“The Lorax” should be required reading for anyone in government.

Birdtober day 9, prompt: Juvenile 😉 #birds 🪶 #BirdToberClub #BirdToberClub2025 #DailySketch @kaylafiskbirds.bsky.social

Birdtober day 2, prompt: Sparrow (A.K.A. LBB 😉) #bird 🪶 #BirdToberClub #BirdToberClub2025 #DailySketch @kaylafiskbirds.bsky.social

Birdtober has begun! #owl 🪶 #BirdToberclub #BirdToberClub2025 #DailySketch @kaylafiskbirds.bsky.social

Scrolling through sketches and remembering how fun it is to draw chipmunks 🐿️ Cute little critters. #mammals #chipmunk #DailySketch #sketch

If you see this, quote post your cat art 😺 #catsofbsky

Being pursued by an adorable and curious baby woodchuck 😂 🦊 #mammals #woodchuck #Maine

Pileated Woodpeckers (Dinosaur Birds in my mind) are just too cool 😎 #bird #BirdArt #Woodpecker 🪶

A bird first for me a few weeks ago. American Woodcock (A.K.A. Timberdoodle). 🪶 #birds #NatureJournal #BirdArt #ScienceArt #WildWonderFoundation

Well, it seems the water is just out of view, but I’m going to count this as a water bird 🦢 🪶 #WorldWaterDay #Art #Birds

This was a great webinar! Thank you to Roseann Hanson and @wildwonder.bsky.social for making this available. I learned a lot!

Learning about winter tree ID 🌳 With so much snow and chilly temps 🥶 it is hard to even remember leaves sometimes 😜 #trees #plants #NatureJounal #ScienceArt

The best Sunday of the year! #SuperbOwlSunday Please add owl art! #art #birds #owl

As John Muir Laws says, “It’s the pencil miles.” Drawing is a skill that comes with practice. Here are 3 drawings of a Titmouse that I did over about 3 years with hundreds of different drawings in between. 🪶🖌️✍️ #Drawing #NatureJournal #DailySketch #BirdArt

A little sloth 🦥 friend I drew for a friend. #mammals 🦊 #drawing #sloth

There is a Hibiscus shrub next to the parking lot of the place where I buy mealworms 🐛 The summer flowers 🌺 are lovely but the seed heads in winter ❄️ are wonderfully complex and fascinating to #draw 🌿🖌️ #Phenology #NatureJournal #DailySketch (Wide format photo)

I do love a good seed head in the snow. Memories of summer days, the promise of food for #birds 🪶 , and a reminder that #phenology is fun and rewarding.

I was learning about tracking mammals 🦊 today. I did not expect to track a turkey 🦃 this way 😅 🪶

Quick visualization of which trees have been monitored for our Quercus Quest collaboration (www.usanpn.org/nn/campaigns...) with US National Phenology Network --- focused on phenology of trees in the eastern North American white oak syngameon. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Fabulous!

Happy Friday #birdsky friends. Here are some pencil sketches of owls 🦉 to start the weekend 🪶 These were from a great online class taught by @secondnaturemb.bsky.social

Who doesn’t love a little brown bird? 🪶 Tiny, cartoonish wren sketch.

Fun with leaves 🍁 and honey. 🌳 🍂

A Yellow-bellied sapsucker feeding/murdering a crabapple tree in my yard. It took them about 3 years, but they seem to have completely girdled it.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,696,205!

I’ve seen a gray fox eating birdseed in my yard a few times in the last couple weeks. I’d never seen one that close before. I hope it doesn’t make a snack of the chipmunks 🐿️ that live in the retaining wall! I’m pretty partial to those little critters. #mammals 🦊 #nature 🌿 #art 🖌️ #wildlife

If you see this post an owl 🦉 🪶

If you see this post a bird or two. 🪶

Yippee! Today is the 4th birthday of my little friend, Kringle MacKenzie! Sweet little critter 🐭 and a great #sketch model 😃 #mouse

I’m not well versed at abstraction when I #draw and #paint, my mind just doesn’t work that way. However, playing about with #embroidery 🧵 has forced me to dabble in the abstract. This Hawthorn #tree is in #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with Nielsen’s Monument off in the background. From a photo by a dear friend.

Continuing to learn #embroidery 🪡 via cool people who share teaching videos on YouTube. I’ve tried to interpret my own painting of blueberry 🫐 barrens in Maine as an embroidered piece 🧵 I definitely learned a lot.

Tiny birb Tuesday 🪶

Yay! This is my sketch from a previous #SuperbOwlSunday. I haven’t done today’s drawing yet 🪶

There can always be more owls 🦉 🪶

My Nana passed away in 2015. She was a marvelous quilter but amongst her things was a shoebox full of #embroidery floss. I decided to try this out and just finished my first beginner project. Only a few simple stitches but this seems to feed my need for art and precision. Thank you Nana 🥰 🧵 🪡

Groundhog Day! 🦊

If you see this, post a rabbit.

Bring out your borbs 🔔 Bring out your borbs 🔔 🪶

The look I get when the mealworm feeder is empty! #AngryBird #birds 🪶 Let it snow ❄️

12 little birb friends (not to scale 😆). Apparently it is #NationalBirdDay but nobody clarified what nation so I’m jumping in. 🪶 #DailyShetch

🤔 While organizing a year’s worth of sketch photos (I trade sketches daily with a friend) I realized that I have MANY pictures of my wee mouse 🐭 friend, Kringle MacKenzie ❤️ so I thought I’d share some in photo form and sketch form. 🦊 #DailySketch #mouse #art

A few more sketches from 2023. Plant sort of things here 🌿

Still organizing sketches from 2023 (I should learn to do this as time goes by instead of at the end of the year 🙄). Here is a gathering of some mammal sketches 🦊

I’m trying to curate my 365 sketches from 2023 into groups to make some collections of my favorites. Not surprisingly, I’m starting with birds 🪶

@daryllmarie.bsky.social here you go. Thank you for asking 😀

I’m late to the party but this is the coolest beetle I have ever seen in Maine. A Burying beetle with gold parts! I didn’t even know they existed until I found two of them crawling around on my trash bin. #InverteFest

For my final #ArtAdventCalendar post on day 24, I wanted to post my favorite painting from 2023–turns out that’s a harder choice than I thought! I’m going with “most deeply satisfying result”: UNSEEN PILLARS, probably my best pearlescent-on-black to date, and one I sold to a dear friend. 💜 #SciArt

Merry Christmas everyone! 🌲🎉🎅❤️😊