Hutton’s Vireo! This individual an active foraging parent for a fledgling The fledgling was too quick this time! But this parent vireo with its big head is just tooo darn cute! 🥰 📷🌿🪶

Does anyone know if crows have been shown to recognize individuals of other species besides humans?

Huh. My apartment complex just hand delivered a rent renewal offer. Five months early. With a proposed rent increase of $6/month. For context, I was expecting several hundred. Hmmm.

Just made plans to go car camping with the dog next weekend. This will be a first for him, so we're keeping it short and relatively close to home. Hopefully it's a good experience and we can do more & longer trips (maybe even backpacking? the dream)

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I was birding the waterfront yesterday and I met a couple of birders from Minnesota. It wasn't a great day, but there was a nice raft of Surf Scoters on the water, so I shared those with them. Friends, we all need to immediately adopt the Minnesota pronunciation of "scoter."

April 2026 birding stats: - 33 checklists - 99 species (184 total for the year) - 95 photos

Attempting a difficult throw, the Franklin’s Gull pairs team falters! Bird Ice Capades drama #birds

Lovely to see some autumn colour and some of our first orchids of the season flowering in the Perth Hills today 💜💛 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist IDs in ALT

I’m going to call this Moon Joy. I started this during the Artemis 2 mission & while listening to the audiobook of Project Hail Mary. It was a bright spot (#carroll 🥹) during a sad time. #crosstitch #xstitch #crafting

I am so angry; my apartment complex is forcing us to use a smart lock system that stores data on when I exit end enter my own home for TWO years, and they're implementing this change on a time scale where I can't reasonably move out before it's forced on me.

I love how buying any new piece of technology means spending 347 hours removing shit you didn't need and never asked for

I returned the phone with the world's worst screen and got a different model. Black and grey are now different! It's very exciting.

"It is also trained using data partnerships with [...] the Cornell Lab of Ornithology [...]" @cornellbirds.bsky.social I was under the impression that Macaulay Library assets were licensed for education, research, and training Merlin. Can you clarify what datasets were used for this "artwork"?

The new phone has super washed out screen colors and I can't fix it so all my photos look like absolute trash 🙃

mercilessly ripping the bloatware out of this thing feels so good

After eight years of service, I finally had to get a new phone. I'm annoyed about this. Was really hoping it would make it to the decade mark.

Saw my first wildflowers of the year. Round-lobed Hepatica along the North Country Trail in Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge. #nature #flower #wildflower #PhotographersUnited

1. This is delightful 2. Their B-roll shows Australian Silver Gulls, a species that would be very lost in Belgium

📝We recently released findings from the Neighborhood Bird Project, a 20 year community science project. The report, “Fewer and Fewer,” shows significant changes in urban bird groups and provides suggestions for conservation and management efforts. Take a look: birdsconnectsea.org/wp-content/u...

As promised, BOGU spam

Not a sea otter, but that ain't stopping her from getting fresh seafood

The ferry cormorants are getting their breeding colors

I'm sort of sad that I only see cool chondrichthyans in the context of bird predation On the other hand, this is cool af

Party crasher

I don't think these two are a breeding pair because one of them is only a third cycle, but they were very clearly friends

Shoreline snacks

I am pulling 5000 photos off of my camera and I'm willing to bet at least 70% of that is Bonaparte's Gulls

Bird friends: This is a longshot, but does anyone have extra plastic color leg bands for size 0-band birds? Avinet has been out of many colors (e.g. yellow!!) for months and I need more colors to mark Cerulean Warblers in May-June! 🐦 🧪

I do not know why, but riding the ferry is my absolute favourite thing in the universe.

Me, sticking one leg out from under the blankets

"Un tsunami de juncos" is a phrase that's absolutely going into my French tutoring from now on.

Happy Earth Day to my favorite planet for four and a half billion years and counting

I'm gonna get my citizenship revoked for this but I don't care for lángos. 🇭🇺

everyone please appreciate this gorgeous intersex mallard

places I went while I was gone - Northern California - Southern Arizona - Boat

I am verrrrrryyyyy tentatively back, bsky. Do not make me regret this. Have some recent photos :)

Being on bluesky has taught me that having 17 thousand followers sucks actually, which has been a valuable lesson. Recent decisions by the platform's owners are not convincing me that it's worth it to continue.

If you're a member of USA Curling, they're having a town hall to discuss their new trans-exclusive Competition Category Policy tomorrow night (October 7) among other things.

Went to give River a treat for being good and brave for letting me put drops in her ears. Discovered major evidence of Crimes by Dragon

Black-throated blue warbler from a quick morning bird today 🌿🪶📷

I don't have ADHD I've actually been driving around with a 55 gallon fish tank in my car for ten months on purpose.

My poor elderly kitten got a yeast infection in her ears while I was in Australia.

This is one of my most brutal menstrual cycles in a while. I cannot keep doing this.

yes!

V has no idea how to help me with my pain so he keeps bringing me breakfast. It's very sweet, but I had to cut him off after croissants, bagels and fruit.

My body is being a treacherous cage of pain and blood. I would very much like a refund and a robot chassis.

This double-crested cormorant was very pleased to show me the bullhead it caught. #birds

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Cream cheese packaging infuriates me.