My girls are enjoying the juncos again.

Bird visitors today include blue jays, cardinals, juncos, sparrows and wrens. Kaylee would like a junco, please.

I walked by Duck Pond Park today, which was flying a red flag with the “No Skating Today” sign posted. Saw a happy husky bounding in the snowy lawns while its people stayed on the shoveled sidewalks. Two deer ran past me later. Got scolded by a blue jay. Watched some crows yelling as they passed by.

I just love it when my cats alert me to the drama in the trees! Blue jay just chased the nuthatch off of the pine trunk while lady cardinal watched from the dogwood. It’s cold and windy this morning and she was a perfect borb.

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For this morning’s viewing pleasure, we have juncos, blue jays, and a squirrel.

I really like walking to the local taproom for a pint. Even more so when we see the new cocktail menu.

Our cats are losing their minds over the birds outside today. Tufted titmice, chickadees, wrens, tiny woodpeckers, and cardinals. It’s the best!

I love our electric snowblower. Had to recharge the batteries to finish, but we have a lot of sidewalk.

I’m getting more and more used to NY. I now hold my cat’s paw while brushing so we’re grounded to each other and don’t get shocked with every stroke.

It’s a good day to play with static electricity. Also Kaylee thinks it is a good day to nap.

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Decaying swan boats outside of a boarded up water park.

Tiny hermit crab is best hermit crab.

Sometimes the diminutive things are incredibly fun. In addition to have touch sensitive leaves that fold up when you boop them, these mimosa plants also have the daintiest little pink fireworks for flowers.

This muppet adventure was brought to us by the letter W: Willie wagtail Wallaby Wobbegong Wilson’s bird of paradise

I’m at an airport looking at a ridiculously elaborate animated display with what look like paper butterflies. I saw so many amazing butterflies over the last couple of weeks. Little, big, subtle, bold, and in so many colors. My brain is filled with all of the natural beauty I saw.

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A few moments of a good sunset

We anchored near a wedding on a tiny island last night. There were lights and a sound system and dancing people. The only remaining visible trace is three sticks stuck in the sand.

We waited for nearly an hour. Just as we were losing hope, we spotted a dark spot in the bushes. And then it dropped to the ground.

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Sometimes you experience beauty with serenity and other times with exuberance. Both are excellent.

22 degree halo from the comfy inflatable chair on the nets across the bow.

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Seeing Jupiter through open cabin skylight today amazes me

A giant clam the size of a small clam

22 degree halo on the way to Piaynemo.

I feel extremely lucky to be co-leading a group who are so generous with their curiosity. Everyone as eager to see a skimmer in a ditch as a rare bird from a canopy-level blind.

Today we left the rainforest in West Papua, where we spent two muddy but exhilarating days in the company of an absurd variety of flora and fauna.

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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth. theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

We saw a moondog earlier this evening in Croton-on-Hudson! Partial halo, too!

My friend Simran in Portland has prints of his Portland Frog painting available for purchase! Proceeds go to the Portland Frog. www.simrangleason.com

I was just at The Twisted Spine a few weeks ago for @maryrobinettekowal.com and @sentencebender.bsky.social’s book launch. They’re a wonderful brand new store that got hit hard by last week’s storm.

Benny’s Brown Bag is one of the best sandwich shops in Peekskill and they dressed up as Bennyhana for Halloween. They did a special menu of spring rolls and fried rice. It was delicious.

I followed Luna to the window to see what she was cackling about and there were cardinals, woodpeckers, juncos, tufted titmice and chickadees in the dogwood. It’s a gorgeous fall day.

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This thread is so good.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Musicians: we have enough Christmas albums. Please release more Halloween/ spooky season albums.

More atmospheric phenomena! 22 degree halo, tangent arc, 45 degree halo, circumzenithal arc in Peekskill this morning.

22 degree halo and circumzenithal arc in Croton-on-Hudson #atmospheric

Friendly neighborhood brontosaurus. #construction

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I’m making plum chutney!

The second pair of pinholes from the Radio Telescope. Understanding that exposure was steady at about 25 seconds allowed me to start fiddling about with bit of glass in front of the pinhole. More in ALT I’d like to take photos that look like what the object does, or what the object sounds like.

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