Our 3 weeks offshore on the R/V Neil Armstrong have officially come to an end! What a blast, I haven’t had this much fun on a fieldwork excursion in over a decade. Lovely people, successful science, & epic wildlife!

Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Views & Critters Yesterday’s Wilson’s storm-petrel extravaganza off the back deck! 🪶🌿🦑

Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Work & Life Onboard Why does the clock say cheese on it? 🧀 every day on the R/V Armstrong we enjoy “cheese thirty” at 2:30pm, when a full charcuterie board is laid out. Phenomenal boat tradition.

This boat is a little bit bigger than I’m used to 🤯 hello from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 👋🏻🦑

This great blue heron caught such a variety of prey in just a tiny patch of river! 🪶🌿 Some shots from my final land-based birding session today, as tomorrow I head off to board a vessel for a nearly 1-month research cruise offshore!

Need another great way to avoid ai slop on Bluesky? @daryllmarie.bsky.social has several curated feeds where you can see lots of great wildlife photos shared by the photographers who took them. And there’s bird art too!

This week on 2 nights, I led an outreach event where we went to a reservoir on campus and showed participants how many different animal species you can observe with sound alone! I need folks to see how fun having an ultrasonic detector and listening to bat echolocation in real time is 🦇🦊🔊🌿

Well hi to you too 👋🏻🦑🌿

A lil walk on the beach at Parker River NWR today! Pictured: piping plover, LIFER Hudsonian whimbrel, LIFER least tern, and semipalmated sandpiper 🪶🌿

An important acquisition to prepare for a nearly 1-month offshore fieldwork trip I’m heading out on in September on @whoi.edu’s R/V Neil Armstrong! 🪶🦑

📌 Feed links for critters and such… Mammals: bsky.app/profile/did:... Birds: bsky.app/profile/did:... Marine Life: bsky.app/profile/did:... Herps: bsky.app/profile/did:... Zoosky: bsky.app/profile/did:... Marine Mammalogy: bsky.app/profile/did:... Bioacoustics: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Had a great time photographing this guy in my neighborhood until I realized I was standing outside of a sorrority with a giant camera 🥴 to the ladies of Kappa Delta, I promise I’m here for the hawk on your roof and nothing nefarious! 🪶🌿

Required a bit harsher crop than I would’ve liked, but finally got an osprey in the water!!!! 🪶🌿

Happy shorebird migration season! 🪶🌿 some least and semipalmated sandpipers in Rye Harbor State Park.

Today’s cutie patooties: barn swallows at Goss Farm in Rye, New Hampshire. This colony has been returning to this site to nest every year since at least the 1960s! 🪶🌿

A northern mockingbird with quite the snack spotted this morning at Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge 🪶🌿

Today I finally got a shot of a cedar waxwing with its crest raised, and it sounds like my marbled godwit found yesterday may be only the 2nd report of this bird in the county ever (the 1st being 40+ years ago)!!!! We’re on a birding roll!!!! 🪶🌿

Are you kidding me?! Dragonflies are such models 😍🌿 a blue dasher today at the local reservoir

My first time adding a new bird to an eBird hotspot’s all-time bird list! I found this previously unreported marbled godwit at low tide yesterday hanging out among greater yellowlegs and foraging on the mudflats a ways inland on Oyster River 🌿🪶

I finally got a decent shot of a green heron this evening! 🥹🌿🪶

A hummingbird clearwing today! One of many lil guys spotted in the pollinator garden after a successful birding walk that included a pair of lifer saltmarsh sparrows 🌿🪶

I had a day full of nature yesterday! 🌿 In the morning before work, I (of course) went birding! 23 species 🪶 pictured: tree swallow and red-tailed hawk.

Update 🚨 wasp stings were worth it! Also snagged my lifer willow flycatcher 🪶

Daryll Marie@daryllmarie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Got shots and audio of a Cooper’s hawk chasing a red-tailed hawk tonight on my birding excursion!!!! 🪶🌿 Still debating whether it was worth accidentally disturbing a wasps nest shortly after and having my bare legs absolutely wrecked 😌

@daryllmarie.bsky.social has a number of feeds for mammals, marine life etc. all really good (like her birds feed). And the #BirdOfTheDay hashtag is great - haven’t seen anything suspect on there, just animal lovers and a range of photo skills all enjoying birds and nature

There are also lots of excellent, curated feeds where you can find genuine animal photos. The Birds Feed is all vetted. No AI, only real photographers and artists (6/?)

Got shots and audio of a Cooper’s hawk chasing a red-tailed hawk tonight on my birding excursion!!!! 🪶🌿 Still debating whether it was worth accidentally disturbing a wasps nest shortly after and having my bare legs absolutely wrecked 😌

Two hikes, two banger raptor encounters. Today was a perfect summer day! Both taken on trails around Durham, NH, an osprey (left) and a red-tailed hawk (right) 🪶🌿

only real bitches know i keep the birds feed pinned on my bsky before anything else

On the hunt! A snowy egret photographed at San Elijo Lagoon, CA 🌿🪶