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Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Wings up! The dancing, whirling, and twirling of this perpetual motion immature Reddish Egret in a beach marsh make it the most entertaining bird I’ve ever seen. Pure joy and abandon.

#MarshMadness #SunsetBeach #birds #birding #GoneToCarolinaInMyMind #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

An immature Reddish Egret (large heron with pale gray plumage and a dark bill and legs) skipping through shallow blue beach marsh water with its wings raised against a background of bright green reeds.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

A trio of Mute Swan cygnets from last June. New life makes me smile and gives me hope.

#MarshMadness #SouthCapeMayMeadows #birds #birding #BabyBirds #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

Three juvenile mute swans (light brown downy plumage with dark gray bills) swim in beach marsh water; a small white feather floats in front of them.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

A #FridayFlashback to early June last year when things were going swimmingly.

#MarshMadness #SouthCapeMayMeadows #birds #birding #ducklings #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

A female Mallard (mottled brown, black bill with yellowish-orange areas) swimming with her six downy ducklings (cream, tan, and brown), on her left and just behind, in beach marsh water tinged blue by the sky’s reflection.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Brunch espied in the blue sky reflection.

#MarshMadness #SnowyEgret #BlueSkies #BombayHook #birds #birding #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

From October 2024: A Snowy Egret (small white heron with a black bill, yellow lores, and black legs) forages in the shallow rippling water along the muddy marsh edge.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Black and blue.

#MarshMadness #BlackVulture #BlueSkies #WoodlandBeach #birds #birding #raptor #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

From October 2024: A large raptor with all-black plumage, black wrinkled-skin head, large beak with a hooked tip, looks over its shoulder while perched on a branch with dried leaves against a bright blue cloudless sky.

cohan @cohanf@mastodon.online

Another: I took #photos on #MacroMonday but just getting some posted today! How about #TextureTuesday ? or #TwiggyTuesday #TranquilTuesday
These ones for #LichenSubscribe (I actually got out the micro lens for a while yesterday..) My (not large) finger for scale in first shot, next views of the tiny bits on that and adjacent twigs! #nature #Alberta #Canada #SolaceInNature #TinyBeauty #lichens

A tiny and complex bit of silver-grey lichen composed of many tiny birds-nest shapes and some longer flat pieces with tinier dots that will presumably grow into more of those tiny bowls. The surrounding twig, smaller than finger diameter, is dark and bumpy, mostly blurred- bark texture and maybe another dark lichen?

A T-shaped branch intersection (no more than finger diameter, probably less) with the arms of the T starting from lower left angling to upper right, the upright of the T angling to lower right. Just at the centre of the intersection, the twig is wrapped in a golden orange fine textured lichen.It is composed of flatter bits underneath and roundish tiny mounds on top-- kind of like little piles of red letils cooked till they are starting to fall apart. To each side on the bar of the T are equally tiny bits of silver foliose lichen. Backround is blurred warm grey woodland.

A closer view of the orange lichen, showing more of the grainy texture in the centre of each tiny body- probably fruiting structures?
A T-shaped branch intersection (no more than finger diameter, probably less) with the arms of the T starting from lower left angling to upper right, the upright of the T angling to lower right. Just at the centre of the intersection, the twig is wrapped in a golden orange fine textured lichen.It is composed of flatter bits underneath and roundish tiny mounds on top-- kind of like little piles of red letils cooked till they are starting to fall apart. To each side on the bar of the T are equally tiny bits of silver foliose lichen. Backround is blurred warm grey woodland.

My not especially large, pinkish finger is held beside a dark twig, which is a little smaller in diameter, and with multiple spots of several kinds of very tiny lichens- the close-ups to come show patches no bigger than a (short) fingernail.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Morning light reflections. I love the elegance of American Avocets.

#MarshMadness #BombayHook #birds #birding #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

From October 2924: A large shorebird with cool, graphic black and white wings, very long, thin, upturned bill, and long blue-gray legs, foraging in shallow water that is reflecting the bird and foliage along the marsh edge.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

A young peregrine falcon comes in for a landing … talons first.

A juvenile peregrine falcon (brown and cream, heavily patterned below, hooked beak) landing on a bare branch, grasping a tiny twig with the talons on its right, foot, wings raised above its body.

#MarshMadness #BombayHook #birds

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

”One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday
#MarshMadness #BlackMarsh #nature
#bloomscrolling #SolaceInNature #NaturePhotography #DelightOverDarkness

Dark rose stems and hips, and small green leaves of a multiflora rose plant create a pleasing arch shape against an intentionally blurred background of marsh reeds.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Caught a quick view of a normally skulky Marsh Wren perched on a pile of rushes, stones, and pieces of a broken fence in the middle of a small stream in May of 2023 - an exciting lifer sighting on my fifth day of retirement.

Facing toward the right with its head turned slightly away from the camera, a marsh wren (rufous, darker brown cap, contrasting whitish eyebrow and throat, black-and-white stripes on back) perches on a pile of marsh rushes, stones, dirt, and wire and wood pieces of a broken fence.

#MarshMadness #wrens #birds

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Queen of all she surveys.

From June 2023: A Great Egret (long and lanky all-white heron with a long neck and yellow bill) perches at the top of a very tall evergreen tree, needle-less but adorned with pinecones.

#MarshMadness #Blackwater #birds

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

One of my favorite bird sightings: The first of two Roseate Spoonbills, both juveniles, I’ve had the joy of seeing.

Juvenile Roseate Spoonbill (large wading bird with a long, flat spoon-shaped pale grey and pink bill, mostly washed in pink except for its white head, neck, and upper breast) perched on a fallen branch in water clad in green by the August 2022 foliage.

#MarshMadness #AirlieGardens #birds

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Spring hath sprung.

Closeup of a Star Magnolia bloom - white petals with a pale pink stripe in the center.

#VernalEquinox #SpringEquinox #spring

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Just chillin’ in the reeds.

From December 2024: An adult white-crowned sparrow perched among pale reeds - long-tailed sparrow with striking black and white stripes on its head and a yellow bill.

#MarshMadness #WhiteCrownedSparrow #HartMiller

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

A Tufted Titmouse paused and posed on the path to show off its flattop style.

From January 2023: An adult tufted titmouse (gray above, pale below with orangey sides, gray crest, black forehead) with its crest laying flat pauses and poses on a dark stony path along a marsh.

#MarshMadness #BlackMarsh #TuftedTitmouse

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Decked out.

From June 2023: A breeding male Red-winged Blackbird (all-black bird with a red shoulder patch) perches on the rail of a wooden viewing deck in front of an intentionally blurred background of spring green marsh foliage.

#MarshMadness #BlackwaterNWR #RedwingedBlackbird

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

“Beware the ides of March.” ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Twenty-plus crows (glossy all-black birds) perched in the bare branches of a large tree against a sky covered in steel-gray and white clouds.

#IdesOfMarch #birds #birding

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

In the weeds … a Solitary Sandpiper blends into the autumn reeds as it forages in a shallow pond.

#MarshMadness #SolitarySandpiper
#PatapscoPonds #birds #birding #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

From October 2022: A solitary sandpiper (medium-sized shorebird, gray above, white below, fine speckling on wings, prominent white spectacles) forages in a shallow marsh pond among dried reeds.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Feeding time.

#MarshMadness #Osprey #BirdsOfPrey
#BlackwaterNWR #birds #birding #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

From June 2023, the parent Osprey (mostly white head and underneath, dark brown on top, hooked beak) on the left feeds a hatchling (dark plumage) facing away from the camera. The large nest is seated within wood supports against a background of marsh water and bright green reeds.

Cambirdsong @cheriecreationstruck@birds.town

Elegant stalking.

From June 2023, a Great Egret (talk, lanky, all-white heron with a long golden yellow bill, green lore) facing left, stalks its prey in the reeds.

#MarshMadness #GreatEgret #BlackwaterNWR

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