Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦
@ptaknerd.bsky.social
Lover of nature and art. Bird nerd. 🦜 Wanderer. 🏳️🌈
Coffee is my religion ☕️
Learning 🇺🇦🇵🇱 languages. The bird is the word.
Köppen-Geiger classification: Csa
Coffee is my religion ☕️
Learning 🇺🇦🇵🇱 languages. The bird is the word.
Köppen-Geiger classification: Csa
Take off… to the Great White North. Take off, it’s a beauty way to go…
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Take off… to the Great White North. Take off, it’s a beauty way to go…
April 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Indeed. Far more sensible. If silly.
March 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Indeed. Far more sensible. If silly.
Thank you. I just looked it up. California in 2018 was slightly better than Alberta. Not enough to be statistically significant for me. I think it’s her experience based on where she was, or what she did. I probably will see fewer smokers because I am not so social?
February 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thank you. I just looked it up. California in 2018 was slightly better than Alberta. Not enough to be statistically significant for me. I think it’s her experience based on where she was, or what she did. I probably will see fewer smokers because I am not so social?
Thanks! I have been to the Muttart before. I never know what will be in the fourth pyramid. I have been to Edmonton. Just haven’t stayed long.
And not in the middle of winter.
And not in the middle of winter.
February 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thanks! I have been to the Muttart before. I never know what will be in the fourth pyramid. I have been to Edmonton. Just haven’t stayed long.
And not in the middle of winter.
And not in the middle of winter.
On the Trans-Canada Highway past the beautiful mountains of Banff, Alberta.
February 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
On the Trans-Canada Highway past the beautiful mountains of Banff, Alberta.
Western screech owl. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Tucson, AZ
February 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Western screech owl. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Tucson, AZ
Sleeping ruru (morepork owl) in Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand
#SuperbOwl
#SuperbOwl
February 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Sleeping ruru (morepork owl) in Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand
#SuperbOwl
#SuperbOwl
Happy Superb Owl Day!
Here is an obligatory superb owl post, with the Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds open to identifying various owls in western North America. Note that a new edition of this guide was released Nov 2024. I have yet to look at it.
Here is an obligatory superb owl post, with the Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds open to identifying various owls in western North America. Note that a new edition of this guide was released Nov 2024. I have yet to look at it.
February 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Happy Superb Owl Day!
Here is an obligatory superb owl post, with the Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds open to identifying various owls in western North America. Note that a new edition of this guide was released Nov 2024. I have yet to look at it.
Here is an obligatory superb owl post, with the Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds open to identifying various owls in western North America. Note that a new edition of this guide was released Nov 2024. I have yet to look at it.
Have a late Caterday submission: A mountain lion cleaning itself at Living Desert Zoo in Palm Desert, California.
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Have a late Caterday submission: A mountain lion cleaning itself at Living Desert Zoo in Palm Desert, California.
Grackles carrying on in Coachella Valley. I love their calls.
January 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Grackles carrying on in Coachella Valley. I love their calls.
My recent Coachella Valley experience… they do NOT go ‘Beep! Beep!’…
January 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
My recent Coachella Valley experience… they do NOT go ‘Beep! Beep!’…
You, too, can get in on the fun?
January 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
You, too, can get in on the fun?
Marine biology nerds - or friends of one - I have an identification challenge for you. Watched a Schmidt Ocean video on YouTube and this creature showed up. What on earth is it? Cnidaria… but what? Doesn’t neatly fit. I am stumped. It lives on a sea mount Salas y Gómez Ridge.
January 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Marine biology nerds - or friends of one - I have an identification challenge for you. Watched a Schmidt Ocean video on YouTube and this creature showed up. What on earth is it? Cnidaria… but what? Doesn’t neatly fit. I am stumped. It lives on a sea mount Salas y Gómez Ridge.
Went to the Sac Zoo today, and the river otters were unusually playful. Usually they are in the water or hiding in their indoor space. Love these lil guys!
January 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Went to the Sac Zoo today, and the river otters were unusually playful. Usually they are in the water or hiding in their indoor space. Love these lil guys!
Once a week I meet up online with friends, and we sit together and draw or make other art while we talk. Today I made this:
December 18, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Once a week I meet up online with friends, and we sit together and draw or make other art while we talk. Today I made this:
Hey, back after a social media break. In case you wondered, re earlier post on passionfruit ripening in a bag w a half eaten apple? Most did not fully ripen after 10 days or even 12. Sad state of affairs. They arrived too late in the season to ripen pre-frost.
December 16, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Hey, back after a social media break. In case you wondered, re earlier post on passionfruit ripening in a bag w a half eaten apple? Most did not fully ripen after 10 days or even 12. Sad state of affairs. They arrived too late in the season to ripen pre-frost.
One of my post-election destress activities has been drawing neurographic abstracts. I trace India ink brush pens around jar or bottle lids for the circles, and coloured pencils as fill. It is relaxing and puts me in a near-flow state.
November 23, 2024 at 11:06 PM
One of my post-election destress activities has been drawing neurographic abstracts. I trace India ink brush pens around jar or bottle lids for the circles, and coloured pencils as fill. It is relaxing and puts me in a near-flow state.
Okay, so I picked the vines clean, and trimmed back some excess vines so the plant will fit under the frost cover. Below is a photo of my current yield. One fruit is fully grown, and turning white. The rest are smaller and green. I am not sure how much of this will be edible.
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Okay, so I picked the vines clean, and trimmed back some excess vines so the plant will fit under the frost cover. Below is a photo of my current yield. One fruit is fully grown, and turning white. The rest are smaller and green. I am not sure how much of this will be edible.
It’s chilly here, and I have green passionfruit on my vine. They haven’t ripened yet, but I am going to have to harvest them today as overnight we have our first frost of the season. I heard they can ripen in a closed paper bag, along with a bitten-into apple due to the ethylene? #gardening #9b
November 18, 2024 at 6:30 PM
It’s chilly here, and I have green passionfruit on my vine. They haven’t ripened yet, but I am going to have to harvest them today as overnight we have our first frost of the season. I heard they can ripen in a closed paper bag, along with a bitten-into apple due to the ethylene? #gardening #9b