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Shares content about the great outdoors.
Loves old-growth trees and boreal forests.
Please drive carefully around cyclists! 🚲
100% watching this on @pbs.org. #birder
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Insightful documentary about Rails to Trails on @pbs.org.

I support @railstotrails.org. Love being able to go birding and cycling.

#birder #trails #bike #safety #cyclist

www.pbs.org/video/from-r...
October 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Stop and smell the flowers. Yield to bees. They are nature's heroes. 🐝
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Meet Maple. She is a retired police K-9.

This goodest girl is now helping to detect bacteria in bee colonies to keep it from spreading.

She works at Michigan State University's Pollinator Performance Center. 🐝

msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/bu...
July 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This photo of a baby piping plover is exactly what I needed today...

Photo by Max Kelly (Macaulay Library). #birder
June 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
In these troubling times, you need a photo of this baby sandhill crane. #birder

Photo by Matt Felperin (Macaulay Library).
June 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What a cute pair of cardinals! #birder
April 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When you just need light-hearted news, NPR delivers!

A crow's math skills include geometry... #birder

"It's the first time a species other than humans has been shown to have this kind of geometric intuition." - @npr.org

www.npr.org/2025/04/12/n...
A crow's math skills include geometry
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
www.npr.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Meet the Phainopepla. #birder

You will find this bird "underneath the mistletoe." 🎶

Its chief food during the winter months is desert mistletoe.

Learn more at @abcbirds.bsky.social. Photo by Leah Turner, Cornell Lab. (abcbirds.org/bird/phainop...) 🌎
February 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Love when I pre-order books and then forget about them. It is like getting random gifts.

Look at that stunning cover by @emberwickart.bsky.social!

Pre-ordered @travisbaldree.bsky.social's Brigands & Breadknives in both hardcover and Audible. 📚💙
January 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Clifford says Happy Lunar New Year! #birder
January 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Teller of Small Fortunes by @julieleong.bsky.social. #writing

My youngest child loved drawing this book cover. #art

Loved the phoenix character! #birder 🐦‍🔥📚💙
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Libraries are safe portals to adventures and faraway lands. #libsky

New library feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Use feed tags: #libsky #library or #librarian 📚💙
January 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New bird cam with happy customer. #birder
January 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet the stunning Indigo Bunting. #birder

Did you know their beautiful color is an optical illusion? 💙 #trickery

Learn more about past Birds of the Week at @abcbirds.bsky.social. 🌏

Photo by Joshua Galicki (abcbirds.org/bird/indigo-...)
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Not watching the news and enjoying this docuseries instead... 🌏🧪

Narrated by former President Barack Obama, Our Great National Parks is a love letter to wildlife. #birder
January 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Libraries are beautiful sanctuaries. 📚💙
January 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Drawing of book cover by my youngest child.

Cozy fantasy about delightful coffee shop & baked goods. Found family novel w/ low spice. 📚💙

Fav characters: We all need a friend like Amity the dire cat. Protect Thimble the baker at all costs!

Legends & Lattes by @travisbaldree.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Meet the Shining Sunbeam.

Did you know that their backside dazzles in the right light? #birder

Learn more about the Bird of the Week @abcbirds.bsky.social.

Photo by Miles Tindal / Macaulay Library📚💙 (www.milestindal.ca)
January 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
See a junco. Post a junco. #birder
January 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Puffins are getting stranded...

Did you know puffins are dangerously attracted to artificial light?

It lures them to land causing them to get stranded.

Another way light pollution affects birds. 🪶

Photo by Jieles van Baalen / Macaulay Library (ebird.org/species/atlpuf).
January 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Wow...

1-in-10 million yellow Northern Cardinal sighted at backyard birdfeeder. #birder

Photo by Linda Vail (www.mlive.com/environment/...)
January 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Happy New Year, Blueskyers! #happynewyear #birder

Photo of Mexican Spotted Owls by Dave Palmer (abcbirds.org/article/new-...)
January 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Counting down the days until the blue jays return... 🐦

Come back, Toronto! #Midwest #birder
December 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Federal Court upholds ban on Arkansas library law! 💙📚

The ruling said sections of the law they enjoined “would permit, if not encourage, library committees and local governmental bodies to make censorship decisions based on content or viewpoint, which would violate the First Amendment.” - @npr.org
December 24, 2024 at 9:47 PM