted Goose hybrid?

Heather Farm Park
Walnut Creek, California
November 2024

Large white waterbird is seen in profile, walking toward the right edge of the picture, all white feathers, black beak, and orange feet, striding on grey and black boulders. The water in the background is grey-blue.

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Snowy strides across the rocks at the Richmond Marina, San Francisco Bay

Shows the head and neck of a large brownish bird with orange beak and eye, with a fish in the clasp of its beak.

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#FeedingTime

Great Blue Heron grabs a bite to eat, if it isn't too large.

Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline, Richmond, California

Waterbird floating on greenish water, left side facing photographer. Body is grey with black and white markings; head os reddish-brown with dark green and white markings.

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Eurasian Green-wing Teal
Sacramento NWR, California

A beautiful bird.

Two ducks in bright sunlight, male and female mallards, on a dark lake

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Mallards glistening in the sun. Vasona Lake
Santa Clara County, California 2022

Duck with iridescent green head, bright orange legs,and yellow beak wading in shallow water.

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#waterwings

Mallard heads to the shore of Vasona Lake, Los Gatos, California, December 2022.

Small grey-brown bird with ruddy cheek and small beak, in profile, perched on a small pale limb

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Towhee posing politely, Berkeley Marina, San Francisco Bay, December 2024

Reddish-brown bird with striped chest and streaked head, clutches tiny branches of oak tree, peering downward, against a grey sky

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#Raptor

Red-shouldered hawk viewing the universe from the very top of an oak tree, looking for the next meal.

reddish brown bird with striped chest and streaked head, with orange feet clinging to the tip top of an oak tree, against a light grey sky

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Red-shouldered hawk viewing the universe from the very top of an oak tree, looking for the next meal.