Good morning!🪶

Might be worth mentioning, for those considering using Betterhelp for therapy for various reasons (ease of access, cost etc), please know that they will ignore your request to connect you with an LGBT friendly therapist, and also they will sell your sensitive data to meta, and other advertisers...

A new @psychologytoday.com post about #photography as a #mindfulness practice. Try it out and share your 📷s below! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

Love this pose from this red-breasted nuthatch. 🪶

Bird yoga! 🪶

@joshbartok.bsky.social captured this #borb today 🪶

This tricolored heron was a lifer for us. 🪶

Loved seeing this juvenile great blue heron.

Great to see these oystercatchers before they migrate south. 🪶

It was exciting to see this sandhill crane family last weekend. They’re rare in southeastern Massachusetts. 🪶

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

We spent quality time with this American Bittern yesterday. 🪶

With @joshbartok.bsky.social “Perhaps it’s possible—even as we notice and honor the pain, suffering, and hurt all around us—that we might cultivate, look for, and touch small moments of joy, brightness, relief, and release” #buddhism #psychology www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

Hummingbirds are so magical. 🪶

@joshbartok.bsky.social and I wrote about cultivating joy amid suffering for @psychologytoday.com #therapysky #psychscisky www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind... Blooming in the Mud | Psychology Today

@lizroemer.bsky.social and I saw our first fledgling cedar waxwing today! 🪶

We saw our first little blue heron in Scarborough Marsh, Maine, US on Sunday! 🪶

We went to Scarborough Marsh outside Portland Maine today while it was raining and saw these flocks of birds perched on trees. 🪶

A belted kingfisher that @lizroemer.bsky.social spotted. 🪶

Excited to get such a good look at a sandhill crane in Halifax, MA, US. 🪶

Portrait of a tree swallow. 🪶

So many beautiful words from this shining light of presence and love. #therapistsky #psychology

Two fun sightings from the weekend. 🪶 @lizroemer.bsky.social and I have been looking for indigo buntings for years and a lovely man helped us find this one.

Piping plover chicks always make me smile. 🪶 📷 by @joshbartok.bsky.social

This beautiful great blue heron was in a tree when it gave me this excellent look. 🪶

This beautiful great blue heron was in a tree when it gave me this excellent look. 🪶

@joshbartok.bsky.social and I wrote about taking meaningful actions even while feeling afraid or overwhelmed. #psychscisky #therapistsky www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind... What We Do Matters, Especially When Things Are Hardest | Psychology Today

We saw our first northern bobwhite over the weekend! 🪶

Very excited to get such good looks at these two blue grosbeaks! 🪶

Very excited to get such good looks at these two in Falmouth, MA, US this morning. 🪶

@joshbartok.bsky.social & I have a new @psychologytoday.com piece on how we can increase kindness & generosity through our awareness & actions, while still recognizing cruelty. #psychology www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind... Recognizing Kindness and Generosity Increases Them | Psychology Today

It took a little while to find this noisy down woodpecker baby! 🪶

Fun to see this hummingbird perched on a tree. 🪶

On our fourth try @lizroemer.bsky.social and I finally saw the local celebrity cerulean warbler! 🪶

We saw our first chickadee chick today in Smithfield, RI, USA. 🪶

Our first killdeer chick in Winthrop, MA, USA 🪶

This was our first oystercatcher chick! 🪶

Eastern Meadowlark, Falmouth MA. Lifer. 🪶

Amazing to witness this in the parking lot after birding. Falmouth, MA. 🪶

@lizroemer.bsky.social and I drove to Concord, MA to try to find this beauty this morning and two other birders helped us. Lifer! 🪶

We saw many beautiful magnolia warblers yesterday in Newburyport, MA (📷 by @joshbartok.bsky.social) 🪶

Bobolink at Parker River NWR today. 🪶

An amazing warbler day at Parker River NWR yesterday. 🪶

Our first eastern whippoorwill! At Parker River NWR this morning. (A kind woman showed @lizroemer.bsky.social where to find it) 🪶

First time seeing a female rose-breasted grosbeak 🪶

First yellow warbler of the season 🪶

Black-throated blue warbler at Parker River NWR MA US. 🪶

@joshbartok.bsky.social and I are at Somerville Open Studios from 12-6 (Arts on the Armory). #somervillema folks come visit! Beautiful abstract art and 🪶 📷s.