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Adam Winer
@awiner.bsky.social
Birder (and butterflies), music lover, (indoor) cat scritcher, Jewish dude, cryptic crossword solver, and assorted other interests. 🏳️‍🌈+🏳️‍⚧️ ally. he/him.
A few birds on today's #BirdOfTheDay theme - #NaturesPantry. All seen on Cozumel (Mexico), all feeding on berries or seeds. 🪶 #birds
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ScratchersAndPruners (any bird Scratching or Pruning itself). This Gray Treepie in Taipei was checking out its underwing. 🪶
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #splashes. A young Sharp-shinned Hawk taking a bath certainly qualifies. 🪶
December 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
@robcrank68.bsky.social
has set #alansnemesis - kingfishers - as #birdoftheday for
@alan678.bsky.social; here's a Pacific Kingfisher from Fiji. 🪶
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Today's #birdoftheday is #BirdsOnTwigs. Here's a fabulous Yellow Grosbeak from the dry scrub in Guatemala🪶 #birds
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #movement - here's a Mountain Bluebird taking flight in California. 🪶
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HangingAround - birds at unusual angles. A Wallcreeper in the Valais of Switzerland, doing what it does, here entirely upside down.
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Today’s #birdoftheday is any bird on a wire. This one is the fabulous Taiwan Yellow Tit. #birds
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Thrushes - here's a Taiwan Thrush and a Fiji Island-Thrush. Until recently both considered subspecies of Island Thrush, that complex is now considered 18 different species! 🪶
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Today's theme for #birdoftheday is #staredown . No one stares down with more disdain than an owl - here with a twofer from Lanyu Island, Taiwan 🪶
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Crabgrass Frontier (perhaps oddly, the most self-radicalizing book I've yet read), and Mason & Dixon (carefully delineating the bounds of my pretentiousness).
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
#BirdOfTheDay themes of #paddling and #yellow birds, here in one picture - Lesser Goldfinch male, bathing.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime

Here's a Fairy Pitta bringing lunch back to its nest! 🪶 Taiwan, near Budai.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I'm ready for my #CloseUp, #BirdOfTheDay! A Greater Antillean Grackle from Puerto Rico. #birds
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Day is almost up, but I can still join the #BirdOfTheDay theme - #rock. So how about two Rock Partridges standing on rocks! 🪶 Gantrisch, Switzerland
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Hiding .

This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today's #Birdoftheday are birds at #OddAngles #birdphotography #birds

A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is "Pairs of the Same Birds", from @robcrank68.bsky.social . How about a pair of Eurasian Jackdaws in Bern, Switzerland? 🪶
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
See a pigeon, post a pigeon. #birds

(Band-tailed Pigeon, the remaining native pigeon in (most of) the US.)
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sure thing @aba.org! Not a lifer lifer, but an ABA region lifer - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda, California. An Asian species, rare in CA. Found by Deborah Crooks two days ago, still here today! (ABA #691) 🪶
October 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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So exhausting..
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We are spoiled here in California to share our space with these gorgeous creatures - Red-shouldered Hawk 🪶. The form in California is particularly elegant - so much so it's been considered a possible split as Elegant Hawk (Buteo elegans). This one was especially unconcerned with my presence.
September 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM