Two things can be true: #birding is wonderful and terrible. Tell me about your favorite worst day, fellow #birdnerds ! youtube.com/shorts/9qE7h... #birds #birdlovers #birdaventures

In honor of #cassowary day, I have my own experience to share this week! I love #farnorthqueensland youtu.be/HSNChH5yxgE?... #birdnerd #doofybirds

The #doofybirds journey continues to #farnorthqueensland youtube.com/shorts/UpWlX...

#Birding in a new place is funny because the exciting lifer you saw in the morning can be deemed commonplace by the evening.

I am having the time of my life in Sydney! Behold, my favorite #doofybirds so far.

I’m about to fly back to #australia to finish researching my next book about the weirdest #birds there. The #doofybirds travel series kicks off again tomorrow! youtube.com/shorts/jZya1...

Mustachioed goobers of the best kind! #incatern #birdlovers

My most recent #petportrait commission! I had fun capturing the essence of this adorable #mainecoon.

Dog-sitting in a posh, somewhat rural neighborhood and realizing that I can never fully enjoy this fancy screened-in porch because the perpetual sound of lawn maintenance is inescapable.

One of my favorite photos I’ve ever taken: a #greenheron at #huntleymeadows in northern Virginia. #birdphotography #birds #birdnerd

youtube.com/shorts/LNsRr... #commonloon #birdart #birdnerd

Re-posting this thread for when I need it.

Adding this sumptuous character to my collection of illustrations for the australian #doofybirds book! Meet the #pinkcockatoo aka #majormitchellcockatoo. #birdart #birdartist #aussiebirds

Re-watched Jurassic Park this weekend and was inspired to make something silly.

And that’s why this is one of my top-selling notecards!

On this Friday afternoon, I’d like to introduce y’all to Great Aunt Enid, who is already decked out in her Sunday best.

A moment of levity, brought to you by the birds always doing the most (East Coast, US edition) #birdnerd #birdartist youtube.com/shorts/ozr8z...

Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Had a cheeky little visitor last night (Piedmont, Virginia) #automerusio #iomoth

Meet Fitzgerald (Fitz to his friends)! He’s a natty dresser and speaks 5 languages. #greaterroadrunner #birdart #birdartist #birdnerd #acrylicpainting

Been thinking a lot about the #startrek TNG episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" lately.

Claiming this energy #greatblueheron

Detail from a painting of local wildlife from a couple of years ago : #greenheron #watercolor #birdart #virginiabirds

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

Sometimes I paint birds. Sometimes I enjoy a pun. Today, I present to you a #secretarybird 🎩 #birdart #birdportrait #birdpainting #whimsicalart

Thanks to @walshbr.bsky.social I am experimenting with @tropy.bsky.social for organizing reference photos from recent #birding trips. I'm hoping this means less frustration when searching for reference photos in the future. #birdartist

Watercolor of an #easternrosella for the new book project. #birdart #birdillustration #australianbirds

My latest: a family portrait of #bushstonecurlew from Brisbane, #Australia

Back in Feb, @ryancordell.org shared this incredible woodcut from @skeuomorphpress.org collection. He shared the original illustrator file for all! I was so inspired by this woodcut, I wanted to clean it up and redistribute it to the public 🧵 1/2 #printsky #academicsky #typophile

I saw my first #crestedpigeon within hours of arriving in #sydney, much to my delight. While roaming through the city, I spied a pair and started taking photos only to discover this little fella right at my feet! This illustration will be part of my next book on the weird birds of #australia.

Got to work in the garden today and I’m feeling grateful to be in #taurus season. Hoping this original #watercolor painting sells at a spring market soon!

Spent yesterday framing up some illustrations from my last book project (a children’s book about birding here in Virginia) and I’m quite pleased with how the experiment worked. #birdart #bookillustration #watercolors

This is what Anya was talking about #buffythevampireslayer

First @rosemarymosco.com taught me to look more closely at pigeons, now gulls. 💚

BIRD PROTOCOL activated. Take a bird, leave a bird. 🪶

Now that spring migration is full underway, I thought I’d share my newest print of places to go birding here in #albemarlecountyva! From warblers in the west to the heron rookery at Ivy Creek, there are lot of options to explore. www.deerhawkhealing.com/shop/a-birde... #birds #virginiabirds

Photos from recent travels #jekyllisland #georgia

One of my newest paintings! I’m calling it Hawk Nebula #acryliconcanvas #birdart #painting

Having fun with this stylized series of #birdart! I got to see both #blackskimmer and #woodduck this weekend. #birdartist #birdprints #birdlovers #minimalistart

Had my camera out at the perfect moment to capture this #bluegraygnatcher! I love these adorably angry lil dudes #birds #birdlovers #migration

Before I left Santee, SC I got up to watch the sunrise on the pedestrian bridge that runs parallel to I95. I love it when decommissioned architecture is converted for public use.

Spent today enjoying something I actually want my tax dollars to pay for: Santee National Wildlife Refuge.

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

Started watching #wheeloftime S3 last night and thought I’d share my postcards I made years ago. I used to put them in a corner of my booth with other #fanart in the hopes that my fellow nerds would recognize them and chat with me a while. (There’s also a version for Malkier around here somewhere.)

My painting, “Ocean” will only be up at the She:DC show at Shop Made (Georgetown) for a couple more days. This was one of my first (successful) attempts at adding texture to acrylics. I hope it finds a good home! www.shopmadeindc.com/product/ocea...

Moving things around in the studio #artist #acrylicpainting #birdart

Happy #WorldSparrowDay in which we honor the little brown jobs that thrive in all manner of ecosystems all across the globe. This little fella hails from the North Island of New Zealand.

I have a little wall of bird portraits up at the Shenandoah Valley Art Center this month!

My #artdeco #birds have gone minimalist! The #woodduck and #hoodedmerganser might be the beginnings of a series.

just making my silly little drawings : )