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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I love finding my friends’ books at independent bookstores! I hit the jackpot at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, OR today. @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @rheisman.bsky.social @kingfisherjourney.bsky.social @timberpress.bsky.social

Congrats to my friend Tom Myers on his newly released “Birds of the Pacific Northwest For Kids”! A blue book with a Steller’s Jay on the front sits on a shelf next to a pink book with a trillium on it.

Jeff VanderMeer’s “Absolution” is out in paperback with some wonderful cover art! A black book with a trippy alligator and other distorted shapes.

I strongly recommend my good friend Rebecca’s book, “Flight Paths”, about the fascinating history of the study of bird migration! The cover features a flock of birds against the sky.

Marina Richie’s book “Halcyon Journey” is a wonderful read. The cover features a Belted Kingfisher, the subject of the book.

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

So lucky to find this Purple Martin nest in a cottonwood snag at the beach! #purplemartin #birding #birds

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My favorite time of year: when my yard fills up with Evening Grosbeak 😎 #eveninggrosbeak #birds #birding

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Cooper’s Hawk perched on the side of a brush pile, hunting sparrows #birds #birding

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Book cover reveal! l've been working on a field guide to the birds of the Pacific Northwest for kids, and I'm excited to share the cover design. The book will be available from @timberpress.bsky.social this fall. More info to come!

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Astraea, by Kate Kruimink Gorgeous, poetic historical fiction about a 19th century convict ship, carrying women and children to a penal colony. Perfect novella about liminal space, patriarchy and a little known history - quiet, atmospheric, yet somehow harrowing - I could not put it down. #booksky

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Yellow-eyed Junco in Madera Canyon, AZ yesterday. It’s nice when the name makes sense!

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Everyone should read Hellions by Julia Elliott, out next month from @tinhouse.bsky.social (thanks for an earlier copy!) 11 short stories, each as engaging, imaginative and perfectly unexpected as the last. Elliott has an incredible way of shifting from the mundane to the magical. I loved this.

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Starting to play around with color!

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

When you find this many pellets under one tree you keep looking until you find an owl. Then spend 20 minutes finding a better view.

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Please read Dengue Boy. This is my favorite kind of absurdism: fast-paced, entertaining and highly imaginative. Things spiral out of control, it's hellish and exuberant, then everything comes crashing back together in a triumphant, trippy apocalypse of an ending. #booksky #dengueboy

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Black Skimmer taking a break from skimming, South Padre TX #birds #birding #blackskimmer

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Trying out landscape painting for the first time! 🎨

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The moon coming over the mountains 🤩

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Bibliophobia, by Sarah Chihaya An intimate, emotional, thought-provoking memoir about books and mental health. I was completely immersed in her world of reading, rereading, & unreading all the narratives that created, dismantled & restored her sense of self and her place in the world. Great read!

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Short reads for a short month 📚

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Short-eared Owls chasing each other around 😎 #birds #birding #shortearedowl

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Saw lots of hummers in Costa Rica, but the White-throated Mountain-gems were probably my favorite

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My January reading wrap up 😎 thanks to @thestorygraph.com

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Short-eared Owl with its vole dinner in its talons, being chased by a Northern Harrier hoping to steal a meal. Mt St Helens in the background. #shortearedowl #northernharrier #birds #birding

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The International Booker Prize longlist comes out in less than a month! I found a list of eligible titles and have already read 17 of them (& so many are on my TBR). Here are 8 that I loved. #internationalbookerprize

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

An afternoon paddle on the Columbia River - cold but sunny - over to Crims Island to see the white-tailed deer and the horned larks 😎

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Winter morning walk with Pine Siskin soundtrack

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A Room Above a Shop, by Anthony Shapland Short, powerful book about two men and their furtive relationship. The writing is so beautiful - a uniquely sparse, dense and quiet prose that felt cinematic and completely captivating. Cannot recommend enough. #aroomaboveashop #anthonyshapland #grantabooks

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Beach weekend book stack 😀

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Antwerp, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer Novella made of 56 short, disjointed fragments- feels more like prose poetry or loosely connected flash fiction: dense, visceral and dreamlike. Mesmerizing vignettes-hard to describe but I loved this. #robertobolano #booksky

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Caught up with this wayward Field Sparrow again tonight - first spotted on Sauvie Island 53 days ago! #rarebirdalert #bird #birding #fieldsparrow #sauvieisland

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Beautiful evening with Snow Geese flying over

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Watching giant flocks of snow geese instead of the news today. #birds #birding #snowgeese

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Finished this late last night. What a trip. Loved Fever Dream and loved these super short, surreal stories - need to read Little Eyes next (and any other Schweblin that’s been translated) #mouthfulofbirds #samantaschweblin #booksky #shortstories

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Tr Tom @heyteachertom.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Still going through my #costarica photos. These Collared Aracaris were a real treat - seen at #arenalobservatory #collaredaracari #birds #birding

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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Say's Phoebe, Loggerhead Shrike and Townsend's Solitaire at Hatfield Lakes today, Central Oregon #birding

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