nyhofs.bsky.social
I’m a potter, a birder, a mom, a historian, disabled. My passions are nature, birds, history, pottery, aurora, disability and accessibility. I’m neurodivergent and a parent of neurodivergent kids. An American living in Alberta Canada. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
142 posts
471 followers
472 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
At the moment I’m in survival mode and don’t have much mental or physical energy for much. Haven’t been in the studio in ages. Maybe as spring comes and I start teaching again I can work up the motivation.
comment in response to
post
Thanks for the tip!
comment in response to
post
I don’t know. I’ll think about it.
comment in response to
post
They’re a species of willow I think but I’m not sure.
comment in response to
post
It was a tad windy.
comment in response to
post
So cool!
comment in response to
post
It was a lifer for me.
comment in response to
post
No. I went to a private Christian school although I now consider myself agnostic.
comment in response to
post
I grew up in Grand Rapids and actually went to high school with one of Betsy DeVos’s kids although he was younger so I didn’t know him. The whole town seemed owned by the DeVos’s and Van Andel’s in the 80s and 90s.
comment in response to
post
They’re so pretty. We should go owling again this weekend.
comment in response to
post
They told me today that they enjoy talking to me. I figure we’re pretty okay as parents.
comment in response to
post
A pair of ravens was preventing a bald eagle from getting at the duck it had killed. Drama on the river’s edge.
comment in response to
post
My 11 species today puts me at number 15!
comment in response to
post
I’m number 29 in the Edmonton region. Not bad for someone who only started eBird at the end of 2023.
comment in response to
post
This year meaning 2024. Still not ready for 2025.
comment in response to
post
I think I got 174 this year for the Edmonton area.
comment in response to
post
I know for many it is filled with anxiety, fear, anger, pain, and grief as well as excitement, love, and joy. So let us all extend Sterkte to each other as we muddle through life.
comment in response to
post
It’s a simple word and could come off as trite but somehow spoken in Dutch it takes on so much more meaning and support. So to all on this New Year’s Day I wish you Sterkte in the year to come.
comment in response to
post
3&4 listened to both today
comment in response to
post
And you would have missed the white throated sparrow and brown creeper if I hadn’t been with you.
comment in response to
post
Yup. Crappy phone pic here.
comment in response to
post
It’s a big crossbill year. Saw about 40 in Goldbar the other day with Klaas.
comment in response to
post
I currently have the top species count for this month in Gold Bar on eBird, 37. The Long Tailed Duck has been eluding me though.
comment in response to
post
I heard a saw whet the other day but didn’t see it.
comment in response to
post
Within minutes of each other even! So cool!
comment in response to
post