deny, laugh, girlboss

oops! big year

YEAHH

a tattoo of a sandhill crane dancing on Ryan's leg

rachel and ryan in the rowe sanctuary birding blind watching sandhill cranes on the platte river in the morning

sandhill cranes flying in front of the moon. thousands of sandhill cranes are sitting on the river

rachel's drawing of sandhill cranes on the river

making this sandhill crane tattoo for @ryanmichalesko.bsky.social was absolutely heightened by the experience we had this weekend at the platte river 🥹💓 a record high number of sandies were counted in an 80-mile stretch of the river this week (736,000!!!!), it was life-changing!

why do they call it an ovenbird when they of in the bugs and of out their song

did you know they're precisely the same pitch

👀 passerellidae collab??

someday i will make it through passerellidae 🫣
rufous-collared sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, spotted towhee, golden-crowned sparrow

a tattoo of two lark sparrows with tails overlapping and an eight pointed star above

a tattoo of a song sparrow

a tattoo of a lincoln's sparrow

a tattoo of a dark-eyed junco grasping a red star in its feet

thread of all the sparrows I've tattooed:
lark sparrow, song sparrow, lincoln's sparrow, dark-eyed junco

i think about this mural all the time

UR KIDDING OMG HAVE FUN

birding from the poor man's pelagic (washington state ferry)

so so good 🥹💘

holy shit

babies......<3

hawk ‼️ day ‼️ 11 hours of consecutive tattooing for these two projects......worth it

LARIDAE WEEK 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️

👀👀 in bellingham?

already back on my “why am I not currently in the process of getting a tattoo” bullshit

remember how you did both huge dead turkey vultures in like one week because you're unstoppable and a little insane<3

sharing one of my favorite tattoos to announce myself here 😌