Happy Saturday friends... Day 27 I present a Red Knot from August, most likely a juvenile w/a hint of red on their belly. This fellow let me walk w/him along the Lake Erie shoreline of Maumee Bay State Park, Oregon, OH. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

I've had cancer and am currently experiencing side effects from my fight. It ain't easy or for the faint of heart. That's one of MANY reasons I recommend this film. They take the worst and somehow make it the best... please watch, but bring tissues. www.bing.com/videos/river...

Happy Boxing Day & day 26 of favorite photos. Today's came from early June, when I finally, after many years & attempts got decent photos of a Yellow-breasted Chat-chatting at Oak Openings Preserve Metropark in Swanton, OH. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #phtotography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Merry Christmas friends... and welcome to day 25 of favorite photos... From May, my #lifer warbler who I had to leave, then came back when the crowds died down a bit-to see. Mr. Kirtland's warbler. A beautiful, threatened bird. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷

Merry Christmas eve & day 24 of favorite photos, friends. I was fortunate to capture this beautiful, "butcher" songbird, the Northern Shrike, in late January, after trying & missing on every other attempt in late 2024. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Reminder: wash your hair @ 8pm

It’s not one girl. It’s not two girls. It’s multiple girls. There are multiple credible allegations of rape and sexual assault against Trump. If we had believed the victims years ago, we wouldn’t even be here. Believe them now.

Happy Tuesday and day 23 of favorites friends... This Swamp sparrow gave me some wonderful looks, back in July at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge's Stange Prairie. Was great seeing an often heard but seldom seen bird. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #photography #nature #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Reposting to see if a cropped photo does better than original uncropped photo. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #day22

Happy new week friends and day 22 of favorite photos from 2025. Today I'm featuring a White-eyed Vireo who I captured in early May. In this Photo he's digesting some bug larvae he'd just eaten and looking quite satisfied. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photograpy #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Happy Winter Solstice and Day 21 of favorite photos from '25. Nothing screams winter like looking at a snow white Little Blue Heron in 1st year colors. From January in Murrel's Inlet, SC. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

@rkroepke.bsky.social @julieluvsotalia.bsky.social Happy Winter Solstice friends… have a terrific day!

White House Struggles to Explain Sharpie Stains on Trump’s Hand

Get ready for the “Trump was a young playboy” propaganda even though he was 50 and the girls were 14.

Happy Weekend and day 20 of my favorite photos of 2025, friends... Today's installment is the gorgeous M&F Northern Cardinals. Though native to my region, one cannot help but take their photo, every time they cross our paths. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.

December 19, 2025

Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee. Will Jordan release the video to the public? If not, why not?

Happy Fri-Day 19 of favorite photos… in late May a female Red-necked Phalarope visited a downtown construction site on the Maumee River, delighting birders w/her beautiful plumage and fun water spins. Love the contrasting colors. 🦉🪶📷 #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin #birds

Trump is poison to the arts and culture. This is his ego in action once again. It’s ridiculous idiocracy. #Arts #Culture #Idiocracy

Happy Thurs-Day 18 of fav photos friends… is an American Kestrel hunting from favorite hotspot @ Sylvan Prairie Park in Sylvania, OH. I ❤️ the challenge of photographing Am. Kestrels b/c they are loath to have you photograph them. #birds #birdingOH #Nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Happy #Wrensday and Day 17 of fav photos. From Sept, I caught this Carolina Wren loudly singing as if finding a lifetime mate to share their life with was the most important task of the day. Why, he didn’t even mind the close-up 😀 #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🦉🪶📷

Every day every single dipshit in this administration wakes up and their first thought is "what is the next shitty thing I can do to this country? How can I make people's lives more terrible? How can I cause the maximum amount of harm?"

Happy #TwoferTuesday & fav photos, Day 16, friends. The 1st time I heard of Sandhill Cranes was @ Yellowstone NP circ. ‘16 Little did I know, 30 miles from home, they had a nice permanent flock. Love hearing their chortling voices! #birds #birdingOH #Nature #wildlife #photography #eastcoastkin 🦉🪶📷

Hi friends, have an early morning flight so posting Favorite Photos Day 15 early. From July at Erie Marsh, just over the border in Michigan. This dude was less than ten feet from me begging to be photographed. Blessed, we both were. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷

Happy Sunday and Day 14 of favorite photos friends... while visiting a window on wildlife at an area Metropark, I captured this fun, chaotic wintery scene among our year-round residents. One of my very favorite photos. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Happy Saturday friends... Day 13 brings us to Yellow-billed Cuckoos who took an extended holiday at Magee Marsh in late August and took on the role of exterminator for several "tent" caterpillar species. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

Happy #featheredFriday friends and day 12 of favorite photos... Sorry so late--busy day. Anyway, from July when two unexpected, Black-billed Cuckoos came out to say hello to me and a few friends and gave us all great looks. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography 🪶🦉📷

Great to see @gallego.senate.gov absolutely savaging Republicans for helping cover up Trump's illegal killings. As I've been arguing, Dems should be taking *that* approach. Hound Republicans mercilessly until they agree to get to the bottom of all of it: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Of course, including a photo helps🤦‍♀️ Take 2: Happy Thursday friends, Day 11 is the King Rail #lifer I got at Maumee Bay State Park in mid-May while out looking for Soras. Never did find the Sora, but the King Rail was good substitute. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🦉🪶📷

Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday friends & favorite's day 10- Loved seeing a Red-bellied Woodpecker with an invasive Spotted Lanternfly trapped in their beak. My hope is they consumed many of them that day. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Happy #TwoferTuesday friends... Day 9: It's not often I find two Red-breasted Nuthatch in the same location, let alone on the ground, but here they are. They are such cuties! #bids #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Repost if you stand against this regime! 😡

Happy new week friends... Day 8: the reason for migration season, bringing forth the next generation. Great fun watching fledged Purple Martins look of independence, yet still reliant on their parents for nourishment. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶📷🦉

In line to become U.S. citizens, they were asked what country they’re from. If they were from certain countries, they were pulled out of line. Just horrible. The very antithesis of what America is. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this. Every single one.👇 www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Happy Sunday friends... Day 7 of favorites was actually taken this past Friday when I hiked down a snowy trail at an area Metropark and a Barred Owl flew past only to land in a tree less than 30 yards behind me. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Happy Saturday friends, Day 6. Have you ever watched a Baltimore Oriole gather nesting material? Fascinating! Enjoyed watching this female work diligently to pull, tear and gather the necessary threads. Beautiful architects #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶📷🦉

Happy #FeatheredFriday friends... Day 5 hails from my favorite cemetery hotspot when we watched an Osprey not only fly over, but dive into the retention pond. He may have come up empty handed, but we certainly did not. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography

Happy Thursday friends... I have a very early morning appointment then work all day into the evening, so I'm posting my Day 4 entry early. Please read ALT for the full story on this beautiful Horned Grebe and why she's a favorite. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🦉🪶📷

Happy #WoodpeckerWednesday friends. Over this past year, I reported seeing Northern Flickers 125 times. Narrowing down the best photo is a fool's errand. But I really like this one from last January, while it was snowing. #birds #birdingOH #wildlifwite #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

Happy #TwoferTuesday friends and day 2 of favorite shots. Taken @ Huntington Beach State Park in Murrel's Inlet, SC in early January. I'm used to finding Brown Pelicans in South Carolina so finding the American White Pelicans was a treat! #birds #birdingOH #wildlie #nature #photography #eastcoastkin

Happy December friends... over the past 12 months, I've taken over 100k photos of birds & have been slowly narrowing down to my favorite shots. Beginning today, I'll be sharing my best 31 of the bunch. Check ALT for descriptions #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶🦉📷

Happy Sunday friends... On Friday, we found our winter resident, Merlin Falcon perched low in a tree at the end of our cemetery walk. Made for a nice cap to our day there. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin🪶🦉📷😊

Happy Rivalry Saturday friends... #GoBuckeyes Took a nice hike out at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in some heavy wind and cold, where the Green-winged Teals were so dramatic, from a distance they appeared as snow. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #drama

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

"I co-wrote Trump's first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-2018. He's not trying to stop "left wing" terrorism. He is staging it. His troop deployments are a false flag – meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns. This is now very obvious." Miles Taylor

Happy #Blackbird #FeatheredFriday friends.. Rusty Blackbird wishing you a happy shopping day! #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin 🪶📷🦉

Happy Thanksgiving friends... A favorite Wild Turkey shot from '24: "Turkey's hitching a ride out of town b4 the Thanksgiving holiday". Have a beautiful day everyone--I'm very thankful you all are in my life. #birds #birdingOH #wildlife #nature 🪶📷 #eastcoastkin #photography

@crystalchappell.bsky.social happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy your holiday!

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