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Such a beautiful collection of photos and poetic glosses, Bryn.

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Thanks, Mark!

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I do love a good bird pic! My one Brown Creeper sighting was pretty exciting for me, but I didn’t get a pic.

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Thanks! It was a lot of blurry shots in low light until this guy showed himself! Thankfully I had Bird Perv - I mean Merlin - to help track him 😃

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Stunning photos!

I love the whole concept of this prompt too, I'll definitely make a note of it for next September!

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Thanks, Pamela! It’s a lot of fun to see the amazing art people share, and a good mental puzzle to figure out what to do for each prompt. 🤓

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Yes absolutely! I'm trying inktober this year for similar reasons, but I like the science theme of this one!

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Me too! Are you sharing them on here or elsewhere (or at all)?

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oh amazing! I'm still trying to decide the best way to share here...I might do a roundup at the end of the month & share some on notes in the meantime! What about you?

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That’s a good question 😅 I’ve been sharing on here in Notes and Bluesky, but I might do another round-up in November; this one here was a fun break in the regular programming 😃

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Absolutely gorgeous post, Bryn! And a real education - we have very few birds in common with yours over here, and it's been wonderful to explore your beautiful pictures!

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Thanks, Rebecca! I’m surprised in some ways; I would have thought we had more in common than not. So now I’m in need of an education 🤓 Were there any real weird ones in this list for you?

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Actually, although many of yours are complete strangers to me, some of them do look familiar. We call that chickadee of yours a 'great tit' (we also have blue tits, coal tits, marsh tits, willow tits and bearded tits); and we have tree creepers which look like your brown creeper. Your sparrows are prettier than ours, but I prefer our robins to yours. Your 'house finch' looks like the male of what we call a sparrow over here! We have 'yellowhammers', not yellow warblers - although they're just as yellow as yours. Your cardinal and purple finch are stunning - I have serious bird envy there. Your great blue heron looks like our grey heron, but bluer. Both - of course - are great! 😊

Such a beautiful post - I've learned so much.

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I just looked up the British robin, and I think I agree with you - the red breast is stunning. And the blue heron here has a few varieties, one of which is more white and ink blue, more befitting the name than this subdued fellow.

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These are awesome, Bryn! You’re quite talented at capturing nature

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Very kind of you, Camille, thank you for checking out all the bird friends from this year!

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