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Jennifer W. Hanson

@jenniferwhanson.bsky.social

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Copyeditor & indexer specializing in books on birds/birding. Writing a NJ moth guide. NWS weather spotter. Free-range birding librarian/archivist. She/her.

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · Sep 18

Hello to my new followers from @tanyagold.bsky.social’s editing starter pack! I’m a copyeditor, indexer & writer who posts about my varied interests, including birds, moths, old buildings, horses, genealogy, New Jersey, baseball…Sometimes I even post about editorial stuff.

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 7h

Rain has stopped in Eastham, MA. We got 0.8” today. Spotter #21-241. #mawx @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 8h

Buena, NJ.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 1d

I assume this means the woodpecker is attacking the siding and not just drumming on the gutters.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 1d

Li’l cuties!

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 1d

First time I got one of these puzzles in one try, because baseball trivia is not one of my strong suits.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 1d

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Red Sox #403

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Daily Walkoff - A daily MLB trivia game

A new kind of MLB trivia game with 30 new puzzles each day, one for every MLB team. Can you solve them all?

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

I’m definitely a big fan of Chancleta’s work. It always makes me smile when he appears on my timeline.

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

Tell Sandal he is an excellent boy!

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

My main exposure to “woah” is in the lyrics sheets of John Gorka albums. I’m not sure I’ve encountered it elsewhere.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

Early October was the usual cut-off point when I was in NJ.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

Osprey may have migrated south for the winter.

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never seen one on a grave either.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 3d

So far, so good.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 3d

Those are wonderful!

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 3d

I think this is supposed to be a pelican. See link for more on the medieval iconography of the self-sacrificing pelican. ttps://blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-pelican-self-sacrificing-mother-bird-of-the-medieval-bestiary/

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 4d

Best logo ever.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 4d

Now that I’ve finished the index I was working on, I can watch the PBS Saturday cooking shows without guilt.

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Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 4d

Invisible cat!

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes one of the PBS cooking shows brings up a childhood memory. I was watching Kevin Belton’s show and it reminded me that my mother used to have sugarcane around the house when I was a little kid (she grew up in Florida, we were living in NJ at the time).

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 6d

Ugh. Packing it in for this game. Too depressing.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 6d

They probably want the Sox.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 6d

Why would one want to do that to a poor innocent volcano?

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 6d

Go birding? Or just go out and be in natural settings around animals that aren’t doomscrolling and have no idea about human worries.

Jennifer W. Hanson @jenniferwhanson.bsky.social · 6d

Ok, sorry for the confusing exhaustive/ing baseball nonsense in my reply.

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