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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 18/10/2026

four seasons of transgender baseball in the books. this year i got to play in three cities and take a bunch of photos (on film if that makes a difference to you); these are a few favorites

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 18/10/2026

four years of transgender baseball. i don’t have the words for the love and gratitude and thrill of it all

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 18/10/2026

the new york city trans girl baseball season ends with a perfect inning by yours truly to save the one-run lead

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 15/10/2026

rainy misty green-wood cemetery on film

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 15/10/2026

they said transgender women would never do plyo ball drills

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 14/10/2026

gray catbirds when they see a berry bush

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 04/10/2026

tgirl baseball in philadelphia yesterday :) philly beat dc and nyc beat their combined team in a 2.5-inning exhibition game in which i contributed nothing so i think it’s safe to say that the brooklyn bones are the best tgirl baseball team east of the chicago river

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 02/10/2026

yesterday’s bullpen session, practicing for the philly exhibition game this weekend!!

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 22/09/2026

NEW YORK: tomorrow 9/23 i'm moderating a panel on our city's endangered species! it's a critical moment for biodiversity—and urban habitats matter more than ever (hosted by NYU env. studies with @nycploverproject.bsky.social, gotham whale, the bee conservancy, @riverkeeper.org) luma.com/fu64vhgn

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 21/09/2026

hitting bombs at transgender batting practice

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 21/09/2026

last night around midnight, eleven hours into a drive from chicago to new york, behind a sheetz in the mountains of western pennsylvania, i stopped listened to the flight calls of dozens of migrating songbirds. deeply moving

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 20/09/2026

lost my voice cheering last night at NYC @ CHI trans girl baseball—so proud of all our girls <3 btw i had a strong performance as our starting pitcher and as our cleanup hitter i hit an RBI double then scored from second in our big rally

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 21/07/2026

this is quoted in my household on maybe a weekly basis. welcome to the canon

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 15/07/2026

when i transitioned, i never thought i'd play baseball again. now we're in our fourth season of trans girl baseball here in new york, and—even though i say this all the time—it really did change my life! i wrote about tgirl baseball and what it means to us for @defector.com (link below!)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 04/07/2026

ben franklin thought we deserved a better national bird. i argue that we don't. for @thenation.com's special issue about the country's big anniversary, i wrote about the bald eagle

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 13/06/2026

i took a real deep breath when @laurentheisen.bsky.social told me last year i had to briefly define "twink" and "doll" for the reader

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 10/06/2026

this is the best paragraph in any science press release

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 08/06/2026

three years now since the june 2023 wildfire smoke airborne-toxic-event. wrote something about that in flinta forum last summer: flinta.forum/2025/07/25/s...

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 31/05/2026

tgirl baseball season opener today

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 24/05/2026

monday's wonderville prairie princess show on my new camera (a dinged-up klasse w off hudson valley fb marketplace)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 27/04/2026

hey man what's up we are going to beat you. yeah it'll be with hammers

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 08/04/2026

i'm probably far from the only person to take this photo given that it's in bushwick just a couple blocks from the film lab i go to, but i like how my version turned out (lucky C200, canon ae-1, dev. and scan by full spectrum)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 07/04/2026

(kodak gold 200, canon ae-1, 50mm, dev. and scan by full spectrum)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 07/04/2026

the swans are big and slow and tame enough that i even took some film portraits of them

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 12/01/2026

scarper ridge, perpetually misty, and the old gun club up there

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 12/01/2026

i thought these misty shots from a christmas bird count in a eucalyptus forest in coastal california turned out really nicely (kodacolor 100, d/s by f.s. photo)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 30/12/2025

ending on another species that is very special to me personally: a saltmarsh sparrow (banded and handled with the proper permits). these are endangered and will likely be gone by midcentury

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 30/12/2025

i've also been trying to work on more creative composition—zooming way out or way in; exploring texture and patterns beyond just bird portraiture american kestrel (queens, n.y.) snow geese (queens, n.y.) sandhill crane (arcadia, mich.) wood duck (brooklyn, n.y.)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 30/12/2025

red-capped plover (orford, tas) pacific black duck and ducklings (clifton beach, tas)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 30/12/2025

superb fairywrens (sydney, nsw) pied currawong (melbourne, vic) little grassbird (greater geelong, vic) little penguins (phillip island, vic)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 30/12/2025

most of these in the thread are from my australia trip back in january—the sheer vibrancy and diversity of birdlife there is astounding torresian imperial-pigeon (port douglas, qld) southern cassowary (daintree, qld) shining flycatcher (daintree, qld) papuan frogmouth (daintree, qld)

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alexandra @birdmotif.alextey.co · 30/12/2025

2025 BIRD PHOTOS THREAD! i don't post them on here much, but i took some images this year i'm really proud of. got rained on, snowed on, bug-bitten; lay on the ground and sank knee-deep in mud. i love birds and i'll do it all again next year starting with an american barn owl, my favorite bird!