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Either this summer or last, all on the Youghiogheny.
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Midwest USA. September 2025.
Olympus E-M1+ Oly 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 @ 75mm, f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO-500.
I took these a few days after posting my last heron photos and didn't want to spam here. A few months went by and I forgot.
I love these birds. They're so fun to watch wade around and hunt. It would truly be terrifying to be a small fish when this thing has you in its sights.
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Midwest USA. December 2025.
Olympus E-M1+ Oly 75mm-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II @ 252, f/8, 1/80s, ISO-640.
Did I find an IRL shiny? Is this leucism? It's rare that I see a chickadee with white feathers in its cap.
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Midwest USA. December 2025.
Olympus E-M1 + Oly 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II @ 252mm, f/8, 1/200s, ISO-640.
Not exactly an uncommon bird, but a hard one to photograph because they only want to scavenge on the ground and they're wary of humans. Still a cool sighting and it looks cool perched on that tree.
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This Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) was sparring with another osprey in the area
Taken with an OM System OM1 Mk II & M.Zuiko M.300 F4.0
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December 2025 in Germany
Technical Details:
Lumix G85 + Lumix 100-300 F/4-5.6II @300mm
- Shutter: 1/80
- Aperture: f/5.6
- ISO: 1600
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AKA Pileated Woodpecker
Where: Mississauga, Ontario
Date: 2025-12-24 12PM
Gear: Sony A6700 with Tamron 150-500mm
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Location: Midwest USA.
This is an old photo from last year (May 2024). We were loading up kayaks for a trip and stumbled on this nest built in the middle of the garage. Don't worry we left the nest alone and these chicks matured into beautiful adult robins.
Bonus pic of a different nest we found earlier this year (May 2025). Maybe even from a chick in the previous picture?
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Cruising for dinner during golden hour, right above the Urangun pier.
Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia
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Location: Midwest USA.
Olympus E-M1, 300mm, f/6.7, 1/1250s, ISO 800
I thought I had already posed a downy woodpecker, but it looks like I haven't. These are by far the most common woodpeckers in my area. I pretty much find at least one when I go out.
I had originally gone to this area to find a bald eagle. There is a family of them nested nearby, but this was the only photo I could get.
This was taken at 300mm and 2x digital teleconverter and it's still tiny. I think it was about 500' or so away.
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Unexpectedly found a bunch of common firecrests near The Hague (where they're not so common as the name suggests). Surprised I was able to get these photo's with the amount of light at that moment.
Both taken on a Canon R50 + Sigma 16-300mm
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Location: Midwest USA.
Olympus OM-D E-M1, 300mm, f/6.7, 1/100s, ISO 3200.
The only nuthatch I've seen in a minute. He didn't stick around for long.
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Location: Midwest USA.
Olympus OM-D E-M1, 300mm, f/6.7, 1/100s, ISO 3200.
I stumbled upon a family of golden-crowned kinglets while out for a walk. Not the best photos I've taken as they were a bit behind a fence and it was terrible lighting. Look at those goofy stick legs! Hard to take this bird seriously.
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A winter's walk in Prospect Park, Reading, UK was half way through before anything even faintly interesting turned up. The light was rubbish (nice skyline in one direction, though), and they were mostly amongst trees, but turn up they did, and I felt like celebrating the variety here. Apologies to Dunnock, pigeons, magpies and black-headed gulls.
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A Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) caught on camera just as its about to leap from its branch on to the ground in search of seed
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Brown head throwing me off, about to be an adult? Not a grosbeak I don't think, beak was on the thinner, pointier side.
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Two zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), and a double barred finch (Stizoptera bichenovii)
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Mount Forbes, Queensland, Australia
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