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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Dunlin was hanging out with some Sanderlings at Stone Harbor, NJ and it was inspired by them to run up and down the beach. 🪶

A small brown shorebird with a long bill running on the beach.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Caspian Tern eyeing up a meal at Stone Harbor Point, NJ 🪶

A big white tern with a chunky red bill in flight looking down.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The nor’easter brought a Black-legged Kittiwake to City Island in the Bronx 🪶

A mostly-white gull with bold black markings on the wings and tail tip.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is my birthday and my wife got me a framed specimen of a Luna Moth that was captured in Quebec in 1938.

A framed specimen of a Luna moth that has lost its color.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I got nice looks at this Bay-breasted Warbler in Woodlawn Cemetery today. 🪶 #bronx

A female Bay-breasted Warbler (small and mostly greenish-yellow with black wings) perched on a small branch.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The first two busses were too full to get on. Maybe one of these four will have space for me.

A screenshot of the NYC MTA app showing four B13 busses all bunched together.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congratulations to my wife and nine-year-old son for successfully trapping this litter of kittens in the neighborhood. We’ll be fostering them until they get fixed and adopted.

Four kittens with varying levels of floofiness in a large cage.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I saw Mississippi Kite on Saturday. My first lifer in Van Cortlandt Park! 🪶🥧

A juvenile Mississippi Kite flying overhead.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Jerome Park Reservoir has been drained for maintenance and now the Bronx has a nice summer shorebird spot. I just ticked my county Baird’s Sandpiper.

A mostly dry reservoir with a series of grassy puddles dotting hr bottom.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was watching a nature show with my nine-year-old last night and there was a part about Hoatzins. He called it a “Temu emu”. 😂

A hoatzin bird with a bare face and an orange mohawk.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I found a Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp in my yard #bronx

A mostly black wasp on a leaf with its abdomen held aloft.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I took the camera out in the yard yesterday to see what insects can be found in my garden that’s comprised mainly of native plants. A kindly @inaturalist.bsky.social reviewer has confirmed that this is a type of hover fly called an Eastern Calligrapher (Toxomerus geminatus).

A close-up photo of a fly that looks a little bit like a bee sitting on a leaf.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Happy National Moth Week to those who celebrate! Here’s an Orange-headed Callima Moth and an Elegant Grass-Veneer I saw in my backyard last night.

An orange moth with white stripes on a hanging bedsheet

A kinda boring-looking brown and white moth on a hanging bedsheet

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The two most photogenic nests I found in Van Cortlandt Park this spring: Baltimore Oriole and Wood Thrush #bronx

A female Baltimore Oriole putting the finished touches on her hanging nest made of fine material like dried grass and pieces of reeds.

A female Wood Thrush sitting on a nest. She’s visible through a gap in the dense foliage.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I logged my 1,000th observation on @inaturalist.bsky.social yesterday. It’s a Northern Paper Wasp on an aster in my front garden.

A dark-colored wasp clinging vertically to leaves of an aster plant.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@oceansofnyc.com I found an Ocean without a TLC plate. Does this count?

The front of a Fisker Ocean car with plate number MGT9239

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Thanks to @rachelholliday.bsky.social for the tip (no pun intended) that BoE is giving out Knicks-themed stickers today.

An “I voted” sticker in Knicks orange and blue with a basketball design.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If my butterfly milkweed could talk, it would say “BING BONG” #knicks #bronx

A patch of bright orange flowering milkweed in front of a brink house.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We’re fostering five kittens that were abandoned on White Plains Road in the Bronx. Say hi to Catphrodite and her siblings . . .

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I found a Hackberry Petiole Gall on my hackberry tree! This means a tiny insect called a psyllid has injected enzymes into the tree through its saliva causing this growth to occur that the psyllid lays its eggs in. There are a few different species of gall psyllids that use the leaves of this tree.

A weird, green growth on a hackberry tree stem caused by a tiny insect called a psyllid.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Happy cedar apple rust season to those who celebrate #bronx

A weird, slimy, pointed, orange fungus growing on a dripping wet eastern red cedar tree.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The spiderwort and eastern bluestar are a nice complement to my non-native rose that I don’t get rid of because it does a nice job of covering up the rain barrel. #bronx

Purple spiderwort flowers, pale blue bluestar flowers and deep red roses next to a brick house with ferns and asters not yet in bloom.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My Packera anonyma is starting to bloom! #bronx

A top-down view of a bunch of buds and one open yellow daisy-like flower.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

First strawberry of the season from my garden #bronx

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I learned recently that there are tons of observations on iNaturalist with no identification attached. Any schmo like me can filter by “unknown” observations and assign really basic IDs like “plant”, “arthropod” or “reptile”.

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American Birding Association @aba.org · 08/05/2026

What's the best bird photo you've taken so far this spring?

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I saw a Yellow-eyed Junco on top of a Lexus in Ramsey Canyon, Arizona. 🪶

A little gray yellow-eyed junco on the roof of a car

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One more Crested Caracara shot from Arizona 🪶

A crested caracara with its head tucked in and tail fanned out on top of a saguaro cactus

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The pinkster azaleas are in bloom in Van Cortlandt Park #bronx.

A pinkster azalea in bloom in a forested park

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The Crested Caracara posting will continue until morale improves 🪶

Two Crested Caracaras perched on a distant saguaro cactus with mountains in the background

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Crested Caracara coming in for a landing 🪶

A Crested Caracara about to land on the top of a saguaro cactus

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Imagine making AI bird slop when Pileated Woodpeckers exist 🪶

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Crested Caracara from Pima County, Arizona 🪶

A crested caracara flying with wings spread and a mountain in the background

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here’s the Vermillion Flycatcher I saw at Brown Canyon Ranch, Arizona 🪶

A bright red male Vermillion Flycatcher perched on a twig

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Five woodpecker checklist🚨🚨🚨 🪶#bronx

A screenshot of an eBird checklist containing Red-bellied, Downy, Hairy, and Pileated Woodpecker as well as Northern Flicker.

A male Pileated Woodpecker splashing in a big puddle in the woods.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It’s a little too on-the-nose that these guys are running to represent a place called Low Fell.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I didn’t hear any owls during my night hike in Tucson, but I did see some saguaros.

A silhouette of a saguaro cactus against the mountains and the night sky.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I got my lifer Buff-breasted Flycatcher in Carr Canyon, Arizona today. I have now seen every Empidonax flycatcher that breeds in the US (thanks to the Pacific Slope/Cordilleran lump). #empidomaxxing 🪶

A small brown and gray flycatcher with a white eye ring perched on a branch.

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Happy New York State Fiscal New Year to all who celebrate! I’m commemorating the occasion by getting updated ELAP laboratory certificates which all expire today!

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Tim Graves @ibirdsometimes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I like the new platform at the Woodlawn Metro-North station because it’s accessible and has an overhang, but I’m not sure why they couldn’t make it a full-length platform during the rebuild.