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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Yeah we did it. The Hallmark #birding movie with #homemade spicy margs, #canned salsa & #pickled jalapeños, and #friends. No better way to spend a #furlough Wednesday. And yes, he will be a very successful birding guide with those binoculars. ❤️

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

At it again with At Ease Brewing and the Central Valley Bird Club! No Kings, only Kinglets. #birding #beer #birdsandbrews

A smiling group poses in front of the California Capitol Building holding binoculars.

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Today was a good day to recharge. ❤️

A mural representing strength with powerful figures and flags and the quote “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Brent and I thoroughly enjoyed the #Sacramento #Archive Crawl yesterday! We visited the Stanley Mosk #Library & Courts Building, the State Archives, and the Sacramento Room at the Central Library. We’ll definitely attend next year!

The columned entrance to the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts building.

A poster for a “Save the Whales” concert featuring Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon, held February 9, 1977 in San Jose.

A card showing an old-timey baseball player swinging a bat labeled “California.”

A thick book opened to a page of a 1985 State Resolution recognizing the 148th anniversary of General Henry M. Robert’s birthday, with a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order propped up behind.

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Now hang on… I just saw a commercial for tires with a lady #birding and they showed a Black-throated Blue Warbler and I could swear the #bird song they played was actually a Black-throated Blue Warbler. Did I just see the most accurate commercial featuring a bird ever?! For tires?!

The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do... We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Obligatory beaver statue selfie after presenting at American River College’s Intro to Ornithology class this morning. Thanks to the humidity for giving my hair quite the frizz. 😂🦫🦅

Lily smiling in glasses with hair pulled back, but still frizzy, standing in front of a rusted metal statue reading “ARC” with a beaver perched on top.

Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...

a young man stands outside on a road through the woods, looking up and holding out a sound recording device

a white-throated sparrow, a brown bird with a black and white striped head and yellow spots by its eyes, on the ground

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I love that a local #sushi restaurant prominently features #heron beakspear artwork alongside our CA Central Valley ricelands that provide both quality sushi #rice and heron habitat. I also love that I feel the need to share this with one of my absolutely favorite follows, @everyheron.bsky.social ❤️

A brightly-colored painting centered on a Great Blue Heron flying over ricelands of California’s Central Valley.

A portion of a mural showing the head of a Great Blue Heron among reddish fish.

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A local festival about food but also with amazing music? Okay, #sacramento ❤️

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Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Sometimes you need a little push to get out there. Like uncommon shorebirds at the wastewater treatment plant! 🥳 Baird’s Sandpiper that kept sinking into the mud. Solitary Sandpiper dining alone. Greater vs Lesser Yellowlegs. #birds #birding

A Baird’s Sandpiper standing in lumpy mud

A Baird’s Sandpiper with wings spread and blurred as it lifts its legs from the mud

A Solitary Sandpiper on the edge of some dried, fallen reeds

A Greater Yellowlegs and two Lesser Yellowlegs along the water’s edge, providing a good comparison

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Why yes, we did just watch 2+ hours of a robot apocalypse puppet musical. How was your Sunday? 🤖🎶😂

MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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To be heard over roaring rivers, white-throated dippers swap from song to flashing their bright eyelids. New research reveals one of the clearest examples yet of animals switching between senses to communicate – showing how noisy environments can shape evolution: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-08...

A white-throated dipper sitting on a stone in a river.

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Galls are pretty much the coolest. Red cone #gall wasp on Valley #oak and saucer gall wasp on blue oak. ❤️

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

One more day of #birding before heading to the airport! The Five-Striped Sparrow now qualifies as a nemesis. 🥲 Guess I have to come back! Lifer Red-faced Warbler isn’t a bad consolation prize. 🥰 Also caught a Painted Redstart en déshabillé post-bath. 🤭

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Sparrows today at the #SEAZbirdfest in Box Canyon! Singing Black-throated and Botteri’s. Distant look at a singing Rufous-winged for a lifer! We finally turned a Turkey Vulture into a Zone-tailed Hawk. Sibling love at the Thick-billed Kingbird nest. Skunked by Five-striped Sparrow…twice. 🥲 #birding

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Night #birding last night in Madera Canyon with the #SEAZbirdfest. We had a great hummingbird show before sunset, with 8 species including this Rivoli’s. We heard both Whiskered Screech-Owl and Mexican Whip-poor-will! On the drive back our guide spotted a bebe western diamondback on the road. 🦉🐍❤️

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Today was #birding close to the border at Walker Canyon and Pena Blanca Lake. Monsoon season has been dry and temps are warm, keeping the #bird activity down. Common Black Hawk was a nice year bird. And I always enjoy a Green Heron. #SEAZbirdfest

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The #SEAZbirdfest Big Day field trip crew, including our record-breaking species number 117, Great Egret! We went on to add Wood Duck and a surprise afternoon Great Horned Owl for a grand total of 119 #birds on the day. Thanks to our leader Alex Lamoreaux from Wildside Nature Tours!

A group of smiling birders in front of a park pond. A Great Egret can just be seen in the background.

A young Wood Duck and domestic Mallard stand alongside a pond.

A light-colored Great Horned Owl perches in a palm tree.

A little slow up Madera Canyon on the #SEAZbirdfest big day field trip. But we added some #birds for 92 species so far! And I finally got my Gjon for the year! ❤️

Box Canyon on the #SEAZbirdfest big day field trip! Finally some #bird shots for you. Thick-billed Kingbird delivering a snack to its nest. Pretty bad photo of a pretty good bird: Varied Bunting. 😅

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Scoping for sparrows on the #SEAZbirdfest big day field trip at Las Cienegas. Black-throated, Botteri’s, Cassin’s, Grasshopper, and Lark. #birding

Good morning from the #SEAZbirdfest Big Day field trip! Started off with Snow Goose, Lesser Nighthawk, and three species of swallows in a Tucson park. #birding

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Went out for a bit today. Nothing against the #birds, but I’m not sure I can just call it #birding with the other things I saw. 🤷‍♀️

a male Hooded Oriole, orange with a black chin, wings, and tail, perched in the top of a tree

a young Turkey Vulture, with a black head instead of the red of an adult, showing a collar of white down and perched atop a telephone pole

closeup of the face of an ear-tagged goat chewing on a piece of wood

closeup on the face of a rattlesnake, scaled eye ridges giving it a menacing look even though it’s just basking on the trail

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

State Fair things. ❤️

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American Birding Association @aba.org · 11/06/2025

Loggerhead Shrikes are famous for impaling their prey, but what can their collections of prey tell us about the biodiversity of the prairie? In one of the most unique Birding features ever, to appear in the upcoming July issue, David Leatherman explores shrikes as “avian bioblitzers”...

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Jordan E. Rutter @jerutter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It’s never too early to RSVP for an @abcbirds.bsky.social #birds webinar! Make sure to sign up via my personal list to stay even more connected. Sign up for free here: ABCbirds.org/JERsvp

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RSVP: A Sailor's Valentine: Stories of Kinship with Seabirds

7/23 at 4pm ET

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We now know more about Norwegian art than we ever thought possible. 😳

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The best part of the fisheries museum was the water taxi getting there. 😍

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Today we wandered about and finally got to try skagen toast before a speedy fjord tour. Then met up with boat/new friends for dinner and aquavit. What a day. 🥰

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

We took the funicular up Mt. Fløyen for a hike among the trolls. Then escaped the cruise ship crowds at a delightful cafe/bar hung with Danish mid-century lamps. 😍

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We’re in Bergen! Took it easy today with a visit to the terrific Bryggens Museum.

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Belated post from our final expedition day. Walrus haul-out! Flirting #Arctic Tern. Cackling Dovekies in the reply! ❤️

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Uhm hi, hello, POLAR BEAR!!! 🐻‍❄️😍

We’re in the pack ice! Lifer Ivory Gulls just chilling. 🤍 We were able to walk on a piece of pack ice before heading in with the kittiwakes.

We visited the #bird cliffs of Alkefjellet. Too much ice to zodiac, but we got great views of the huge Thick-billed Murre colony, with a bonus walrus! In the afternoon we had a nice hike at Faksevagen. Photos: ice at Alkefjellet, murres having a disagreement, walrus, and reindeer mom & calf.

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We landed for a short hike at Texas Bar, an old trapper’s cabin. In the afternoon we took a zodiac cruise along Monaco Glacier, complete with a rum & cider warmer and close-ups with #birds on ice.

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

We enjoyed a zodiac cruise at Tinayrebukta, followed by a shore landing and a modest hike at Camp Zoe. Photos: us in front of the glacier, reindeer on a steep slope, bearded seal, and polar bear guard and safety equipment at our landing.

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In Longyearbyen you take off your shoes before entering establishments, a holdover from coal mining days. Today we learned that there’s a Norwegian term for the smell of the shoe room in our lodging: tåfis, which translates to “toe farts.” 💨

Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Today we went on a puffin safari on a pretty fast boat! We were successful in finding Atlantic Puffins and Thick-billed Murres (Brünnich’s Guillemot) as well. #birds

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Lily @ldouglas14.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Mostly took it easy today, but confirmed a couple lifers: Pink-footed Goose and Rock Ptarmigan. We also enjoyed BryggeriFredag with friends new & old. ❤️