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Backyard Hooded Oriole alert! #HoodedOriole #BirdPhotography #Yarden #Fujifilm #CropToZoom #SOoC

Atop a wooden stake is perched a Hooded Oriole, looking to the left, with its bright orange body, black kerchief, wings with black and white stripes, and a somewhat visible cape of brown with black spots. Its tail is black. The background is just off white blur.A front facing Hooded Oriole perched on a Ceanothus branch with many green leaves. Its black kerchief is prominent.

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There were some nice post-storm rainbows yesterday afternoon #Rainbows #CAWx

A double rainbow beyond a residential street lined with utility polls, wood fencing, and green ground cover. The main rainbow has its bottom obscured by a cloud & there’s some visible rainfall in the distance.

A view out of a car of a double rainbow, including a very bright main rainbow that disappears into stratus above, over a furrowed field. The sun is barely illuminating some lower cloud tops.

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A Say’s Phoebe at Black Butte Reservoir, California

#SaysPhoebe #Birds #BirdPhotography #BlackButteReservoir #Fujifilm #CropToZoom #SOoCA flat headed Say's Phoebe bird, looking to the right, is colored brown all over with an orange belly, is perched on an oak branch, looking over a bough of oak leaves. The bird has a slight glint in its eyes and its front is sunlit. The background is bokeh of dried grass.

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This basking serpent committed the most natural of acts just before #GopherSnake #ReptilePhotography #BlackButteReservoir #Fujifilm #SOoC

Upon a gravelly surface, a tan and black gopher snake rests its head on a horizontal reed, next to a clump of dead weed stems.

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We went out to Black Butte Reservoir (west of Chico, CA) today and I finally photographed a Rock Wren! #RockWren #Birds #BirdPhotography #BlackButteReservoir #Fujifilm #SOoC

A long-beaked Rock Wren is posing, chest toward the camera, on some old dead wood, surrounded by twigs. It has a black spotted face and neck with some linear traces of black on its chest. It has a black stripe going from its eye to the back of its head. Its beak is long and narrow.

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We were gifted some daffodil bulbs! The instructions recommended seven inches deep, but I only have the patience to dig to five, just deeper than the trowel. I helped them along by mixing in some fresh wormy compost. #Yarden

A triangular garden patch, surrounded by river rock, just planted with a paper label with "Dutch Mill Bulbs" and "A Mixed Daffodils". Some tree stakes can be vaguely seen in the background.

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Got a few bird photos from the backyard today. A Yellow Rumped Warbler and a White-Crowned Sparrow. We’ve been invaded by the Yellow-Rumped Warblers and it’s amazing to see them enjoy our plentiful insects and, occasionally, dried elderberries. These are cropped.  #YellowRumpedWarbler #WhiteCrownedSparrow #Birds #BirdPhotography #Fujifilm #CropToZoom

A Yellow-Rumped Warbler takes a drink from a bird bath. It is dipping down toward the water, and its beak is just reflected in the water. Its white wingbars are visible but it only has a splash of yellow.A White Crowned Sparrow is standing between two branches of a Ceanothus bush. Its looking to the left. It is showing off signature black head with bright white stripes.

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United B777-222 (N223UA) SYD-SFO, on approach to SFO, May 3, 2025 #B772 #N223UA #PlaneSpotting #AvGeek #AviationOn a 100% foggy day, a blue engined United 777, facing left, takes up most of the frame with its tail just out of the photo. Its landing gear are out and there's a light visible from the nose gear.

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Sunday, Bake Day! My wife just made a massive batch of traditional (more or less) chocolate chip cookies to last the week. The bake is finished off with some oversized cookies for later today #Food #Cookies #BakingA mixer bowl full of cookie dough with a dough paddle embedded deeply within it. It's all on top of a cart with a wood cutting board.Three tiers of cooling racks, filled with baked chocolate chip cookies. In the background are some random vertical cutting boards up against a cabinet.A view inside a currently-baking convection oveon where, on a baking sheet with parchment, are four oversized cookies. They're not brown yet, just a bit shiny, but are well on their way. Someone's leg and sock is reflected in the oven glass.

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I don’t know what kind of spider this is, but it was pretty daring to be out in the open at Point Reyes National Seashore (late September). Most of these were in their day-time hideouts, tucked up in a shrub branch. #Arachtober #Spiders  #PointReyesNationalSeashore #Fujifilm #SOoC