Maddie

@maddiejayy.bsky.social

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Team fish by trade, team bird by choice. Biologist and obsessive birder. I work with zebrafish. OR » NC. she/her

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Roseate Spoonbill! 🪶

This was my first time actually SEEING a Yellow-throated Vireo this year. I mostly just hear them. 🪶

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petition to make this the official bird of bluesky

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After a long day of chasing ducks, willets and other assorted interlopers away from your end of the marsh, sometimes a horned grebe just needs to relax among the reeds. 🪶

I know I’ve not been super active on here, but in some recent news. I am on the job hunt again because my boss at the job I moved cross country for is so toxic that I need out. 😬

A brilliantly colored Indigo Bunting 🪶

I’m amazed by how much more common the Grasshopper Sparrows are out here compared to Oregon.

Yellow-breasted Chat, anyone? 🪶

Northern Parula! 🪶 spring migration is the best time of year.

Swamp Sparrow doing its best dinosaur pose. 🦖🪶

Yesterday I learned that Ovenbirds are VERY loud when they sing. 🪶

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#ArtDD2024 Blackbellied Plover Though this one is not very blackbellied! A way-too-hasty sketch, alas, but time is short! From a 📷 by @maddiejayy.bsky.social, with thanks. #dailydrawing @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

Tricolored Heron 🤩🪶

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#ArtDD2024 Wilson's Plover An small American plover, just 16-20cm long. From a photo by @maddiejayy.bsky.social , with thanks. #dailydrawing @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social

A very handsome dude. Wilson’s Plover. 🪶

It is Wrensday my dudes. Carolina Wren 🪶

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Hand embroidery of a Varied Thrush eating berries, based on a drawing I did. So... many... French... knots!!! 🧵

So sick

Razorbill lifer from a couple weeks ago. 🪶

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, sucking some sap.

Finally got around to entering some images into the Audubon photo awards contest. Here’s one from 2022 of an American Crow with its snake catch. 🪶

Pine Warbler to brighten up these cold days. 🪶

Feeling very lucky to have Black Vultures that just hang out right outside my apartment. 🥹 🪶

Rusty Blackbirds 🪶

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Ruddy Turnstone eating a spider? 🪶

Devo is absolutely falling asleep like this.

This Red-shouldered Hawk’s face says it all. 🪶

Got to witness the Cedar Waxwing courtship display today. 🥹 🪶

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 🪶