listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

Incredible OHNY boat tour of the Port of NJ last night led by PANYNJ's Director of Ports, Beth Rooney plus an obligatory stop by some local statue. "48m consumers live within four hours of this port, while four hours from the Port of Long Beach doesn't even get you out of LA's traffic" 😂

Fledgling season 🪶

A few warblers from WBF walk in Central Park last week 🪶

Friendly chickadee says hi 🪶

Seeing a California towhee side by side with a golden crowned sparrow makes the fact the towhee is a (large) sparrow pretty apparent — or at least more so than with, say, the easter towhee 🪶

Black Phoebe in the rain 🪶

As a New Yorker it is always a treat when traveling to warmer places in winter to spot birds that we’d usually only get to see briefly as they pass through on migrations. These bright little warblers are so cheerful 🪶

Bewick’s Wren is hunting for bugs 🪶

“Whatta you lookin at?” 🪶

Anna’s Hummingbirds in the morning rain 🪶

Pied-billed grebes, golden eyes and buffleheads and one very content looking a seal in Tomales bay 🪶

Chick-a-dee has places to be 🪶

Osprey watching to see what the ferry churned up as we got into Larkspur right at sunset. Had several grebes and a harbor seal following us as well by the time we reached the dock. 🪶

Happy Congestion Pricing Day to all who celebrate!

Some days the mirror is not your friend. New #animaltooluse report by Jason Love et al. in @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social. A Northern Cardinal repeatedly picked up gravel, flew to a car mirror and struck the mirror with the stone. (It's a Ford Escape SUV, not clear if that mattered to the bird) 🧪🪶

Sterling sibling squabbles 🪶

Some serious attitude from these little guys in prospect park today. 🪶

… White throated sparrow? I think? 🪶

Phoebe gets a snack 🪶

Vaux's Swifts at McNear's Brick Yard in San Rafael 🪶

Tried to get a video of the Vaux's swifts coming in to roost in San Rafael a few weeks ago. Not the steadiest hands shooting hand-held with a 600mm 🫣 🪶

Finally working through the of shots I took on visit to Bay Area couple weeks ago, starting with this Common Gallinule family (plus a mute swan) in San Rafael 🪶

WBF walk in Central Park 🪶

FACT CHECK: It is not “a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” We spoke with Mr. Richard Hetherington-Jones of Thelfall Manor, Yorkshire, who has £2000 per annum and does not wish to be wed at this time.

Oriole finds a snack 🪶

Finished putting out peanuts for the finches and cardinals but only to see this lil killer watching on intently 😬🪶

Northern Flicker quarrels in Central Park 🪶

Mama wood duck keeping tabs on six ducklings in Prospect Park yesterday 🪶

Red Tail pair in Prospect Park have a chick now! 🪶 bsky.app/profile/davi...

Baltimore Oriole couple appear to have completed their nest by the lake in Prospect Park 🪶

Such a variety of sparrows in Central Park this week 🪶

Flickers and starlings proclaiming that it is spring!🎶 🪶

Ruby-Crowned Kinglets in Central Park. They are*so* round. 🪶

Eastern Towhee pair in Central Park 🪶

Fox Sparrow in the ramble, showing of that distinctive red tint 😍🪶

Spotted this red-tail collecting sticks for her nest in Central Park 🪶

Cozy little nest for this sparrow at the Maintenance Meadow in Central Park 🪶

Kinglets are enjoying the early spring in Prospect Park, and followed the racket being raised by a jay to find it berating these two sleepy trash pandas 🪶

Prospect Park's Sparrows 🪶

A theft has occurred! 🪶

Red-winged telling the world that spring has sprung 🪶

So many hawks in Prospect Park today🪶

Two Kinglets in prospect park doing an exceptional job of demonstrating the difference between golden and ruby crowned, plus a bonus bluebird and a silly blackbird 🪶

Prospect park walk with Brooklyn Bird Club, including a wayward Rufous hummingbird! 🪶

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everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

Roses are red, Bird feathers aren't blue, It's scattered light in tiny air pockets in keratin, That gives them that hue.

Is that a TIE fighter coming in for landing?🪶

A few yellow rumps enjoying winter snacks at Jamaica Bay 🪶