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kestrelhill.bsky.social
@kestrelhill.bsky.social
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Birder, lover of speculative fiction, old Leftie. she/her
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

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Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Me, with a deadline, doing absolutely everything except what I need to do
A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a brown jacket and dark pants, is crouching on a beach near the water. He is holding a mallet and appears to be attempting to hammer nails into the sand close to the water's edge. Several nails are already partially embedded in the sand, and waves are approaching them.
June 14, 2024 at 2:28 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Remember to get your toes done for beach season
Snowy Egret featuring black toenails on golden slippers Sanibel Island, 1990
December 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
If Danny de Vito was a bird
Royal Tern, Sanibel Island 1990
December 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
BIRDS
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d
THIS JUST IN: Birds
Saja and Smudge looking very very very attentively out the office window at a flock of starlings in the yard
December 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
If B Dylan Hollis is pre-serum Steve Rogers, blumineck is circus-era Clint Barton
juliethecranky.bsky.social [blur] is still my superhero name @juliethecranky.bsky.social · 11d
Anyone writing historical weaponry, start here. He’s actually an archer, so Hawkeye types, here’s your info.

I chose this vid because it’s hilarious and I’m amazed he kept all his fingers and toes.

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I had some pumpkins left over…
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December 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Bill passed away this morning just before 8. At home, in his own bed, just as he wanted.

"William Theodore Feldhusen, 2/10/1055 - 6/4/2025 Beloved husband, loving father, friend to all wild things and
places.
Bill Feldhusen about 10 years ago at Thacher Park
June 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
and love the light that brings a smile across your face

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Sarah McLachlan - Hold On (Live from Mirrorball)
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May 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
You'd think with all the books in this house it would be no problem to find something for me to read to Bill to distract him. BUT. After much searching I pulled this out and found to my pleasure that McPhee writes very read-aloudable prose. Good cadence and spacing for breath
In Suspect Terrain, by John McPhee -
May 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Lowly Worm driving his apple car. On the side is written "My other car is RFK Jr's brain"
April 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
No arguably about it
April 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Imagine these mounted en tremblant on an elaborate hair ornament snapping shut and open
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attn @juliethecranky.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
My Taxes Cactus filed for an extension this year
Zygocactus almost in bloom
April 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
And today it's a pair of Sandhill Cranes in RennsCo.

Seriously, birding is all that's keeping me sane
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Trumpeter Swan in my neighborhood

#birdsky
Trumpeter Swan showing its distinctive head profile
April 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
I liked about 95% of Scalzi's latest, thought the end faltered. I enjoyed the structure of many changing POV narratives rather than conventional single-character

#fantasyfaction #sciencefiction #booksky
Cover of When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi, with an astronaut standing on a swiss cheese moon
April 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Fifteen years of birdwatching notebooks, from June 2010 up to yesterday
20 small colorful notebooks adorned with stickers, dated 6/2010 to 4/2026
April 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Local library had a wrap party for their year-long readers' challenge - book talk, snacks, and swag including this highly relevant button
Tote bag with two buttons. One reads "A book a day keeps reality away"
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
I got a few chapters in and decided this is just too damn depressing to read at this point in history. The Anthropocene Extinction is upon us
Cover of 'The Age of Loneliness' by Laura Marris
April 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
I might want to see your life list, too 🦉🦆🦤
Text: A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
March 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
This tagline on my bank's website doesn't inspire quite the same confidence it used to
FDIC-Insured - Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government
March 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Polymorphism: my latest Birdword comic for Cornell Lab.
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A three panel comic. In panel 1, there's a torn piece of paper with a definition: Polymorphism: noun. When one species contains two or more types of individuals (morphs) that differ by color or other physical characteristics unrelated to sex, age, locality, or season. In panel 2, there are red-tailed hawk morphs (calurus subspecies): light, dark, and intermediate. Note: these fall on a spectrum. In panel 3, there are red-tailed hawk morphs that I wish existed: blue-footed, red-winged, pileated (with a woodpecker head), bioluminescent, pocket-sized, vulturine (with a bare head) and resplendent (with green quetzal feathers and a very long tail).
March 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Shorebird season is coming...
Western Willet doing a biiiiiig stretch Albany County NY, August 2015
March 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
Short-tailed weasel, seen and photographed today by my son
Short-tailed weasel, still in its winter white coat. Not visible - snazzy black tail tip
March 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
kestrelhill.bsky.social
The propaganda of wolves

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Sheep grazing under the watch of a sheepdog. Text reads "They will tell you the world is made of wolves and sheep. That your only choice is to kill or be killed, for such are the roles that nature gives us. But this is the propaganda of wolves. They are afraid of us, afraid we will remember. We can choose to be shepherds."
March 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM