Stopped out at Mass Audubon Stony Brook on the way home tonight for my daily walk instead of hitting the rail trail near my office. Haven't gone through all the photos, but I knew this one would finish up nicely as soon as I shot it.
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Eastern Bluebird out at Burrage Pond today
Comin' right at'cha.
The Red-winged Blackbirds moved back into the neighborhood a few weeks ago.
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A Great Egret taking flight at Burrage Pond.
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Here's one of my odd hobbies.
When I buy a used book that has the prior owner's name in it, and there are enough breadcrumbs, I exercise my research chops and put together a mini-bio of that owner to leave in the book for perpetuity.
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The American Kestrel that spent a half hour teasing me out at DNRT's Ocean View Farm reserve on Sunday, always staying at the barely-useful limits of my long lens.
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A Northern Harrier checking out its surroundings out at Burrage Pond WMA today.
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Female Northern Cardinal hanging out in the back yard in the weekend's snow.
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A Dunlin stalking the shallow water on Gooseberry Island.
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Tried out the solar filter that came with the SeeStar today. Decent enough, but what it really makes me want to do is finally buy a solar filter for my long lens.
My most recent bookbinding project, made as gifts for the ringleaders of my online book club. To some extent, this is a Dad joke taken several steps too far, and an excuse to learn how to do a drum leaf binding.
M51 (the "Whirlpool Galaxy") and its companion NGC 5195/M51B. Roughly 75 minutes of data out of 90 minutes of capture time, from my light-polluted back yard last night, using a SeeStar S30 Pro and processed in SiRIL (which I am still a n00b at using).
Had a brief fly-by from this juvenile Bald Eagle at Burrage Pond on Sunday.
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As always, solid show by Charlie Hunter and the current incarnation of his trio tonight at City Winery. Only 6 strings this time, but no shortage of groove. I think this is his first performance in my neck of the woods since… the previous decade? That can't be right.
Damn good seats, too.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116216357692725093
@samhenrigold I am internally workshopping how to work "ceiling made of web browser" into a work conversation.
Dad would have been 80 today, so as usual it's his playlist on shuffle for the day.
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@petitmote@toot.aquilenet.fr The 180-600 I shot this with has a nice bokeh.
I didn't increase the contrast in the ducks, but I did lower the shadows a bit in the background to get a similar emphasis.
My brain, ladies and gentlemen.
A little Irish music for St. Paddy's.