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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm a compulsive note-taker (even in situations where I will literally never look at the note again), but most of them are chaotic chicken scribble. Fun to try to make them aesthetically engaging while I absorbed content. I will try this again! Thanks to Mike and Lucy for a lovely and edifying time!

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In addition to stimulating a lot of laughs, heartfelt conversation, and some new musings about my creative community (heist time!), it also provided an opportunity to try doing a "sketchnote" to collect my thoughts.

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I had the pleasure of participating in a How To Make Books webinar last Friday, hosted by Mike Montiero and Lucy Bellwood!

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/08/2026

WHAT DO YOU MEAN you've had this on your main hard drive for months to figure out how to edit but you've decided you're just going to post it straight from the camera because it's too precious to modify??? 🪶 🐣

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 21/12/2022

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 14/07/2013

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” —Wendell Berry

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh hello. Were you going to eat this? No? Don't mind if I do then. Bye!

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Love a wol sighting!!! Sounds like that wing-stretch moment was a special treat for YOU!

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have had a tendency over the past 15 years to disappear from the wider Internet for long periods and then emerge, cicada-like, and yell about whatever I've been doing. Frankly had the same thought (how have I not come across this person!) when Patreon told me you and your work existed! <3 Yay bug

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also check out this hickory horned devil we found during a prescribed burn the other day. One of North America's largest caterpillars! And apparently completely harmless (I did not test this). #caterpillar #bugs #hellyeah

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You meet a traveler coming the opposite way along the snow-packed road. You're not sure if he wants to sell you something, or add you to his merchandise. - I made a birdbeast! Patrons can see the recording here: www.patreon.com/posts/167882395?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share

An unsettling bipedal vulture creature with white feathers stands on the snow against a dark blue background and wearing a large, heavy pack that seems to hold various items of organic origin.

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Would that each of our days be so fulfilling

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me shine and radiate With your love and light, and help me make Any change I can in this world today Just show me the way <3

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/08/2026

In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. [imaginationlibrary.com]

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

(Also, I occasionally draw Animorphs fanart.) Nice to meet you! <3 V www.patreon.com/virginiagree...

A red pencil drawing of a tiger, an elephant, a gorilla, a wolf, and a red-tailed hawk perched on a mouthless, stalk-eyed alien. IYKYK

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I am also a scientist and habitat manager - using prescribed fire, chainsaws, public education, and lots of other tools to create and protect habitat for Virginian ecosystems. I write and draw stuff about that, too. www.patreon.com/virginiagree...

A prescribed fire, lit off by a practitioner walking away from the viewer, burns alongside a control line in a wetland prairie (dependent on fire disturbance).

A Stihl chainsaw sits in autumn oak leaf litter, with a teal-and-pink water bottle emblazoned with a DWR hellbender sticker leaning against it.

A fire practitioner in her green-and-yellow line gear smiles for the photographer while the prescribed burn continues behind her.

A page from a journal comic from a TREX in Selkirk, Washington.

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My favorite birdy project is my ever-growing collection of illustrated stories and songs about birds in a fantasy version of the Shenandoah Valley (but based loosely on real bird biology!) called The Ballads of Remex. www.patreon.com/virginiagree...

A flock of Canada geese flies high in the sky, all wearing different maroon and orange outfits. In the foreground, one goose has a Tufted Titmouse (also clothed) on his back. Everyone looks happy to see each other!

A black-and-white ink drawing of a blue jay in the snow, with something unpleasant dripping from her bill. Her victim's leg is just visible.

Kettle the Carolina Wren in the foreground yells at a squirrel chewing on her crafting materials in the background, in this ink-on-midtone-paper illustration.

Rikrikii the American Robin is about to kick some cloaca, as she flies upwards with orange fire in her eyes and billowing out of her bill, her claws outstretched for battle, in this ink-and-watercolor drawing.

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've used my bird-drawing powers for: - Making up Birdbeasts in 2014 - Being the Bartels Science Illustrator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2017 - Working on a graphic novel called Winged Heroes about birds in NYC in 2018 (published in 2021) - Doing lots of art for nature and conservation!

A green cheeked conure but with arms, a prehensile tail, horns, spooky red armor, and a black blade.

A pair of goldfinches, the male landing on a flower seed head in the foreground while the female eats a seed behind him.

A big scary osprey swoops down towards our heroes - a house sparrow, a pigeon, and a starling who have gotten very lost!

A scene of the Clinch River down in SW Virginia, featuring birds, snakes, bats, fish, and also a few mammals

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Virginia Greene Nature Art @virginiagreene.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hi, I'm Virginia! I draw birds. I write stories (about birds). I make comics (featuring birds and/or my own life). I compose little songs and poetry (frequently about birds).

A cozy nighttime scene, in which an American Woodcock wearing a hat with earflaps and a flannel scarf plays a dulcimer and sings to himself, while a pot of earthworm stew cooks over his campfire.

An ink drawing of a ruffed grouse in a cloak happily posing with a few partridge peas

A purple coneflower with a bee, a goldfinch, and a monarch butterfly within its petals.

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