stamped and ready to go ✉️ 🪶 #art #digitalart #stamp #stampdesign #polishart #bird #birds

Titipounamu (Acanthisitta chloris) is Aotearoa New Zealand's smallest bird, with their roundness, stumpy tail and upturned bill. Males are bright green while the female is streaked dark and light brown. I've paired her with a silver beech stem here. #birdart #titipounamu #wildlifeart #sciart

Declaring today Dallas Good day and sending digital hugs to all who celebrate.

The hoot(h) is out there. (Somewhere in our boulevard elm tree out front.)

New sketch of a Sparrow Graphite on paper 7x8 #art #birds #nature #sciart

Your Daily Merp – lookit those grabbers! #birds #HellYeahNuthatches

putting this up in my room like a movie poster

Bofa deez nuthatches. #birds #HellYeahNuthatches

Watched “Train Dreams” on Netflix, having read the book last year. Plenty of beautiful mountain scenery – and regionally accurate bird sounds! Veery, pileated woodpecker, great horned owl, varied thrush, marsh wren… but also an eastern whip-poor-will, so I hope someone was fired for that blunder.

Introducing Birds Canada’s 2026 Avian Ambassador: the Evening Grosbeak. Throughout the year, we'll be connecting you with stories, conservation work and researchers who are working to better understand this enigmatic finch.

Really like the way the beams of reflected light land on this running sanderling 🐤☀️ 📷 Canon R5 Mk II Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM Av, f/7.1, 1/4000, ISO 1250, 500mm 1/17/26 Northern Oregon Coast #birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature #wildlife 🦉 🪶

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February 2 is #WorldWetlandsDay, an occasion I’m grateful for each and every year, as the conservation of wetlands has sustained my love of birds, as well as a 27-year career as graphic designer for Ducks Unlimited Canada. Show them some love on this important day: www.ducks.ca #birds

I love working on illustrations that allow me to play around with composition #sciart #birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of “eye contact” has me immediately thinking of songbird banding sessions I’ve sat in on at Oak Hammock Marsh, Manitoba. Every captured bird gives its own variation of stink-eye while data is collected. This yellow warbler is saying it’s got places to be – dammit. #birds

HELL YEAH NUTHATCHES’ NUT CACHES

23. Nuthatch: Wow, what a biiiiig nut you got there Elan! #birbfest #art #mixedmedia

Day 23 - White-breasted Nuthatch This was a COVID drawing and one that I am rather proud of. Based on my own photo of one of the birds that nest in our yard each year. This illustration is actually included in the Wingspan fan art pack. #birbfest #BirbFest2026

Day 23: Nuthatch #Birbfest2026

It was a joy to paint this little Eurasian Nuthatch. #birbfest2026 #sketchbook #birdart #art #SciArt #TraditionalArt #watercolor #ink #watercolour

Eurasian nuthatch, wood nuthatch (Sitta europaea) The Nuthatch for day 23 of #birbfest2026 Oil paint sketch over acrylic on A5 paper #birbfest #birdart #oilpaint

Specially for #birbfest2026, the Nuthatch. Birbfest is hosted my the great @monkeymintaka.bsky.social #birbfest

It’s been a low time in this household of late, but I was buoyed by a recent weekend bevy of #BirbFest nuthatches. And while I’m not active in #BirbFest2026, it’s made my feed a wonderful space. Here’s a repeat nuthatch of mine from 2024 – and then a slew of other folks’ #HellYeahNuthatches.

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

"Wooly Winter Plumage," drawn in February 2022 and reposted today for obvious reasons.

first painting of 2026 with the energy i’m bringing into the year so far. things are pretty tough and i’m making a point of finding joy anywhere and everywhere i can #art

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #TailsUp, a regal bald eagle – the embodiment of America – perched high and proud, doing what it does. #birds

Owl!

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #WinterLight has me digging out this photo of the last northern hawk owl I’ve seen – taken on a sunny winter day 2015 in of all places, a treetop directly over the snowy owl enclosure at the zoo here in Winnipeg. Just rubbing its freedom in their poor faces. #birds

A happy looking chappie. 🪶🇳🇿

Lil chickadee. #art

Cattle egrets eagerly waiting for someone with a key to the tractor so they can rustle up some food! 🪶 @everyheron.bsky.social

A Procreate sketch of George, one of our resident backyard downy woodpeckers through the winter. Drawn at last night’s DrawMob get-together with good friends. #birds #BirdArt

Three blocks south of me is the Assiniboine River, which begins in Saskatchewan and ends downtown. Colloquially known as the “Ass River” (or maybe that’s just me), it’s extra fine in winter, a frozen neighbourhood playground – a lifesaver during the pandemic (here’s kiddo skating during peak Covid).

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

Day 10 the #birbfest2026 Prompt: AMERICAN PURPLE GALLINULE 🦆🦅🕊️ . . . #sketchbookart #illustration #IPADart #birbfest

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of “Feathers and Form”, maybe my favourite yard bird ever – a wild turkey that lived on my city block for two frigid months in the winter of 2021-22. One day it ate fallen/frozen berries in our back lane and I got this closeup look at its amazing feathers. #birds

Maximum corvid. Corvus corax - the Common Raven #birds 🌿

what a rectangular birb Day 5 of #Birbfest2026 - King Eider #SciArt #birds 🪶

My first #BirdOfTheDay entry, for today’s theme of #ShortBeaks: this redpoll, sporting a short-but-mighty beak. I never hesitate to dole out props for these tough little birds, who come to Manitoba to spend the winter. #birds

The clouds finally lifted this morning after several days in Winnipeg, leaving behind some light frost and plenty of blue sky. The usual winter players were making noise along the frozen river: chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers.

Oh heck, how did I miss #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay? I celebrate it like a mother-duck. Speaking of, here’s a mother duck from the late spring, with some of her ducks-to-be. #birds

HELL YEAH NUTHATCHES (And peanut butter.)

Day 4 of #BirbFest2026 - This golden-headed manakin has a secret... 딴 사람들한텐 비밀입니다 #birdart #birbfest #birds #artmoots

Blue Winter Birds 💙❄️

I managed to frame our backyard White-breasted Nuthatch perfectly through the snow-covered branches on Christmas afternoon. Quite happy with this one. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada December 2025 📷 #birds #WBNU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

I saw a little wren in my garden today. First #sketch of 2026 #wren #birdoftheday #blueskyart #sketchbook #drawing #art #watercolour

Strawberry icecream birb…🍓🍓 #birdart #birdillustration #illustration #digitalart #art #birding #wildlifeart

A few fluffy inches of snow fell overnight, capping everything with a feather-light layer of whiteness. I went for a walk in the park, hand-fed some chickadees and found my first nuthatches of the year. #birds