halfmagical
@halfmagical.bsky.social
Shares content about the great outdoors.
Loves old-growth trees and boreal forests.
Please drive carefully around cyclists! 🚲
Loves old-growth trees and boreal forests.
Please drive carefully around cyclists! 🚲
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...
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
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...
I support @railstotrails.org. Love being able to go birding and cycling.
#birder #trails #bike #safety #cyclist
www.pbs.org/video/from-r...
Stop and smell the flowers. Yield to bees. They are nature's heroes. 🐝
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Stop and smell the flowers. Yield to bees. They are nature's heroes. 🐝
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...
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
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...
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...
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...) 🌎
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
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...) 🌎
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...) 🌎
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. 📚💙
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
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. 📚💙
Look at that stunning cover by @emberwickart.bsky.social!
Pre-ordered @travisbaldree.bsky.social's Brigands & Breadknives in both hardcover and Audible. 📚💙
The Teller of Small Fortunes by @julieleong.bsky.social. #writing
My youngest child loved drawing this book cover. #art
Loved the phoenix character! #birder 🐦🔥📚💙
My youngest child loved drawing this book cover. #art
Loved the phoenix character! #birder 🐦🔥📚💙
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 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 🐦🔥📚💙
My youngest child loved drawing this book cover. #art
Loved the phoenix character! #birder 🐦🔥📚💙
Libraries are safe portals to adventures and faraway lands. #libsky
New library feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Use feed tags: #libsky #library or #librarian 📚💙
New library feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Use feed tags: #libsky #library or #librarian 📚💙
January 23, 2025 at 5:46 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 📚💙
New library feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Use feed tags: #libsky #library or #librarian 📚💙
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-...)
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
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-...)
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-...)
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
Narrated by former President Barack Obama, Our Great National Parks is a love letter to wildlife. #birder
January 21, 2025 at 12:35 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
Narrated by former President Barack Obama, Our Great National Parks is a love letter to wildlife. #birder
Libraries are beautiful sanctuaries. 📚💙
January 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Libraries are beautiful sanctuaries. 📚💙
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
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
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
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
Congrats, Julie! Love the book and will be re-reading in 2025.
January 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Congrats, Julie! Love the book and will be re-reading in 2025.
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)
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
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)
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)
Just purchased on Audible! Excited to dive into the book.
January 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just purchased on Audible! Excited to dive into the book.
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).
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
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).
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).
Wearing this for Season 7!!!
January 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Wearing this for Season 7!!!
Wow...
1-in-10 million yellow Northern Cardinal sighted at backyard birdfeeder. #birder
Photo by Linda Vail (www.mlive.com/environment/...)
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
Wow...
1-in-10 million yellow Northern Cardinal sighted at backyard birdfeeder. #birder
Photo by Linda Vail (www.mlive.com/environment/...)
1-in-10 million yellow Northern Cardinal sighted at backyard birdfeeder. #birder
Photo by Linda Vail (www.mlive.com/environment/...)
Here is my 2025 book pile!
January 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Here is my 2025 book pile!