My expertise and art is astro/planetary related, but I am a huge bird nerd too! I occasionally paint them, like this little Costa’s hummingbird in my yard. My business name was also inspired by a bird—Cyanocitta stelleri, the Steller’s Jay. #ArtAdventCalendar

A male Pileated Woodpecker checks a spot in the bark for tasty ants.

One of my more artful photos. #ArtAdventCalendar

#artadventcalendar Day 1 A study of a photo I took from the fall - my Vancouver nephew looking at the northern light near our home. 8x10 oil on board

It's been 7 years since shooting 720p video was acceptable (or more), and it has also been 7 years since the most impactful tornado outbreak in December in Illinois. This one was the last of six we saw before the sun completely set at 4:30 PM 🫠

Snoot 🤎

COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

Just finished this painting of a branch, incidentally featuring a great spotted woodpecker! 😂 Watercolor on 30x40cm paper, 425g/m2 - but learned my lesson about trying to use anything but Arches. 🙃 #BirdArt #SciArt #ArtAdventCalendar

Here's a quizzical mandarin duck to start your week off on a good note 🥰 🪶

Toss and Catch.... 2024 was a mast year & the hawthorns at Hassop Station #Derbyshire attracted record numbers of Waxwings The crest, the black mask, the red & yellow details on the feathers, the tongue! #BirdOfTheDay #Stunday #BerriesandBeaks #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Birds #UKbirding #Sheffield

To relax I've been doing more colorful doodles with whatever cheap materials I have. This is an Indian Rhino with markers and colored pencils

The final piece for Xenovember! 30 days of the #xenomorph, and to celebrate, I figured I'd round it out with something I've never really given proper dues to... www.instagram.com/p/DRr85V8kpTD/

SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos? www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...

Have I shared him here? I don't think so! This is Doc, my fancy pigeon #pigeonsky

Here are 5 more days of #Nudivember. Only 4 left to go!! I need a reward for getting through 30 full days.

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

Been a bit time poor lately so had to do this in pieces over a few days. I think they’re more of a classic 90s boy band rather than a goth band.

The Red-headed Woodpecker is such a sharp looking bird. Love the steel blue edging to their black feathers.

A Sandhill Crane with a small splash strolls towards the shoreline.

Learning is a process 😩 I got a few hours into version 1 (bottom) of this painting of a branch and also a bird, before realizing I REALLY didn't like my choices there. So I re-started (top) and like it a lot more with more white showing through. ...also I'm not skimping on paper again after this 😅

Here is a watercolor painting of a Bartail Parrotfish, Scarus caudofasciatus, for my Sunday Fish Sketch. Reference photo(s) by Stephen Spangler, Scuba.Spanglers.com #sciart #marinelife #coralreefs #oceanconservation #parrotfish #spanglersscuba #sundayfishsketch

Needle felted keychains, these and more critters will be available this christmas on my shop! #SciArt #felting #art

Red-footed Booby & White-crowned Parrot I drew for the #birdtober challenge #birdart #wildlifeart #parrot 🪶

Dinovember day 22: Sauropelta edwardsorum (Watercolour painting with ink. Bamboo paper) #Dinovember2025 #SciArt #PaleoArt

bird wirewrap challenge DAYS 73-84 🐦‍⬛🪶 hoopoe • pileated woodpecker • frigatebird • rainbow lorikeet • violaceous jay • barnacle goose • violet-green swallow • cedar waxwing • indigo bunting • brown-headed cowbird • ostrich • altamira oriole #birds #birdart #SciArt #art #artist #jewelry

A Pileated Woodpecker tips her head back after getting a beakful of water. Most birds, like this woodpecker, drink by scooping up water with their beaks and then tilt their heads back to send the water down their throats.

Today is #WorldAnteaterDay 🎉💙 Giant Anteater sketch study. Conservation status Vulnerable. They have a distinctive snout with a 2-foot-long tongue and no teeth, and feed almost exclusively on ants and termites. #AnteaterDay #GiantAnteater #AnimalArt #SciArt #SketchStudy

Portrait of a Pied Currawong. #birds

A Brown Cuckoo-dove and his marvellous eye. #birds

Some quick acrylic pen drawings on wooden ornaments that I did to procrastinate on a watercolor that's giving me trouble. 😛 Two-sided. Festive and winter pigeons for me, christmas and plausibly all-year rhinoceroses for my mother-in-law. First time drawing a rhino, iirc

I have a second set of Santa Hat Bird greeting cards available! 🎨🐡🪶 Illustrated in Procreate. No artificial nonsense. From birds suggested by folks who came to my art booth this last summer in Humboldt County in northern California. Buy now to get in time for mailing out! #art #BskyArt #Christmas

These Starlings are back with me having been on display in the USA for 6 months. "Murmuration 2" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p23/st... #birds #FlyDay #WildlifeArt #FiberArt

Half hour environment sketch, Tasmania, late Cretaceous. Leaellynasaura mid-molt out of summer browns and into winter whites scans the landscape in the weak fading Antarctic sunlight. 🎨 #SciArt #PaleoArt

The Red-headed Woodpecker stands out in the landscape, especially on sunny days.

I found this amazing Trosia semirufa moth on my window last night at @casabentbill.bsky.social #moths #lepidoptera #nature #costarica

Here's a little more detail of the eye ring on the male Black-headed Trogon at Agami Island. The blue is skin; not feathers. One day, I hope to get a closer view of this species. #birds #nature #costarica

I watched a large group of young Ocellated Antbirds hunting in an antswarm with their parents yesterday. I've never been this close to this species, as I could have literally reached out and touched this bird. This is an obligate antbirds, meaning... #birds #costarica

Incredible image, Glen!

PLEASE this. And also to scientists writing press releases, too - calling something "AI" when it was actually your student spending 12 months fitting and validating a model is disingenuous

A Sandhill Crane couple strolling along the shoreline on a Fall morning.

Ever feel like your town gets more nighttime tornadoes than others? Here's a map of tornadoes by time of day (nighttime tors are plotted on top of daytime tors to stand out). I feel for you Tulsa, Jackson, Birmingham, Nashville...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 118 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 7.6 x higher -Long COVID: 6.0 x higher -Hospitalizations: 10.4 x higher -Deaths: 12.2 x higher

OK, who else needs a break? Have some cute dinosaurs. Old work. 🐡

Black-naped monarch (𝘏𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘺𝘮𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘻𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢)🌀 #birds #birdart #illustration #sciart

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

It took three more tries to paint an aurora I was happy with! 😂 The other two are in the scrap pile, but I learned a LOT from these studies. Watercolor with white acrylic pen, 17x11.5cm #TraditionalArt #NightSky #NorthernLights

Also because I love them: bsky.app/profile/skwi...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Carl is a very smoov criminal #birb #ParrotSky