Eric Lippert

@ericlippert.com

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Eric Lippert designs programming languages; prior work includes architecting the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Facebook, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. Blog at https://ericlippert.com

A great blue heron shaking itself dry at sunset.
An enormous Giant Pacific Octopus asleep out of its den in shallow water at Sund Rock on the Hood Canal.
A golden colored dirona albolineata in the Puget Sound
A great horned owl looking back at me
The back end of a great horned owl
A great horned owl looks irritated, but they always look irritated.
A cormorant about to take off from the shore.
A sandpiper reflected by the river at sunrise
A bald eagle flying at Shilshole Bay.
A bald eagle fights with an osprey over a fish.
A bald eagle fights with an osprey over a fish.
A great blue heron is reflected in the beaver pond at the west end of Carkeek Park, Seattle.
A male eight-spotted skimmer, a large, common dragonfly in Washington State. So-called because of the eight large brown spots on the wings.
A brown creeper on the edge of a tree in Carkeek Park, Seattle. I was lucky to get the shot; brown creepers try to avoid tree edges when photographers get near so as to be almost perfectly camouflaged against the body of the trees they hunt on.
Bad fairy Formica plots revenge as sidekicks Butterbib and Sweet Pea contemplate their life choices.
Nigel and the King consider Esmerelda for the position of fairy godmother to the princess.
A bald eagle at moonrise in Union Bay, Seattle.
Crow vs bald eagle in Union Bay.
A ring-necked duck looking unimpressed.