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Cooper's Hawk flying through the backyard before dawn. #birdsofbluesky #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange 🦅
Against the background of a cedar fence, a grey-backed hawk with striped wing feathers flies low and fast through the dawn.
June 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Insectivores #BirdsOfFrontRange
An American Robin has had a successful morning foraging. Yum.
From June 2017
A robin standing in a green field has three grubs in it's beak.
April 23, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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#birds #iNat #birdsofBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #wildturkey
#RockyMountainNationalPark #RMNP
A wild turkey walks in dry grass in front of shrubby junipers.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #BestofMonth #WoodDuck #birdsofFrontRange
A multi-colored male Wood Duck rears up in the water. His wings are thrown back to help him balance.
March 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Female broad-tailed hummingbird getting nectar from an ornemental yucca.
#birdsofBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #hummingbird
July 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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#birds&berries #birdsofFrontRange #BirdOfTheDay
Cedar Waxwing going for the perfect dried crabapple!
A cedar waxwing hangs upside-down from a slender branch surrounded by fruit, as it stretches for a crabapple.
February 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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#BirdoftheDay #StormInATeacup #BirdsofFrontRange
A Red-winged Blackbird takes exception to a Red-tailed Hawk's choice of perches.
From April 2025
April 29, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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I have never had as many hummingbirds in my yard as I have this summer. They are so intent on feeding they don't pay any attention to me and my camera.
Note the stamens dusting its head.🦜🌱🌿🍃
#nativepollinator #hummingbird #birdsofBluesky #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange
Close-up of a Calliope hummingbird with its beak completely inserted into a long thin scarlet Agastache flower. The stamens are dusting pollen onto the top of its head.
August 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #openbeak #birdsofFrontRange
This Canada Goose was making sure EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THIS IS HIS TERRITORY! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
A Canada goose with it's bill open in a honk.
March 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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@robcrank68.bsky.social says the
#BirdOfTheDay alt is #Borb. This Song Sparrow is looking pretty borb-y as it eats something tasty in the shrubbery.
From June 2026.
#BirdsOfFrontRange #iNat
August 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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This Great Horned #Owl fledling with #DownyFeathers is my #BirdOfTheDay. It could work for yesterday's #Busted, too, because I am SO being judged.
#BirdsofFrontRange #iNat
August 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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#birdoftheday #birdsofFrontRange #birdsofBluesky #plumescrolling #iNat
Stare-down by a juvenile American Goldfinch from late summer.
A yellow bird with black wings and tail and a pink beak perches on a sunflower head. It is staring at the viewer as if to say 'Do you mind? I'm eating!'
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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#birds #iNat #plumescrolling #birdsofFrontRange
Female Common Goldeneye.
Did not know that ducks could have a resting bitch face...
Gray duck with a brown head and neck, and black bill, glares at the viewer with a brilliant yellow eye.
January 18, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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#BirdsofFrontRange #Goldfinches #AmericanGoldfinches
American Goldfinches Outside My Window
Three American Goldfinches outside my window this morning...
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May 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Wood stork in Colorado, about 1500 miles from its home in the Florida everglades. It is very lost.
#birds #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #iNat 🦜🌱🌿
A large white bird with a long yellow beak and black face stands on one long yellow leg on the shore of a lake.
September 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Happy National Hummingbird Day!
A female broadtailed hummingbird forages among the Agastache.
#hummingbirdsofBlueSky #birdsofBlueSky #BirdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #nativeplants #naturalist 🌿🦜
Female broad-tailed hummingbird forages among hyssops, looking for just the right flower.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Alan decided today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, any bird with an angry face. I don't know who spit in her nectar, but this Broad-tailed hummingbird is the angriest bird I've ever photographed. #BirdsOfFrontRange 🌿I stayed out of the garden after this, for fear of reprisals.
An iridescent green hummingbird sits on a metal rod. She is looking over her shoulder at the viewer, with her eyebrow bent in a frown -- she looks furious!
September 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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#WideOpenWings #BirdOfTheDay #hummingbird #BirdsOfFrontRange #TongueOutThursday
A female Broadtailed Hummingbird was darting around some ornamental yucca plants. It came straight at me, then saw me and ... Air brakes deployed! It stopped literally just a few inches from my lens.
From July 2025.
February 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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#birdoftheday #goodlight #iNat #birdsofFrontRange
Male and female hooded merganses in late afternoon light.
Two ducks - A brown female and showy black, white and brown with a bright yellow eye male - paddle slowly in calm water. The low-angle light creates shadows.
January 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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From
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LastBird, the last bird on your camera roll.
Oh! Sometimes you get lucky!
I took this shot of a Cooper's Hawk this morning, and only when I cropped it did I see some poor little cheepie's leg sticking out from the Hawk's talon. #iNat #BirdsOfFrontRange
July 24, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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#eyecontact #BirdOfTheDay #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling
From September 2025 Female/juvenile American Goldfinch on sunflower head.
Yellowish bird with yellow belly and back and black wings stare at the viewer. It is perched on the top of a drying sunflower head.
January 29, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Black #CommonRaven #BirdsOfFrontRange
This Raven posed for me in 2017 while perching in my back yard.
A large all black bird perches on a piece of lumber. It has a large beak, characteristic of ravens.
May 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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#naturespantry #birdsofFrontRange #BirdOfTheDay
Look closely for the tiny fish in the dipper's beak.
Small grey borb stand in the water of a rushing creek. It has a tiny fish in it's beak.
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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#LeafAndLight #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsofFrontRange #Hummingbirds
Broad-tailed Hummingbird foraging for bee balm nectar.
An iridescent hummingbird deep inside foliage. Its wings are outstretched as it hovers. It is about to stick its beak into some some tiny flowers.
April 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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Two-fer Tuesday
Two American Goldfinches turn their backs on me.
#birds #birdsofFrontRange #plumescrolling #birdsofBluesky
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM