Had an odd look at a Cassin’s kingbird in the rain today, with its crown patch visible

Plumbeous Ibis - #Pantanal #Brazil #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birdphotography

Miners Cabin | A miner relaxes with a book in his cabin, dog at his side at Camp Bird mine. Guitar, books, plates, and flowers on table; pinup girls and nature scenes on walls.

We had a lovely sunny day here in the islands..it was great to see a few Magellanic penguins back..

Tom Waits Bone Machine

rarefied air fryer

remember, don't let what you see on social media impact your self-image

Golden-browed Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix pulchella) Family Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers and Allies) IUCN status: Least Concern

Update: Jim Hautman has just won his 7th federal duck stamp contest, breaking his tie with brother Joe for the most wins in the competition’s history. Here’s our story about why he and his brothers are so good at what they do.

white-breasted nuthatch foraging along a ponderosa trunk 🪶

Removing “Next.js” from the skills section of my resume and adding “counting squirrels munching in ponderosa by ear”

They do this on our chimney cap which amplifies into a deep resonance from our basement hearth

Townsend's solitaires are a sign of cooler weather on the high plains. This one was flycatching along a cottonwood corridor just east of Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR #birds

spooky season sentinels continue to increase along First Creek #birds

the speug squad awaits their scran

I'll listen to Bryan Johnson once he comes up with a yucky powder to drink that lengthens your telomeres

Has lately been calling his drawings and describing what he’s doing with his toys as “Miracle Spritz”. When asked, he clarifies it’s what you do for work when you’re a grownup. We have not made a spritz in his presence so no idea where it came from

My spiritual battle against the universe wages on

The inventor of the sawstop… a real Go Off King

The entire Denver Broncos fanbase is grateful to Bell Labs computer researchers for laying the the OS foundations that would ultimately lead to Bo Nix

It’s always comforting to hear that a family of birds has allies. Good for them

Chillen mit Mike’s harter limonade

Took a photo of the Oktoberfest map in case I can’t find a bar

formal request for a walk has been submitted

@azureemeraldempire.bsky.social Paintings of Ships and Landscapes

I have no interest in Bluesky if it's going to have heavy-handed centralized moderation of this sort. My interest in Bluesky was in decentralization, which would necessarily mean opportunities for people to say things I find odious and for me to say things others find odious.

this one’s just straight up weed in a can lol

This morning I detected an early scout for Halloween, roosting along a cottonwood corridor #birds

Juvenile Sabine's Gull. #birds #birding #gulls #seagulls #sabinesgull #xemasabini #gullable #gullible

Political Violence is crying over a podcaster while ignoring a school shooting.

when you want to one-up the guy who named the Armadillidae

Apostlebirds are the extroverts of the bird world. Big bold personalities. They get their name from the mistaken belief that they always come in groups of 12.

female western tanager Granby, Colorado #birds

american wigeon 🪶

Mountain Chickadee Hot Sulphur Springs SWA, Colorado #birds

3 y.o. asked me to draw our family getting eaten by a monster, and when I drew us sort of innocuously in the open maw of some beast he frowned and clarified he wanted it to be “crunching us”

Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) female (left) and male. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife @mybirdcards.com @ebrrh.bsky.social

High winds on a ridge along the Parshall Divide had a turkey vulture and a pair of peregrine falcons soaring right overhead. The view from up there was fittingly desolate. You can see through the vulture's nose in the second pic

long-tailed weasel wasn't shy along the edge of a reservoir outside Kremmling, CO

delicious rabbitbrush

western grebe

Western warbling vireo, in what I think is a narrowleaf cottonwood. Corduroy Canyon, Colorado #birds

Red-naped sapsucker, along Corduroy Canyon, Colorado #birds

Rainbow over Shadow Mountain Lake, CO

rage, rage against the dying of the weekend

While birding in the mountains this weekend, we saw a mink diving in the Colorado River, near Hot Sulphur Springs. A few minutes later, it hauled a large dead muskrat onto the shoreline.