Birder, music omnivore/record dork, photographer, backpacker, husband, father, non-scowling atheist, radical left maniac. Technologist to support the family and the filthy habits outlined above. Instablock: hot chicks w/no posts; crypto/LLM cheerleaders.
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Today's alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MultiColour, birds with 4 or more Colo(u)rs.
Lesson's Motmot (Momotus lessonii), Hotel Bougainvillea, Heredia, Costa Rica, January 2026.
🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#motmots
#costarica
#BirdsSeenIn2026
#BirdOfTheDay
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #InFlight — birds in flight.
Rainbow-bearded Thornbill (Chalcostigma herrani), Cayambe-Coca National Park, Napo, Ecuador, October 2025.
🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#hummingbirds
#ecuador
#BirdOfTheDay
White-eyed vireo (Vireo griseus), Richmond, Virginia, USA, June 2026.
🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#vireos
#virginia
#usa
#BirdsSeenin2026
Purple Sandpipers (Calidris maritima) on the North Sea, Zuid-Holland, NL, January 2026.
🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#sandpipers
#netherlands
#WorldOceansDay
#BirdOfTheDay
#BirdsSeenIn2026
Happy Loving Day. It ought to be a national holiday, but is not.
One of Harry Bertoia’s Sonambient sculptures at the Federal Reserve Building, Richmond, VA. Sadly it’s behind a fence, so I did not get a chance to whack on it.
Variable Seedeater (Sporophila corvina) male in #BlackAndWhite, Rio Yuis, Cartago, Costa Rica, December 2025.
🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#finches
#costarica
#BirdOfTheDay
Triploid Checkered Whiptail (Cnemidophorus neotesselatus) doing the hot-foot posture, Pueblo County, Colorado, USA, June 2026. An exceptionally zany evolutionary angle: all-female with triploid (!) chromosomes.
🌿 #herps
#lizards
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica), Richmond, Virginia, USA, June 2026.
🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
#warblers
#virginia
#usa
#BirdsSeenin2026
Common Cactus Dodger (Cacama valvata), Pueblo County, Colorado, USA, June 2026.
🌿
#insects
#nature
#wildlife
#photography
