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Hi there. I unfortunately ran out of smol criminals of my own to post here, so I figured I would help my fellow birb law enforcement agents to get more work done, with helpful tutorials from the internet.

The videos are not mine. I like that photographer a lot and he is single-handedly responsible for that one time I captured an actually good picture of a birb.

He's good at what he does. He loves what he does. He does NOT yell at the viewer (which is appreciated, ISO settings do not need to be discussed at a decibel volume equal to said iso settings). He has excellent underhanded tricks to get smol criminals to commit crimes on camera.

His pictures are lovely.

Check it out.

Do what he does.

Then post your results here so I can enjoy them, thank you very much, byyyye :D

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43033278

Midwest USA. January 2026.

Oly E-M1 @ 270mm, f/7.1, 1/400s, ISO 250

Edited in darktable

One of my sharpest chickadee photos yet.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/60006913

Where: Mississauga, Ontario
Date: 2026-02-06 12PM
Gear: Sony A6700 + Tamron 150-500mm

This little guy had just shook himself furiously and was all poofed up.

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smol birb, big mood (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Agent641@lemmy.world to c/illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz
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Mourning Dove (fledgling)

Must've eaten a tennis ball or something

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Birb or blorb? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by zedgeist@lemmy.world to c/illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz
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He is called a Glowing Puffleg ^^

Photo cred: Peter Hawrylyshyn

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cross-posted from: https://mastodon.neatobuilds.com/users/mrpistachios/statuses/114393656668773492

Some California Scrub-Jay's on the fence looking for a nest

Also this weekend is the iNaturalist 2025 city nature challenge so don't forget to join your city if you use #iNaturalist or the global event if your area isn't participating.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025

@birding
#birds #california #bayarea #nature #neatobuilds #challenge #monterey #southbay #gilroy #morganhill

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Robin (programming.dev)

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27734177

Bless this little potato for posing perfectly for me.

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This was my favourite illegally smol post back on Reddit. Figured it would look nice here as well. ^^

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bort@feddit.de to c/illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz

in case the lemmy-link doesn't work: https://imgur.com/sL2rp2p

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Crested Tit (lemmy.world)
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by raunz@mander.xyz to c/illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz

by @WatermelonCalves@lemmy.world

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Little parula (mander.xyz)

Sometimes warblers don't care how close you are. This one was probably ten feet away. They are truly smol, and I like to crop my photos.

Honduras, April 2023

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Golden-crowned kinglet

Pennsylvania, January 2022

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he do a flip (mander.xyz)

Sometimes I don't even know what I'm photographing. This is a male blue-black grassquit doing a "I'm sexy" dance as he calls.

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Pennsylvania, July 2023

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