Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli You're walking down the street. We lock eyes. Then I pull out my phone. I look serious. Then I ask the question nobody expects: "You wanna see a shitload of pelicans?" 馃 馃
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Slow motion pelican coasting above the coast bliss. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 馃 馃惁鈥嶁瑳
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My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 馃 馃惁鈥嶁瑳
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli GREBELINGS ON TIMELINE 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli This was a ROUGH shot, F40, 500ISO, 1/8th second shutter speed, about 10 minutes after sunset, on a monopod, even harder to edit, but I'm gonna stick with: We are so fucking back. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli I've been sitting on this for 5 months and I'm sorry. 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli We are so fucking back. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli PRECIOUS BABY SCAMPERING!!! 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli less corruption, more spoonbill. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli I was told by a certain labor economist to up my bird posting so here are a couple thousand crows at sunset in front of vived red clouds and a muted orange sky. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli I don't know what nation it's National Hummingbird Day in but let's celebrate it everywhere! No war but hummingbird war! 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Last duckling post for the weekend. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli WHAT DO YOU MEAN you've had this on your main hard drive for months to figure out how to edit but you've decided you're just going to post it straight from the camera because it's too precious to modify??? 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Best sanderling bathtime footage I've gotten in a year. Absolute bird and ocean collab bliss. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Here are 3 minutes of unedited sanderling joy from right before sunset tonight 馃ス 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Underrated cutie. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Perfect head to body to foot ratio. No notes 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli It took a couple of years, hundreds of woodpeckers, and I finally caught their tongue! 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Crying my god nature rules!!! 馃槶 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Don't talk to me or my son ever again. 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Anyway, here's something cute I just edited. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli I feel I've been doing too much general bird posting and not enough optimistic hope posting. I think this strikes the right note. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli BIIIIIIG stretch! 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli FEEEEETTTT 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Emergency double sleepies. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli LOOK AT THEM GO!!!! 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli I'm sorry, it's too early in the week for this many squees. I apologize. I hope you have enough until the end of the week. 馃挏 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli HYDRATION BREAK 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli 鈿狅笍OMG OMG I CAPTURED A FULL GREBELING YAWN ON VIDEO CALL THE GREBE.... FANS? 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Got my 2nd solid yawning grebeling shot of my life today. Oddly, both were in green water in lakes that only had vegetation at the edges. I like the first one more, but todays is a sharper shot. Probably taken a solid 50 feet closer. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli Down at the Grebe Factory interviewing the new apprentices for the Western Grebe Taxi Service, I'll thread in stills/video as I process them As a primer, here's THE BEST WESTERN GREBE MATING RITUAL FOOTAGE OF MY LIFE Warning on this thread: too cute for doom Skip to :41 for just rushing. 馃 馃悾
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli HAPPY LITTLE GUY ALERT 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli aaah yeah thats the stuff that will bring me joy when I'm down 馃悾 馃
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli BIIIIGG stretch for a little killdeer - extra bonus for the feet fans! tell feetsky! onlyfeets! 馃悾 馃