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
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
Tis the season. From my husband’s camera.
July 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Tis the season. From my husband’s camera.
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
Caught the last of the mountain laurel and the first of the sheep laurel blooms
June 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Caught the last of the mountain laurel and the first of the sheep laurel blooms
Carnivorous plants
June 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Carnivorous plants
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