Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 07/06/2026#TenMinMerlin this morning at home in Yolo County, California. I doubt the Acorn Woodpecker identification. Merlin flagged the Lark Sparrow as rare, but they are definitely here. I’m hoping to confirm them for the California Breeding Bird Atlas. 061
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This morning’s #TenMinMerlin at home in Yolo County, California. There isn’t habitat for Greater Yellowlegs around, and I think this was a misidentified robin call. Listening back, the app missed distant Canada Geese, Bewick’s Wren, and Nuttall’s Woodpecker. 090
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026May at my home in Yolo County, California, means Swainson’s Thrush song. Captured this morning in a #TenMinMerlin along with another passage migrant Western Tanager. 060
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 16/04/2026A late post of my #TenMinMerlin from this morning in Yolo County, CA. I think a starling was mimicking a barn owl call. 060
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026This was my less than #TenMinMerlin at Noxubee NWR in Mississippi last week, so I haven’t been staved for birds. 050
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026#TenMinMerlin on a quiet morning back home in Yolo County, CA. Missed White-crowned Sparrow, which may be leaving, and robin, which are around. Had no trouble picking up a distant rooster, though. 040
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Swainson’s Hawk is the first spring arrival I’ve recorded on a #TenMinMerlin at home in Yolo County, CA (though they have been in the area since earlier in March). Brewer’s Blackbird snuck in after the ten minutes was up. 050
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Trying this again. Not a long list, but I recorded the local Great Horned Owl pair and a Wild Turkey on an early morning #TenMinMerlin in Yolo County, CA. 020
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 29/03/2026A powerful and heart-breaking sculpture made by Sacramento high school students on the capitol grounds at #NoKings today. 052
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Some photos of the march from West Sacramento to the California Capitol today. #NoKings #NoWar ya basta! enough! 181
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026One swallow does not a summer make, but we are expected to set heat records this week in Yolo County, CA. One of the local quail was another first #TenMinMerlin detection for me this morning. 041
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Just getting around to posting this morning‘s #TenMinMerlin in Yolo County, CA. No surprises. 060
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 14/03/2026#TenMinMerlin from the UC Davis Arboretum this afternoon. Because if one chooses to go into the lab on a beautiful spring Saturday, making the most of a break helps. The mockingbird made the kestrel call! 290
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 13/03/2026My #TenMinMerlin this morning in Yolo County, CA, included a Nuttall’s Woodpecker clearly calling, then a lot of drumming that the app calls a Downy. Maybe I will try to get a look this weekend. I am unsure of the sapsucker ID and sure of the flicker. 030
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026It was nice to pick up Orange-crowned Warbler and Cedar Waxwing for #TenMinMerlin this morning in Yolo County, CA. 050
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026#TenMinMerlin this morning in Yolo County, CA. Acorn Woodpecker would be nice, but I have never seen them at my place and I think a mockingbird call fooled Merlin. Downy and Nuttall’s are both likely, but I think it may be only a Downy drumming on the recording. 050
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Not thrilled to be getting ready for work in the dark again, but I was up for a dawn chorus (or robin solo) to record for #TenMinMerlin. 050
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The blasting north wind has abated and more species were detected on my #TenMinMerlin this morning in Yolo County, CA. Still picking up year-round residents and winter birds that haven’t left yet. 040
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 05/03/2026This is all I got for #TenMinMerlin this breezy morning in Yolo County, CA. 060
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026#TenMinMerlin back home in Yolo County, CA this morning. I don’t think there was a Marsh Wren, maybe a House Wren or goldfinch and junco mashups. 0111
Reposted by Ian TSK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I find the news very frightening right now, but one thing that helps me is noticing the birds all around me Do you want a reason to spend 10 minutes a day noticing your local birds? Then join me for this spring’s #TenMinMerlin, using the (free) app Merlin to notice birds. No experience needed! 1/5 2743994
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Aurora over the Yolo County farmlands near Davis, CA 040
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Wymcycle resistance at the Davis, California #NoKings march 030
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I’ve been visiting Point Reyes almost my entire life. On the one hand, the dairies were always a part of that landscape. Some are birding hotspots know by the family’s name. On the other, I am excited to see a wilder version of the landscape take shape. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comBucolic battlefield: a California seashore says goodbye to dairy farms – and hopes to healAfter a years-long battle, organic dairy ranches are being expelled from Point Reyes national seashore to revitalize the ecosystem 010
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Western Dog Tick, Dermacentor similis, picked up on a hike to Sunshine Beach in Point Reyes and ID’ed with the help of iNaturalist. I was admiring the pattern on its back, though wasn’t thrilled to find it on my bootlace. 020
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Estero trail to Sunshine Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore, on my July 4th hike this year. I read on the NPS website that Sunset Beach and Sunshine Beach are named for subdivisions a former owner of the Home Ranch wanted to build. Now almost all of the remaining ranches are closing. 120
Reposted by Ian TMorgan Mouchka @morgan-mouchka.bsky.social · 08/08/2025If you are affiliated with a UC institution of live in a community that benefits from UC institutions, please consider signing this letter calling on UC Leadership to stand up to the Trump Administration. sites.google.com/view/ucstand...sites.google.comHomePlease forward this letter widely at https://tinyurl.com/ucstandup Click here for news updates 13423
Reposted by Ian TMelissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 08/08/2025Oof Stephen Colbert REALLY hates RFK Jr & doesn't care if CBS knows it. 🤣😂 He says: "Now we have ten more months of this show, so I want to give a nonpartisan response here. Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! You road-kill-munching, luddite, human slim jim. You're going to kill people!" 10569125
Reposted by Ian TBrian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️ 8342671118577
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Hiked today over Hawksbill and on to Skyland in Shenandoah National Park www.gaiagps.com/public/Mut1z... 020
Ian T @ian-turnstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025My hike today in Muir Woods National Monument and Mount Tamalpais State Park www.gaiagps.com/public/EiTdT...gaiagps.comGaiaGPS - Tiny House LoopTrack from Ian Taylor 030
