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Sam B.
@somebeees.bsky.social
🌈 She/They
🎨 Artist and illustrator of nature and more
📷 Native plant and bird photographer
🃏Graphic Designer for Board Games
🪡 Garment/Semi historical sewist
🙈 Human with too many hobbies
☀️ Based in San Diego, CA
Todays #birbfest2026 birds are buffleheads! It’s bufflehead season in San Diego and I’m so happy! I love the way they dive around, they are so cute!

#birds #birdart #bufflehead
January 7, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I did it! I saw the surf scoters under the pier in Imperial Beach! They are gorgeous birds.

#birds #birdphotography #surfscoter
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Today’s #birbfest2026 illustration is a verdin! I see them out in the desert but they are always so fast and hard to photograph. They are such beautiful little birds though!

#verdin #birdart #birds
January 5, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Ok starting to play with the #birbfest2026 prompts a little. Birds native to SoCal are my bread and butter, so I’m taking birds on the list and doing a similar native bird instead. So instead of a razorbill doing another water bird, a surf scoter!

#birds #birdart #surfscoter
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Today’s #birbfesf2026 bird is the many-colored rush tyrant, a colorful round orb of a flycatcher from South America!

#birds #birdart #manycoloredrushtyrant
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Want to start the year off with some art so I’m participating in #birbfest2026 and see how many birbs I can draw! Today’s bird is the beautiful bronzewing pigeon from Australia!

#birdart #birds #bronzewingpigeon
January 2, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Here’s a piece I’ve been plugging away at this month! I was inspired by photos that Haus Dahlia on instagram took of her latest collection, especially her silk dresses. They remind me so much of water that it turned into a water nymph in a pond!

#art #illustration #procreate
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Also got some pretty butterfly pics at the Bird & Butterfly Garden!

#butterflies #photography #swallowtail #fritillary #lorquinsadmiral
September 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Went to the Bird & Butterfly garden in the Tijuana River Valley and got some pics of some lesser goldfinches being some cutie patooties.

#birds #lessergoldfinch #birdphotography
September 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sat down to doodle and made this little ladybird! I’m really enjoying working with colored pencils.

#art #ladybug #coloredpencil
September 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Had a bleh week a few weeks ago so went to my local fabric store and picked up this pretty cotton and just finished this little outfit!

The top is the #saguaroset from Friday Pattern Company and the shorts are the #chanterellepants from Sew Liberated.

#sewing
August 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
They are so noisy. I really love their chatter!
August 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Went with some friends to the El Cajon courthouse to check out the amazon parrot roost! It was so cool to watch these rowdy little friends show up over time and hang out, groom, and be cute.

#photography #birds #parrots
August 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Also just a few more dreamy photos from that same neighborhood walk.

#photography #monarchbutterfly #roses #spiders #plants
August 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Working my way through old photo archives. Found these awesome great horned owl photos I took. They were such a cutie, I just watched them for a while one evening up in the tree in 2023.

#greathornedowl #birds #photography
August 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Trying to go through my photo archives and actually edit some of the photos I've taken on hikes. These are from May 26th 2023. It's fun editing older photos with the knowledge I know now after a couple of years of photo editing.

www.flickr.com/photos/19737...

#photography #birds #nativeplants
July 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Had the idea to make a little magic american coot! I love coots they have such funny feet. Tempted to get this as a tattoo now.
#art #birds #americancoot
May 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Whenever I hear them it sounds like “whatcha-do whatcha-do”. I love to look for them because they are so stunning but they are always low in some reeds. These are probably the best photos I’ve gotten of one though!
May 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is a piece that’s taken me a while! My ttrpg group is playing Mythical Bastion soon (a game where you are knights) which inspired me to first attempt drawing armor which then became a whole piece! I’m super proud of how it came out.

#knights #art #illustration #ladyknight #procreate
April 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Going to a fun event at the San Diego Natural History Museum this Friday and the theme is “prehistoric prom” so I made a dinosaur crown!

#dinosaurs #flowercrown #diy #crafts
April 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Catching up on the #aprilcolorschallenge from @faunwood.bsky.social with this piece! it’s always fun to spend some time messing around with color. Since I’m behind decided to do the first four days rendering the same sketch of a quail doing a little strut!

#californiaquail #art #birds
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Made a little post card for an upcoming art show in my neighborhood! Living and doing interpretive hikes in a border city, it’s super important to me to talk about migration, and the freedom of migration that brings great diversity and opportunities to both people and animals.

#birds #warblers #art
March 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Coots are incredibly adorable and I love their weird feet!!!

#birds #birdphotography #coots #americancoot
March 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I got to see clark’s grebes do the thing! Nyoooooom. (If you don’t know the “thing” is walk on water in courtship and it’s phenomenal.)

#birds #birdphotography #grebes
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Went to a bird art class at San Diego Birdfest today and had a blast! It’s a fun challenge to try and pull apart the underlying structure of birds.

#birds #birdart
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM