i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand. just a steady beat.

Reposting for the 🪶 feed. Perfect timing for this week's weather!

My most-used emojis in 2025: 1. 🪶 (16×) 2. 📚 (3×) 3. 🍃 (3×) 4. 🦉 (2×) 5. 🎬 (2×) anisota.net/harvest

Dominion Spirit Island Star Realms Chess Wingspan Evolution/Nature/Oceans Terraforming Mars Magic: the Gathering Codenames Sagrada #boardgames

One of my favorite new podcasts of 2025! Highly recommended for anyone who grew up on Sesame Street

Today's office: Setting up solar-powered game cameras to monitor Burrowing Owls! Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶 🌕 🌵

Wow, they wound up raising over $43,000!

Update: It's on Letterboxd now! (And still free to watch on YouTube) My favorite movie of 2025. 🎬 🎥 🪶

Via @elizhargrave.bsky.social 's newsletter. This is exactly how I feel about bird photography. Comic by @buttpoems.bsky.social 🪶

FBC is doing a Birdathon again this year! 🪶 charity.pledgeit.org/2025fbcbirda...

Alt text is a Bluesky cheat code! Lots of fun ID tidbits if you scroll through SK's photos, in proud defiance of those pesky character limits 🪶

If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans? Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social

If you’re like me (and I know I am) then you like podcasts and like birds and so podcasts about birds are the best! Here’s a thread of my favorite bird podcasts, including the number of episodes currently available and average episode length according to the Podcast Addict app 🪶🌿

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

Listers is hilarious and does a great job of showing why birding is so much fun. Long-time birders will see a lot of familiar faces and places! My only complaint is that I can't find it on Letterboxd yet youtu.be/FLWCsw9CdcI 🪶 🎥 🎬

A great actor and a great activist. I wonder how many mailings and emails I've gotten from Robert Redford on behalf of environmental issues over the decades! 🌎 🍃 🔬 www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

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In case you missed it: I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org about the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate funding for the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey and what this would mean for bird research and conservation in the U.S. therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

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According to the Haikubox in my yard, my Chuck-Will's-Widow neighbors have been calling close to 3,000 times a night! Hickory County, Missouri 🪶 🍃 🔬

We're still hiring! This project is expected to continue for several years. Message me for details.

Today's office: Out in the desert before sunrise for burrowing owl surveys, Nye County, Nevada 🦉 🪶

Today's office: Moonset at sunrise. Clark County, Nevada 🌑

We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎

We need more biologists to help green energy projects follow environmental rules. I've been doing this kind of work for 17 years and it's fun and rewarding. 🪶 🐢 🐍 🍃 🌎

As someone who follows quite a few writers/creators, I will never be annoyed by their self-promotion. I consider myself fortunate to have a job where I don't have to advertise my work in order to get paid for it! 💙📚📘

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I feel like I post this every few months, but I really wish there was a way to block individual accounts from my feed without having to click through to that account's profile. Feels dirty and dangerous every time! #requests @bsky.app

I taught incarcerated firefighters who worked for criminally low wages. It's considered the best job in the prison, because you get to go out, do something valuable, and eat real food. It's also wildly dangerous, and they are given the worst jobs...literally pulling remains out of charred homes.

There's an amazing story from Kimberlie Moutoux about encountering this species on today's Women Birders Happy Hour Podcast! 🪶 @hannahgoesbirding.bsky.social www.gobirdingpodcast.com/women-birder...

age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid 🎬

I've reached the 20-movie mark for 2024. Here's my rankings so far: Still planning to see a few more, including Flow and War of the Rohirrim this weekend! 🎬 📽 #Letterboxd

I saw my #600 Black Swift, then Western Flycatcher got lumped, then saw #600 Greater Pewee, then the Redpolls got lumped. Looking forward to seeing a third #600 soon! 🪶

Today's office: a Common Poorwill feather! Exciting to know that one or more are in torpor nearby, sleeping away the desert winter. Clark County, Nevada 🪶

My #boardgame plays in November. First time plays of Charcuterie, Command of Nature, and Undergrove. Undergrove was my favorite. You know it's a good game when you keep thinking about it for days afterward! 🍄♟️

Welcome to the bloosky Carl! 🪶 🍃 🌎

Today's office: a Loggerhead Shrike's larder! Looks like a Desert Stink Beetle, impaled on a Mojave Yucca by a butcher bird. Clark County, Nevada 🪶 🍃 🪲

It works! I got my QLL library card today, and Libby immediately lit up with books from my wishlist. One was by @feliciadavin.com and I first heard about QLL from her newsletter, so this might be the least lucrative payola scheme I've heard of. 😂 But please do support QLL! 🌈 📚 📘

Artists you've seen live by letter: 5SOS Ataris Brandi Carlile Chambers, Kasey Dar Williams Fall Out Boy Green Day Harper, Ben Indigo Girls Jack Johnson King, BB Lake Street Dive McCartney, Paul Now More Than Ever Patti Fiasco Relient K Shepherd, Kenny Wayne TMBG Victor & Penny Wilco Yonder Mtn 🎶

Throwback Thursday: 11 years ago today, still my closest encounter with a Spotted Skunk, at Snow Canyon State Park in Utah. 🍃📷 #wildlife #photography

This is very timely, I just saw my first Northern Shrike of fall yesterday morning, in 15-degree weather near Reno! 🪶

A nation is be judged not by on how it exults its bullies and strongmen, but how it treats its most vulnerable. Like Japanese Americans, the trans community never did anything to deserve the kind of hatred and targeting they have received. We have a moral obligation to stand by them now. /4

Here's an easy way to support access to books for all. 📚 📘 🏳️‍🌈 givebutter.com/J9nhcW

Please #repost/#share for the #bees.🙏🏼🐝 This matters. So let’s talk about #honeybees in the context of ‘Saving the Bees’. Let’s cut the bull and cut to the chase as there’s way too much confusion/misinformation out there which is a hinderance to, and detrimental to, genuine bee saving. 1/18

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: Lawnmower Dishwasher Camp counselor Pizza driver Data entry-oil company Textbook warehouse night shift HS sports stringer Data entry-pharma College HR intern College magazine staff Baseball blogger Web editor (1/2)

A bird-themed card game with beautiful art? $26 shipped? I'm in. 🪶https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coinflipgamesllc/trickadee #boardgames #art

Confession time: I joined Bloosky in Aug '23 after getting locked out of my Twitter account by a crypto bot. In order to get an invite code, I pretended to be a Newcastle football fan! ⚽️ 🍺 🦋 🎮

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Another great episode! I worked for Dr. Fischer back in '05-07, ground-truthing migration data at Eglin AFB in FL to reduce bird strikes. Some of the worst terrain I've ever transected, but did see my lifer Red-cockaded Woodpeckers! 🪶 🍃 🌎 🎧 www.aba.org/08-46-in-def... @ababirds.bsky.social

Ok, here's a starter pack of people I've found on BlueSky who have appeared on the American Birding Podcast. bsky.app/starter-pack...