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J.K. Ullrich

Be a biologist this weekend and participate in the annual Great Backyard Bird Count! A walk around my local lake this morning tallied:

253 Bohemian Waxwings
65 Mallard Ducks
20 Common Redpolls
8 Black-Capped Chickadees
2 Western Blue Jays
2 Common Mergansers
2 Red-Breasted Nuthatches
2 Black-Billed Magpies
2 Common Ravens
1 Bald Eagle

Not bad for a grey #winter day in #Alaska!

Citizen #science #data from the #GBBC helps track #birds ' populations, ranges, and habitats.

Bohemian waxwings feast on shriveled winter berries, red fruit and boldly plumed birds bright against a pale sky.
#Nature#Photography#Wildlife
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handmade ghost

First twenty minute count along the river: Eleven buffleheads, five "Barrow's" and eight common goldeneyes, four mallards, two Canada geese, five rock pigeons, three ring-billed gulls, five double-breasted cormorants, four lesser scaups, two hooded mergansers, one great blue heron, two belted kingfishers, and 19 black-crowned night herons soaring overhead. 🥹💚 #GBBC

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handmade ghost

Here's to a weekend of citizen science spent identifying, counting, and reporting birds to help build a picture of their habitats, populations, and movement.

There are a lot of red-breasted sapsuckers out where I am right now, like this small friend, who held still as though trying to help me keep my count right in the midst of spotting several others flitting about amongst robins in the parklet. #GBBC

Photo of a woodpecker shown in left-facing profile from the midsection up as e clings to the side of a scruffy, grey tree. Eir back is a houndstoothy cape of black wings with thick black-and-white striped darts that travel down from eir neck and flank eir whitish-grey belly. Eir face, head, and the bright dicky of eir breast are a striking, vividly apple red, a small bandaid of white over the bridge of eir dainty, pencil-tip bill. A thin branch or two play across the frame in a soft focus that almost elides them entirely, and more thin trunks rise behind em against a bright blue winter sky. The vivid bird is looking out from a shiny black eye ringed with grey and outlined in black, listening for something I cannot hear.
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