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Birder and writer currently based in Minnesota. Birdchick.com
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Hey everyone I know there’s A LOT going on right now. But please pay attention to the SAVE ACT. If you changed your name in marriage, and even if you kept that new name after divorce (like I did), you could lose your right to vote. www.newsweek.com/married-wome...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It’s like someone on tv mentioned there are owls at the airport.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Public Television Professional

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Welp. I’m still employed. And on Almanac tonight.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

Want hang out with me a couple of dozen adoptable rabbits on Sunday? Feb 09, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST Valley View Vet/Canine Connection, 13600 Co Rd 11, Burnsville, MN 55337, USA We can take beds on how many rabbits Mr. Biscuit will try to hump for dominance.

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Today I learned that red-bellied woodpeckers used to be called Chads and Shamshacks www.birdchick.com/blog/2025/1/...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Neltje Blanchan had a way with words.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I know there’s a lot going on. But I’m at my brother’s place in Florida. And he has a legit lanai.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

More than one person at this bird festival: OMG I love your podcast, I wish you would do more episodes. Me: It gets awkward to continue a podcast when you divorce your co-host. Them: 😳 Me: Did you see the eagle?

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I met at Kenn Kaufman over 20 years ago—before I had a blog. It was an absolute delight to get to co-lead a bird tour with him at the Space Coast Bird Fest. I don’t know if twenty-something me could fathom being colleagues in the future. I am grateful for this life and the turns it has taken.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing can take away the joy I get from watching birds

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

I needed these colors tonight.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Can confirm.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

On this date in 2016 I was working down at Everglades and could egrets and ibises in the mist at a roost.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Disquackted Boyfriend

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

14/10 snow sculpture, no notes.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Bit of an owl irruption in northern Minnesota, both great gray and boreals. Takes me back to the insane winter twenty years ago and the great gray irruption that launched my career. Here is one of the owls we saw today.

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

Call the owl police.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This is also the moment where I will hear someone say, “ I’m sorry, aren’t you the Birdchick? I love Almanac!” 😅

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

What it’s like being a federal employee on a daily basis.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Flying Squirrel Christmas Party

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I have salted the roast, picked up my spare key from Amigo, grabbed a baguette, and seen a snowy owl all before noon. A productive Christmas Eve indeed.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Sitting in my car reviewing my shots from sunrise and I instinctively go OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT and start laughing. Not as good after I edited, had to to go to 3600 ISO for a solid 1/1600 shutter speed, but a slower shutter speed would have made it worse. 10/10 good bird. 🪶

submitted 68 days ago • 10 comments

The cattle tyrant being refound in the same spot in Corpus Christi as last year makes my day! Ship assist my ass. #birds #birding

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Me at work today.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve heard signs of flying squirrels for a couple months. Tonight I saw them.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Best. Dating. Advice. #Krull

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

So if you meet someone on an app, it seems to be going well, and you say, “Hey, you kind of look like the guy from Krull” and then you see the message is read and then nothing and it’s been 12 hours…have you made a fatal mistake? Asking for a friend. 😅

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

If you're in Canada (well, you could listen online too I suppose), I'll be on CBC Radio's As It Happens tonight talking about the demise of the Slender-billed Curlew 🧪🪶

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

So as people are undoing their Twitter/X accounts they are sending me things they find of me. This was back when I had access to the main National Park Service Twitter account and they gave me a twitter mirror to experiment with and I basically was doing an AMA. I still stand by this answer 😂😂

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

submitted 105 days ago • 251 comments

Trying another adoption event for Mr Biscuit. At least he waited 20 minutes before he started jumping everybody.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments