Todays #birbfest2026 birds are buffleheads! It’s bufflehead season in San Diego and I’m so happy! I love the way they dive around, they are so cute! #birds #birdart #bufflehead

Today’s #birbfest2026 illustration is a verdin! I see them out in the desert but they are always so fast and hard to photograph. They are such beautiful little birds though! #verdin #birdart #birds

Ok starting to play with the #birbfest2026 prompts a little. Birds native to SoCal are my bread and butter, so I’m taking birds on the list and doing a similar native bird instead. So instead of a razorbill doing another water bird, a surf scoter! #birds #birdart #surfscoter

Today’s #birbfesf2026 bird is the many-colored rush tyrant, a colorful round orb of a flycatcher from South America! #birds #birdart #manycoloredrushtyrant

Want to start the year off with some art so I’m participating in #birbfest2026 and see how many birbs I can draw! Today’s bird is the beautiful bronzewing pigeon from Australia! #birdart #birds #bronzewingpigeon

Here’s a piece I’ve been plugging away at this month! I was inspired by photos that Haus Dahlia on instagram took of her latest collection, especially her silk dresses. They remind me so much of water that it turned into a water nymph in a pond! #art #illustration #procreate

One of my biggest inspirations since childhood. I love Jann Brett’s books.

tea kettle guys

"It's the one hobby I really have that hasn't been saturated by AI and now it's feeling more and more out of reach." All these small physical connections in globally linked hobbyist communities are being severed...in a moment where our digital communities are being flooded with AI slop. 🫠🫠🫠

Went to the Bird & Butterfly garden in the Tijuana River Valley and got some pics of some lesser goldfinches being some cutie patooties. #birds #lessergoldfinch #birdphotography

Sat down to doodle and made this little ladybird! I’m really enjoying working with colored pencils. #art #ladybug #coloredpencil

THANK YOU, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, for supporting bills that will address the puppy mill pipeline in Cali! This will help reduce animal cruelty & protect CA's from puppy mills. @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social, @buffywicks.bsky.social, please support these bills! secure.aspca.org/action/ca-pmp

Such a great article. There is no such thing as an "easy" pet!! Please do your research before getting any pet and realize that some creatures shouldn't be pets at all.

I usually tell people that *so far*, habitat loss, not climate change, has been the major driver of bird population declines... but now we're starting to get analyses directly connecting bird declines to extreme weather events fueled by climate change. 🪶 theconversation.com/70-years-of-...

What a gorgeous photo! I love the contrast of the rattlesnakes colors against the flowers.

Had a bleh week a few weeks ago so went to my local fabric store and picked up this pretty cotton and just finished this little outfit! The top is the #saguaroset from Friday Pattern Company and the shorts are the #chanterellepants from Sew Liberated. #sewing

Ah, to be a globular springtail adventuring among towering fungi. 📷 criag_l on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

John H. White's stunning photographs of Black Chicago, taken as part of the DOCUAMERICA project which sought to produce a visual record of 1970s US: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica

inspired by hiking thru wildflowers 🌷🌾🌻🌼✨ #pixelart

Went with some friends to the El Cajon courthouse to check out the amazon parrot roost! It was so cool to watch these rowdy little friends show up over time and hang out, groom, and be cute. #photography #birds #parrots

This is incredible

Working my way through old photo archives. Found these awesome great horned owl photos I took. They were such a cutie, I just watched them for a while one evening up in the tree in 2023. #greathornedowl #birds #photography

Trying to go through my photo archives and actually edit some of the photos I've taken on hikes. These are from May 26th 2023. It's fun editing older photos with the knowledge I know now after a couple of years of photo editing. www.flickr.com/photos/19737... #photography #birds #nativeplants

Loving animals does not necessarily mean you are qualified to care for said animals, in the case of many a viral exotic animal “rescue.” The average social media viewer does not understand that what they’re seeing is animal abuse because they don’t know how to identify it

Feeling an intense amount of grief lately about things that once were and are no more. There’s a reason why American history only teaches post European contact. You’re not supposed to think about the thousands of years of human and natural history colonization destroyed in a microsecond

Had the idea to make a little magic american coot! I love coots they have such funny feet. Tempted to get this as a tattoo now. #art #birds #americancoot

This is a piece that’s taken me a while! My ttrpg group is playing Mythical Bastion soon (a game where you are knights) which inspired me to first attempt drawing armor which then became a whole piece! I’m super proud of how it came out. #knights #art #illustration #ladyknight #procreate

exhausted janitor jesse answering the hotline is everything 🙏

Fe Fi Fo Fum

the milkweed motel is open :) 🐛

Going to a fun event at the San Diego Natural History Museum this Friday and the theme is “prehistoric prom” so I made a dinosaur crown! #dinosaurs #flowercrown #diy #crafts

Catching up on the #aprilcolorschallenge from @faunwood.bsky.social with this piece! it’s always fun to spend some time messing around with color. Since I’m behind decided to do the first four days rendering the same sketch of a quail doing a little strut! #californiaquail #art #birds

Made a little post card for an upcoming art show in my neighborhood! Living and doing interpretive hikes in a border city, it’s super important to me to talk about migration, and the freedom of migration that brings great diversity and opportunities to both people and animals. #birds #warblers #art

Coots are incredibly adorable and I love their weird feet!!! #birds #birdphotography #coots #americancoot

I got to see clark’s grebes do the thing! Nyoooooom. (If you don’t know the “thing” is walk on water in courtship and it’s phenomenal.) #birds #birdphotography #grebes

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

Went to a bird art class at San Diego Birdfest today and had a blast! It’s a fun challenge to try and pull apart the underlying structure of birds. #birds #birdart

Went to an event called Hawk Watch in Ramona! Such a fantastic event, got to hold some snakes and see some really gorgeous birds up close. I went two weekends in a row, so this one is part 1 of my photos! #hawks #harrishawk #owl #birdphotography #barnowl #redtailedhawk #kestrel #birds

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream” A piece I’ve been working on forever!!! I’ve redone this piece so many times in so many styles, and I think I’m mildly happy with it now lol. #unicorn #art #procreate

Some photos I took out at Lake Hodges in San Diego! I managed to capture some really nice swallows in flight, plus a bonus kite! If you want to see more of my photos you can find them here: www.flickr.com/photos/19737... #birds #birdphotograph #swallows #kite

Every year I draw my partner a cheesy little valentines. Here is this year’s piece! #valentines #shrimp #art

Recently I took a super cute picture of pied-billed grebes that looked like a Hallmark card. Since it’s almost valentines day, I decided to use that photo and draw a vintage style valentines card based on it! #valentines #birds #illustration #piedbilledgrebe #grebe #birdart

My good friend @dementedconfetti.bsky.social made this scarf for me for christmas and it’s cold enough to wear it!

Garlic knot pythons 🐍

Excellent thread. 🧅

Doing a little catch-up on the @birbfest.challenge with the northern potoo! Such a cute muppety bird! Perfect for a “3 Potoo Moon”. #potoo #art #birds #birbfest2025

Day 07 of the @birbfest.challenge with a rainbow lorikeets! They had them in the Wild Animal Park when I was a kid and I loved their antics! #lorikeets #art #birds #birbfest2025

Day 06 of the birbfest challenge with the stonechat! Was inspired by my friend @theartkat who drew the stonechat on top of a thistle. They are cute little fluffy birds, I’d never heard of them before! #stonechat #birds #art #birbfest2025

y’all day 05 of birbfest challenge was a STRUGGLE. It’s taken me three days and I’m still not 100% happy with it. These hummingbirds are gorgeous and rendering them was difficult! But here it is. Some more birbs for you all! #birds #birbfest2025 #crimsontopazhummingbird #hummingbird #art

Day 04 of @birbfest.challenge with a red kite! Didn’t feel like doing full color, and love some of the swooping photos I’ve seen online so I’ve done a couple different poses. A really beautiful raptor! #redkite #birdart #birds #birbfest2025