washed out swimming muskrat in a mush of rain cloudy water.
hummingbird in silhouette
gadwell duck dining on something in the water
Sleepy barred owl dreaming of a juicy mouse.
Cruddy half-decent photos from soggy birding expedition with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social. We saw a barred owl, muskrat, and a bunny! Only some pictured here.
Aww thanks! It was nice of it to shit everywhere so I could find it.
Your moment of calm: a barred owl @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social adroitly spotted near Reed College. 1/2
yellow skunk cabbage blossom
orange striped fish with long snout
glasses left on a stump, surrounded by greenery
oh who this? this who. this who fungi lookin' like a fritter, like a fritter gained consciousness and sat up on a log and said who this, this is who.
Quite a lot of lovely texture seen on the Reed College Texture Gathering Expedition that @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social and I went on yesterday. Our findings will be presented at the 2027 London Architecture College's "Colloquium on the Quantum Loss of Tactile Experience in the 21st Century".
A pale fungus with lumpy shape and nubby texture grows out of a mossy log.
My contribution is this toothed jelly fungus. Squishy.
If the human race is to survive, we must terraform Goose Planet 🌎
😬
I demand elk credit
night heron in brambled pond-side branches
male ring-necked duck
goose fully extended like globular vase with long neck
gadwell duck
Around the Koll wetlands with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social the other day.
I’m not sick of this joke yet.
My event in Portland today went well...
A study I led came out in Nature Cities yesterday!
We used radar to study the role that urban landscapes play in migratory bird stopover. Spoiler: birds use cities a lot, and the patterns of their use reflect social processes and the inequities embedded in them.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
wooden troll attacking a red swedish shed according to legend, but in fact the shed was the troll's father until the wood hunters made him into a shed. now he languidly extols the virtues of fireplace and chimney while troll child screams "remember before you were dwelling!"
back slates of wooden troll, with a rudder beaver tail at lower left for no reason known to god or sweden
nutty accumulation of unpainted bird houses at kaleidoscopic angles hangkng off post
double door wood carved
Around troll pkaces with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
butt of nutria, eye of newt, no it's a butt of nutria, in marsh
Lost toupee at Koll Wetlands. Free. Seen by me and @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
Yes and it is also an ice cream shop that has a needle-felting area. I award it 10/10 Portlands.
I’m definitely going back to the strawberry museum in June!
Nest failure due to drone use is a real thing. Please do comment to help birds and other wildlife against an absolutely stupid unnecessary hazard. Honestly, who the fuck needs a drone.
American Oystercatchers be like
a display of books on wall shelves at a library, including Flight Paths by Rebecca Heisman and Must-See Birds of the Pacific Northwest by Sarah Swanson & Max Smith
Once a year or so my local public library does a display of bird books — it made me smile today to see mine and @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social's side by side!
Here is my take for @orionmagazine.bsky.social on the non-existent bigfoot. A lot of time, effort, and research went into this. Thanks to @annvandermeer.bsky.social for lots of interview assistance and @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social. Extra photos in thread. 1/?
orionmagazine.org/article/bigf...
New pudu, woohoo!
Merry Christmas to you and Sprocket!
Help me Hive Mind!
This Haydn sonata has a riff, first presented in the very first measure, that was borrowed by Beethoven (a Haydn fan and pupil) in one of B’s great piano works.
Which, of course, I can’t place. And which, of course, is driving me crazy.
Any help?
youtu.be/jfsSFGDpFbw?...
A green heron stands atop a wooden post, directly in front of a white great egret mid-flight with wings spread wide open.
Soar-er Eclipse. #Photography #ArtAdventCalendar
I was helping!
Beautiful!!
Definitely a young Bald Eagle. I was there. 🙂
Sarah in green dress with host in black, with a table of books and art connected to the Wildlife Arts Festival here in Portland.
Cool to see my friend @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social on KATU here in Portland, OR, this morning to promote the @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social's Wildlife Arts Festival (this coming weekend!). www.wildartsfestival.org
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
Two sandhill cranes, seen on an expedition with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
