wowo

photo of a perched front-facing bluejay with a bundle of delicate twigs in its beak - giving unruly moustache vibes or maybe something crazy coming out its ears. blue sky behind.

time to get crackin' folks

Photo from underneath a top-most magnolia bloom, the petals look a little gone-by but there's still some hope and excitement to its general attitude. The sun behind is nothing but blue and the sun is strong on it.

pine warbler singing perched atop the wing-or-head of an angel monument gravestone.

photo of a front facing black crowned nightheron snoozing in the tree. The beak and most of the face are tucked into the white belly feathers, the tip of the beak peeks out from the feathers at the bottom

I can SEE yer beak, dude

I was checking out the dome of visibility fog makes, on the roof this morning. Thinking of that shape later, i remembered what a thriving business paperweights were - those solid glass domes with a photo glued to the bottom.

Paperweights! You need both a stack of papers AND a light breeze.

Photo of white magnolia blossoms with pink at the base of the petals, covered in water droplets

Photo of a cacophony of white star magnolia blossoms

Photo of white magnolia blossoms with near impossible amounts of little water droplets on the petals

Photo of the underneath of small pinkish white tree blossoms with water droplets aimed straight at camera

Fuc-ton-dity

photo of two mourning doves puffed up and looking snoozy on a branch. Behind is a dizzying blur of blossoming pink magnolia blossoms

"dreary"

promo image for substack post with a photo of a crinkly, fully stuffed manila envelope with string tied around like a parcel. The title appears on the bottom: "Letterwriting: Writing Letter" by Zea

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Happy morning find :)

Oh, wow, you got a new camera, wow, you should take a picture, go ahead, photograph

photo of a breathtaking specimen of a female cardinal, i think, objectively giving some side-eye/attitude. She is on a twig directly above an adjoining branch, as though she miiight be about to push down the plunger on an old-timer explosive trigger.

When it's been too long since i put out little piles of seed on the windowsill🍴

The ever-paparazzi-avoidant .... golden crown kinglet😅

A collage of daffodil photos from previous years: march 13, 2025, march 6 2024, march 17 2024, march 18 2022, march 21 2021, february 29 2020, march 24 2019, march 20 2018, march 29 2017, march 16 2016

First NYC Blooming Daffodil of 2026!

An ongoing and thoroughly unscientific study of when i happen upon my first blooming daffodil somewhere in nyc each year

Boss lady woodchuck perched in chubby profile halfway out of her hole on the hill, serenely surveying her kingdom: green grass and twiggy branches in foreground and back

Go chuck yer OWN wood

My faaavorite! We don't seem anywhere close to having those blossoms yet... maybe they are waiting for you ;)

photo of an eastern phoebe perched on a dry reed over shallow water. Head is tilted to the right - likely looking to the sky for predators, but humans think it's adorable

heartthrob

What a maroon.
Gotta bean!☕️

Dudes on the move. Common Mergoos on their way up the Hudson River.

The wink at the end… 🤣

Photo of blossoming witchhazel with soft blue sky behind. The blossoms are wiry explosions of yellow out if dark red, close to the thin branches

Had to wade in snow over my knee to get this photo, but there were song sparrows, mockingbirds, cardinals, robins and nuthatches singing this morning

navigating the frosting

what snew

composite satellite image of Antarctica, the snow & ice appearing as different shades of blue and beige, the sea is black. following three images are variations of this theme.

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime

Photo of freshly opening orange witch hazel blossoms with snow behind. The long thin but compact petals curl as they explode out from a single point, like bright strings of tissue confetti

Photo of freshly opening orange witch hazel blossoms with snow behind. The long thin but compact petals curl as they explode out from a single point, like bright strings of tissue confetti

Happy Lunar New Year!
💥whizz bang powpow 💥

Yes! My mom was telling me childhood stories about that :))

Yes!! I figured my meanderings were still there to point 😂 I visited 7 of the 8 listed on the tree map. Mostly youngens. Just one mature tree

morning mission (along side usual bird mission): find Butternut trees. see if the buds were completely awesome as rumored by Bryan Pfeiffer substack.com/home/post/p-...

The answer is yes. Butternut tree buds DO look like little monkey faces. I was laughing out loud, all alone, in a cemetery.🐒❤️

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