Brent and I thoroughly enjoyed the #Sacramento #Archive Crawl yesterday! We visited the Stanley Mosk #Library & Courts Building, the State Archives, and the Sacramento Room at the Central Library. We’ll definitely attend next year!

Now hang on… I just saw a commercial for tires with a lady #birding and they showed a Black-throated Blue Warbler and I could swear the #bird song they played was actually a Black-throated Blue Warbler. Did I just see the most accurate commercial featuring a bird ever?! For tires?!

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Obligatory beaver statue selfie after presenting at American River College’s Intro to Ornithology class this morning. Thanks to the humidity for giving my hair quite the frizz. 😂🦫🦅

There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...

I love that a local #sushi restaurant prominently features #heron beakspear artwork alongside our CA Central Valley ricelands that provide both quality sushi #rice and heron habitat. I also love that I feel the need to share this with one of my absolutely favorite follows, @everyheron.bsky.social ❤️

A local festival about food but also with amazing music? Okay, #sacramento ❤️

PorchFest! ❤️

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

Sometimes you need a little push to get out there. Like uncommon shorebirds at the wastewater treatment plant! 🥳 Baird’s Sandpiper that kept sinking into the mud. Solitary Sandpiper dining alone. Greater vs Lesser Yellowlegs. #birds #birding

Why yes, we did just watch 2+ hours of a robot apocalypse puppet musical. How was your Sunday? 🤖🎶😂

To be heard over roaring rivers, white-throated dippers swap from song to flashing their bright eyelids. New research reveals one of the clearest examples yet of animals switching between senses to communicate – showing how noisy environments can shape evolution: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-08...

Galls are pretty much the coolest. Red cone #gall wasp on Valley #oak and saucer gall wasp on blue oak. ❤️

One more day of #birding before heading to the airport! The Five-Striped Sparrow now qualifies as a nemesis. 🥲 Guess I have to come back! Lifer Red-faced Warbler isn’t a bad consolation prize. 🥰 Also caught a Painted Redstart en déshabillé post-bath. 🤭

Sparrows today at the #SEAZbirdfest in Box Canyon! Singing Black-throated and Botteri’s. Distant look at a singing Rufous-winged for a lifer! We finally turned a Turkey Vulture into a Zone-tailed Hawk. Sibling love at the Thick-billed Kingbird nest. Skunked by Five-striped Sparrow…twice. 🥲 #birding

Night #birding last night in Madera Canyon with the #SEAZbirdfest. We had a great hummingbird show before sunset, with 8 species including this Rivoli’s. We heard both Whiskered Screech-Owl and Mexican Whip-poor-will! On the drive back our guide spotted a bebe western diamondback on the road. 🦉🐍❤️

Today was #birding close to the border at Walker Canyon and Pena Blanca Lake. Monsoon season has been dry and temps are warm, keeping the #bird activity down. Common Black Hawk was a nice year bird. And I always enjoy a Green Heron. #SEAZbirdfest

The #SEAZbirdfest Big Day field trip crew, including our record-breaking species number 117, Great Egret! We went on to add Wood Duck and a surprise afternoon Great Horned Owl for a grand total of 119 #birds on the day. Thanks to our leader Alex Lamoreaux from Wildside Nature Tours!

A little slow up Madera Canyon on the #SEAZbirdfest big day field trip. But we added some #birds for 92 species so far! And I finally got my Gjon for the year! ❤️

Box Canyon on the #SEAZbirdfest big day field trip! Finally some #bird shots for you. Thick-billed Kingbird delivering a snack to its nest. Pretty bad photo of a pretty good bird: Varied Bunting. 😅

Scoping for sparrows on the #SEAZbirdfest big day field trip at Las Cienegas. Black-throated, Botteri’s, Cassin’s, Grasshopper, and Lark. #birding

Good morning from the #SEAZbirdfest Big Day field trip! Started off with Snow Goose, Lesser Nighthawk, and three species of swallows in a Tucson park. #birding

Went out for a bit today. Nothing against the #birds, but I’m not sure I can just call it #birding with the other things I saw. 🤷‍♀️

State Fair things. ❤️

Bird flu has mostly been out of the news lately—but this excellent story from Scientific American sums up the devastating toll it's had on wild bird populations. #ornithology

Loggerhead Shrikes are famous for impaling their prey, but what can their collections of prey tell us about the biodiversity of the prairie? In one of the most unique Birding features ever, to appear in the upcoming July issue, David Leatherman explores shrikes as “avian bioblitzers”...

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We now know more about Norwegian art than we ever thought possible. 😳

The best part of the fisheries museum was the water taxi getting there. 😍

Today we wandered about and finally got to try skagen toast before a speedy fjord tour. Then met up with boat/new friends for dinner and aquavit. What a day. 🥰

We took the funicular up Mt. Fløyen for a hike among the trolls. Then escaped the cruise ship crowds at a delightful cafe/bar hung with Danish mid-century lamps. 😍

We’re in Bergen! Took it easy today with a visit to the terrific Bryggens Museum.

Belated post from our final expedition day. Walrus haul-out! Flirting #Arctic Tern. Cackling Dovekies in the reply! ❤️

Uhm hi, hello, POLAR BEAR!!! 🐻‍❄️😍

We’re in the pack ice! Lifer Ivory Gulls just chilling. 🤍 We were able to walk on a piece of pack ice before heading in with the kittiwakes.

We visited the #bird cliffs of Alkefjellet. Too much ice to zodiac, but we got great views of the huge Thick-billed Murre colony, with a bonus walrus! In the afternoon we had a nice hike at Faksevagen. Photos: ice at Alkefjellet, murres having a disagreement, walrus, and reindeer mom & calf.

We landed for a short hike at Texas Bar, an old trapper’s cabin. In the afternoon we took a zodiac cruise along Monaco Glacier, complete with a rum & cider warmer and close-ups with #birds on ice.

We enjoyed a zodiac cruise at Tinayrebukta, followed by a shore landing and a modest hike at Camp Zoe. Photos: us in front of the glacier, reindeer on a steep slope, bearded seal, and polar bear guard and safety equipment at our landing.

In Longyearbyen you take off your shoes before entering establishments, a holdover from coal mining days. Today we learned that there’s a Norwegian term for the smell of the shoe room in our lodging: tåfis, which translates to “toe farts.” 💨

Today we went on a puffin safari on a pretty fast boat! We were successful in finding Atlantic Puffins and Thick-billed Murres (Brünnich’s Guillemot) as well. #birds

Mostly took it easy today, but confirmed a couple lifers: Pink-footed Goose and Rock Ptarmigan. We also enjoyed BryggeriFredag with friends new & old. ❤️

Touring around Longyearbyen today: weirdo hybrid eider; seed vault!!! ❤️; and coffee & soup for lunch with puppy friends. 🥰

Okay, time for some #birds ! Snow Bunting, Barnacle Goose, Purple Sandpiper, Black-legged Kittiwake. #birding

Made it to Svalbard! Neighborhood reindeer and northernmost sushi. Mutually exclusive.

Turns out this European Herring Gull was banded in 2016 in its 3rd cycle and has been begging near Oslo Central Station ever since. Although it sometimes visits the opera or the theater. 😅 #birds

Day 2/2 in Oslo: Munch Museum, changing of the guard at the Royal palace, chips & caviar (trout roe), Home Front Museum at Akershus Fortress, aquavit & tonics on the water, dinner with cured reindeer, apple cake & decor.

Spent a lovely day in Oslo: Historisk Museum, Botanisk Hage (with a bonus lifer: Fieldfare…so many 😅), accidental amazing pizza, rooftop drinks on the waterfront, etc… 🇳🇴❤️

Did my Riverton Breeding #Bird Survey this morning…hopefully not for the last time… 🥲

On our Subantarctic trip we were given the opportunity to sponsor a predator trap on the Chatham Islands. They told us we could have our name on it; I can’t believe they implemented my request. 🤣❤️ Next check we’ll get our trap’s individual stats. Conservation in action!

You may notice that my trip report says two lifers. I spent more time chasing Henslow’s Sparrow than the Connecticut! But also skulky, so no photo. Update: remember when I said Connecticut Warblers don’t hop? They do. At the one moment I had to snap a photo today. The eyering is diagnostic! 😂