Sign in

Michael L

@birdmichael.bsky.social
2.3K followers 738 following 526 posts

Birds, books, netball, cats

PostsRepliesMedia
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Templestowe and Banyule!
120
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I had a tip off!
010
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Yarra River wandering - striated pardalote, common bronzewing, platypus(!!), owlet-nightjar
2424
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
You can only imagine how much we're all enjoying it here
100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The whole bazball schtick about playing entertaining cricket being thrillingly illustrated here by endless legside bouncers
130
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
England should make 600 on this wicket
000
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Every year I get incredibly stressed and every year I get over the line - 451 calendars sold, $10820 donated, thanks for playing everyone!!!!
0160
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Unbelievable that beau webster keeps missing out for cam green
010
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Seems crazy that the NYT games wrapped doesn't give me any statistics for the mini, the main reason I have the NYT games app
030
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Told people from run club that I went to the Big Day Out before everyone had mobile phones and you could see them struggling to make sense of it all
5200
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Unfathomable news tonight, look after each other everyone
0190
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Just two good boys
0160
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Didn't find the owlet nightjar at Banyule, but it's always good for a stroll
0250
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Been going to my run club for a couple of years and I've met so many of my favourite people
1100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Gang! I've still got approx 10 bird calendars left to sell, raising money for good causes as always and prices marked down to $25! You too could be this happy next year!!! birdmichaelbirdcalendars.bigcartel.com
A young woman holding a 2026 calendar featuring an upside down musk lorikeet. The woman is grinning hugely
021
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I wish the government would ban me from social media
0121
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
flew out of where
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Was trying to drag myself away from Twitter, but I guess I've gotta stay now
An image of a twitter notification of Charlize Theron following me
0100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Nock Loose is easily the most madcap thing I read all year
010
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
While I'm posting, these were my favourite Australian books of the year - something for everyone (poetry, non-fiction, madcap novels, capital L Literature, graphic novels, short stories etc etc)
A grid of book covers, from left to right, top to bottom: The Rot by Evelyn Ararluen, Desire Paths by Megan Clement, Nightingale by Laura Elvery, Catching the Light by Joana Horton, Cannon by Lee Lai, Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough, Human/Nature by Jane Rawson, Little World by Josephine Rowe, The Slip by Miriam Webster
1181
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
please!!!
020
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Every few months the racism and misogyny on twitter drives me back over here, maybe I can make it stick this time? It's been a big tawny season since I last posted!
a side on tawny frogmouth, making eye contact with the cameraa contrasting pose, still with one big eye on the photographera tiny fluffy baby frogmouth peaking out between two branchesA slightly older bub, sitting up and observing the world
3300
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
An endemic bird no less!!
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Spot on!
030
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ohhh I love this!!!
010
Reposted by Michael L
Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I "made" @birdmichael.bsky.social come to the Western Treatment Plant with me on a workday to look for brolgas and orange-bellied parrots so I could write this article
56114
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I think I saw that at KBS and that's what I'm thinking of. Also your modelling paper on JoPH? Although maybe that was all polarisation I can't remember
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Ha, I am just citing this lifespan one in a revision, very timely plug
100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
How do we square this with all the survey data showing big jumps in drinking since covid that have not subsequently dropped off? (I'm back on bluesky just to ask you this, because it didn't feel worth an email)
100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Satin Bowerbird!
120
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Rufous owl!
000
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Darwin day off really delivered
2311
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'm merely a weird Aus Lit hanger on!
100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Indeedy
100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We were even southside!
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Laura is basically the loveliest person in the world and also an incredible goddamn writer, how???
2232
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
this is good shit
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Thrilled to be at the launch of Laura Elvery's incredible debut novel - highly recommend it and both her short story collections
0110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Probably worth mentioning again that I ran a marathon, and a pretty damn good one (3:19!!)
1190
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I've drifted back to the bad site for the past month or so, but I'm gonna try to return here more regularly. Mostly I just wanted another place to post this photo of me distracted by a goshawk during the Ballarat marathon
A group of runners, focussed on a man in a black shirt and shorts looking skywards with a grin on his face
5510
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Striated I think!
100
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oh nice!! I'm in for the half, should be fun!!
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I think Chestnut real? Hardhead should have a white bill tip (in the male) and white underparts in both
130
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
yeah, ballarat mara in 6 weeks and counting
110
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
34km this morning, 90+ for the week, everything is sore and tired
1180
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Elites! I wore them for GC last year and have been trying to ration them out until Ballarat, but some mornings you need extra motivation for the track
010
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My race shoes that I should be saving! Puma deviates
010
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
No cat can resist the charms of the lap
3410
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I don't make the rules! At least we got standing rests
010
Michael L @birdmichael.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Pleased to report that my special shoes helped me through 15 x 400m reps this morning, including my fastest ever 400! (pleased to report I'm *just* inside twice the world record pace!)
4190