australian logrunner, paradise riflebird, both in rainforest/wet schlerophyll forest understory

while hiking a slope in the afternoon heat, I crossed paths with a foraging short-beaked echidna, my first monotreme in the wild

escapee macaw flew into the rural county fair we were visiting today

3D chess training is going according to plan

marsupials & monotreme at the Taronga Zoo

kooks 🪶

chakramaxxing

I know it won't happen but a part of me I'm not proud of is absolutely fiending for stories of people who lived on the Upper East or Upper West Side of Manhattan, finally realized they were conservatives when Mamdani was elected, and now have to learn how to function in Jacksonville.

fearless magpie hung out with me on the porch this morning 🪶

Got a wild one! 🐨

Orange footed megapode etc

Brisbane is doing Yavin IV and Coruscant

Skee-Lo - I Wish (Aussie child remix)

Can check

rainbow lorikeets foraging in black she-oak Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney 🪶

rainbow lorikeet 🪶

white-breasted woodswallow, a tough subject in midday sun, snags an insect snack 🪶

I would never condone a spooktacular of any variety. Only morally upstanding spectacle, on asphalt in full sun

facing god and walking backwards into hell

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I’ve seen nests for more passerine species in two weeks of Australia’s spring, mostly around development in neighborhoods and parks, than I have in my lifetime in the US- including my time doing fieldwork

australian pelican 🪶

sulphur-crested cockatoo 🪶

the last thing a tender blade of grass sees australasian swamphen 🪶

Yer ma is a

pied currawong 🪶

fierce swamp warlord, willie wagtail 🪶

This afternoon I visited a megabat "camp" at Noosa Heads where nomadic black & grey-headed flying foxes congregate to roost. We've been seeing them forage over town at night with raven-sized wingspans. It was a noisy spot! Lots of social dynamics at play with sub-groups, conflicts, etc.

Much respect to the Australian craft beer tendency of low ABV simple pale ales. Rare that I want “a touch more hops” but I get it if you’re drinking in the sun on the beach. Coopers is basically Natural Light though

little pied cormorant, little black cormorant 🪶 Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney

noisy friarbird 🪶 the irony is that this cartoon villain of an animal is literally living in "Sunshine Beach" in Queensland

australian ibis 🪶

white-faced heron 🪶

Variegated fairywren, from a group I encountered while hiking in coastal heathland in Manly, NSW 🪶

australian raven & dusky moorhen 🪶 Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney

rainbow lorikeets foraging in black she-oak Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney 🪶

common myna with a bit of leucism in its feathers Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney #birds

pied cormorant, Shelly Beach, Manly NSW 🪶

masked lapwing, Barangaroo Reserve, Sydney 🪶

when ur a hindgut fermenter

immature & adult australian magpies

im drinking experimental Alsatian hops, take that NYT beer editorial

noisy miner on a Sydney sidewalk 🪶

ol maze face

sacred ancient figure of wisdom or street rat

Tearfully promising my backyard spotted towhees that no Australian birds will steal my heart

America. 2025. Happening NOW

Saturday is all about drinking 2 massive strong coffees and inefficiently careening between marginal gains on various priorities

Throwing my weight behind other tyrants