Bill Rhodes 🏴‍☠️💙🛟📷

@brhodes.bsky.social

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US Coast Guard, NYC*EMS, KU (RCJH), Science (geology, physics, meteorology) geek, lifelong learner, author, watercolorist, and photographer. Equal rights means everyone Slava Ukraini No to Zionism. Yes to co-existance Grateful Helene survivor

a least tern searching for food from above
a group of laughing gulls at the beach
A harmless black snake eating a beetle for lunch
Great blue heron eating an American eel for breakfast
Trumpeter swans hunting food
Wilson's warbler dining on a bug
a rainy day in Swannanoa. an area still unrecovered from Helene 20 months ago
rain clouds on the other side of the ridge
the gardener took a break, the photographer swooped in
Bodie Island light, Cape Hatteras, NC, USA at sunset
sunrise from my front porch
close up of grasshopper on a leaf
double rainbow near Swanannoa, NC, USA
Lake Santeetlah, NC, USA night sky
one of the weirdest sunsets I have ever seen
a rising cloud
the sun sets over the Blue Ridge Mountains near Black Mountain, NC, USA
sandhill cranes giving me the eyeball
A tree cut down due to Hurricane Helene nearly 2 years ago sprouts new trees from its stump. You can't stop nature
the very hard to spot Virginia rail popped out of the cane a few seconds
a young black bear sitting in the sun
A pair of flies seem to be having a conference on a leaf
a dark-eyed junco dining on a grub
Oakleaf hydrangea
a macro shot of the inside of a flower
sunset before the big storm
boat tailed grackles on the beach
old chain hoists in silhouette
only beauty #photography #birds #portrait only a mother could love. Well, or a bird nerd. Close up of a Wood Stork
Wood stork with stick. Sure wood (!) take a lot of trips at this rate
a waterfall in great smokies national park called The Sinks
Stickers for gas pumps with tRump saying Iran your gas prices up
Immature Mississippi kites on a branch
some elderberry flowers seen from below, backlit from the morning sun against a clear blue sky
a bacon double chili cheeseburger
great blue heron eating eel
A black bear stops to scratch alongside the Blue Ridge Parkway, a US National Park near Asheville, NC, USA
Eight sauces, a glass of wine, and glass of water in a place setting before the meal arrives at Stone Bowl Korean restaurant in Asheville, NC, USA
A colorful time exposure showing headlights and tail lights as streaks on the I-240 bridge in Asheville, NC, USA at dusk
Juvenile Pileated woodpecker spotting me through tall grass
Prickly pear blooming
Blue jay taking flight
My cat Hamish posing for a boudoir session
a ring-billed gull on wet sand all alone
willets running in surf
Male and female Egyptian Geese, Asheville, NC, USA
very wet barn swallow on a wire
Riceville, NC, USA valley
a barn slowly being destroyed by kudzu
Common raven
brown thrasher stealing chicken food
shooting grass we called it when we were kids. fold the stem over and slide it up against the flower and it popped off like a bullet
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsWideOpen, any bird with it's wings open wide. #birdphotography #photography American brown pelican, Wood duck, Wood stork, and tri-colored heron
Rhododendron flowers
Ruddy ducks ruddy running
Mallards flushing
american brown pelican up close
swans splashing around
a female boat tailed grackle on a beach with a really mean look