Cindy Songbird
@cindysongbird.bsky.social
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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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
September 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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
A few from Orono Bog last month, one of my favorite places to geek out over plants! #maine #oronobogboardwalk #flowerreport
July 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A few from Orono Bog last month, one of my favorite places to geek out over plants! #maine #oronobogboardwalk #flowerreport
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
July 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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
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
July 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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
A 🧵from my kayaking trip in the NJ Pine Barrens last week. The blooms were amazing. #kayaking #nativeplants #NJPineBarrens #NJPinelands #Batstoriver
June 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A 🧵from my kayaking trip in the NJ Pine Barrens last week. The blooms were amazing. #kayaking #nativeplants #NJPineBarrens #NJPinelands #Batstoriver
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
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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
Peregrine falcon feeding chicks. Cumberland County, Maine. 6/3/25 #peregrinefalcon #birds #birding #maine
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Peregrine falcon feeding chicks. Cumberland County, Maine. 6/3/25 #peregrinefalcon #birds #birding #maine
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
June 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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
Milkweed can be distracting…I noticed several generations of oleander aphids, and then I saw a syrphid fly laying eggs. I kept looking at the milkweed leaves and found some more aphids (not sure of species but darker than oleander aphids) with a syrphid fly larvae going to town. #aphids #syrphidfly
May 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Milkweed can be distracting…I noticed several generations of oleander aphids, and then I saw a syrphid fly laying eggs. I kept looking at the milkweed leaves and found some more aphids (not sure of species but darker than oleander aphids) with a syrphid fly larvae going to town. #aphids #syrphidfly
May 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A few from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. #Pinebarrens #nativeplants
May 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
A few from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. #Pinebarrens #nativeplants
May 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Native wildflowers for Earth Day from an amazing wildflower preserve. #EarthDay #nativeplants
April 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Native wildflowers for Earth Day from an amazing wildflower preserve. #EarthDay #nativeplants
April 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Happy Earth Day from my wood pile chonk! For me, every day is Earth Day. I was also greeted by the first of season House wren this morning. #EarthDay
April 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy Earth Day from my wood pile chonk! For me, every day is Earth Day. I was also greeted by the first of season House wren this morning. #EarthDay
Volume up! Make a beautiful noise! We all could use a moment of peace. It was lovely to have this place all to myself the other day. Serenity. #nature #soundsofnature #spring
April 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Volume up! Make a beautiful noise! We all could use a moment of peace. It was lovely to have this place all to myself the other day. Serenity. #nature #soundsofnature #spring
Acer rubrum var. trilobum, the NJ Pine Barrens ecotype is blooming and dehiscing pollen now. What an underrated inflorescence, reminds me of fireworks without the noise and pollution! This one has both male and female flowers. #flowerreport #inbloom #acerrubrum #redmaple #njpinebarrens
March 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Acer rubrum var. trilobum, the NJ Pine Barrens ecotype is blooming and dehiscing pollen now. What an underrated inflorescence, reminds me of fireworks without the noise and pollution! This one has both male and female flowers. #flowerreport #inbloom #acerrubrum #redmaple #njpinebarrens
I can’t believe my great fortune observing multiple Great Gray Owls last week at Sax-Zim. This is digiscoped, it was still a bit dark, I lightened the photo. I discovered variation in the secondaries - note the brown. I wonder if this is a 2nd yr bird based on brown secondaries? Thoughts? #owl
March 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I can’t believe my great fortune observing multiple Great Gray Owls last week at Sax-Zim. This is digiscoped, it was still a bit dark, I lightened the photo. I discovered variation in the secondaries - note the brown. I wonder if this is a 2nd yr bird based on brown secondaries? Thoughts? #owl
When the afternoon sun hits the Hamamelis vernalis, it’s pure gold. The scent is wonderful, too. #nativeplants #springisintheair
March 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
When the afternoon sun hits the Hamamelis vernalis, it’s pure gold. The scent is wonderful, too. #nativeplants #springisintheair
And now for something completely different…I present a few pics from the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. The Fender Rhodes in the jam room…I had one years ago. The Alembic bass played by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, and the melotron played by The Rolling Stones. #rockon #rocknrollhalloffame
March 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
And now for something completely different…I present a few pics from the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. The Fender Rhodes in the jam room…I had one years ago. The Alembic bass played by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, and the melotron played by The Rolling Stones. #rockon #rocknrollhalloffame
March 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Hands off our national parks and forests, cheeto! #saveourforests #superiornationalforest #gunflinttrail #minnesota
March 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Hands off our national parks and forests, cheeto! #saveourforests #superiornationalforest #gunflinttrail #minnesota