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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

A wilson’s storm petrel flying over the ocean’s surface

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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.

A clock with a sticker over 2:30 that reads “cheese”

A cutting board covered with assorted cheeses

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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

The view from a ship porthole of a rainy loading dock.

A large room with a bunk bed, desk, and set of cabinets.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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!

A great blue heron wading in the water, on which its reflection is visible. It has a brown flatfish in its beak. Droplets of water are visible around its head, indicating the fish is freshly caught.

A great blue heron wading in the water, on which its reflection is visible. It has a long, thin fish in its beak. Droplets of water are visible dripping from the fish, indicating it is freshly caught.

A great blue heron wading in the water, on which its reflection is visible. It has a silver fish in its beak.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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!

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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 🦇🦊🔊🌿

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Well hi to you too 👋🏻🦑🌿

A humpback whale rolling onto its back on the ocean’s surface, with one flipper visible slapping the water

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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

A piping plover standing on flat, wet sand

A Hudsonian whimbrel standing on wet sand next to a small rock.

A semipalmated sandpiper walking amongst rockpools. A few marine snails are visible on the rocks.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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! 🪶🦑

An outstretched hand holds the book “Oceanic Birds of the World: A Photo Guide” by Steve N.G. Howell and Kirk Zufelt.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

📌 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:...

A waxwing (gray bird) with a crest, chestnut coloration on its face, and a black eyestripe photographed up close from chest up. It has a berry in its open beak.

A harbor seal licking one of its foreflippers

A clouded leopard lays on a branch staring at the camera

A vibrant green lizard with blue feet, orange stripes on its face and spots on its back, and scattered yellow scales.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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! 🪶🌿

A red-tailed hawk stands on a rooftop looking down at the camera.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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

An osprey rises from the water after an attempt to catch a fish.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

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

A sandpiper stands amongst rocks and kelp

A sandpiper stands on a rocky surface with one leg up

A sandpiper walking through mush on the shoreline

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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 barn swallow standing on a rooftop looking off to the right

A pair of barn swallows stand on a rooftop.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

A gray bird on a wire fence holds a grasshopper in its beak

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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!!!! 🪶🌿

A cedar waxwing standing on a lichen-covered branch. Its crest is clearly visible

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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

A blue dasher dragonfly photographed up close on the top of a plant

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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 🌿🪶

A marbled godwit stands in shallow water with a pair of greater yellowlegs

A marbled godwit with its beak half submerged in mud foraging at low tide

A marbled godwit stands in shallow water

A marbled godwit and greater yellowlegs together foraging at low tide

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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

A green heron standing in mud with a snack in its beak.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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 🌿🪶

A moth with its proboscis visible flying among purple flowers

A moth with transparent wings hovers over purple flowers

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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.

A tree swallow perched on a telephone wire

A red-tailed hawk takes off from a treetop

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Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online · 04/08/2026

i pinned this feed that's just birds and now when the world gets too stressful i simply go bird mode

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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

A cooper’s hawk chases a res-tailed hawk

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@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

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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/?)

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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 😌

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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) 🪶🌿

On osprey flying against a clear, blue backdrop of sky.

A red-tailed hawk stands on a bare branch, looking down below its feet.

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fey @feytlas.art · 05/07/2026

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

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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

An egret squats low in the water with its beak partially submerged looking for a snack

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Finally, a cooperative red-shouldered hawk! 🌿🪶

A red-shouldered hawk stands on a fence with one foot extended. Its mouth is open, mid-vocalization

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our backyard red-shouldereds have been less than cooperative on this visit, but the red-taileds have been modeling! 🌿🪶

A red-tailed hawk photographed in flight against a clear blue sky.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

An osprey spotted yesterday at Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 🌿🪶

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A pied-billed grebe from a couple days back at Guajome Regional Park in Oceanside, CA. So nice to be back in SoCal! 🪶🌿

A pied-billed grebe drifts on the water’s surface. Its looking at the camera, with the black stripe on its bill clearly visible

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Look at this beautiful western rattler at San Elijo Lagoon! Very chill, didn’t even rattle as I stepped over 🐍 on our return trip on this out-and-back trail it’d shifted a bit so we could see its size a bit better, and it was a decent chunker! 🌿 #herps

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Returned yesterday from the 10th offshore fieldwork trip of my PhD so far! 🦑🧪 Celebrating with an impromptu trip back home to SoCal to spend next week with my family 😌 red-shouldered hawk pics surely coming soon! 🪶 but first, one final evening excursion for some last-minute river fieldwork!

A photo taken in Buzzard’s Bay, Massachusetts of the ocean’s surface and blue skies.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Weekend camping moments from Camden Hills State Park, Maine 🏕️🌱🥾

A hand holds a Northwoods IPA can in front of a campfire, on which a hot dog is being roasted.

The view of clouds rolling in on Camden harbor from atop Mt. Battie.

A pair of trees, one of which has a “Please Slow Down” sign. Between them, a lake with a small island can be seen.

A dog lays atop a dog bed and blanket inside of a tent.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A fruitful evening walk along the river. 31 bird species, including this gorgeous osprey 🪶🌿

An osprey swoops overhead with its mouth slightly open and tongue visible.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Finally getting around to sharing more warblers from my warbler-extravaganza at Chicago’s Montrose Point! Pictured: black-throated blue, magnolia, blackburnian, and Tennessee 🌿🪶

A black-throated blue warbler stands on a branch looking over it shoulder at the camera

A magnolia warbler stands amongst a tangle of branches

A Blackburnian warbler stands in a small puddle

A Tennessee warbler standing on a branch with vibrant green leaves

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

8 hours of pelagic birding in the offshore waters of New Hampshire/Maine/Massachusetts today! 43 bird species, including 3 lifers 🥧🪶 the highlight was a thick-billed murre (pictured), only the 3rd June record for NH! Other pictured: northern fulmar, great shearwater, and red-necked phalarope 🦑🌿

A pair of northern fulmar drift on the water’s surface, with one slightly blurred in the background and one in focus in the foreground

A great shearwater sore is just above the ocean’s surface

A thick-billed murre stands halfway out of the water, shaking out its feathers

10 red-necked phalaropes drift on the ocean’s glassy surface.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Lifer! 🌿🪶 Brown thrasher this morning at Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge 🥧

A brown thrasher (bird) stands on a rusty chain link fence topped with barbed wire.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🚨 Important PSA: I saw a cutie patootie A tree swallow peeking out of a nest box and doing some gular fluttering (the bird equivalent of panting in the heat) 🌿🪶

A tree swallow peeks out from a hole with a wide open mouth.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Just returning from a weekend trip to Chicago for a wedding, and I had the joy of spending 3 hrs at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary! I saw 47 bird species, 9 of which were lifers 🪶🌿🤩 pictured: my lifer Wilson’s warbler 🥧

A yellow warbler with a black toupee stands on a branch in front of a blurry green background

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Sometimes birding is a planned excursion. Sometimes it’s walking out your front door and finding a huge pileated woodpecker standing right there destroying a tree stump 🪶🌿

A pileated woodpecker stands on the ground amongst green grass.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A highlight from Parker River NWR, Massachusetts today: the purple martins are back in town! 🪶🌿

A purple martin stands on a white bar looking off to the left of the frame.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

30 seconds into my 1st visit to my favorite local trail since it thawed, and I stumble across this beauty! 🦊 also saw warblers galore and the return of our friendly wood ducks, spring is upon us friends! 🪶🌿

A red fox stands in green grass and stares at the camera

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/04/2026

Seeing @daryllmarie.bsky.social on the platform to dutifully add the new youth bird feeders

Burrowing owl with 3 young ones poking their heads out from the ground, a ton of heat pollution because it was like 95 degrees

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

With all this talk about birds I want to be sure everyone knows about the Birds Feed. All birds all the time, posted by real photographers and artists and no AI slop!

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

More boat birds! 🪶🌿 pictured: savannah sparrow and palm warbler that stopped to rest on our vessel, horned grebe and brant seen in the waters of the harbor upon our return.

A savannah sparrow rests aboard a vessel in front of a soft blue and yellow background.

A palm warbler perched on a vessel, some line visible behind it in the background

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