Trumpeter Swan Becoming airborne.

#Photography #Birds Bald Eagle Perfect landing.

#Birds #Photography Bald Eagle The forest is filled with their cries.

#birds #photography The gang’s all here!

Bald Eagle

#Birds #photography

Juvenile Bald Eagle practicing

Cedar waxwing

That's what is happening to US.

American Bittern

With liberty and justice for all.

They can PANGRAM anything these days.

Bald Eagle Final approach

Bald Eagle Seabeck, Kitsap Peninsula

Great blue heron

Bald eagle at Seacrest WA. Gotcha!

American White Pelican Crowded air space.

Brown Pelican Olympic Peninsula

Great Blue Heron Down the hatch

We get a good showing here in Olympia when the winter run starts to get ripe, but not much aerial action.

@chuq.bsky.social Hi Chuq, I live in Olympia and was hoping to get up your way next week to photograph the Eagles. Is there a good way to predict when the Eagles will be around? Henry

Thank you, Jay Inslee. Stand the fuck up America. Shame the capitulators. Praise the resisters. Resist the Tyrant. The time is now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Invitation to dance Great Blue Heron #birds

First date.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Snail Kite Central Florida

@carolebell.bsky.social This GROK 3 is interesting Check out its responses to questions about Elon’s hypomania and about vaccine skepticism. Posted it on Twitter.

@jamellebouie.net Elon is a great example of the dangers of using ketamine to treat symptoms of ASD without proper guidance.

Goosander hens Out for an evening swim

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Wilson’s Snipe Rooting around looking for a meal.

As the Trump administration is firing thousands of NIH workers — including 10% of the CDC team, the measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas has suddenly doubled to at least 48 cases. The outbreak has grown from 24 to 48 cases within the last three days. All cases are in unvaccinated people or…

There's a small contingent of people online who get angry when you say this but: Wikipedia is unquestionably the most successful utopian project of the internet age, and its destruction would be a crime against humanity

Green-Winged Teal

How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.

Medicaid is ripe for fraud and abuse? He must know republican Senator Rick Scott from Florida. www.gq.com/story/rick-s...

With these drastic NIH cuts, apparently Trump wants to make cancer great again.

Killdeer Sounding the alarm

Tundra Swan Taking to the air