Marina Mueller 🇨🇦

@marinamueller935.bsky.social

Married. Love animals & nature. Believe in mutual respect & kindness. RIP Moxie🌈🐶4/6/21, Wiley🌈🐈6/6/22 & Schmiensel🌈🐈8/31/22 💔

🧵 1/x Gather round for the tale of Lonely Bob. Last year, this Piping Plover showed up & unsuccessfully tried to woo already paired females. When that didn’t work, he courted our shorebird monitor. He eventually left. This year, he returned & seemed destined for a summer of sadness again… #birds

Photo of a short and stocky Piping Plover marching along the edge of Lake Erie. He is smol but mighty.

When I first started photographing birds, I always wanted to get a bald eagle. This was my first photo "get" (in Illinois). Jackie & Shadow are a locally famous bald eagle couple in Southern California due to FOBBV nest cam that I followed. Mom, Jackie, just passed away after many days in ICU 😢 💔

On the far, far shore of a local pond in Northern Illinois, a bald eagle flies from right to left of frame.  There are many lush, green trees as a backdrop for the soaring eagle.  Above the treeline is a hazy gray, monochromatic sky. Then below, green and brown reeds can be seen standing at attention just below the tree line and they form the lower border of the photo.  May Jackie, the Big Bear famous eagle mom, rest in peace.

I had my suspicions when I saw a female Red-winged Blackbird collecting beaks full of suet for several days. They had a nest full of fledglings nearby! I didn't know what I had until seeing the pics from the top of a distant tall cedar. There are 2 fledglings begging as mom looks away. 🤣🪶

A black red winged blackbird is in profile on top of a shepherds hookOn top of a red cedar tree a mom red winged blackbird has her back turned to an upset and begging kid as another is lower in the treeThe mom and two fledglings are in the cedar tree branches as mom ignores the kid begging to be fedMom is preening as the kid begs to be fed

Time to dust off the old cards and see what's in the camera in need of processing. First up there seems to be an abundance of mooselets this summer. This one (and its mom) were blocking me on a walk to photograph woodpeckers and owls so they became my subjects! Anchorage #Alaska 🦊

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Does your timeline need some peace and beauty plus humor and cool info? And absolutely no AI? Click below! (Apparently Bluesky will now notify accounts if they’re followed through a Starter Pack. So let’s test this out!)

Get To Know Nature@gettoknownature.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you click through and hit follow on this Starter Pack you’ll automatically follow a bunch of photographers who will fill your timeline with birds, bugs, flowers and more. #birds