Male black-headed grosbeak singing in a Hemlock. One bright note after another spilling into the understory. Heart-lifting to witness. #birdOfTheDay #SingForYourSupper #EFGH #BlackHeadedGrosbeak #StunDay #PoetryOfNature

For #BirdOfTheDay, 3 #headshots from the neighborhood.
One singing his heart out.
One glowing like cathedral glass.
One looking like she knows where the portal is. #birdOfTheDay #Columbidae #FlyDay #ECK #BlackHeadedGresbeak #BandTailedPigeon #StellersJay #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

Apparently, I now qualify as accepted woodland furniture. #WoodlandFurniture #FieldNotes #Squirrel #sitspot #WildTrust #Reciprocity #ForestLife #PoetryOfNature

Aiden. Silver, charcoal, smoke, raincloud. #WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfBluesky #AidenAndDrew #PoetryOfNature

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes #ScrollBack & #Unloved, I offer birds from this last week, a #WesternTanager, a #BlackheadedGrosbeak pair, & 1 determined #StellersJay with a peanut. The bright males get photographed. The females keep the world going & the jays are almost always misunderstood.

Not having a photo for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #DucksInTheAir, I give you this #StellersJay: a tiny wild opera performed mid air beneath the suet #feeder. #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

Poetry of Nature is sometimes just one serious robin standing in wet leaves #BirdOfTheDay #Ruffled #Robin #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature #StunDay

even joy has feathers #birdOfTheDay #WaterDroplets #Robin #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

love makes poems of ordinary bodies #birdOfTheDay #FeathersInFoliage #FlyDay #mourningdove #Birds #ArtPhotography #ArtPrompts #Photography #Art #ECK #EastCoastKin #PoetryOfNature #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

Somehow, that beautiful beak reads as a smile. #birdOfTheDay #wadersouttawater #Birds #waderlife #BlackOysterCatcher #ECK #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

Me trying to remember why I went into the kitchen #WhiskersWednesday #PoetryOfNature #Squirrel #Sqrlpix

Feathered femme energy: soft chest, sharp eyeliner, zero tolerance for nonsense. #BirdOfTheDay #FeatheredFemmes #funnies #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature #BirdPhotography #BlackHeadedGrossBeak

Moon holds its own lantern #BloomScrolling #ColorADay #PinkMon #PoetryOfNature #rhododendron #ImageAndVerse #poetography

Backlit, they become something other than blossoms— a brief agreement between light and petals. #StunDay #BloomScrolling #PoetryOfNature #ImageAndVerse #poetography

The way they become one breathing, dreaming creature made of fur and quiet. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #CowCat #AidenandDrew

Steller’s Jay, currently in rinse cycle. #birdOfTheDay #Photogenic #Corvidae #StellersJay #BirdPhotography #FlyDay #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

Most people never see this. A band-tailed pigeon reclines sideways in the rockery, one wing lifting to the sun, its body becoming a prayer for warmth. #BirdOfTheDay #InMotion #Yellow #PoetryOfNature #BirdPhotography #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #BandTailedPigeon

I worried they hadn’t returned this year… Today this pair appeared. Sometimes the wild answers back. #BirdOfTheDay #Black #BlackHeadedGrosbeak #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

#Dappled couture #birdOfTheDay #PoetryOfNature #NorthernFlicker #AnimalArtTuesday #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

Wind, myth, mischief… and Mathilde. #BlueskyMonday #BirdOfTheDay #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature #Stellersjay

Birdwatching goes both ways #birdOfTheDay #RockSolid #ImageAndVerse #BirdsOfBluesky #StunDay #poetography #PoetryOfNature #Senryu #MicroPoetry #BandTailedPigeon #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

Caturday—just this. #Caturday #CowCat #AidenandDrew #WhiskersWednesday #CatsOfBluesky #PoetryOfNature

Sir. SIR #Robin #Flicker #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature #BackyardBirding #birdOfTheDay #AvianDrama #FlyDay #Bird #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfBlueSky

Mathilde stillness in her eyes blue storm of feathers #BestOfTheMonth #birdOfTheDay #ForestFriday #FlyDay #FlyJay

Whiskers Wednesday—just this. #WhiskersWednesday #PoetryOfNature #Caturday #Floof #CatsOfBluesky

Today’s forecast: 100% chance of fabulous. #birdOfTheDay #Welltimed #WeatherWarriors #ColorADay #PoetryOfNature #BlueTue #CyanTue #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

I thought this was a tulip
turns out it’s a supernova
and I am emotionally involved #ColorADay #PinkMon #BloomScrolling #PoetryOfNature #Tulip #SpringFlowers #FlowerPhotography

She has fed the children.
Now she comes for tribute. #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #birdOfTheDay #PoetryOfNature #StellersJay #Stunday #Bird #Photography

Drew has requested a formal review of snack operations. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #LittleThings #WhiskersWednesday #AidenandDrew #CowCat #PoetryOfNature

When your entrance note hits and everyone goes silent #PoetryOfNature #TheSongFactor #birdOfTheDay #Photography #StellersJay #FlyDay #FlyJay #Bird

Good day Bluesky. Today’s alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RestingBeakFace. This pair of mourning doves will do nicely. #PoetryOfNature #Birds #Photography #Nature #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

A sliver of sun lifts from the beaver pond. Water remembers how to hold light. #BloomScrolling #PoetryOfNature #SkunkCabbage #YellowThur #Wetlands

Each return a quiet yes. #WhiskersWednesday #PoetryOfNature #Reciprocity #Squirrel #Sqrlpix

Forest Gossip Columnist #BlueTue #CyanTue #StellersJay #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

You bring tribute. Wise. #BirdOfTheDay #ComeEatWithMe #Stellersjay #BlueskyMonday #Nature #Birds #Photography #PoetryOfNature #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

Sovereign of cattails #BirdOfTheDay #ABCD #Bewickswren #StunDay #Nature #Birds #Photography #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature

It’s the little things— this light, this quiet, this small, perfect being. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #floof #PoetryOfNature #WhiskersWednesday #TheLittleThings

Steller’s jay, fully committed. #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature #BirdOfTheDay #FeederFriends #ForestFriday #StellersJay #FlyDay

Not a portrait. A presence. #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PoetryOfNature #bird #Photography #BirdOfTheDay #Headshot #Stellersjay

What if awakening looks like this...unguarded, a little ridiculous #WhiskersWednesday #Caturday #PoetryOfNature #Blep #CatsOfBluesky

Good day, Bluesky.
The #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Robins.
Meet Christopher Robin, as if the page turned… and he became a bird. #Bird #Photography

Good day Bluesky. My #BirdOfTheDay– Woodland royalty on a casual stroll.. #JKLMNOP #pheasant #Birds #Photography #PoetryOfNature

🐸 Bro hit one note and Motown backed him up 🎶 😊😁🤣 #Frog #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PoetryOfNature #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense #PacificNorthwestTreeFrog

Between rains and greening a golden crown touches down then is gone again #Grass #Haiku #GreenSat #Migration #ColorADay #MicroPoetry #birdoftheday #SpringMigration #ImageAndVerse #SmallBirdSaturday #GoldenCrownSparrow #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays

A body spun from sky. A mouthful of triumph. #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #WeekNforNonsense #AlphabetChallenge #ForestFriday #StellersJay #Thursjay

POV: you passed the vibe check with wildlife. This is what peace talks look like. #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #PeanutDiplomacy #WildlifeMoments #PoetryOfNature #Chickadee #PeaceTalks #Squirrel #Sqrlpix

Whiskers Wednesday—just this. #WhiskersWednesday #PoetryOfNature #Caturday #Floof #CatsOfBluesky

Archive moment, but the feeling is still alive #PoetryOfNature #MoreThanHumanWorld #WildEncounters #GarterSnake #snakecharmer #Reciprocity #TheLittleThings #WildKin

POV: I offer peanuts, she offers presence #BirdwatchingGoesBothWay #PeanutDiplomacy #BirdsOfBluesky #PoetryOfNature #Reciprocity #Thursjay #FlyDay

.07 oz of judgment hovering on the edge of gone #BirdwatchingGoesBothWays #RufousHummingbird #PoetryOfNature #TheLittleThings #OrangeSun #ColorADay #StunDay #FlyDay