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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2025-01-17 at 22:14

This flock of Lesser Goldfinches is Hungry and is Not Moving. Pedestrian five feet away? We're having lunch, walk on by dude! #Birding

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2025-01-17 at 05:28

News! My short story "House Brilliant" was accepted for the science fiction anthology Our Dust Earth, coming from Air and Nothingness Press this spring. This shared-world collection is set on a dying Earth in the ultra-distant future, where biomech descendants of humanity delve for artifacts of deep time.. I had a great time writing this and finding the character voices! For more info, and to support and pre-order, see Kickstarter currently in progress at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52625019/our-dust-earth-anthology

@aanpress #scifi

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-12-31 at 19:54

Saw this little muskrat at Commonwealth Lake Park, adorably perched at the water's edge.

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-12-25 at 16:29

The daily puzzle at chess.com today is a ridiculous and delightful Christmas present.

[#]chess

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-11-15 at 16:21

Orb in the mist.

[#]spiderweb

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-11-03 at 03:18

Daytime is the right and proper time for a snooze! This Poorwill kept his eyes mostly closed, but occasionally would slowly open them, while rocking side to side in this waddle-in-place motion as if getting just a bit cozier on the bed of cobbles. So awkward and endearing! There's nothing like hearing ten hardened birders simultaneously go Awwww...

[#]Birding #Portland #Poorwill

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-11-02 at 21:48

So Amazing!! Watching this Poorwill right now with several other birders, so very lovely and mellow. @faerye if you are around FYI this fellow has been over at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland for a couple of days and is insanely obliging.

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-11-01 at 23:22

Night Heron peek-a-boo!

[#]Birding

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-10-28 at 00:36

Northern Mockingbird! By the tennis courts! #BirdCallOut

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-10-20 at 06:16

How to pick, geology or ornithology?! You don't have to choose, the alt text has both!

[#]Birding #Oregon

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-10-19 at 19:57

Now cleverly attempting to disguise himself as a duck...

Kind of amazed I was able to get these photos just by digiscoping with my cellphone camera. Such a cooperative pose from this fellow!

[#]HarlequinDuck

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-10-19 at 14:55

Ran into this goofy cartoon alien from planet Histrionicus down by the riverside the other day. Is the invasion already underway?

[#]Birding

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-10-11 at 01:38

Shovelers are so goofy and cool! I forgot that they have a green speculum in addition to the powder blue wing patch, until this one caught the afternoon light with emerald.

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-09-28 at 01:25

I am ready to fall into this sky...

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-09-28 at 00:18

Clean.

Spacious.

Lots of atmosphere!

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-09-24 at 22:39

Golden-crowned Kinglets showed up in the neighborhood this week after seemingly being gone all summer. Since my dad was an audiologist I am aware my high-frequency sensitivity has dropped somewhat in recent years - so I am always particularly pleased to still be able to pick up these near-ultrasonic calls above 8 kilohertz. Wee lisping trills up in the cedars like someone whistling through their teeth. #Birding #Kinglet #Oregon

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-09-21 at 04:23

A pair of American White Pelicans cooperatively fishing together at the wetlands this afternoon - cruising along the surface with wings cocked upward, craning their necks akimbo and peering underwater for prey. Here one poses with beak raised, wobbling the thin-skinned, sun-backlit pouch to process a successful catch - at the base of the pouch, just visible in silhouette, is the shadow of a small fish that has been nearly flipped down to the gullet! #Birding #Pelican #Oregon

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-09-20 at 16:00

Waking at 5 AM this morning, heard the first flock of White-fronted Geese passing overhead. This is the season! For about two weeks in late September they pass over #Portland en route from their Arctic breeding grounds - often at night or very high up, in huge noisy flocks. Their cries en masse are piercingly keen, attention-arresting, uniquely distinct from our usual Canadas and Cacklers. Keep bedroom windows cracked open at night for a bit and listen!

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Greater_White-fronted_Goose/sounds

[#]Birding #Oregon

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-09-02 at 00:33

The amazing vanishing #SavannahSparrow !

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Written by Grant Canterbury on 2024-08-27 at 00:43

I spy... with my little eye... something that begins with a "P".

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