I love finding my friends’ books at independent bookstores! I hit the jackpot at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR today. @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @rheisman.bsky.social @kingfisherjourney.bsky.social @timberpress.bsky.social

Birds of the Pacific Northwest for Kids, out today! @timberpress.bsky.social #birds #fieldguides #birdsofthepnwforkids

#birders I just connected with @teachertom.bsky.social and he says this is the best place to get your copy of his new book: timberpress.com/titles/tom-m...

So lucky to find this Purple Martin nest in a cottonwood snag at the beach! #purplemartin #birding #birds

Mothing season !

Summer reading pile 👀 #booksky #tbr #tbrpile

Cape May Warbler in Fields, Oregon! #capemaywarbler #oregonbirding #birds

My favorite time of year: when my yard fills up with Evening Grosbeak 😎 #eveninggrosbeak #birds #birding

Broad-billed Hummingbird 🤩 #birds #birding #hummingbird

Cooper’s Hawk perched on the side of a brush pile, hunting sparrows #birds #birding

Book cover reveal! l've been working on a field guide to the birds of the Pacific Northwest for kids, and I'm excited to share the cover design. The book will be available from @timberpress.bsky.social this fall. More info to come!

Astraea, by Kate Kruimink Gorgeous, poetic historical fiction about a 19th century convict ship, carrying women and children to a penal colony. Perfect novella about liminal space, patriarchy and a little known history - quiet, atmospheric, yet somehow harrowing - I could not put it down. #booksky

Yellow-eyed Junco in Madera Canyon, AZ yesterday. It’s nice when the name makes sense!

Steller’s Jay portrait #stellersjay #birds #birding

Everyone should read Hellions by Julia Elliott, out next month from @tinhouse.bsky.social (thanks for an earlier copy!) 11 short stories, each as engaging, imaginative and perfectly unexpected as the last. Elliott has an incredible way of shifting from the mundane to the magical. I loved this.

Western Bluebird in the rain #westernbluebird #birds #birding

The moon on Thursday night! #lunareclipse

A male Northern Harrier perched on a mulch pile #northernharrier #birding #birds

Barn Owl! 👁️ 👁️ #barnowl #owls #birding #birds

Starting to play around with color!

When you find this many pellets under one tree you keep looking until you find an owl. Then spend 20 minutes finding a better view.

Short-eared Owl taking off at golden hour 🌞 #shortearedowl #birds #birding #owls

Please read Dengue Boy. This is my favorite kind of absurdism: fast-paced, entertaining and highly imaginative. Things spiral out of control, it's hellish and exuberant, then everything comes crashing back together in a triumphant, trippy apocalypse of an ending. #booksky #dengueboy

Black Skimmer taking a break from skimming, South Padre TX #birds #birding #blackskimmer

Trying out landscape painting for the first time! 🎨

Got some more McNally Editions! #booksky #books

River otter checking me out

The moon coming over the mountains 🤩

Bibliophobia, by Sarah Chihaya  An intimate, emotional, thought-provoking memoir about books and mental health. I was completely immersed in her world of reading, rereading, & unreading all the narratives that created, dismantled & restored her sense of self and her place in the world. Great read!

Shortie dropping on its dinner #birds #birding #shortearedowl

Short reads for a short month 📚

Short-eared Owls chasing each other around 😎 #birds #birding #shortearedowl

Saw lots of hummers in Costa Rica, but the White-throated Mountain-gems were probably my favorite

My January reading wrap up 😎 thanks to @thestorygraph.com

Short-eared Owl with its vole dinner in its talons, being chased by a Northern Harrier hoping to steal a meal. Mt St Helens in the background. #shortearedowl #northernharrier #birds #birding

The International Booker Prize longlist comes out in less than a month! I found a list of eligible titles and have already read 17 of them (& so many are on my TBR). Here are 8 that I loved. #internationalbookerprize

An afternoon paddle on the Columbia River - cold but sunny - over to Crims Island to see the white-tailed deer and the horned larks 😎

Winter morning walk with Pine Siskin soundtrack

A Room Above a Shop, by Anthony Shapland Short, powerful book about two men and their furtive relationship. The writing is so beautiful - a uniquely sparse, dense and quiet prose that felt cinematic and completely captivating. Cannot recommend enough. #aroomaboveashop #anthonyshapland #grantabooks

White Wagtail today in Garibaldi, Oregon! #whitewagtail #rarebirdalert #birding

Beach weekend book stack 😀

Northern Harrier flew right past me! #northernharrier #birds #birding

Antwerp, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer Novella made of 56 short, disjointed fragments- feels more like prose poetry or loosely connected flash fiction: dense, visceral and dreamlike. Mesmerizing vignettes-hard to describe but I loved this. #robertobolano #booksky

Love these winter Snow Geese flocks #snowgoose #birds #birding

Caught up with this wayward Field Sparrow again tonight - first spotted on Sauvie Island 53 days ago! #rarebirdalert #bird #birding #fieldsparrow #sauvieisland

Beautiful evening with Snow Geese flying over

Watching giant flocks of snow geese instead of the news today. #birds #birding #snowgeese

Finished this late last night. What a trip. Loved Fever Dream and loved these super short, surreal stories - need to read Little Eyes next (and any other Schweblin that’s been translated) #mouthfulofbirds #samantaschweblin #booksky #shortstories

Still going through my #costarica photos. These Collared Aracaris were a real treat - seen at #arenalobservatory #collaredaracari #birds #birding

Say's Phoebe, Loggerhead Shrike and Townsend's Solitaire at Hatfield Lakes today, Central Oregon #birding