Leslie Bulion

#kidlit #scicomm #poetry #science #mutualism #nature #literacy

Cover of Leslie Bulion and Robert Meganck's new illustrated science poetry book: a black water buffalo with frogs on its head, an alligator, a snowy egret, an albatross standing on an ocean sunfish, and a mountain treeshrew sitting on a hanging pitcher plant all staring at readers, to announce book launch party!

An American robin, a larger songbird with brown-black head and back, rusty red breast and strong yellow beak in profile crossing a green, weedy lawn.

Hello #birdoftheday peeps! For @robcrank68.bsky.social's themes #SideProfiles and the alternate #Robins I have a twofer, an early morning American robin crossing the dew-soaked grass.

I love this bird!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! For @alan678.bsky.social 's theme today, here's a female cardinal posing on my stump-stage who KNOWS she's #photogenic!

Beautiful!

Beautiful! I agree that female northern cardinals colors are so lovely.

Gorgeous!

Thank you! I don't think I've ever seen one quite that close up before!

Hopping out! Love it!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Just catching @alan678.bsky.social 's #steppingout theme and all the great photos of today. Here's a yellow-crowned night heron going places.

Thank you! Hummingbirds are bits of magic!

Thank you! We had a wonderful season of watching them in our garden last year!

Thanks Alan!

A tiny ruby-throated hummingbird, its white throat, marked with faint dotted lines and reflecting the greenery below, hovers in mid-air, poised to take a sip from a "cigar plant's red tubular flower that is yellow at its small open end. The bird has an iridescent green back, and tail tipped with white. It's wings stretch up and back and a tiny white marking can be seen at the back margin of its one eye visible in profile.

Good morning, #birdoftheday folks. Here's a #sideview of a ruby-throated hummingbird enjoying a morning sip in my front garden last September. So many beautiful profiles today thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social .

Gorgeous photo and thank you for the wonderful description and info Alan!

profile portrait of a frigate bird with black and iridescent head and back feathers, silver beak with a downward facing tip, and a bright red throat pouch, not inflated.

Thanks to @alan678.bsky.social for reminding me of this pop of #primarycolors on a frigate bird that landed on our ship's rail in the Galápagos for #birdoftheday.

Thank you, Alan!

Thank you!!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! Here's a wood stork flyover in Brazil's Pantanal for @alan678.bsky.social 's theme today #wideopenwings.

Every feather like so many fine fingers!

Thanks, Alan! I was sure this had to be the model for Angry Birds until I looked it up and realized it's a Northern cardinal!

red-headed, yellow-bellied, and green-backed bird with a thick, short, ivory-colored bill and gray feet perched on a branch glaring at the camera from black eyes.

Good morning (or afternoon)! I have a favorite #powerpose so thanks to @alan678.bsky.social for his #birdoftheday theme today! Here's a red-headed barbet from Cali, Colombia auditioning for Angry Birds.

Thanks, Rob!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hello #birdoftheday friends! This shining sunbeam's #ruffledfeathers camouflaged the full shining view its irridescent feathers are rumored to display in the Andes of Colombia and elsewhere along the west coast of S. America. Thanks
@robcrank68.bsky.social
for this fun theme.

This brings new meaning to the name "tufted duck!"

Great picture! I love hoopoes!

Good for you! They are so fast!