Hey, did you know that @daryllmarie.bsky.social has a birds feed(er). Things can be bleak and I have fabricated evidence that looking at pictures of birds can cure most diseases (not including any documented medical conditions). bsky.app/profile/did:...

Visited the canvasback again today with a friend to get her her lifer, and it was a merganser party! 3 species: the pictured hooded and common mergansers as well as red-breasted mergansers. I walked 3 different birding sites today for a total of 30 bird species 🪶🌿

A rarity here hidden amongst the scaups today: a canvasback! 🪶🌿 taken in Durham, New Hampshire.

Excited to be chosen to give an oral presentation at this year’s UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering Graduate Research Symposium! Haunted that they didn’t ask me for a photo of myself before posting this ad 😭 🧪🔊🦑🐳 if you’re in the area this Wednesday: marine.unh.edu/outreach-eve...

I fear I’ve reached a new level of birding obsession: making family members mail me owl pellets they encounter 🌿🪶

Happy Weird Duck Wednesday! 🦆 a red-breasted merganser photographed on icy South Mill Pond in Portsmouth, New Hampshire 🌿🪶

A little coop encounter at Pine Point Beach, Maine today 🌿🪶 other highlights include lots of greater scaups, white-winged scoters, and long-tailed ducks as well as a horned grebe!

fell asleep last night just looking at pictures of the north american kestrel apparently ??

some time spent scrolling this feed will make any day a little bit brighter

Do you need more animal cuteness, or just plain less politics in your newsfeed? Check out Zoosky! All zoos and aquaria all the time. bsky.app/profile/did:...

AHHHHHHHHHHHH 🌿🪶 (This is telephoto lens + harsh crop to maintain a respectful distance!)

GUYS I just had the most beautiful views of a lifer eastern screech-owl!!!! Photos to come but I was too excited to wait to share the news 🪶

Absolute banger scaup views today in Dover, New Hampshire 🪶🌿

The one distant snowy owl photo our group got (photo cred to my friend Tom for this one!). You can see how difficult they can be to spot in this landscape, especially at a distance and with this landscape in all directions! 🪶🌿

Back at Parker River, MA today and finally got my lifer snowy owl!!!!!!! It was a distant scope sighting so no photos, but winter isn’t over yet… Lots of fun glamour shots of other species! Pictured: horned lark, lifer eastern towhee, northern cardinal, and white-throated sparrow 🪶🌿

If you need me, i’ll be looking at pictures in one of @daryllmarie.bsky.social ‘s feeds:

I'm gonna just stick to the Birds feed today, step away from the firehose of stressful news. If anyone else is overwhelmed with all that's happening all the time, I suggest finding a dedicated space for something that centers you, and taking a breather. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hawks photographed mid-scritch are so endearingly ridiculous 🪶🌿 Red-shouldered, taken in Fallbrook, CA.

More red-shouldered hawk action here in southern CA! 🪶🌿

Some recent SoCal birds 🪶🌿 pictured: northern shoveler, spotted towhee, Nuttall’s woodpecker, & red-tailed hawk.

Lifer Say’s phoebe 🌿🪶 Ramona Grasslands Preserve, CA. Also saw my first canvasbacks and western meadowlarks today, definitely time for lifer pie 🥧

Lifer Ross’s geese! 🪿🪶🌿 Ramona, CA… not one of their common haunts!

This red-shouldered hawk treated me to a solid hour photo session this morning! Obsessed with this shot of the half deployed nictitating membrane 🤯🪶🌿

This week I completed a successful trip out to sea! This was my 8th trip so far & my 1st without my PI 🦑🧪 Between offshore work, my proposal defense, a Florida trip, presenting in Hawaii, NSF NRT work, & wrapping up the semester, it’s been a busy 1.5 months 😅 off to SoCal to relax (& go birding 🪶)!

These guys are so glam! One of my lifers from south Florida, a tricolored heron 🪶🌿

More monk seal cuteness! 🌿🦑🦊

Hot tip: you can visit Honolulu on a business trip and still do some awesome birding! 🪶🦑🌿

"Mods are asleeep, post vent"

A red-vented bulbul 🪶🌿 photographed in Honolulu, Hawaii!

Come birding with me, a series! To begin, a few episodes from Florida (with more to come). I’m still figuring out IG Reels, particularly the auto-closed captions, so bear with me! South Florida, pt 1 🦑🌿🪶

Lifer snow buntings! 🚨 Also lifer red-necked grebes, horned grebes, and common goldeneyes! Plus 23 other species today 🪶🌿 made birding in snow and 8°F weather worth it! 😤

my default feed when I open the app is just photos of birds

Thank you to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for bringing me along for the ride on this incredible trip tagging a bull shark and a nurse shark! Still over the moon about seeing these beauties 🦑🌿🧪

Guys, I saw not one but a group of FIVE Hawaiian monk seals! Trip made! 🥹 taken with a zoom lens to maintain a respectful distance 🦑🌿🦊

The white tern content continues! 🦑🪶🌿

Beer, ocean view, monk seal photo editing… doesn’t get much better than this! 🦑🌿😎

She’s covered in sunscreen, she’s salty as hell, and she’s loving it! 🦑🌿

Early results, only 1 of 4 species, & only Ch 1... but the dissertation is finally giving me results I can share! 🥳🐳 I presented a promising acoustic+visual species distribution model for the North Atlantic right whale & discussed the role of bottom temp & silicate as important predictors! 🦑🧪🔊 #ASA

PSA!!!!!! 🚨 White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶

White tern chick alert!!!! 🚨🥹🪶🌿

We made it to O’ahu! If you either have birding recs or are here for the ASA conference (or both!), please hit me up! 🪶🔊🧪

Top 5 Science Feeds according to blueskyfeeds.com/feeds/top: 🧪Science 🦉Birds 🔭Astronomy 🐡SciArt 🟢GreenSky

Top Science Feeds on Bluesky: #2 🦉Birds! by @daryllmarie.bsky.social

I spent my final evening in Florida at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park watching royal terns hunt at sunset 🪶🌞🦑🌿

Should I ask him for a kayak? 🪶🌿

The raptor obsession continues! An osprey photographed on Windley Key 🪶🌿

The crossover episode you didn’t know you needed! Thank you again @whysharksmatter.bsky.social, I had a blast! 🦑🧪

Today @daryllmarie.bsky.social , who runs the bluesky marine life feed 🦑, joined us for a day of shark research!

I was fully unaware of the raptor game that the Florida Keys delivers, holy hell! 🌿🪶

It was a raptor-y day in the keys 🌿🪶 Turkey vulture, bald eagle, merlin, American kestrel, Cooper’s hawk, osprey, and northern harrier!