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Cindy Songbird

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Music 🎶 educator turned Horticulture professor. Naturalist with focus on native plant communities 🌲🌿🌼,birds 🪶🦅🦆🦉& insects🦋🐝🐞. “Every bird has its own song” 🚫DMs. Post content for follow back #HomegrownNationalPark #birds #botany #entomology #nativeplants

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Nov 16

Just breathe…

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Sep 28

Don’t forget that 60% of the world’s seed proprietorship is owned by chemical corporations…

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Sep 17

I stood quiet and still atop the observation tower at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR as the sun rose over the marsh. I was rewarded with thousands of tree swallows beginning a new day. An American bittern flew in, allowing me a single digiscoped shot before disappearing in the vegetation. #sunrise #birding

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Sep 3

Mount Kineo in Moosehead Lake, Greenville, Maine. #maine

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Aug 2

American goldfinches love to peck away at the leaves. We grow it in our garden and could not figure out why the leaves had small tears in them - they weren’t typical insect damage. Then we observed the goldfinches land on the leaf and nibble! We don’t mind sharing.

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Aug 1

A few from a paddle with Maine Coast Heritage Trust last month. That blingy beetle is Calligrapha alni, and the caddisfly is a Phryganea. #maine

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 24

Tis the season. From my husband’s camera.

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 20

A few from Orono Bog last month, one of my favorite places to geek out over plants! #maine #oronobogboardwalk #flowerreport

Rhododendron (syn. Ledum) groenlandicum (Labrador tea) in bloom

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 19

He’s great. Absolute riot!

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 18

Like no other!

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 10

That should say monotypic - autocorrect 🙄

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 10

Meyanthes trifoliata (bogbean) from last month. This is a monotypes species found in fen wetlands. The blooms are exquisite! Orono Bog, Maine. #flowerreport #nativeplants #wetland #maine #oronobog

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Canada Day! I present a short clip from a new trail on Campobello Island, NB. The trail bisects a coastal boreal bog & it is magnificent. This is a heath shrub swamp, part of the wetland complex. Rhodora, Labrador tea, & cotton grass in full bloom a few weeks ago. #canadaday #nativeplants #bog

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 30

My senator’s mailbox is full. Of course it is…

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 28

Remembering phone numbers

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

Caught the last of the mountain laurel and the first of the sheep laurel blooms

Xerophyllum asphodeloides (Turkey beard)

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sarracenia purpurea (purple pitcher plant)

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

Carnivorous plants

Drosera filiformis and Drosera intermedia (thread-leaved and spatulate-leaved sundews)

Drosera intermedia (spatulate-leaved sundew)

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

A favorite savanna loaded with asphodel and orchids

Beautiful savanna surrounded by cedar swamp and pitch pine

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

Narthecium americanum (bog asphodel) endangered in NJ

Pogonia ophioglossoides (rose pogonia orchid)

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides (wild raisin)

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 26

A 🧵from my kayaking trip in the NJ Pine Barrens last week. The blooms were amazing. #kayaking #nativeplants #NJPineBarrens #NJPinelands #Batstoriver

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 25

Lysimachia quadriflora (whorled loosestrife)

Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 25

Spent some time at Kennebunk Plains in York County, Maine. This is a Nature Conservancy property that protects several critically imperiled plant communities rare in the state. Many are fire dependent, the site is managed with controlled burns and selective mowing. #maine #nativeplants #fireecology

Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry)

Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry) dwarf form

Cypripedium acuale (pink lady’s slipper)

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Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 19

Peregrine falcon feeding chicks. Cumberland County, Maine. 6/3/25 #peregrinefalcon #birds #birding #maine

Cindy Songbird @cindysongbird.bsky.social · Jun 18

Spent 10 days in Maine, much needed vaca after our best girl, Boo passed away at 16.5 yrs a few days before the trip. She was always fearful of bridges for reasons unknown to us, but we would have loved to carry her across the Wiggly Bridge in York. #RIPbestgirl #missyou #maine #wigglybridge #york