A red-winged blackbird's breath is visible on a cold morning.
Frosty morning
blackbird's breath is floating away
like mine.
Red-Winged Blackbird, Jan 2026, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #photography #sonomacounty #SSU #m43 #haiku #RohnertPark
Matrix
#EastCoastKin #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #photography #sonomastateuniversity #vellavisions
Surrounded
#EastCoastKin #Stunday #photography #treescape #coastalredwoods #sonomastateuniversity #california #vellavisions
It's Still Fall in California
#EastCoastKin #ColorADay #RedWed #photography #treescape #sonomastateuniversity #vellavisions #california #sonomacounty
Tangled Up in Blue
#EastCoastKin #ColorADay #BlueTue #photography #redwoods #sonomastateuniversity #california #treescape #vellavisions
An immature double-crested Cormorant poses on a log.
Man-made pond
a cormorant is most comely
when dry.
Double-Crested Cormorant, Dec. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #photography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
A red-winged blackbird sings from atop a cattail head.
Cattail head
a blackbird's pulpit
symbiosis.
Red-Winged Blackbird, Nov 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #RohnertPark, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
A dark-eyed junco peers out from the foliage of a live oak.
Peek-a-boo!
Spiny live oak leaves
a junco feeds.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Nov. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
A bushtit is a tiny brown-gray bird, which forages from tree to tree with a small flock.
A bushtit,
never without its flock
lone photographer.
American bushtit, Oct. 2025, #SonomaStateUniversity, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku
Image of 1 person and text that says 'SSU SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOLARSHIP: A RESEARCH TALK SERIES "Decolonizing the ecoGothic: Nature and Dispossession -From Fear and Haunting to Escape and Return" (special issue of the Gothic Nature academic journal) THUR, SEPT 18 12 P.M. STEVENSON HALL 1101 KIM HESTER WILLIAMS Professor English & Ethnic Studies SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE RESEARCH SPONSORED PROGRAMS'
From ORSP: Please join us 9/18 in Stevenson 1101 for Dr. Kim Hester Williams’ talk on “Decolonizing the ecoGothic: Nature and Dispossession – From Fear and Haunting to Escape and Return”
orsp.sonoma.edu
#ssu #sonomastateuniversity #ssuenglish #ssuethnicstudies #ethnicstudies #researchatssu
A song sparrow in a creek with an insect larva in its bill, probably a mosquito.
I'm no entomologist, but I think that is a mosquito larva in the bill of this song #sparrow. On top of being cute, birds help control the mosquito population. Taken May 2025 in #RohnertPark, #California on the #SSU campus.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #sonomastateuniversity
This special song sparrow gets by on one leg. I saw it last year, and I'm glad it has survived and thrived for another year.
So happy to see this special song #sparrow again. I first met it last year, foraging at the creek behind #SonomaStateUniversity. It looks like it is thriving on just one leg. Taken May 2025 in #RohnertPark, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43
A fox squirrel, with orange face, chest, and tail, clings to the side of a tree.
Fox #squirrel
#SonomaStateUniversity, May 2025
#mammals #sonomacounty #ssu #m43 #photography
A male red-winged blackbird lands on a reed in a marsh.
Red-winged blackbird, May 2025, #RohnertPark, #California. On the #SonomaStateUniversity campus is a small marsh across from the Green Music Center.
#birds #birdphotography #ssu #sonomacounty #m43
A fledgling dark-eyed junco is a grayish bird with a mottled breast and tinges of light brown feathers.
A fledgling dark-eyed junco enjoys the spotlight under a #redwood tree. Taken May 2025 at #SonomaStateUniversity in #RohnertPark, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43
A female red-winged blackbird with a mouthful of crane flies. It is amazing how they can capture and hold multiple insects.
Happy Mother's Day! A red-winged blackbird mom working hard to feed her chicks. I am amazed at how she is able to catch and hold multiple insects. Taken May 2025 at #SonomaStateUniversity in #RohnertPark, #California.
#birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43 #ssu
A red-winged blackbird taking off in a small pond on the Sonoma State campus.
After yesterday's California Legislators' hearing on budget cuts to #SonomaStateUniversity, I went and snapped this photo of a red-winged blackbird on campus. #SaveSonomaState!
Taken Apr. 2025 in #RohnertPark, #California. #birds #birdphotography #sonomacounty #m43
Look for a vote to disapprove #SSU's own DOGE team and their campaign of destruction: "There will be a weeklong period of public comment and then a referendum where faculty will vote over the course of several days. Results are expected by April 17." #SonomaStateUniversity
The article describes a sharp increase in no-confidence votes: “Sometimes your job as a president is to defend your institution and not to preserve your job, and I’ve been shocked and disappointed by how few presidents have.” Certainly that’s what happened at #SonomaStateUniversity #SSU
Email trusteesoffice@calstate.edu to let them know that proposed cuts to #SonomaStateUniversity are unacceptable. They can do better.
#save_ssu #SSU #sonomacounty
CA State Senator Mike McGuire: SSU’s comeback — it’s our priority…The budget runs through three places in the Capital. It runs through the governor’s office, the speaker’s office, and the office that I proudly represent as the President in the Senate. And I want to be clear today: We are not going to approve the CSU budget until we see a comeback plan for this university.
From the February 21 legislative hearings on the future of #SonomaStateUniversity
Public hearing with California representatives to determine the future of Sonoma State University on Feb. 21, 2025.
#California state and local representatives holding a hearing to discuss the future of #SonomaStateUniversity in the light of proposed budget cuts. All of the reps recognize the importance of the university and demand a plan for RECOVERY. For once, I have hope.
Emily Gaslight Cutrer to explain why kicking dozens of students out of SSU and offering prospective students fewer choices and poorer college experiences will increase enrollment, the problem that she is supposedly here to address #savesonomastste #saveSSU #sonomastateuniversity #csu
Protest at Sonoma State University against drastic budget cuts.
A beautiful sight. People packing Seawolf plaza to save #SonomaStateUniversity. #SSU #CSU #rohnertpark #SonomaState
No they are not. Lol at my kid #SonomaStateUniversity
Actions and phone numbers for people to take action to save Sonoma State University.
It took 10 minutes to call these numbers. Mostly, I got to speak to a human. If you want to save #SonomaStateUniversity, please do this. Sorry I don't know who to credit for this image.
JOIN THE GATHERING THU, 1/30 SEAWOLF PLAZA
#SSU #SaveSSU #sonomacounty #CSU #rohnertpark #cotati #sonomastate
On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I visited #SonomaStateUniversity and its Holocaust Memorial Garden. Here’s the now-grown sapling from Anne Frank’s beloved Chestnut tree.
Hey, if there is a protest over the planned cuts at #SSU, can someone please let me know? Thanks a lot!
#sonomastate #sonomastateuniversity #rohnertpark #sonomacounty
