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Some nice birds from #Glasgow (seen along the Kelvin river and the Forth & Clyde canal)

photos: @rmgrieves
#NatureIsBeautiful #BirdsOfMastodon

Photo of a moorhen protecting her (?) eggs in her nest, the next is on the water and made of a lot of large green grass, the moorhen is brown with a black front and a very bright red beak
Photo of a female duck on the canal, she is light and dark brown, the water is rippling a bit around here with green and brown leaves on the surface
Photo of a bird singing on a branch, only the shape of the bird is visible as he is dark on a lighter background, there are dark green leaves all around and behind
Photo of a wet heron standing in the slope of a sort of dam, his front feathers are white grey and wet, he has long skinny orange legs, he is looking to the right with his pointy, deadly beak
#glasgow #birdsofmastodon #natureisbeautiful @Roddy Grieves

Always amazed at the places birds find to nest.
It took a while to discover this Great Tits chosen location.

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #nature #wildlife #darktable

A great Tit flying down past the finial on top of a slightly broken garden feature. In the bill is a green caterpillar.
The bird has turned in the air and is facing toward the finial with wings outstretched.
The bird has landed on the top of a square post that supports the finial and is looking down below the broken top of the post.
The Bird is now disappearing into the hole, with tail pointing skyward.
#nature #birds #wildlife #darktable #birdsofmastodon

"A Visitor"
pastel on UART paper - 6x7 in
From the easel to frame, in an hour.
dailypaintworks.com/fineart/ta…
#MastoArt #PastelArtist #birdsofMastodon #Hummingbird
A small pastel painting of a silhouette of a hummingbird hovering over summer flowers.

Daily Paintworks - Original Fine Art © Tamami Tokutake

Original Fine Art By © Tamami Tokutake in the DailyPaintworks.com Fine Art Gallery
Daily Paintworks
#mastoart #birdsofmastodon #hummingbird #pastelartist

Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius, 🇩🇪 Flussregenpfeifer, 🇵🇱 sieweczka rzeczna) in an unusual pose.

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

An adult little ringed plover can be seen in an unusual pose. The bird is facing away, but has turned its head to look at the viewer and seems to be blinking an eye. The scene is a stony riverbank, with water in the background and pebbles in the foreground.
#nature #birds #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #vogelflausch #ptaki

Researchers successfully trained #pigeons to distinguish between paintings by #Monet and those by #Picasso.

Read my new Beaks & Bones blog post for more details on Ig Nobel Prize-winning #research on one of the most underestimated #bird species:

beaksandbones.substack.com/p/p…

#science #scicomm #Beaksandbones #birds #birdsofmastodon #IgNobelPrize

Photo of a pigeon directly looking into the camera. White text on top of the image: Pigeons can recognize a Picasso Pigeons can learn to distinguish between paintings by different artists and from different art movements.

Pigeons can recognize a Picasso

Maja Mielke (Beaks & Bones)
#science #birds #research #scicomm #Bird #birdsofmastodon #ignobelprize #pigeons #monet #picasso #beaksandbones

#BaltimoreOriole #BirdsOfMastodon.
A male oriole is taking off from his perch on a branch full of apple blossoms. His face is still in focus, but his wings are a blur. Where light hits him, the orange parts of his body seem to glow neon orange.
#birdsofmastodon #BaltimoreOriole

Pretty good sunset tonight, if you like that sort of thing. And as we know, I like that sort of thing.

May 16, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #spring #michigan #art #swans #birds #birdsofmastodon #MastoArt

Sunset, photo of swans swimming on a lake, bathed in pink and purple light from a sunset above with orange pink and purple clouds.
#art #photography #mastoart #birds #spring #michigan #birdsofmastodon #sunset #swans

Balancing act.

#RedWingedBlackbird #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder

A red-winged blackbird is gripping onto the end of a cattail, facing right, with the cattail between him and us. Its tail feathers are completely in the down position, bent towards his belly, almost touching the cattail; it left wing is completely outstretched, facing us, and its right wing is up, outstretched, but bent towards the cattail. It's a very odd pose as he balances.
#birdsofmastodon #jpegsfolder #redwingedblackbird

When your Mama is your umbrella.

May 9, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #birds #nature #naturephotography #geese #michigan #spring #birdsofmastodon

Photograph of ten(!) — Trust me. I counted them beforehand — downy goslings huddled beneath their Canada goose mother’s tail and wing during a rainstorm. They are on a lawn next to a lake.
#photography #nature #birds #naturephotography #spring #michigan #birdsofmastodon #geese

My boss telling me it’s time to stop work and start giving him scritch.

#BirdsOfMastodon

A photo of a small green-cheek conure perched on my left hand above my desk, where you can see part of my black paper sketchbook with botanical paintings, as well as further in the back a book on botany, a paint brush, gouache tubes, and more art supplies.
#birdsofmastodon

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