Ghastly´s Photos

A blog to showcase my photos. Birds, Bugs, Cats, you named it!  No reposts please.

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Where can you also find me

If you ever want to find me elsewhere, or for some reason you don´t wanna use tumblr anymore due to the current site changes:

/ Kofi / Mastodon / Official Site / Neocities Website

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European starling. Jefferson County, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

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Mixed species canoodling in SW FL, USA:

family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes

L - Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

R - Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris)

photographs by Michele Burt

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the pigeon guillemot is a medium-sized member of the auk family, distributed throughout north pacific coastal waters (from siberia to alaska to california). they feed by pursuit diving, and are adept divers; they primarily feed on small fish and marine invertebrates, mainly caught near the sea floor. in summer, the breeding plumage of adults is dark brownish-black, with a white wing patch. in winter, the upperparts are dark brown/black, with scalloping along the white underside. they often nest in rocky cavities near bodies of water; their namesake, the rock dove/pigeon, is also known as a cliff nester.

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MY FRIEND THE PIGEON GUILLEMOT!!!!!!

they look more like pigeons in their winter plumage :) and even cuter! (photo by derek keats, cc-by 2.0)

their calls are also super cute! they're just little peeps :)

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Great Bustard (Otis tarda), males displaying, family Otididae, order Otidiformes, NE China

ENDANGERED.

At up to 40 lbs, the male is one of the world’s heaviest flying birds.

photographs by VCG

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Someone left the credit off this photo. The photographer is Shane Lamb of Palmer, Alaska and the photo is called “Raven Rendezvous” and is available here.

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This might be my favorite bird photo I’ve ever taken. It looks like a motivational poster your aunt would have in her home office with a caption like “Always Be Yourself”

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Birdwatching From Home

While I often enjoy going out outdoors to go birdwatching sometimes that isn´t always possible. Luckily i can still see some birds from my

You know you dont need to go far to observe cool birds if you look hard enough

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shirazi pigeons

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Watching Ducks at a Pond

As I mentioned before my town has a Park With a Lake that is a Home to a lot of Birds. And Ducks! Lots and Lots of Ducks, and I like taking

Another Birdwatching post in one of my favorite places in town

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I Drew Birds Using Photo References

When I´m not trying to develop my photography skills, I´m practicing sketching. I´m pretty much a beginner and hope to improve. Using Refer

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Bug Safari 2 - Electric Beegaloo

A continuation of my previous posts, mostly to avoid it being oo long of an article. Here we got more cool bugs, like bumblebees, flies, and

I think Bumble and moths are some of my favorites that I saw

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A Bug Safari - Spiders and Dragonflies, Oh My!

One of the groups of animals I found fascinating are insects and of course arachnids. Here´s some of the caught I manage to see in the wild

I guess you can call it a small scale safari in a way. i like to something to document cool critters i find with an educational description to sweten the deal

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Beetlemania - A Bug Photo Hunt

I´m here to showcase more of my insect photography. The subject this time? Beetles! Known to be part of the Order Coleoptera, they can be fa

A bunch of my best beetle photos all in a single posts. I kinda find them fun to observe, who knew you can find cool stuff not far off from home

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There´s this port that is one of my favorite hangouts, as it offers me plenty of opportunities to go and check the local sea birds, from Sea

A bunch of photos from birdwatching at the sea in a single blog post

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Now that weather is a bit warmer, I´ve been hanging out at my local park lately to watch some birds

its geese mostly

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I love cats, so sometimes I go outside and take photos of them

A bunch of cat photos I reunited in a single post for my personal site for the average cat lover