Brian Peterson

Thanks😁

Brilliant... "coming in for landing"

Bird of paradise grows here
I see one on my bike rides

Anyway, here is a pink fairy duster I saw at Saguaro National Park (near Tucson)

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Good Morning, Karin!🙏😃👋☀️✌️

Thank you✌️

Kind of looks like a pink fireworks burst

Friday Flower!

Pink Fairy Duster

We are going to plant this somewhere in the backyard

Red beak, blue throat, and the rest is mostly green; but the tail is blue. Both wings extended forward, like stop-action.

This was yesterday morning

Male broad-billed hummingbird
flying in my backyard
with his tongue out

Not classified as "little brown bird," because house sparrows are not that little. Plus, they have some distinctive characteristics, so they don't look exactly like all the other little brown birds.

This is a female house sparrow chomping on a nut
while atop the habitat pile

His color depends on his diet (Expert determination)

Finch Friday!

Male house finch on the ground foraging

Note the green gunk at the corner of his mouth

Primarily green and white hummingbird reaching for the railing of the feeder

Look at her feet!

Anna's hummingbird
coming in for landing
at one of the feeders

Everybody likes pictures of hummingbirds

Little tiny like really small gray bird that flits around a lot. There are certain ways to tell this one is a male. I used one of the methods.

Bushtit!

I saw him yesterday in my backyard

I am a warbler expert, so that's how I know.

Orange-crowned warbler
sighting yesterday
in my backyard

Temp is in the 30s, as I stand out there in my shorts and flip-flops taking the three pictures for this pano.

Good Morning!

Have a wonderful Friday!

Sierra Vista, Arizona

@stormhour.com @thephotohour.bsky.social @panophotos.bsky.social

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

The irony of the US asking for help has not been lost on Ukrainians who have suffered from US President Donald Trump's erratic policy towards their defence against Russia's full-scale invasion

#MAGA

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tucson Council approves measure to bar ICE from using city property The Tucson City Council unanimously passed an ordinance on Tuesday barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from staging or carrying out civil immigration enforcement on city-owned property.

#Tucson city council votes to not allow #ICE to use city property

"really in preparation for the possibility of having the federal government and ICE agents being sent to the city of Tucson."

Mayor Romero feels Tucson soon to be targeted

#MAGA

www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

You're welcome!😁👍✌️

Thanks, Rob✌️

You're welcome✌️

Wonderful!🤩

A Bald Eagle standing in shallow water with water droplets falling from its bill after taking a drink. Its eye looks like a dull grey marble due to its elevated third eyelid.

This eagle's eye has its protective nictitating membrane elevated, giving the eye a dull appearance. #ThirdEyelidThursday #birds #raptors @drbrianpet.bsky.social

here are the emails and phone numbers for all five members of the city commission of Leavenworth, KS. Rebecca Hollister, mayor pro tem, was the only dissenting vote.

If you are a resident of KC metro, please call & email to tell them why CoreCivic is bad for greater Leavenworth & the heartland.

Happy Birthday!🐶

Happy Birthday sweet Grady. 🎂 11 years old!

At a loss for words, stunned by the capture perfection of
#natureslittlejewels

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Look at dat! Bet it surprised the #goldfinch as well?

#birdburp #waterfountainburble #fountainburbleburp
#aeratedwater

Experts say you are likely to find Anna's hummingbirds near hummingbird feeders. The experts are not wrong.

Oh, look!
Here's an Anna's hummingbird flying in her natural environment
You can tell, because you can see a hummingbird feeder in the background

Sony a7RV, Sony 200-600mm lens, 600mm, 1/2000, f/6.3, ISO 500

Everybody likes pictures of hummingbirds filling up their timeline
That's what people tell me

Here is a male broad-billed hummingbird flying in my backyard

Wonderful picture!!