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Greater Yellowlegs

Juvenile Bald Eagle

Little observation deck

White-throated sparrow

Northern Pintails -- what are they looking for?

Snow Goose -- looks kinda interesting, doesn't it?

Northern Pintails

Tundra swans. ID is based on the bill being black, and the connection to the base being more of a u rather than a v (which would indicate trumpeter).

Observation deck

Couple of Mute Swans (id based on the color of the bills)

Flock of Northern Shovelers

Icy brr

Sunset through some grass.

Sunset.

Ring-billed gulls in a line.

Ring-billed Gull.

A nuclear power plant off the coast of Delaware. You can see it for miles.

Yellow-rumped Warbler (my first warbler)

Black Vultures

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Main way of IDing it for me right now is contrastive -- it doesn't look like a downy, hairy, red-bellied, or pilated.

Bald Eagle.

American Coot.

Belted Kingfisher. Their call is quite distinctive, making a lot of rapid low-pitched clicking sounds.

Lonely fluff ball at the airport...

Pasta my friend and I (mostly I >:)) cooked

Picture of a path at sunset, framed using binoculars.

Big lake!

Big red flower.

Flower peeking out.

Railroad crossing. My friend and I took some funny pictures here.

Cheesecake from the farmer's market. I don't remember what flavor it was, but I remember it was pretty good.

Instructions for how to cook mushrooms. Was at a farmer's market with my friend, we bought some to go with some stir fry.

Bug

DCA airport -- oddly nice, maybe even nicer than IAD.

Some facades on a building I saw with a friend -- national academy or something? Has a statue of Albert Einstein in front.

Eastern Bluebird

Great Falls view

Eastern Bluebird

Squirrel eating nut

The moon

European Starling

Geese by a trash pile

Group of Mergansers

Male Hooded Merganser

Female Hooded Mergansers

Bottle at Great Falls

Bottle on a log

Sunset at Great Falls

Female Bufflehead

Male Bufflehead -- my first diving duck. They disappear for a while, and then pop back up suddenly. Almost like when you pull a toy boat down in a bathtub.

House finch in a tree

Cattail

Carolina Wren

Small white flowers

Fun guys going up a tree

Yellow flowers

Cool yellow flower that shoots outwards

Pretty pink flowers.

Beautiful lilies

Dark-eye Junco (I think?). Artifacts are from the mesh in front of my window.

Carolina Chickadee -- artifacts are from the mesh in front of my window.

Cardinal

Tufted Titmouse on a snowy day.

Fox Sparrow (red edition)

Turtle!

Ducks in a line

Bunch of Grackles. Cool color.

Cute pair of mallards, one with a leaf stuck to its breast. Also, you can see the blue wingbar

American Black Duck. Kind of looks like a female mallard. Has a darker color, head dark too. Not sure if those are the only distinguishing factors.

Mockingbird

Weird pineapple cactus looking thing

Merlin -- you can see its talons

Blue Jay

Kind of like the other stem that pulsated out, but this one is still intact.

White-throated sparrow

Not sure what the white stuff is, it's pretty common though.

Weird stem tumor thing... I thought the color looked really cool. Looks kinda yummy too.

Bird's nest

Berry!

Cool fluffy seed pod looking thing

Cooper's Hawk

White-throated Sparrow. You can see the little yellow spots above its eyes.

Not sure what this was... It was up in a tree

Eastern Bluebird

Green-winged Teal again.

Green-winged Teal. Not sure where the green-winged comes from, but the most noticable feature for me is the red head with the black spot.

Cat watching squirrel

Two ducks playing in the water

Majestic Robin

Gold-crowned Kinglet. I was looking for these a lot, but couldn't spot them. Just happened to get a photo of one, didn't even realize it was a gold-crowned kinglet until I checked with merlin.

Tufted Titmouse

Brown Creeper

Laughing gull again.

Laughing gull. Much sharper features.

Killdeer! Much cuter in person, I didn't get such good photos.

Common gull with its feet in the sand.

Another weird red mushroom... Separately, saw an pleated inkcap at work one time -- it was so cool. Went back to check on it throughout the day, watched it melt away. This wasn't taken at my workplace.

Weird red mushrooms...

Great Blue Heron in hiding

Ducks! Mallards

Northern Harrier second picture -- much blurrier

Northern Harrier -- Interesting hunting pattern. They fly, stay in place, then fly again. Could've also just been the really strong wind that day.

Leaf under a branch. I got another one of a leaf dropping on the water, but there was something else in frame so I didn't edit it.

Turkey Vulture

Bench at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge -- waterside walk section

Bench at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

Downy woodpecker -- identify by the beck that is about half the lengthof the head

Explorer European Starling!

Parking lot

House sparrow eating something (M&M? Corn? Skittle? Who knows)

European Starling -- you can see the dots more clearly in this image.

Carolina Chickadee at a birdfeeder

House finch chilling at the elephant house

House sparrow giving the staredown

Panda mouth wide big...

Panda at the national zoo!

European starling at the top of a tree. I think I cropped this image too much...

Moon over a bridge -- October 2025 Harvest Moon

Moon over some water -- October 2025 Harvest Moon

Moon through some leaves -- October 2025 Harvest Moon

Moon, close cropped and clear -- October 2025 Harvest Moon

Moon photo but with extra landscape

Moon photo

Moon covered by some clouds -- don't zoom in too close, otherwise you'll see how low resolution it is xd

Great Blue Heron extended outwards

Canadian Geese during the golden hour

Great Blue Heron

The moon

Blue jay

Hairy woodpecker

Paper wasp

My cat on a plant stand, looking out the window.

European Starlings on a powerline

Crevice

Turkey vulture

Rocks down a cliff at Dolly Sods

The sun!

C&O Canal Towpath

Sunset at Cabin John Park

Cat no yawn

Cat yawn

Cat in box!

Green heron

Rainy day

C&O Canal Towpath

Lake Needwood

Cat on bed doing some interesting stuff

Cat on bed

Flowers I bought for myself

Cat looking so very cute

Fizzy drink I see all the time. Got it this time -- it was okay, but wasn't really my thing.

Pensive cat!!

Toad (or frog?)

Clouds circling the sun

Interesting look plant, no clue what it is B)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, really beautiful

Mushrooms on a tree

Great Falls :)

Bobble heads of Mount Rushmore. The halftime was them racing, don't remember exactly what happened but it was pretty fun.

Helmet-shaped cart!!!! So cool! So funny!

Baseball game I went to with a friend -- Nationals vs Athletics (we lost XD)

Purple flowers

Red berry look flowers!(?)

Sky, tiny moon

Empty cicada husk

Pretty clouds, like a wave washing through the sky

Cat sitting on desk!

Sunset

Playing with light v2 -- long exposure + move camera down and to the left

Sign at night

Lamp! Long exposure + shadows/blacks way down + whites up + contrast up

Playing with light

Eggs benedict

Foccacia yummy

Some kind of woodpecker feather -- downy, hairy, or great spotted

Cat investigating from the stairwell

Cat sniffing hand

Many flowers

Flower!!!!

My first Wawa order! Went with some coworkers to the WA.

Room in the morning light

Cat watching bird!

Cat in couch!

No clue what this is -- was rushing to get the picture and didn't get the focus right

Turkey Vulture

Overpass at Great Falls

European Starling up close

European Starlings on a pole!

Flowers

White-breasted Nuthatch pressed against the tree

White-breasted Nuthatch posing majestically

White-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch -- one of my favorite birds. I love how it hops along the side of tree.

Green Heron

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Water skaters

Bee landing on water

Turtle

American Robin in flight

Red-shouldered Hawk

Second picture with superzoom camera

First picture with superzoom camera

zongzi with mom

Trumpet flower!!!!!

Flower without bee and ant in it

Flower with bee and ant in it

Red flower

White flowers

Sleeping cat...

Acrobatic cat!

Cat looking pensively at the lamp...

Cat on scratching board

Cat! So cute!

More Great Falls.

More overlook at Great Falls...

Different side of Great Falls -- also on a day with particularly high water levels.

The overlook at Great Falls -- this was on a day with particularly high water levels.

Mini waterfall at Great Falls -- repeat photo

Bridge leading to the overlook

Sun through the trees -- Great Falls

Bench at Brookside Gardens

Big pink flower

Hot pink flower

Braised pork

Little plant sticking out of a tree

The day I got my cat! It was real quiet on the way home... Must've been terrified.

Sunrise on my way to work

Some stuff I made for dinner -- crispy pork belly and stir fried pork with dried tofu

Pink tulip (what is a tulip? Is this a tulip? maybe a rose? I dunno)

Blue flowers

Cat

Big ol' red flower -- stands out and really makes a statement.

Big yellow puffball. Also liked the softness (simlar to the pink rose nearby), edited slightly to accentuate the water droplets a tiny bit.

Pink rose, was going to edit it but then decided I liked it how it was. Probably cause of the the softness.

Sunset on a building.

I went with my mom to go look for a sunflower field. When we got there, there were no sunflowers -- just a nice field.

Set of books I bought -- two for birdwatching, one that I read for a class and really related to.

Really pretty pink flowers -- apparently they're hydrangeas. Really love how the colors pop, especially after a bit of editing.

Hairy woodpecker. These guys look a lot like downy woodpeckers, but there's a few ways you can tell them apart. First, hairy woodpeckers have longer beaks! Around the size of their heads, I think? They also don't have black spots on their tail feathers at the edges.

Green Heron -- adult one, saw a juvenile one the other day

Pretty flower!

Sunset at Dulles airport

Squirrel eating out of my birdfeeder

Necklace I use as a bracelet that I bought from Harper's Ferry

A blue cornflower (maybe)

Turtle on a log.

I think it's some kind of gayfeather that's dying out? Not sure, but I thought it looked interesting.

Blue balloon flowers, I really like how I framed this image (although I may have messed up the editing).

Apparently these are called Culver's root. I liked how it stood against the background, like three strong pillars in a field.

First dinner I cooked during my first week of work!

Squirrel munching on some takis someone dropped.

Great blue heron -- super cool. Got to watch it fish.

Overlook along the George Washington Memorial Parkway -- drove there for a sunset a while back.

Maybe possibly my dream home? Love how "rustic" it is, if that's the right term, and how it's kind of tucked away. It's on sale, but probably uber-expensive.

Pagoda at Brookside Gardens

Lilac Dahlias! (I think? Dunno in terms of color or flower, I used an image search XD).

Pair of pink Dahlias, hiding out in a bush

Orange/yellow flower! Like the sun flaring out B) But not really? Who knows

Pretty flower, kind of reminds me of a sunflower but pink -- I also like the pastel colors (if it counts as pastel?).

A Cooper's Hawk! Taken through my binoculars haha. Also didn't know what it was, so I asked the birding discord to id it, and they said it was a Cooper's Hawk! So exciting!

My first time making quesadillas! Surprisingly easy after you have everything prepped.

二二八和平紀念公園 (228 Peace Memorial Park)! I spent a lot of time here when I was in Taiwan, made me feel calm and comfortable.

Pretty butterfly I saw in Beitou District of Taiwan.

Water buffalo (I think) on 阳明山 (yangmingshan). Loved how comfortable they look bathing in the water.

A sewing repair I did on my pants! I was experimenting with different combinations of over/under, seems like over tends to be a bit cleaner, no extra fluff poking out...

Super pretty pink flowers -- I really like how the pink flares outwards, like a star.

Picture of Northwestern University Campus, as seen through binoculars from the John Hancock Tower!

First harvested tomatoes from my mom's tomato plant!

Hallway between concourses B and C at O'hare airport! I like the bubbles hanging in the air.

Picture of the Chicago water tower! It's a lot older than the rest of the buildings around it because it survived a fire that took down a bunch of Chicago.

More pretty purple flowers.

Pretty pink flower! I liked the star shape and how the water droplets accentuate it.

Another set of pretty purple flowers.

Pretty purple/pink flowers! Colorblind so not sure which color it is...

Some kind of plaza area in Taipei, next to a coffee shop called Mountain Kids. I was feeling very overwhelmed and tired, but resting here made me feel a lot better.