Digital pencil sketch of two blue jays on a branch
Blue jay sketch 🪶
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Digital pencil sketch of two blue jays on a branch
Blue jay sketch 🪶
Digital drawing of a diving peregrine falcon in front of a modified Star Wars resistance emblem
Little drawing I did. Who doesn’t love a little resistance? #birds
Close-up of a gray morph Eastern Screech-owl in a tree cavity
Gray morph Eastern Screech-owl in a tree cavity, with ear tufts raised
A gray morph Eastern Screech-owl poking out of its tree cavity, in a large dead section of limb
My little gray morph screech friend #birds #raptors
Adult female rough-legged hawk perched atop a leafless tree
My first roughie for the year #birds
I also use a 90D and Sigma 150-600, plus topaz denoise for post-processing, which tends to sharpen up images a lot.
I was standing probably 8 feet from it with my 600mm lens, and it just sat there and posed. Also super good lighting.
Detailed portrait of a female boat-tailed grackle
Boat-tailed grackle would like to speak with your manager 🪶
Monday motivation:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead
Merlin dismantling a House Sparrow 🪶
Pair of juvenile cliff swallows on a telephone line. Swallow on the right has its mouth wide open while the swallow on the left gives the other a look.
Cliff Swallows 🪶
Warbling vireo perched on a bare branch
Warbling vireo perched on a twig
Warbling Vireo 🪶
Black-and-white warbler sitting on one foot and singing
Black-and-white Warbler 🪶
Red-bellied snake in my hand
Red-bellied snake
Juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk eating a robin
eBird life list showing 350 species
Saw my 350th #bird species over the weekend
The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land
Good old Pennsyltucky
‼️Take Bold Action for Birds NOW: We’re 400 signatures away from 10,000 calling on Congress to protect migratory birds.
Up to 1 billion birds die each year from preventable causes. The MBTA has protected them for 100+ years — but it’s at risk.
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This Red-tailed Hawk was found unable to fly on the #NationalMall. 🇺🇸
At our clinic, she tested positive for #rodenticide & lead poisoning.💔
Rat poison does NOT just kill rats. It poisons ecosystems. Learn more about the harm of rodenticide & alternatives at raptorsarethesolution.org
It has the darkest skies in all of PA. Some of the photos out of there are phenomenal.
Adult blue-winged warbler perched on a hawthorn branch
Adult blue-winged warbler perched on a hawthorn branch
Wanted to share this lifer (sort of) Blue-winged Warbler from late May 🪶
Finished product 🔥
Oh, look. It’s a horrible video of a yellow warbler! Enjoy my pitiful attempts to keep my camera stable, plus all of the wonderful noises my camera makes while autofocusing :) 🪶
Digital illustration of a large tornado crossing a river between wooded mountains. UNPREDICTABLE: The Pennsylvania Tornadoes of 1985, Created and Musically Scored by Connor Sipe.
Tomorrow marks 40 years since the Pennsylvania/Ohio tornado outbreak on May 31, 1985 that far surpassed anything else in local history in both magnitude and destruction. If you haven't seen my short cinematic doc UNPREDICTABLE on YouTube, check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m47Q...
May 31st, 1985:
One of the worst outbreaks to hit the Northeast US and Canada spawned 44 tornadoes. 9 were violent, with the strongest being an F5 that devastated Niles, OH & Wheatland, PA. Many other towns in PA, OH, and southern ON were ruined. 88 people were killed.
“If it ain’t making someone billions, forget it” -some republican probably
For me, it’s cloudy every night I plan to do astro here. That’s just me though, everyone else seems to have better luck with weather.
Check out Cherry Springs SP in north-central PA. No guarantee of clear skies (usually always cloudy here in the armpit of the US)
#BlueSkyArtShow
