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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 02/10/2026

“Fledgling Ballet”, coloured pencil on cotton paper, showing a young Cooper’s hawk stretching its wings before trying to hop out of the nest to a nearby branch. They are very entertaining at this stage 🙂 #Birds #SciArt

Coloured pencil drawing of a crow-sized bird with fluffy white legs and a brown-streaked breast. Both wings are raised, so that you can see the underside of the nearest wing. Some of the twigs of the nest have been drawn underneath.

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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

Very good! Giving up makes no sense. Stopping, maybe, if we find something we’d rather do; but not giving up :)

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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’m glad they survived! It’s a common cause of mortality in Cooper’s — I suppose because they’ve adapted to hunting in urban and suburban yards.

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

Thank you! Yes, I love watching them fly. I was about to say, “I could watch them for hours”, but I guess I did!

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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 · 11/09/2026

Thank you ❤️ To me it feels more like persistence than skill :)

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

Thank you! I’m glad you like the name; it seemed so right to me :)

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

It’s a drawing — but thank you!

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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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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 · 26/08/2026

Thank you ❤️ It’s a great feeling!

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Megan O’Connor 🍁 @meganoconnorart.ca · 26/08/2026

Thanks — they certainly do! Odd that I like them, as am not patient in general 😄

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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

Thank you ❤️ I hope it is a short-term crisis — for lots of reasons! I join many in hoping for real change soon 🙏

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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

Thank you! The worry of smudging aside (also a factor) I am in it for the birds 😊

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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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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

There is a high mortality rate in the first few months, so I try not to count now that they’re flying around — but I think there are still four :)

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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 · 18/07/2026

Lovely! It’s a slow medium but worth it :)

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