Spotted towhee perched on a branch looking to the right. The background is a jumble of thin , bare branches with light green behind them, out of focus. The towhee is mostly black with red eyes, white spots on its shoulder, and orange and white on its chest and belly. The branch it’s perched on has moss and lichen growing on it.

Spotted Towhee looking #photogenic. #birdoftheday #nature #photography #PNW #wildlife #birds

A bright orange lily with its petals curved upward to almost form a sphere. The petals have darker spots. It is growing in the filtered shade of the forest in summer.

Columbia tiger lily #PNW #NativePants #OrangeSun #nature #photography #bloomscrolling

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Anna’s hummingbird is perched on a curved horizontal branch. He is facing to the left. His feathers around his face are dark maroon, and his body is tan and white with shiny green feathers in places on his side, back, and head. The background is pale green and tan, out of focus.

Anna’s hummingbird has pretty #green highlights in his feathers #birdoftheday #nature #photography #birds

Small light orange mushroom grows out of moss in the forest. The mushroom is about the height of the tallest pieces of moss around it. The mushroom has a slightly curved top with a darker center, and its gills are showing beneath. The moss is bright green and very wet from recent rain.

Tiny mushroom grows out of a bed of moss on a rainy day #GreenSat #forest #mycology #fungi #mushrooms #nature #photography

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Western tanager bird has an orange head, yellow body, and black wings with yellow streaks. It is standing in wet grass from recent rain.

Western tanager on a rainy day #ColourfulCaptures #birdoftheday #nature #photography #birds

A shallow creek with a rocky sandbar in the middle and large layered rock on the banks winds through a forest of deciduous trees with a green summer canopy of leaves.

A creek flows through summer woods #ForestFriday #scape #Tennessee #nature #photography

Thanks! I love them, too. We have them in our side yard and they smell amazing when in bloom

Bright yellow Oregon grape blossoms radiate out from a central vertical green stem. Each individual blossom has 6 petals and a round center.

A macro shot of Oregon grape blossoms in spring #YellowThu #BloomScrolling #flowers #NativePlants #macro #photography

A barred owl is perched on a bare diagonal branch, looking over its shoulder at the camera. To the left of the owl a Steller’s jay has its beak open, mid-squawk. The background is a jumble of green leaves and brown branches, mostly out of focus.

A surprisingly common #MixedPair. When barred owls hang out in the woods the Steller’s jays are often nearby, sounding an alarm. #birdoftheday #nature #ThursJay #birds #photography

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Beautiful photo!

Gorgeous photo!

Chickadee is perched in the entrance to the nest cavity (hole in a snag) feet outside and tail in the hole, with its beak overflowing with wood chips. It is looking at the camera. In the background is the forest, out of focus.

Black-capped chickadee with a beak full of wood chips as it excavates the nest cavity in spring #NestBuilders #birdoftheday #nature #wildlife #photography #birds

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Baby robin with closed eyes, a wide open beak, and white fuzz on its head peaks up out of the nest

Zooming in through the branches on a (kinda punk) baby robin who is ready to be fed! #ShoutItOut #birdoftheday #nature #photography #birds

Stunning photo!

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Salsify seed pod (like a giant dandelion), up close and focused on the center, with blue sky behind it

Salsify seed pod, #WeekIForInteriors #nature #macro #photography #summer

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Thanks! They’re just occasional visitors to my yard and walking areas. The range map says we have them all year (Olympia,Wa) but I don’t often see them.

A robin perched on wire fencing, its body fitting between the vertical wires, feet grasping the horizontal ones. It looks to the left.

Robin #SideView #birdoftheday #nature #photography #birds

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A snag has holes drilled into it, probably by a bird, that resemble two large eyes and an open smiling mouth with teeth in it. The snag has moss growing on it and is surrounded by other trees.

A bare snag with no bark resembles a face with a round nose, two asymmetrical eyes, and a small mouth. The eyes are formed by holes, likely made by birds. The nose appears to have been a branch, cut off long ago.

Even when alone on a walk, I often find friendly #faces in the woods. #Abstractia #forest #trees #nature #photography

Lake Crescent’s slightly rippled blue waters in the foreground, dark blue (shadowed) tree-covered hills above the water, mountains with wispy white clouds settling into them above the hills, and a subtle sunset of pink and blue showing through a cloudy sky above that.

Lake Crescent at sunset #ColorADay #BlueTue #OlympicNationalPark #WashingtonState #scape #photography #nature