Oceans I trace the salt trail of long-lost connections to the sea

I trace the salt trail of lost connections to the sea

Oceans
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Mottled brown, yellow and white songbird on a bare branch

Female red-winged blackbird. What a contrast to the male. 🪶

Cardinal, bright red, on bare branch against very pale background

A bird that “pops” 🪶

Black bird with red flashes on wings eats seeds on a railing

Red winged blackbird sporting his intense mating season colours 🪶

Glorious Mahalia by Kronos Quartet on Apple Music Album · 2026 · 11 Songs

Nobody is asking me for new music recommendations, but here’s one. What a great record.

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Grey water bird with fancy brown feathered head looking behind

Here’s a spring beauty. Common Merganser. 🪶

A person is always an end True consent is both messy and critically important

On the complicated and critical interaction BETWEEN people that is required to establish true consent

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Northern Mockingbird. A grey bird through branches may not seem spectacular, but over five years of going out birding most weeks, this is the first one I have photographed (and it is not easy to focus through all those branches). Little achievements matter a bit. 🪶

Brown and white duck leaves a trail of splashing water as it flaps just above surface

Bufflehead take-off 🪶

House finch, reddish speckled breast, on branch with fluffy stringy stuff in beak

Nest building time 🪶

Duck on water, in profile, striped bill, golden eye

Ring-necked duck looking a bit goofy 🪶

Blue heron standing with pond in background

Counting days until we get back to Prince Edward Island. This is last June, the day we arrived for summer. 🪶

Cover of book called Coping: Fix Problems, Find Meaning, Feel Better, illustrated with a broken and repaired plate

Recent bird photos (robin, Cooper’s Hawk, mourning dove) have reached 1000s more people than is normal for me. Thank you. I take it as a sign the universe wants me to plug Coping, coming out in June. @uoftpress.bsky.social “Accessible, compassionate, grounded in science, authoritative”

Agree completely

Mourning dove walking on grass

The mourning dove is another bird that is so common you stop noticing its beauty 🪶

Brown and white striped small songbird on curly branch

Song sparrow 🪶

Polyhymnia An atheist Easter meditation on helping others, music, naming things, and love

Some Easter reading for not-religious folk like me who remain open to wonder and goodness open.substack.com/pub/maunder/...

Polyhymnia An atheist Easter meditation on helping others, music, naming things, and love

Some Easter reading for not-religious folk like me who remain open to wonder and goodness open.substack.com/pub/maunder/...

Cover of book called Coping: Fix Problems, Find Meaning, Feel Better, which features a plate, broken and repaired.

Welcome new followers! I would be a bad author if I did not point out that the semi-meditative act of photographing birds is a form of coping. This book on how to cope, by Jon Hunter and me, is out soon from @uoftpress.bsky.social “Accessible, compassionate, scientifically sound, and authoritative.”

Cooper’s hawk all puffed out because it was -17

Here is a browner one from mid-winter

That’s great

I didn’t know that. Thanks.

Grey raptor with red eyes on branch

Cooper’s hawk on this suddenly warm spring day 🪶

Chickadee on red dogwood branch

Black and white and red all over 🪶

Two ducks taking flight from water and ice

Gadwalls taking off, swan, ice breaking up. Spring on a bay of Lake Ontario 🪶

Two swans stand in shallow water. One flaps wings. Both have beaks open to make a racket.

Trumpeter Swan spring fever 🪶

Three male ducks on the water. Handsome grey sides, distinctive multi-banded bills, and yellow eyes.

Ring-necked ducks (although the rings seem more around their bills) 🪶

Nice picture. Looks like fun.

Beach and confederation bridge, PEI

I don’t know the name (I know the north shore better), but very close to the bridge

Red-winged blackbird on a branch, chirping

The red-winged blackbirds have been back for two weeks - more signs of spring 🪶