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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 19/02/2026

3/4 Whether a profession or a peaceful practice, making art brings us all to a place of joy and communication.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 19/02/2026

2/4 This is the Draw A Pigeon How-To by me! This is the static slow version without Meta’s countdown timer of algorithm failure. No pressure pigeons!

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 19/02/2026

1/4 I’m so thankful for the opportunities I’m getting to encourage folks in their journey as artists and observers. I am not a trained teacher, but I do like people...almost as much as I like birds. I guided members of KW Queer Birders in their creation of a beautiful flock of pigeons

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 28/01/2026

Latest pieces. Birds of course. Pencil, ink, watercolour #birds #art #wildlife #artist

Watercolour of pair of evening grosbeaks

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 18/06/2025

Thank you my friends, collaborators and team at Bird Friendly Kitchener for wrapping up our May and showing up for my commitments Thanks for the thoughts and love and distractions that have been sent, they’re appreciated. I’ll be back with my birds and plans in due course 🪶

We are, for now, a multigenerational home. Dad’s cardiologist and vascular surgeon want him close by during this recovery.

Within couple of days, I suspect between the the forest fire smoke being a bad irritant along the stress and worry she’s been through as well as being asthmatic - my mum came down with pneumonia.

We are a home of rest and recovery right now.

They are both, for the most part, except when impatience hits them, good patients. I’m glad to be able to be an advocate, an organizer, an anything they need while they get better.

But I was very scared, I recognize I probably still am. I would be remiss to not say that incredibly special friends got me through this

I’m navigating from a place that is the furtherest from my plans for June. I apologize for delays on art, posts, chats, reports, or time together.

My bandwidth is pretty low. And I’m pretty tired.

The nurses and teams at WRHN @ Queen’s and Guelph General did save my dad’s life. And treated us all with such kindness and dignity through this.

A Thank You doesn’t cover any of the gratitude and relief I feel.

I’m starting to take moments to do the things I do for me - gardening and walking and bird watching. A friend enforced daytrip to Aberfoyle for antiquing. A little normalcy.

If you catch me out walking and watching my birds tell me who you’ve seen today. Our good birds are good help.

Thanks for making my show at Seven Shores and the whole shebang of BFCKs World Migratory Bird May such personal and public successes.

Thanks for being good people 🤍

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 18/06/2025

This is a lot. But here we are. The images share the story. Thank you WRHN @ Queens and Guelph General Thank you to my two dear friends in healthcare for being exactly yourselves and who I needed to get me through and be the best advocate for my parents.

I don’t share a lot of family stories or ‘behind the scenes’.

I am going to share this one because I didn’t just *poof* vanish and bugger off after my show at Seven Shores and the whole month in Square Peg representing Bird Friendly Kitchener

I’m sharing it because there’s good reason I’m not posting, not drawing, slow to text or email. There’s a good reason my June has not been one of art and gardening

On May 30th, I was packing up the final box of our World Migratory Bird May in Square Peg and anticipating celebrating with my bird friendly city team, Matt let me know I had to stop and we needed to go to the hospital.

He’d had texts from E and my mum that my dad was having chest pains.

I was at WRHN @ Queen in minutes and with my folks.

It felt like time slowed to a crawl in the Emergency Room. Seconds feel like hours

Dad indeed had a heart attack and then another in the emergency room. Then we were in the cardiac ward.

Things went from scary to nightmarish when my dad suffered a femoral haemorrhage after complications with installing a stent, this resulted in emergency surgery in Guelph in the very early hours of June 2 and a third, more serious heart attack on June 3.

Dad was brought back to WRHN via emergency transport - all high speed, lights and sirens. We caught one glimpse of his ambulance as they booked it out of Guelph.

The intervention of the nurses in Guelph and the WRHN’s CCU managed to level down this third heart attack and when Dad was stable they successfully installed two stents.

Dad stayed on the cardiac ward at WRHN until June 6.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 27/05/2025

#addBirder Could have sworn I asked to be a part this feed already but maybe not 🤷‍♀️ I love drawing bird feet SO much! This little one’s delicate balancing grip was a delight to draw. #birds #birdart #tradart #wildlife #nature #art #ornithology

Watercolour and ink drawing of a prairie warbler by me

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 12/05/2025

American redstart  My favourite of our warblers!🖤🧡🤍  Oh they are so fun. Redstarts flash bright patches on their wings and tails, orange on males and yellow on females to flush out bugs to eat. So these beautiful little ones can be seen flapping and fanning, working hard for tiny snacks  #birds #art

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 05/05/2025

@twbcoop.bsky.social is awesome all the time but because I am incredibly biased they are extra awesome with bird beers!!! Bird Friendly Blonde and Junco City are my labels! 🤪 Thank you for the support of @bfck.bsky.social and for everything TWB ♥️ #birds #beer #supportlocal

Four beers from TWB Brewery in Kitchener ON

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 28/04/2025

In support of @bfck.bsky.social I lent a junco drawing to a T-shirt. It is the first time my art has been on a tee :) Sales help support the conservation and engagement efforts of Bird Friendly Kitchener If you’re in Kitchener or anywhere! Get Junco city here 👇 stores.inksoft.com/bird_friendl...

Me wearing the limited edition Junco City Tshirt

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 20/04/2025

It is our lovely pup’s 6th birthday today. Dogs are beings of all the feelings and sometimes all the love and happiness overwhelms Cookie, but she is such a good girl. Our Cuckoo, our Cookie Monster. 🐕 #dog #doodle #animalcompanions #birthday #dogsofbluesky #pet

Shaggy golden dog sitting in the sun on a chair outside

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 20/04/2025

It’s the duck of democracy. Be like this duck (it’s a greater scaup btw) and flap on over to your nearest polling station Vote 🗳️ #canpoli #canadianelection2025 #greaterscaup #ducks #birds #tradart

My ink and watercolour drawing of a greater scaup

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 15/04/2025

I consider it a personal success when you make your friend cry happy tears on her birthday 🥹 😈 And look, I did not draw a bird #handmade #handmadegiftsarethebest #cat #catdrawing #watercolor #traditionaldrawing

Watercolor and ink drawing of a cloud calico cat by me

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 13/04/2025

I would love to sketch out a Mere doll for the trend all over the internets but without the machine learning and AI thievery, but I have no time and the flash in the pan will be over when I do 🤷‍♀️ So here’s my Timberdoodle instead #meep #traditionalart #traditionalartist #woodcock #timberdoodle

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 11/04/2025

A year ago I drew a Cuban Tody. Cute, super green and a delight to draw for a friend who fell in love with these borbs when he went birding in Cuba. #cubantody #tody #birds #birdart #cuba

Watercolour drawing of a Cuban tody by me.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 07/04/2025

@bfck.bsky.social and I have been hard at work! This will be Kitchener’s first celebration of #worldmigratorybirdday with World Migratory Bird MAY! We’re launching a month of bird friendly events and local shopping. Check out what we’ve got in the works🪶 bfck.waterlooregionnature.ca/events/list/

Advertisement for the month long programming my bird friendly Kitchener team and I have coming in May

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 06/04/2025

🩶 My bird from a year ago and what I wrote about. I still have my Whiskeyjack, she’s one of my favourites. #whiskeyjack #wisakedjak #canadajay #grayjay #birds #birdart #art #drawing #education #learningthroughnature #learningthroughart

Text about the drawing in the third image

Watercolour and ink drawing of a bird known as the Whiskeyjack, Grey Jay or Canada Jay

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 26/02/2025

Red-bellied woodpecker from Feb. 25 2023. Wondering if we’ll get these backyard beauties again this year. ❤️🖤🤍 #onthisday #redbelliedwoodpecker #birdart #birds #woodpecker #wip #watercolour #tradart

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 23/02/2025

Point Pelee is offering its Artist-in-Residence opportunity I’d like to know which five of these drawings you think I should submit for consideration! Help me choose! Check the thread 👇 Thanks 🪶 #birdart #birds #backyardbirds #art #artists #watercolour #ink #drawing #nature #wildlife #tradart

Watercolour and ink drawing of a whiskeyjack bird

Watercolour and ink drawing of downy woodpecker

Watercolour and ink drawing of an ovenbird

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 20/02/2025

My alarm clock has one setting. Rage MrrrrWOOWWW! 🚨 ‼️⏰ She is cute though. Zoom in on that face! 🐈‍⬛ #cat #catsofbluesky #blackcat (I’m normally up offensively early but have got spectacularly low levels of iron going on lately and feel so very tired and slow)

A little black cat staring me down to get out of bed a feed her.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 18/02/2025

Sorry … incoming complaint. I’ve struggled to get traction and followers and eyes on my art. This IG account has more than 20K followers including me because I love these birds and they stole my Timberdoodle for self-promotion. Wtf man #art #birds #stolenart #creditartists #thatsmypeent

This is a screen capture of an art thief

THIS IS MY ART. THAT IS MY NAME IN MY HANDWRITING WITH THE DAT I DRAW IT.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 17/02/2025

A patron returning is such a wonderful thing In 2024 I drew the Carolina Wrens for the birthday of a patron’s little granddaughter, who is bestowed with the name Wrenley. For 2025 a House Wren was the requested bird. And little fairy friends in each 🧚 #art #birds #wren #fairy #tradart #nature

A drawing of a house wren on a bird house surrounded by climbing ivy. There is a little fairy peeking out

A pair of Carolina wrens perched on an old fence post and vines with a berry fairy tucked away

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 14/02/2025

1/4 This is important. Like really important. It’s bigger than “ick I don’t like rats and we have a rat problem” Canada’s approach to pesticides is unregulated and grossly inadequate. Petition e-5320 champions that. Please sign and share. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Graphic for e-petition e-5320 depicting some of the animals harmed by poisons intended for insects and rodents

Graphic for e-petition e-5320 depicting some of the animals harmed by poisons intended for insects and rodents and the asks of the petition

Humane housekeeping list to pest proof your properties

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 13/02/2025

A morning joy moment brought to you by my 5 year old doggo, this is Cookie aka LaBelle aka Monster aka Cuckoo. Snow makes her so happy 🐕 And of course have to respect her privacy when the 💩 circling starts 🤣 #dogs #dogsofbluesky #happy #joy

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 13/02/2025

Oh my gosh A bonus BIRB. Of the UK variety! Control yourselves because they’re called Blue Tits…oh stop😏 And they are this adorbs 🩵 It’s my littlest watercolour to date at a whopping 2.5 by 3 inches. #ukbirds #bluetit #birdart #birds #art #miniature #tradart #miniaturepainting #watercolor #joy

A miniature watercolor drawing of a Eurasian blue tit

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 12/02/2025

It’s all such a mess right now It’s so ugly right now If you don’t post about it all you evidently don’t care Hey, so the feeling of paralyzing irrelevancy is real Joyful art made with a kind gentle heart that’s full of wonder has become defiant Cool 🪶 #birds #art #wren #tradart #love #wip

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 05/02/2025

My youngest turns 14 today. When I drew my year of birds he requested a common freckle for his birthday. And so here is Elliott’s grackle. It remains one of my faves from 2023. #attitude #birds #birdart #tradart #watercolor #wip #art #artist

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 01/02/2025

I’m at a loss for words. So here’s my herring gull from Jan 31 2023 who looks like she’s ready to square off with it all. #birdart #birds #canada #gull #herringgull #tradewar #goodneighbours #loss #grief #trauma #art

A herring gull drawn in ink and watercolour by me on January 31 2023

The gull is full of attitude. And chaos.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 30/01/2025

My northern parula. The first warbler I got to know. Tied forever to Nova Scotia for me as that’s where I first saw them. Posting in memory of a lovely friend and neighbour to our little life in Dartmouth NS. I didn’t know I would be saying farewell to you today. My heart is very sad.

A small blue warbler, known as a Northern Parula, drawn in watercolour and ink by me.

The little bird is in a dynamic pose, its head thrown back and eyes closed in enjoyment of its life

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 28/01/2025

This little nuthatch was possessive of everything I offered today and expressed great offence that the chickadees dared encroach on the peanuts available 🥜 #redbreastednuthatch #birds #nature #outdoors #winter

Me, a 40-something white woman in a purple snowsuit and yellow toque hand feeding a red-breasted nuthatch.

Setting is a winter forest.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 28/01/2025

The crows have been roosting in our neighbourhood lately. They do this for safety and social reasons. I love it. #crows #birds

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 26/01/2025

January 26 2023 - Black Capped Chickadee process timelapse

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 26/01/2025

I’m spending a lot of time outdoors Social media more so than ever feels like the worst choice for mental health and productivity. Make sure you put down the doom rectangle 📱 and connect meaningfully. You’ll feel better ❤️‍🩹 CHICKADEE! From on this day in 2023. WiP timelapse is in the thread

A jauntily perched black-capped chickadee drawn by me, Meredith Blunt!

Done in delicate airy watercolour washes and fineliner ink pens. The chickadee is in an action pose perch with her tail feathers up and her head down and looking out to the right.

Once again I forgot to sign my work.

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 23/01/2025

This gorgeous adult red-tailed hawk is hunting in the back alleys in Uptown Waterloo This beauty, this urban bird of prey is undoubtedly poisoned Rodenticides are dangerously ineffective and harmful laziness Pls consider reading and signing this petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 22/01/2025

Timelapse of the 2023.01.22 American Crow from my year of birds. I think revisiting this drawing, this crow pose would be good. #crow #birds #art #timelapse #canadianartist #birdartist

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 22/01/2025

One of my crows makes this face regularly. It’s appropriate Drawn on 2023.01.22. and unsigned b/c I was a squirrelly mess about my value as an artist I’ll get to new drawings soon I hope Have been managing vertigo-like episodes for a few days and 🤢 #crow #birds #art #canadianartist

Watercolour and ink drawing of an American Crow by me. The crow is directly staring at us with her head tilted. The watercolour is loose and light and the ink work a bit scratchy and hard. Her feet are almost comical

I forgot to sign this drawing

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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 20/01/2025

it’s the goldfinch I drew on this day in ‘23 as well as its process clip in the thread. Hey did you know it is #birdartweek next week. Excited to see what the hashtags bring! There may be a little sketchy wren in the thread too 🪶 #americangoldfinch #goldfinch #birdart #birds #wren #sketch

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