I loved Sparrow Loves Birds, looking forward to this book too! #picturebooks

A photo of a small gray bird with a bright golden stripe on top of its head perching on a curved branch.

Just a little bird trying to make it in a big world. You’re doing great buddy!

Golden-crowned Kinglet. Washington County, Rhode Island. #bird #birding #nature #wildlife

Latest painting. Come on, Spring! I'm tired of waiting. #Spring #Robin #EnglishRobin #SpringFlowers #Art #Painting #Gouach

The photo shows a large black and purple iridescent songbird perched on a wooden railing in front of a blurred blue background.

The “blackbird army” has arrived back in our yard. Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, and Brown-headed Cowbirds by the dozens!

I’m finally letting myself believe spring is just around the corner! #birds #birding #nature #wildlife

Six picture books laid out together. Their titles include Over and Under the Coral Reef, The Pink Hat, Broken, Zebra and Yak The Backwards Alphabet Book, Lap Cat, and Hilwa’s Gifts.

Another fun batch of #picturebooks from the library this week! Zebra and Yak were especially popular with the kiddo! #kidlit

A picture of a large bird of prey with black and white feathers soaring against a blue sky and wispy clouds.

I don’t care if this is a false spring…. I’m going to go enjoy some sunshine anyway (and patiently wait for my first of the year Fish Hawk)!! ☀️🦅

Osprey. Virginia Beach, VA. #birds #birding #wildlife #nature

YES!!! It’s amazing!!!!!!

A group of picture books spread out on a multi-colored rug. Book titles include Across the Ice, Princess Battle Royale, Dear Acorn (Love Oak), Don’t Eat Eustace, If We Were Dogs, and Forts.

Some fun #picturebooks from our latest library haul! This it the THIRD time our 4yo has checked out Princess Battle Royale. A clear favorite! #pb #kidlit

This looks amazing!!!

A small songbird with grey back, black striped sides, and yellow throat sits perched on a curved branch with new green leaves.

Dreaming of spring and migrating warblers with today’s #BirdoftheDay themes #SideView and #Yellow!

Yellow-throated Warbler (a very appropriate name). Fairfax County, VA. #birds #birding #nature #wildlife

LOVE a coot! Their feet are just so weird!!!

A picture of a duck with long dark and scraggly head feathers, long orange beak, and a beady red eye swims in choppy grey water.

What’s the best “weird duck” you’ve seen lately? It’s the eye staring into my soul that gets me in this picture! 😂

Red-breasted Merganser. New London County, CT #birds #birding #nature #wildlife

I would LOVE to spend some more time in a place with magpies! They are incredible but I’ve only seen them really on road trips!

A large gray wading bird flies just over the top of yellow marsh grass and in front of blurred trees.

Always a good day when you see a Great Blue Heron!

Cape May, NJ. 🌿📷🪶 #heron #birding

Thank you!!

Water rushes off the body of a brown duck as it holds a crab with a large, yellowish bill.

Can’t let a little nor’easter ruin lunch!

Common Eider. New London County, CT. #birding #wildlife #longislandsound 🌿🪶

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

A large tern with a white forehead and long black crown feathers stands on a wooden piling over the water.

The slicked-back hairstyle icon.

Royal Tern, Mobile County, AL.

#birding #wildlife 🌿🪶📷

I’ve been pretty low tech this year and just used sticks laying around the yard with twine, but the twine keeps slipping. So I’ll have to do some research for next year!

Thank you!!

My first year New England Aster is CRUSHING IT! Note to self: better supports for next year.

A photo showing a jumble of flowers. Some have rings of pale yellow petals stacked on top of each other, and some are taller with purple buds that’s haven’t quite bloomed.

One of my favorite little corners of our native plant garden. The Dotted Mint is still going crazy and the New England Aster is about to bloom!

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The front cover of a picture book titled KITTYBUNKPORT by Scott Rothman and Zachariah OHora. The Illustration shows two cats with extra large eyes wearing sweaters and hats and standing in front of a coastal village and yellow sky.

Do you like cats, Maine, very cool boats, or lobster ghosts?

If so, you might like the #picturebook KITTYBUNKPORT by Scott Rothman and Zachariah OHora! Our family sure did!

BRB, just going to adopt another cat so we can name it Chowder! #kidlit

A small brown and yellow songbird perches on a branch with dry green leaves.

Happy Confusing Fall Warbler season!

Palm Warbler. Cape May, NJ in 2023. #migration #warbler 🪶🌿📷

Joe-pye is SUCH a bee magnet!! I love it so much!

Enjoy a few peaceful moments in this gorgeous field of Joe-pye-weed and goldenrod swaying with the hurricane breeze reaching SE CT! #nativeplants 🌿

Good to know! They just fly around me when I’m out by the garden weeding and watering but I try to disturb them as little as possible.

Love it!!

An orange and black wasp is probing the small pink flowers of a swamp milkweed plant against a blurred green background.

A large black wasp with iridescent blue wings and a pollen covered back rests on a yellow and green dotted mint plant against a blurred background.

I’ve been afraid of bees and wasps pretty much my whole life (since I was 5 and I got stung 12 times in one summer).

But spending time in my garden has helped me so much! It’s actually fun now to see what’s buzzing around.

Great Golden Digger Wasp and Great Black Wasp. 🌿📷

A small tan and brown bird grips a blade of grass with long toes against a blurred green and tan background.

Who are you, and what are you doing in my marsh?!

Marsh Wren (a young one I’d guess with that gape!), New Haven County, CT. #birding #wildlife 🌿📷🪶