So, this morning after church I went to a nearby park for a bird hike, as has become my custom, because once I go home I'm probably not coming back out again for a while. And I'm just randomly picking trails and therefore I really can't tell you where exactly this happened. #birding

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Good Thursday morning all... can almost smell the weekend. #ElbowsUp A White-throated Sparrow from this morning's outing. #Sarnia #birds #OntarioBirds #Birdphotography #darktable #Canon #Sigma

That’s because the lake is deceptively shallow... That keeps the lake warm, allowing aquatic plants & algae to flourish. It also makes Itasca more susceptible to increasing air temperatures [due to climate change]” Smoke from forest fires provides the nutrients www.startribune.com/lake-itasca-...

#BirdOfTheDay #Goose #Geese Canada 🇨🇦 Geese against an Autumn field. Ridgefield NWR

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Okay. Here’s the deal. IQ doesn’t actually mean shit. It’s like the SAT. A useless metric of how well people take tests. In a world increasingly dominated by eugenicist discourse, maybe we, ESPECIALLY we marginalized people, can stop acting like “intelligence” means a damn thing. Just be kind.

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this heron had a good stance and i just couldn’t say no to a few pics. #birds

I will admit that once you’re out of work, people around you stop acting like you have an identity, that’s true. But it ain’t because work imparts that. It’s that we install that because work eats our lives and we need a way to justify it.

Rougequeue noir femelle adulte ou juvénile, son attitude me fait pencher pour le juvénile. Phoenicurus ochruros - Black Redstart Photo prise le 30 septembre 2025 proche de Lyon, France #oiseaux #birdphotography #birdphoto #birds

Cormorant crowd scene. Gathering for migration #birds

Today's Coopuccino #pigeonSky 🪶

Ahhhh it's the winter finch forecast! So exciting. Looking forward to the upcoming Hot (Cold?) Redpoll Winter! 🪶 #birds #birding #WinterBirding #finches #nature finchnetwork.org/winter-finch...

I am a well educated, pretty media literate person whose job it is to be professionally annoying. I cannot figure out if my cancer medication, which costs $17k a month (I do not pay anything thanks to a combo of insurance/access programs), is going to be tariffed 100%.

Good morning! 🪶

Surprised Pikachu face, birb edition. #birds #fall #migration

Today's #BirdoftheDay is any bird with 3 or more colors. This backlit Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is black, white, red, and yellow, but you might have to take its word for that. 😅🪶

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

🤯 People magazine! It doesn’t get more mainstream than that. It really helps to have “celebrity” advocates. “Violet then criticized adults for "the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID…”

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

LifeWise claims in public that they are teaching generic Christian values, but when they think they are among supporters they openly admit to trying to convert kids. Honestly, taking kids to the Museum of Fundamentalist Christian Propaganda is not news. This is who they say they are.

A Eurasian Jay in Hokkaido — I managed to capture its striking dark iris beautifully ✨👀🪶 今日はカケスが群れで見られました。北海道にいるのは亜種ミヤマカケス、ワタシ的素敵ポイントは暗色の虹彩です😊🪶 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #EurasianJey #カケス #亜種ミヤマカケス #birds #野鳥

“This is something that we as a diocese take really seriously — that when one in our congregation is under threat, we are all under threat, and that we have the capacity to stand up for one another.” religionnews.com/2025/09/16/e...

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IT’S MIGRATORY CHOCOLATE BONBON SEASON!!! #birds #wrens #fall #migration #BirdButt

Sunset from the Howard Marsh West boardwalk.

A few pics of the Snow Goose we found the other day. 🪿 I’ve seen them before, but usually way out in the scope. This time I was able to snap some closer shots—what a beautiful bird! ❄️🪿🫶🏾🪶 #WiscoBirder

The fancy sparrows are stopping by on their big trek south, and this morning these two showed up. White-crowned sparrows can winter in the southern U.S. down into Central America. These two decided the creek was for bathing and drinking! Adult in the creek and juvenile on the rock! #Birds 🪶

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

clever little Red-breasted Nuthatch bracing a sunflower seed under some bark to keep it stable while it opens the seed. #birds

This Savannah sparrow was looking sharp under the morning sun at the Mercer Meadows Pole Farm today in Lawrence Township, New Jersey. #Birds 🪶

There are way too many people who wear sports jerseys and own season tickets and like to tailgate feeling very superior to the disney adults right now, and I mean... listen. I'D STEP CAREFULLY. LOL We all got weird hobbies. Don't start mistaking yours for normal just because society does. 🤣

This came across my feed today, and it's very good. If you are a Christian who uses "Pharisee" as a synonym for "hypocrite" or otherwise treats them as the villains in the story, you need to read this. So many passages make more sense once you learn who the Pharisees really were.

Here's a whimsical black and white warbler based on a lovely photo by @gettoknownature.bsky.social (see comment) Such a striking little bird! #art 🪶

People feel the need to make others "feel better" bc witnessing pain makes them uncomfortable. They feel the need to "fix it", generally out of misplaced selfishness That's a form of silencing, & it often makes the recipient feel *worse*- unheard, invalidated, more isolated You can "just" listen.

I just need to make sure that everyone understands that #birdbutt is a thing.

A beautiful little bird to brighten up your Sunday Saíra-amarela / Stilpnia cayana / Burnished-buff Tanager (male) #birds #birdsoftheworld #nature #birdphotography #naturelovers #wildlife #beauty #NaturalBeauty #urbanwildlife #birdnerd #Birding #Wildlife #Photography #NaturePhotography

Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) dragonflies in the garden border this afternoon. #Inverts #Macro 📷🌿

The grey phalarope at the knap 16/9/25 #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds🦉 #birdingwales #birdphotography #Naturephotography #NatureTherapy🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Good morning. Kelp, oyster shell, wavy turban snail shell, and sand dollars. 🌿🤙🏻

Don't let the screen door hit you in the #BirdButt on your way out to enjoy the weekend. #FlyDay #FeatheredFriday #birds 🪶 📸 Tufted Titmouse: Baeolophus bicolor

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Got my covid and flu shots this afternoon, on the way back from a camping trip, because we live in the worst timeline. And it was perfectly fine! The only difference was that the people at the pharmacy seemed slightly more confused than usual, and their paperwork seemed a bit more complicated.

This European Bee-eater depicts me on Monday and then on Friday this week. #FeatheredFriday 🪶

Camping achievement unlocked: Woken up by a Great Horned Owl at 3:30 am. Tried to tell it about campground quiet hours. Reported it (on eBird). Went back to sleep. 🦉