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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 25/09/2026

It continues to surprise me seeing just how much pink, blue, and purple go into making a brown and white bird! #Birds #SciArt

Coloured pencil drawing of a crow-sized brown and white bird standing upright in a nest with wings raised. In front of the drawing, a hand is holding three coloured pencils: blue, purple, and pink.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 22/09/2026

Anon: “How do you draw birds?” Me: “I wing it.” (Not really) Work in progress showing the wing of a near-fledgling Cooper’s hawk. #Birds #SciArt

Coloured pencil drawing, unfinished, showing a detailed open wing of a crow-sized bird and the rough sketch of the rest of the bird.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17/09/2026

I finished “Monty” today — the male of the pair of Cooper’s hawks I watched this year. He is smaller than his mate (“Capulet”) and in adult plumage. He was a great dad: he built the nest and fed everyone! Coloured pencil on cotton paper. #BirdArt #Birds #SciArt

A crow-sized bird with slate blue wings and a white and rust-patterned breast, perched on a lichen-covered branch.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 10/09/2026

I don’t ordinarily name wild birds, but I spent so many weeks observing this one, and it helped with note taking to distinguish her from her mate, so … “Capulet”, 12x16 inches, coloured pencil on cotton paper, based on my own photo. #SciArt #Birds

Coloured pencil drawing of a crow-sized bird with dark brown wings and a white chest streaked with brown, perched on a branch. The bird is looking to the right.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New from me at TVO: Okay, fine, I had thoughts about the Lake America stupidity and why it shouldn't just be laughed off. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

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TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is gold 🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣 💪🏻🍁 clapping back at the US administration for their childish comments

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 25/08/2026

“Green Energy”. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. A male ruby-throated hummingbird based on photos I took last spring. #SciArt #Birds

Coloured pencil drawing of a small green bird with a long bill, perched on a leafy twig.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 22/08/2026

Art is long, US administrations are short. Three cheers to our PM and all Canadians who said “enough” last night! The latest illegal US tariffs on Canada will effectively stop sales to the U.S. — but don’t let that stop us making art and celebrating what’s good in life ❤️ #SciArt #CanadianArt

Unfinished coloured pencil drawing of a small green bird with a dark red throat and long bill, sitting on a leafy branch.

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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Brock" hand embroidery Badger artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p309/B... #UKGiftHour #Embroidery #WildlifeArt

A square shaped artwork.
A gold fabric background with a hand embroidered Badger head slightly turned to the left.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 22/08/2026

“Reliability” is the key word. I’m not sure why we even bother trying to negotiate with an administration that breaks deals and ignores law. Until Americans choose to elect a law-abiding administration, we have to detach ourselves — however sad and painful the reality.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 22/08/2026

It looks as if “drawings” are included in the new 50 % tariffs that the U.S. is slapping on Canada (illegally, again). Now it’s personal 😏

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 13/08/2026

I drew the last stick today! Coloured pencil on cotton paper, 12 x 21 inches, based on photos I took in July, on the last day I saw these young Cooper’s hawks all in the nest together. I watched this nest from April until August. #birds #SciArt

Coloured pencil drawing of four crow-sized, brown and white birds in different poses on a nest of sticks between the grey branches of a tree.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 06/08/2026

I feel as if I’ve reversed the natural order of things: first I make the chicks, then I make the nest (nest still in progress). Art does not always imitate life 😏 #Birds #SciArt

A coloured pencil drawing of four large brown and white birds in a nest that is supported by four grey branches. The nest is not yet finished.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Over the last 10 yrs, sharpshooters hired by the B.C. govt have killed hundreds of wolves from helicopters to "save" struggling caribou herds. The real cause of caribou decline isn't wolves, though - it's habitat destruction. This isn't endangered species conservation, BC. It's willful ignorance.

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BC Just Spent $74,900 to Kill a Single Wolf in the Kootenays | The Tyee

The program exists to save at-risk caribou, but critics want Ottawa to move to preserve herds’ old-growth habitat.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 29/07/2026

Bad: the hawk is so close to your camera lens that you have to lower it down and just watch. Good: the hawk is so close to your camera lens that you have to lower it down and just watch. #WildlifePhotography #Birds

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 28/07/2026

Making progress on four young Cooper’s hawks, based on photos I took on the last day I saw them all in the nest (July 11). I haven’t begun the fourth yet; am hoping to give a sense of them spilling out :) I still visit them, but they are getting harder to track! #SciArt #Birds

Unfinished coloured pencil drawing of four brown and white hawks. Two are finished and one is half done; the fourth is a light sketch covered by glassine paper. Some tree branches are filled in but the nest is not yet begun.

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Mom and fledgling Great Horned Owls at sunrise 🦉 #birds #owls

A mom and fledgling Great Horned Owl standing side by side in the crotch of a large tree, lit by the sunrise behind them

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 22/07/2026

“I feel sorry for Americans. If you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.” — David Eby, Premier of British Columbia

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17/07/2026

I’ve begun my largest ever drawing — 12” x 21” — featuring a family of Cooper’s hawks on the day before they began to leave their nest at roughly 4-5 weeks old. #Birds #SciArt

Unfinished coloured pencil drawing of a medium-sized hawk against a background of tree branches. A piece of glassine paper is protecting most of the drawing, which is only roughly sketched in.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 15/07/2026

Ordinarily, late morning is the best time for me to draw because of the natural light, but today it’s too dark because of wildfire smoke. I can only imagine how awful this must be for people in northern Ontario 😢 We know fires are more common now, and larger. Why are we not more proactive?

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 08/07/2026

Black crowned night herons have the coolest dance moves! #Birds #TorontoWildlife

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Mr. Bryan Adams. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 youtu.be/LyyFIbaU45w?...

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Bryan Adams - '51st State' (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Bryan Adams

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 03/07/2026

Am completely exhausted and bitten too many times by mosquitoes, but I got to watch a family of young raccoons play bitey face with each other — so, worth it 😄

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 17/06/2026

My latest dog portrait — the lovely Penny ❤️ She is still a puppy, entering the gangly phase, with the most wonderful textured fur. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. #DogPortrait

Coloured pencil drawing of an orange and black dog with a white muzzle and chest. She is in a sitting position, looking toward the viewer.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 16/06/2026

I’ve been visiting friends in England, and taking up a new habit: rapid painting in watercolour. It’s a sort of counterpoint to my realistic drawings; it makes me put shapes down on the page without stopping to think. I sometimes add ink lines, but the rule is the same: don’t think (much).

Watercolour sketches of a grey bird with a yellow beak and long yellow legs. Handwriting on the page refers to the difference in plumage between a grey heron and a great blue.

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 20/05/2026

My #BirdOfTheDay #WingsWideOpen is a ruby-throated hummingbird :) I took this photo in a Toronto ravine. @robcrank68.bsky.social

Tiny bird perched on an upright branch. The bird has a bright red throat and is holding his wings open.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

You rarely get to see the rainbow of colours in a Bufflehead's face, but I caught this one in just the right light. #birds 🌿

A male bufflehead duck swims into the light going right to left across the photo. The evening light highlights its black face, revealing the blue, green, yellow and purple structural colour hiding in the feathers. The white patch on the head and white neck and belly almost glow in the light.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The only thing “carbon capture” has ever been successful at, is acting as a corporate and political distraction from, and an excuse for avoiding, REAL climate action.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 07/05/2026

My pre-ordered copy is winging its way to me now :)

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 05/05/2026

I was happy to get this photo of a pair of Cooper’s hawks in their nest today. It shows how eye colour changes with age. The male on the left has the orange eye that goes with his adult plumage; the female is younger (probably a year old) and has yellow eyes and streaky brown plumage. #Birds

Two medium-sized hawks in a nest, one with yellow eyes and one with orange.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 02/05/2026

“Barely Awake”, coloured pencil on cotton paper, with thanks to a raccoon in my neighbourhood. #WildlifeArt #SciArt

Coloured pencil drawing of a brown, grey, and white mammal draped over the crook of a tree.

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 30/04/2026

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

A red winged blackbird's breath can be seen as he sings his morning song. The bird is sitting on a cattail and the rising morning sun illuminates his breath.

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Matthew Paulson @matthewpaulson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Burrowing owls typically have bright, intense yellow irises, which are a characteristic feature for these diurnal (day-active) hunters. While yellow is the standard, some individuals, may exhibit mottled, dark brown, or olive-green speckled irises, often from recessive genes. 🪶🦉

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 30/04/2026

Things are a bit stressful just now — including a badly timed knee strain — but I get to draw this sweet face 🥰 #WildlifeArt

Unfinished colour pencil drawing of a sleepy raccoon draped over a tree branch. The face has yet to be drawn in.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 28/04/2026

I operate on the principle that one can never draw too many raccoons … #SciArt

Unfinished colour pencil drawing showing an eye and a striped tail near a branch.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 25/04/2026

Realistic drawings take may hours, so I’ve begun a new (to me) practice of quick sketches to record what I see and to play with colour and composition. It’s a pen-and-watercolour journal — this entry took about 5 minutes! — throwing perfection to the wind 🙂 #naturejournalling

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 23/04/2026

“Old Growth” is done. The title refers to the big old trees in my local ravine — many of them “dead” — which provide homes and food for many species, including this Hairy woodpecker. #Birds #SciArt

Black and white bird perched on an upright branch of a fallen log. The bark is broken and spotted with lichen.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 20/04/2026

Forget “to be or not to be.” The real question is, “to draw or to play ball.”

Drawing board on a desk with an unfinished pencil drawing of a bird on a branch. Under the desk, a border collie is staring toward the camera.

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Here's a new study! Study of a female Cooper's Hawk with bic pen #art #birds #nature #sciart

Three studies of a female Cooper's Hawk made with a black bic pen.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 14/04/2026

Currently on my drawing board — a female hairy woodpecker. I’ve nothing against male birds, by the way; I just happen to have seen some especially nice female ones lately 😄 #Birds #SciArt #TorontoWildlife

Unfinished colour pencil drawing of a black and white bird.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 13/04/2026

A feather in the opening of an incunable. Would be very interested to know what bird this came from.

Small yellow and black variegated bird feather in the gutter of a book.

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 12/04/2026

It may have been the flu that altered my style this week — I went a bit crazy with oil pastels after drawing the bird in pencil— but in any case, “In Cedar” is done, with thanks to the lovely female cardinal I saw last month. #Birds #SciArt

Buff and red bird with an orange beak perched on a branch.

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 12/04/2026

Sharing with the #SciArt Feed:

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