Cookie time. 🍪🍪🍪🍪

'The jelly calls and I must go' #birds

This doesnt look fun at all. Our average high temps for this week? 90F. 🥵🔥☀️🍳

A good side by side comparison of a Hairy Woodpecker on the left, and a Downy Woodpecker on the right. The Hairy is much larger, and so is its beak relative to its head size. Both are females, lacking the red patch the males have on the back of their heads. #birds #Bobsbackyard #Ancaster #HamOnt

Okay, I fell asleep before 12am😅, but Erie Gives is now live!! All processing fees are covered so we receive the entirety of all donations made today! Funds go directly into our outreach, education, and conservation projects, allowing us to make a difference here in northwest PA #birds #conservation

Birder K@birderk.bsky.social · 2d ago

3/3 I’m proud to be a part of this recovery effort. Starting at 12am EDT is our biggest fundraiser of the year & I’m once again competing with my boss. We get a prorated match to everything we raise on August 11 during #ErieGives. My link goes live in 3 hours: mtyc.co/7olidg #fundraising

🧵 1/x Gather round for the tale of Lonely Bob. Last year, this Piping Plover showed up & unsuccessfully tried to woo already paired females. When that didn’t work, he courted our shorebird monitor. He eventually left. This year, he returned & seemed destined for a summer of sadness again… #birds

🧵 1/x Erie Gives is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and every dollar supports the work of Erie Bird Observatory. Some of the things we do include: Running a migratory banding station, where we love our plump borbs! Donation link: mtyc.co/7olidg #birds #fundraiser (Help me outraise my boss!)

Beans and Greens and Blue Corn Pone! (New Bluegrass Jam Band Song?) 😊🙏🏼🍜🍽️

Pan: The Reverist@ok2panic.bsky.social · 5d ago

Anasazi Beans with smoked pork neck, bacon, diced carrots, celery, and onion, and topped up with my rich ho-made chicken stock. 😊🍽️🍜

Anasazi Beans with smoked pork neck, bacon, diced carrots, celery, and onion, and topped up with my rich ho-made chicken stock. 😊🍽️🍜

The hooks on Carpenter Bee feet fit them perfectly:

#borb TennisBallRequestAlert

A metallic green sweat bee hovering near Russian Sage blossoms on my campus. This plant is a great pollinator attractor. I’m always grateful to our university landscape staff for creating these great #nature spaces. #insectphotograpy #bees #flowers #macro #eastcoastkin

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When a hummingbird comes home to tell his mom he’s seen a ghost. 😊 #hummingbird #ilovebirding #bird #birding #birdphotography #birds #FDT #BirdWatching #birdphotography #Colorado #bird_photography 🪶

I was just informed that yesterday was International Owl Awareness Day. I wasn't aware! Here's a pair of Great Horned Owls that I saw this past winter. #birds #birding #owls #HamOnt

FLOOFY FLEDGLING ALERT! American Robin edition. The eyebrow tufts are too much! 🥹 #birds 🌿

August has started off with some good birds. First up, Swallow-tailed Kites! 🪶 #birds

Folks have enjoyed these when I've posted them in the past. Enjoy this minute of baked goods (sound on) www.reddit.com/r/Satisfying...

Lunch at the desk today. A BLT and a Strawberry Lemonade. Man that is good. 😊🍜🍽️

I woke up today hoping to find a woodpecker nest to get that hilarious little head poking out of the hole shot, no luck, but I did find a SHARED FOOD HOLE, which led to both some wonderful bird antics and glorious in flight pictures. 🪶

Yellow watermelon is weird. Tastes like watermelon, smells like watermelon, but that aint watermelon! 🤣🍉🟡

Emergency hotdog! 🚨🚨🚨

There’s a saying, ‘don’t let your bulldog mouth overload your hummingbird ass.’ I give you that in salad form. Rotisserie Chicken with my ‘Buffalo’ sauce, made from one of last years hottest ghost pepper sauces and melted butter. Tryna get back in shape for pepper season. 👀🍜🍽️

And topped with peach ice cream. Life is good. 😂🍽️🍜

Pan: The Reverist@ok2panic.bsky.social · 2w ago

So i took a $3 walmart apple pie, put it in an 8” skillet, schmeared some leftover peach swirl from the ice cream earlier this month, snd threw it in a 400°F oven (Yeah i turned the oven on.) My last bit of peach ice cream is going on that. 🍜🍽️

So i took a $3 walmart apple pie, put it in an 8” skillet, schmeared some leftover peach swirl from the ice cream earlier this month, snd threw it in a 400°F oven (Yeah i turned the oven on.) My last bit of peach ice cream is going on that. 🍜🍽️

Look! I took a picture of a bird that's not chicken on nachos! 😂🪶

Charcoal seared flank steak and rotisserie chicken fajita style nachos… and for funsies… some fresh diced Cappuccino Naga pepper. Not even close to ripe and…. that’s hot. 🌶️ yeehaw 🍽️🍜😭🔥

a close-up of the marmot on the mount

And i forgot to add #birds 😬

Tom Gaul🇺🇦 BLM@darth-gaul.bsky.social · 2w ago

We visited Italy the last two weeks of May and I've been meaning to share a few photos of birds I was able to photograph. I was limited on equipment since I packed light. This is a painting of a Grey Heron on the corner of s building in Rome, actually my last bird pic I took.

A year later, here's the final Milky Way Arch over the Bonneville Salt Flats 🗺️

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last yr.

You don't get much more blue hour than that. Gonna sleep for 2 hours and forecast says it'll be clear. 🗺️