P Stirk

@pstirk.bsky.social

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Deep global traveler, van lifer, Elliptigo Enthusiast, photographer, >765 LifeList newbie birder, music zealot, chocolate milk lover, former indie film exhibitor, cats, beach sunrises/sunsets. Photos mine 📍Ohio 🇺🇸 All 63 US Natl Parks All 21 SAfrica NPs

White-throated Sparrow, York PA
Orange half moon rise over Åland on the day after Taylor Swift announces a new album and turns the world orange in a single day
Swedish flag, changing of the guard.
Sunset over water and castle in Sweden
Manhole cover designed with a tree and birds in Copenhagen, Denmark
Indigo Bunting bird Taken May 16, 2025 York, PA USA
White protea in Cape Town, South Africa
Sunrise over the Mediterranean
Sunset along the Mediterranean bike path lined with palm trees.
Graffiti on an ruins on a hill top in Parque Natural Cabo de Gato
Common eastern bumble bee voraciously rummage in an orange flower’s golden stamen. Taken in Terre Hill, Pennsylvania USA
Red-billed chough on a windowsill in Ronda, Spain
Lighted Tunnel in Gibralter.
Amar’s restaurant, Gibralter.
And I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell, Angel in St Michael’s Cave Gibraltar, could be gates of Hades.
Black cat in window in Alcazar Sevilla.
Sun setting over Balonia, Spain
Giant door with Moorish pattern in metal on Seville Cathedral
Center stalk of a Euphorbia helioscopia, the sun spurge or madwoman's milk, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
Unknown Wild purple iris with yellow and white tongues in Castro Marim, Portugal
Photo of Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus today in Tavira, Portugal salt flats.
Black curve in white cobblestones in Tavira, Portugal
Denali shrouded in clouds on July 7, 2022
Bird of paradise flower with ocean in the distant background today at Burgau Beach, Portugal 🇵🇹
@tabbycat_mrsmccormick in front of Denali National Park sign
Guy in red jacket with bicycle being chased by waves on Faro Beach. Praia Faro, Portugal 🇵🇹
Whimbrel Numeneus phaeopus Praia De Faro, Portugal 26 January 2025
Sunset in Faro, Portugal
Surfer at sunset last night on Faro Beach, Portugal 🇵🇹
Campground cat likes chicken and moves in to our van in Lagos, Portugal.
Looking through a hole in a sea wall built from blocks with a pattern, seeing the ocean waves crashing, and noting a sea walk that also has a pattern from hand-laid stones in Luz, Portugal. 🇵🇹
Bridge at Sunset Lisbon, Portugal
Lagos, Portugal beach scene
Flowers at the beach in Lagos, Portugal January 23, 2025
Orange tabby cat in a tree in Lagos, Portugal
Iberian magpie. Unmistakable magpie with a black cap, sandy-brown body, white throat, blue wings, and long blue tail.
Today’s sky over Cape St. Vincent. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Martin Luther King
Cape of St. Vincent, Portugal’s southwesternmost point was long thought to be the end of the world.
Coastal Portugal January 19, 2025
Fisherman on bike on a jetty with big waves behind
European Robin
There’s always tomorrow.
Yellow Cable Car Lisbon
Sanctuary of Christ the King-Portugal Santuário de Cristo Rei
Sunset Portugal 🇵🇹
Beautiful sunset colors through palace door
Eurasian Hoopoe
Under the bridge in Porto
Unique Porto train & strain station looking through round hand rail decor.
Sunset Porto, Portugal January 6, 2025
Common Buzzard in Santander, Spain on January 1, 2025
Last sunset 2024 along the northern coast in Spain 🇪🇸
Tufted Duck in Santander, Spain town park pond
Evening on the beach
Black Redstart
White Stork in a nest on a water tower Christmas morning 2024 in Chiro, Spain
Australian King Parrot
Dramatic notch in the mountains with highway cutting through in northern Spain.
Chipmunk looks on nativity scene
Brand new Costco in Zaragoza, Spain & our camper an