My mom just sent me this photo of my 18 year old cat, Truffles, and man she does not look as old as she is. 😻

I got my lifer Brown Booby yesterday. 🪶

Look at this very handsome Plain-bellied Watersnake I met earlier. A lifer! 😍

Magnolia Warbler! What a little cutie. 🪶

LOL

These Pygmy Nuthatches visited our campsite's water spigot this morning at Tumalo State Park, Deschutes County, Oregon #birding

Happy Friday! More IT issues! 🤪

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I miss the pnw so much

Well we got smoked out at work today (everyone’s fine, AC unit broke and sent smoke through all the vents), so we got to go home early. Can’t complain about that during fall migration! 😂

We love fall migration. Perfect backdrop for this Blue-winged Warbler. 🪶

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Can’t believe I managed to get two warbler species in one shot! This Magnolia Warbler was taking a bath while the Northern Waterthrush was busy foraging! 🪶

Always a joy to see Monarch caterpillars! #inverts

As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us. Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects! Get some to hang in your neighborhood! Squidfacts.net

I’m fucking tired

I don’t even want to guess how this interacts with wildfire smoke. 🌎

Just some Hackberry Emperor butterflies trying to drink our sweat yesterday. Feels real funny being probed with a proboscis. 😂 #inverts

I'm feeling angry and I'm so fucking tired of having to pretend like liberals and leftists are on the same team. fuck the democrats you're not my political allies you don't care about anyone you just want to feel morally superior fuck you

Today marks the first day of seasonal depression while also preparing for the first week without a boss at work (my boss took another job, put in THREE weeks, and this passed week was her last week, and HR is, as always, slow af. I should be taking her position, but this is a PROCESS).

Earth got hit by a coronal mass ejection 4 hours ago. The aurora chaser in me is excited, but fall migration is underway so I’m nervous the magnetic disturbance will confuse birds. But data suggests birds adjust to peak solar activity? www.allaboutbirds.org/news/geomagn...

I’ve never seen phalaropes spin on land before 😂 Wilson’s Phalaropes 🪶

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Well fuck.

Good morning! 🪶

Whoa, how cool is this?? Fall Webworms #invertefest

This Solitary Sandpiper was foraging along the edge of some mudflats. It came so close to me that this photo is fully uncropped! 🪶

Uh, serious question. What in the fuck is he talking about? “Mitochondrial challenges”?

There’s both a bird and a bug in these photos. 🪶

Guess what? Gnatcatcher butt! 🪶

An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.

I want to see A.I. fail so fucking hard. I want it to truly be the new NFT. I want all the advocates to be shamed out of existence for forcing it on the world. I am so sick of it. A.I. by design is theft. A.I. cannot flourish under capitalism.

I had a White-eyed Vireo do the same thing the other day. #WorstBirdPic

Cedar Waxwings are named after the little waxy red tips, called astaxanthin, on their secondary feathers. This Cedar Waxwing was pulling off some fancy aerial manoeuvres while hunting bugs, and showed off these tiny red tips! The astaxanthin are now thought to be involved with social status.

Not my usual subject. Red-footed Cannibal Fly! They do indeed eat other flying bugs.

lol????????

I’ve started doing my nails again. My scope made a pretty good display 😂

Look I know everyone’s ready for it to start cooling down, but I am NOT READY for it to start getting dark earlier 😩

This pretty girl laid eggs right on the front door at work. Feel like I should probably relocate them so maintenance/landscaping doesn’t just destroy them? Oakwood Moth #inverts

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A couple of Eastern Wood-Pewees having a disagreement over who gets to perch where. 🪶

Watching IT try (and fail) to reconnect the printer to my computer. I swear they can’t fix anything without breaking something else.

Notch-mouthed Ground Beetle (Dicaelus purpuratus) it is! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Ruled by our beetle overlords.

A lot of small birds take a bit of time splashing in shallow water when they bath. Not swallows. This barn swallow flew directly into the marsh at Mach 5, completely submerged for a second, and then exploded out in a shower of water drops to continue on its way! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

You’re not wrong…

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A very handsome Blue Grosbeak. I was no more than ten feet away, and he paid me no mind! 🪶

It’s been dumping rain all day today, but man the last few days have been nice with the cooler temperatures. (also spot the heron)