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Jay

@lady-heron.bsky.social

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Environmental geoscientist / distracted illustrator this is what I do when I'm not in the field 🌊🪶🪲 I draw/paint birds

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Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

forgot to post my horned grebe here!

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Birds Canada @birdscanada.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

With the passing of Bill C5 and the Building Canada Act, Cabinet has been given the power to exempt major projects from environmental legislation including the Migratory Birds Convention Act and the Species at Risk Act. We can build Canada AND protect the birds we love: tinyurl.com/mf6z3sw7

A flock of Western Sandpipers fly with a shipping terminal in the background. Overlay text reads: Responding to Bill C5 and the Building Canada Act. We can build Canada and protect the birds we love.

A flock of Western Sandpipers fly with a shipping terminal in the background. Overlay text reads: “This new law has the potential to push the environment and nature completely aside in the pursuit of economic growth through rapid approval of major development projects” by David Browne, Senior VP Conservation and Policy.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

little pelly commission :>

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Carboniferous insects

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

backyard migratory birds !! (in the prairies)

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Ryan @herpbiologist.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I mean, Wow. Northern Ringneck Snakes are simply gorgeous. #herps 🐍 🌎

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

oh apparently it’s #invertefest today??? hi yes hello inverts are like my entire brand 🫶

An illustrated taxonomy poster featuring native bees found in North America, illustrated on a light periwinkle-blue background. The bees are all illustrated in various poses on native wildflowers or according to their species-specific behaviors. From top to bottom, left to right, there is the yellow-faced bumblebee, the orchard mason bee, the blueberry cellophane bee, the common long-horned bee, the western leaf cutter bee, the bumblebee-like digger bee, the bicolored sweat bee, and the eastern carpenter bee.

An illustration featuring 10 species of insects alternating in a pattern against a light blue background. From top row to bottom, there is an oak treehopper, a planthopper, a 17-year cicada, a candy-striped leafhopper, a green leafhopper, a superb dog-day cicada, a rhododendron leafhopper, a froghopper, a pink planthopper, and a thorn treehopper.

An illustration featuring 8 species of weevils against a bright golden yellow background. The weevils are beetles with long snouts and are drawn to be tiny. Top row: giraffe weevil, citrus root weevil. Second row: jewel weevil, rhubarb curculio. Third row: schoenherr’s blue weevil, acorn weevil. Fourth row: clown weevil, blue leaf rolling weevil.

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

They're baaaaack!

A single american robin scurries past, from right to left, an otherwise blank background. Just as is leaves the screen, a few more trickle in on the right. And then a few more. Suddenly the screen is flooded with a horde of robins, returning after the winter

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

i usually don't work much in sketchbooks this little study might change that for me ! i wanted to challenge myself by only painting with one colour

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

If you've never watched a giant water beetle derp around and then breathe through its butt, I recommend it. The world is just incomprehensibly complex and amazing. This creature has no idea people exist. #Invert 🌿

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

another new dude - the loggerhead shrike!

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

costa’s and anna’s hummingbirds! I love how the colored patches jump off their face like a little masquerade mask 🪶

illustration of a costa’s and anna’s hummingbird both perched on the bending stem of a red flower

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 05/04/2025

Flat illustration of a Northern Mockingbird singing in an upright position- semi-abstract bubble/balloon birds spring forth in the colorful shapes of many birds including a Blue Jay, Goldfinch, Robin, and Eastern Phoebe.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

👁

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

the beautiful california digger bee having a little nap

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

the glossy ibis!! ✨️

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

anhingy :>

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A close up on an ahinga wood cut I made a while back

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 28/01/2024

Flat illustration of a Northern Gannet in flight with a healthy portion of seaweed in their beak

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🌸✨

An illustration on a light blue-purple background featuring small yellow bee flies hovering around light pink and white plum blossom flowers.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

two little tiger barbes from the art stack

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

little crossbill from today 🌱

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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Tadpole Droplets #BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #photography

Droplets of water make circles above a pool of tadpoles.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

look at this!! superb snowy owl so stripey

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

the red throated loon - hoping to see this guy during spring migration this year

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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A Yellow Cardinal!? Are those even a thing!? 🤔 Well, yes! And… no? Meet our Bird of the Week: the Yellow Cardinal! 💛🪶

Scientific Name: Gubernatrix cristata
Population: 1,000–2,000
IUCN Status: Endangered
Trend: Decreasing
Habitat: Dry thorn scrub and forest edges.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

become ungovernable

a pigeon sits on a nest made in a drinking fountain

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

magpie ✨️

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's day from all the lizards who love you from the bottom of their obturator foramina! (lizard hip bones)🦎🧪💚

a series of eight lizard pelvic girdles (hip bones) in ventral view. the space in between the bones, called the obturator foramen, is in the shape of a heart. the heart shapes and bones around them vary a lot in shape but all are all distinctly heart shapes.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

slowly getting through posting the archive of wood cuts on here 🪲 here's a lil green jay! 💚

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Site manager chewed my ass out this morning. #birds #bewickswren #wrendition #wren

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

the great cormorant 🖤

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Lisa Whitenack, PhD @whitenacklab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Me too, swordfish. Me too.

Swordfish skull and vertebrae in a museum display case

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

today's vibe

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Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

sea ducks! 🌊🦆🪶

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

For the salamander enthusiasts! This winter I’ve seen so many here in Northern California 🌲

An illustration of a reddish-brown half circle with a golden yellow border. It contains golden yellow text that reads “#1 salamander enthusiast”. Inside the confines of the text are three species of salamanders/newts native to California: the rough skinned newt, the California giant salamander, and slender salamander.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

a guache tiger salimander ✨️

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

lil anhinga painting 🪶

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

why did the metal guy in pokemon black/white have to roast me so hard

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

evidence of v important gathering

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Sarah J Conti @sarahjconti.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

one good little goose

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 26/01/2025

Goose bus! Flat illustration of an adult Canada Goose with three goslings on board (nestled on top of their wing). The adult is lowering their head down to a fourth gosling about to get on.

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

here's a lil bluejay in the snow from december

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august c. @possumnest.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

cormorant + dinner

a digital line illustration of a cormorant and a very scared little fish. theyre floating beside eachother in composition, with a chartreuse background and a soft blue border

Jay @lady-heron.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

little black crowned night herons! 🖤

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"