🪶 American Pipit

🪶 Belted Kingfisher magnet. Made something 2D for the first time. It's a great way for me to get some practice for the plumage!

🪶 Taiwan Barbet needle felt. The colors made it a very fun project and I'm getting better with the wing details. I wasn't sure how to add the barbs but I succeeded in the end

🪶 My final silent auction donation work. Western Bluebird and nest! Inspired by my experience with monitoring nestboxes

🪶 Bewick's Wren needle felt sculpture. My best work so far! I was happy that I was able to capture the charm of the bird

🪶 I got back into needlefelting recently and made a pair American Avocets. I'm really happy with how much I challenged myself and learned with this new project!

🪶 Pleasantly surprised to see a Purple Finch at the bird feeder. That purple red wash really stands out!

🪶 Chestnut-capped Warbler

Giddyup!! 😂 #birds

🪶 Black-necked stilt chick

🪶 Two peas in a pod

🪶 Acorn woodpeckers

🪶 Barred puffbird

🪶 Black-footed Albatross folding their ridiculously long wings

I just had a most magical moment in my backyard. This fledgling pileated woodpecker decided to practice foraging in my old woodpile. He was doing quite well and looking very grown up until Mom came back to check on him. Then, he was back into full baby mode. Such an amazing experience. 🪶🌿

🪶 That awkward transition towards adulthood when your parents decided that you're too big to carry

🪶 Rufous Motmot. May 2025, Panama

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

🪶 Barn Owl roosting under a roof! A wonderful morning surprise

🪶 Lesser Goldfinch enjoying some thistle on a man-made beach

TINY SCRUFF NUGGET IN THE YARD!!!! This teeny little Gray Catbird must have just emerged from the nest. No tail and not yet grown into its beak. Not to mention the CUTE! #birds 🌿

🪶 This Violet-green swallow got a bit too ambitious with furnishing his nest with the best feathers that he could find

🪶 Lineated Woodpecker

🪶I went on a pelagic trip and had the pleasure of observing Western gulls reacting to a breaching whale

🪶 Clay-colored Thrush. It's hard to believe I once spent over an hour chasing one in Texas because these birds are everywhere in Panama!

🪶 Snowy-bellied hummingbird, about to launch off!

🪶 I've been lazy with posting. Anyway here is a Great Kiskadee with an impressive meal for their chicks! Taken in May at Panama

How to tell a Cooper's Hawk from a Sharp-shinned Hawk. An oldie.

🪶 It was amazing to see so many species of flycatchers in Panama! One of my favorites is the Piratic Flycatcher which is steals woven nests from other birds!

Sloth lounging in the rain

Watched a sloth scratch her armpit for almost 10 minutes today

🪶 I finally saw a Bananaquit, a bird on my bucket list. I love the silly name!

🪶 A juvenile Blue-black grosbeak transitioning to his adult plumage

🪶 Bright-rumped Attila. A very charismatic bird!

🪶 White-necked Puffbird

🪶 Yellow-faced Caracara fledgling

🪶 Preening palm tanager

🪶 White-vented Plumeteer

🪶 Saw Smooth-billed Anis for the first time! I always wanted to see them! They're such adorable dinosaur-looking birds

🪶 Blep

🪶 A lovely Say's Phoebe

🪶 Great-tailed Grackle without a tail. It's like missing 50% of the bird!

🪶 A female Brown-headed Cowbird asleep in her element

Elephant seal from a few months ago

🪶 An unfortunate photo of a Pied-billed Grebe trying to eat a rubber band. They struggled with it, even tried to keep it away from other birds, but luckily could not swallow it. I hope they gave up in the end

🪶 Acorn woodpecker

🪶 Sanderling with crab

🪶 American White Pelican with a breeding horn

🪶 Blue-gray gnatcatcher building a nest. I love the little kicks they make as they form the nest cup

🪶 Turkey hen and her little poults. I love how the little ones run ahead of her!