Richard A. Fleming

@donflan.bsky.social

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Birder, writer, artist, sound-recordist. Author of Walking to Guantánamo. Following mostly traveling birders and posting mostly bird travels.

A gracile and diminutive sharp-winged seabird with a narrow, Zorro-like black mask, a black cap, white forehead and sharp yellow bill stands on its yellow legs on the sands of Breezy Point, Queens.
An elegant seabird with stumpy orange legs holds its fine white wings open while standing on the sand.
A black bird with a pale eye and astonishingly long and wavy toes sits on a white railing.
A ghostly all-white seabird flies in front of the lower Manhattan skyline.
A small streak-backed wren collects fluffy white nesting material deep within the laminate, tongue-like fronds of a unique paramo succulent.
A pale gull with flashy white wingtips lifts off the water, as if it knew in advance I was going to try and photograph it.
The tail of a black-and-white bird sticks up out of the water in the final split second before it will disappear below the surface in a dive.
A tiny gull with a black bill and a dark dot behind its eye looks down as it flies above the wintry gray waters outside New York harbor, perhaps searching for scraps.
A black-masked brilliant green bird with a crimson bill and bright red feet and a large maroon wing-panel perches in dense tropical foliage.
An all-white gull with sandy overtones and a jet-black eye and beak bobs in the swell off the coast of Staten Island.
A bunch of distant dark blobs bob on the gray waters of the harbor, although the post author claims that two species if subtly different ducks are identifiable in this poor and distant photograph.
A sand-colored songbird puffs out its chest as it struts between the reeds on a saline mudflat. It has a narrow, pointed bill, a beige eyestripe on a dull-brown head, and two wing bars.
Two Ugandan rappers wearing suits in bold African wax batik prints look euphoric and triumphant. Each is pictured in front of wallpaper which matches the suit of the other. (The man on the right is the mayor-elect of New York City!).
A majestic gray bird with shaggy black tail stands in a rocky field.
In a screenshot from Duolingo, the Lily character, a grumpy, violet-haired young woman, is pictured saying “I come to see the birds and the trees.”
Many ball-jars full of golden turkey stock crowd a white kitchen countertop.
A massive red-eyed bird with a black crown and rufous wings does a bad job of hiding in a scrubby acacia bush.
A small red-billed duck with exquisite mottling on the sides bobs on the leaden waters of southern South Africa.
An elegant beige and brown warbler of the Acrocephalus genus is spied through a hole in the reeds. Its clear whitish breast, without streaks, is one of the best ways to distinguish it from the similar Bradypterus warbler of the same habitat.
A brown and cream bird, this one with much more streaking on the chest than some, perches atop a shrub in classic Western Cape karoo habitat.