HeyHeyHeyHey! #Royals ⚾️

The Brewers should wear their "Wisco" city connects the next time they play the Nats. A Curly W in the books guaranteed!

There are more than 11,000 kinds of birds. I evaluated them all and made a definitive list of the 100 greatest names. I consider myself a bird name connoisseur but these blew me away. Over the next 10 days I'll add them to this thread. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

#HeyHeyHeyHey! ⚾️ (Phew)

Got an awesome new sticker from @emmalerae.bsky.social for my work thermos! 🪶 🦕 🦖 🍃

I don't hate the Netflix scorebug. Definitely better than the one on Apple TV. My Gen X eyes wish the player name font was a little bigger. ⚾️

Sign of spring! First non-butterbutt warbler in my Missouri yard this year. Most years Louisiana Waterthrush is the first to arrive. 🪶

Tell us your favorite... Tree: Sycamore Flower: Columbine Season: Fall Tea: Masala Coffee: No thanks Time of Day: Dawn Genre: Long digression just to set up a pun Dessert: Mangonada

I'm up to 4 5-star movies watched this year. Finally got Witness for the Prosecution off of my watchlist. Billy Wilder directing an Agatha Christie adaptation with Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. What a picture! 🎬 🎥 #Letterboxd

FWIW, the kids in my son's troop just recently completed the Citizenship in Society merit badge. It's up to troop leaders to choose to do the right thing. As in every youth group, it's the adult volunteers that make or break the experience for the kids.

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