Something between a triptych painting and a three-panel comic, depicting a male red-winged blackbird singing from a cattail perch and progressively disappearing from view while a female blackbird observes from another cattail that remains in place.

Mismatches from climate changes: an illustration for @oikosjournal.bsky.social, featuring a star-crossed pair of red-winged blackbirds.

As climate change shifts the timing of seasons, it messes with different organisms in different ways—and can disrupt how they interact: www.oikosjournal.org/forum

Amorphous watercolor sketch of a bending trail alongside a river

As the water I was painting with froze into slush, I sketched shadows spilling over the old rail trail in the last moments before sunset. (This stretch of trail fared better than other sections that were washed out by last week's unprecedented coastal flooding in Maine.)

Seabirds Can Help Predict the Size of Fish Stocks—If Only We’d Listen | Hakai Magazine The scientists who study terns, puffins, and other fish-eating birds are trying to get fisheries managers to heed their warnings.

I wrote a story about how US and Canadian herring fisheries are (and aren't) paying overdue attention to warnings from seabirds.