the woodpecker with aura

when you’re mean to me this is literally who you’re being mean to

a ruby-crowned kinglet peeking out from behind a little cluster of white flowers

a ruby-crowned kinglet staring straight at the camera

heard u were talkin shit???

Shopping for some fine yarn, 🧶
to make the best nest! 🪹🪶

📹: Josiane Plas
📍: Lowestoft, England

a white-breasted nuthatch staring at the camera

a nuthatch staring at the camera, the upturn of its beak pointing absurdly between its eyes

a nuthatch hanging upside-down from a tree, staring at the camera, some sort of insect in its beak catching the light

a very blurry nuthatch facing the camera, sitting on a worn wooden fence

fuck it… front-facing nuthatch friday

a juvenile house wren on a branch, yelling. a few strands of spiderweb cling to a fork in the branch; the wren has a strand of web stuck to its head, trailing in the wind

🗣️ IT IS WRENSDAY MY DUDES

reposting in honor of chicago’s birthday 🎉🎂🎈 all of these were taken at or within walking distance from montrose point, the most blessed bit of land on this earth

a view of the Chicago skyline from a rooftop at blue hour. The city's lights glow while the sky turns a deep blue after sunset.

Looking down onto Chicago from a helicopter. Skyscrapers ill the frame and surround Grant Park on a summer day. The turquoise blue waters of Lake Michigan dominate the background

Blooming wildflowers fill the foreground with the skyline of Chicago in the background.

A ragged, gnarly shelf cloud looms over Chicago's skyline. The clouds are tumultuous and roiling while a blue glow and rain can be seen under the cloud in the distance

Happy birthday to #Chicago, the skyline GOAT.

#birdbot

a song sparrow perched on the end of a wooden pole, set against a backdrop of blue water

a wooden pole against a backdrop of blue water & a graffiti-tagged concrete wall. to the right is a torpedo-shaped song sparrow diving away

nyooooom

i feel like i would only be a pale imitator of a tuftie beside you, but now i am considering the circular shape of chickadees… shapesonas… 🔼⏺️

despite having chosen the northern flicker as my persona on this app, i simply cannot become a bird furry bc i am incapable of selecting a species. what about NUTHATCHES! what about BARN OWLS and FINCHES and MOURNING DOVES. there are just too many good birds in this world. tragiqué

“i haven’t seen that” and “i saw that but obeyed their instructions to ignore it” are two different things, fyi

Green sketch of bird doodles

Black print of two parrots, a tody, and three hummingbirds on green paper

How it started vs. How it ended

Today I shipped the portfolio that this print is a part of to Puerto Rico so I thought I’d share the beginning and end stages of this Puerto Rican birds print! 🦜

#birds #sciart #printmaking #linocut #reliefprint

it’s me, i’m the person terminally incapable of communicating in anything but the best-of-faith even when arguing 😔

okay, but this is just explaining the algorithm thing again. this isn’t answering my question about “why would they veil it in the pretense of passing a message”. i’ve seen algorithm-check posts on many accounts, if not gibberish-number posts; the combo of numbers & pretense is still suspicious imo

that makes sense (& thank you for explaining, i rarely think about algorithmic promotion/repression), but i don’t understand why this account would make such test posts under the guise of “not for the public”, as opposed to just being clear about “checking if we’re getting pushed off the feed”

is that… a thing people do? post gibberish numbers to test their reach? i’m genuinely asking, because i have never seen such a thing before, & i would consider it much more of a stretch than “people are using the attention from political issues to personally profit”. but i’m open to other evidence!

i think i’m finally far enough out from my ornithology lab final to have forgiven the scolopacidae, but also if someone tells me that my alt text id is wrong & it’s not a SPSA i might kms 😛

a spotted sandpiper running over mossy rocks at the water’s edge, one foot lifted mid-step. part of its body is reflected in the tide pool in front of it

happy shorebird sunday!

lmao this account got my hackles up awhile back, but i didn’t know they were doing fake numbers-station shit. incredible

well, for starters, you can check out the screencaps in the post above where they are purportedly using a public social media account to send coded messages to other government members, which is basically a definitional component to the whole qanon thing

#WoodPigeons #Pigeons #NaturePhotography #Birds #PigeonSky
“Got a busy day at the office today. Must order more seeds.”

photo of a fledgling steller's jay standing upright on a white porch railing. they are facing the camera with their head turned to the left in profile. they look adorable and just a little grumpy at the same time.

Be the fledgling Steller's Jay you want to see in the world!

#birds #becurious 🪶

a ring-billed gull standing on a thin sheet of ice, horking down some sort of fish, its beak stretched wide around the fish’s bulk

let’s eat GOOD today!

As spring approaches it is vital to remember: dead and dying trees (and other plants) ARE habitat.

Do you want to feed birds and help them raise their young? It’s easier than you think. Simply leave those leaves or dying tree alone. That’s all there is to it.

#birds
#wildlife
#permaculture

sometimes i’m like “damn. i’m never gonna do anything special in this world”

& sometimes i remember that i have managed to get kinglet photos crisp enough to show their rictal bristles & the snacks in their beaks 😌

HI MARZIPAN

hey stranger! i believe in you, & the motivating power of “not having to feel that shame or the suffering that came with drinking” - don’t be afraid to reach out to others for support when you do feel like the motivation is faltering. you got this, & you’re not alone in it! 💖

A little brown bird clutches a twig . From the top of the twig three blossoms droop towards it. Behind the bird is gold leaf

Today’s #1000postcards is the blossom gazer, because we could all do with something gentle to start the day, and what could be better than the first blossom

i don’t want to continue this argument in OP’s thread, especially because they are trans & i am sure this is sensitive, so my last comment here: you are using the same linguistic tactics & supporting logic that the people you loathe are using to attack trans people. perhaps reconsider that logic.