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@acidforants
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2 months
look at a bird
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you can easily ruin your life in <24 hours (drugs, get pregnant, prison, etc.), but what is something you can do to permanently change your life for the better in that same time frame?
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@acidforants
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lazuli bunting 🩵🙂🧡🙂🩵
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3 months
me last night: i will not chase the lazuli bunting out in long island me this morning: i’m going to chase the lazuli bunting out in long island
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@acidforants
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5 years
@jackdwagner hilariously, this wet spot on his shirt was not removed from the photo
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at the point in life where i’d probably rather see a sabine’s gull than literally any of my favorite bands live
@aevris_
JAEGERPILOT ON ART FIGHT | 🌊
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listened to a whole podcast ep on sabine's gull today and looking at them now i get it. that's a good gull
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Nathan Bernard
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FBI is using neo-nazi loser Baked Alaska's livestream to identify rioters, but Baked himself faces no charges despite storming the capitol while COVID positive.
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@acidforants
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2 months
hey guys check out this cool photo of a piping plover
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how it feels to ask a question in bird identification groups
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2 months
wildlife photographers don’t want you to know this, but the best bird photos are the blurry blobs or the ones with three pixels of actual bird that still reveal enough detail to be identifiable to species
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@acidforants
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5 months
everything is so fucked up all the time. i should be able to tell my employer "hey can i step out for the rest of the day so that i can go look out for sandhill cranes flying over brooklyn" without fear of losing my job.
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@acidforants
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2 years
went to bryant park and finally got to see not one, but TWO american woodcocks... nature's birthday gift to me!! got a lil vid of one successfully digging up a worm @BirdCentralPark
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@acidforants
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5 years
@laurenduca very funny and original tweet that has definitely never been posted before!
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3 months
lifer swainson's warbler in brooklyn, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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3 years
the yellow-breasted chat was still hanging out in the verizon plaza near bryant park this afternoon, going puffy mode and long mode @BirdCentralPark
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@acidforants
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2 years
snow geese plagiarizing henri matisse in seneca county, new york this past weekend
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@acidforants
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9 months
an american golden-plover and a black-bellied plover putting aside their differences and just chilling out on the beach together 🥲
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@acidforants
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11 months
a roseate tern and a common tern putting aside their differences and just chilling out on the beach together 🥲
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@acidforants
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2 years
finally saw some damn purple sandpipers
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@acidforants
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6 months
person in bird ID group: is this a crow or a raven? boomer 1: a crow is a bird with a beak and a raven is a beak with a bird! boomer 2: i don’t know but it’s a beautiful bird boomer 3: it looks like a beak with a bird to me 😂 boomer 4: sharp shin hawk boomer 5: great photo!
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@acidforants
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2 years
finally got to see our bright beautiful boy, the prothonotary warbler in @CentralParkNYC this morning 🥰 great singer, but i don't think it was being heard by its intended audience #birdcpp
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@acidforants
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1 month
fuck it mourning warbler in midtown manhattan
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@acidforants
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1 year
here is a very intense thing i witnessed yesterday morning out on long island: a pomarine jaeger, a seabird whose presence on land is usually very rare, devouring a common tern chick whole while adult common terns screamed and dive-bombed it
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ok for real now... flamingo in new york was incredible
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2 months
have you heard the good news? it's storm-petrel saturday
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@acidforants
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2 years
the warblers were hiding from me but i still saw plenty of cute lil guys: blue-gray gnatcatcher, golden-crowned kinglet, tufted titmouse, and belted kingfisher at prospect park this morning @BirdBrklyn
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@acidforants
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coolest thing i saw on the bird boat wasn't a bird, it was several north atlantic right whales. a critically endangered species of which there are less than 400 remaining. by far the rarest species i have ever observed in the wild. a truly surreal and emotional experience.
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@acidforants
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3 years
spent some time with a kingfisher at little hell gate salt marsh on randall's island yesterday 🙂 also pictured: great blue heron with some nice lighting and a very distant bald eagle @BirdCentralPark
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@acidforants
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2 months
i will never delete this photo of my lifer bonaparte's gull
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@acidforants
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wildlife photographers don’t want you to know this, but the best bird photos are the blurry blobs or the ones with three pixels of actual bird that still reveal enough detail to be identifiable to species
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@acidforants
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1 month
just got my lifer black guillemot exactly the way i hoped i would (through the window of a seafood restaurant in bar harbor)
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3 years
this morning's vale of cashmere sightings: savannah sparrow (i think) and a scary "bird" that i eventually realized was not a bird, but was in fact, a bat @BirdBrklyn #birdbk
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spageti :)
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1 year
pulling up to jamaica bay's east pond during peak shorebird season in the $2600 margiela waders
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5 months
got an extremely cool sound recording tonight
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3 months
me last night: i will not chase the lazuli bunting out in long island me this morning: i’m going to chase the lazuli bunting out in long island
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3 months
this virginia rail was unsurprisingly sneaky when i first saw it but it gradually inched closer and closer. i s2g it was about to walk right up to me, but before it fully emerged, someone ran by and sent it scurrying back into the void prospect park bird #199 —what will #200 be?
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@acidforants
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1 year
the folks at @Team_eBird absolutely freaked it with this description
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@acidforants
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30 days
the bird police have decided that these are two different species so now i get an extra bird on my life list
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@acidforants
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2 years
it was frustratingly cold for late march at @prospect_park yesterday but the bird situation was great... here's a european goldfinch (looking directly at me) and one of many eastern phoebes @BirdBrklyn
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i think that people who get extremely mad about merlin sound id are more deserving of an industrial-strength swirly than people who add rare birds to ebird checklists with the comment “identified by merlin” but that’s just my opinion
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@acidforants
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3 months
what’s this bird… the gift that keeps on giving
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9 months
my twitter-less friend and i found a northern shrike on staten island this afternoon :~) new bird for me yay
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3 months
i’m hearing reports that taylor swift mentions the blue nile on one of her new songs
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@acidforants
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2 years
here's an insanely cool (but very lost) bird i saw today: swainson's hawk on staten island
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@acidforants
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5 years
how chance the rapper thinks his album sounds vs how it actually sounds
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@acidforants
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3 years
the henslow's sparrow at @GreenWoodHF has a lot of personality and i am glad i went to see it yesterday morning! here it is eating a big worm, hiding behind some grass, doing a little plumage display, and angrily looking for More Worm @BirdBrklyn
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@acidforants
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2 years
man... i am so happy the tufted titmice are here
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5 months
it’s unfortunate but this was inevitable. i hope the people who harassed zoo staff that tried to re-capture him have a very hard time sleeping tonight
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this kittiwake's gotta be my favorite closeup i've taken cause of the lil drop of water on its bill
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@Minnesota_Tunes
Minnesota Tunes
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QP your favorite closeup
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@acidforants
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2 years
it was pretty slow at prospect park while i was out yesterday but still managed to see the kentucky warbler (lifer), prothonotary warbler (first in brooklyn), and an eastern kingbird (first of season)... also had to include this hilarious shot of a chipmunk stuffing its face
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@acidforants
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a roseate tern and a common tern putting aside their differences and just chilling out on the beach together 🥲
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1 year
a forster's tern and a common tern putting aside their differences and just chilling out on the beach together 🥲
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2 years
buy me a plane ticket to louisiana and give me an ungodly amount of stimulants, i'll find the damn ivory-billed woodpecker
@AP
The Associated Press
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said last year it planned to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct. Now it's putting off a final decision while it explores the possibility that the bird with a 30-inch wingspan might still be alive.
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1 year
this is one of the best birds
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2 months
got home from 24-hour pelagic and instantly ordered a big ass pizza pie for myself. still processing all the crazy shit i saw today. top 3 life experience probably. i love the ocean.
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1 month
where the fuck is birding and wellbutrin?
@FitFounder
Dan Go
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A study was published on the best ways to beat depression. At the top is dancing followed by walking or jogging.
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friends near the prospect park feeders yesterday afternoon: the dickcissel (just hanging out with a mourning dove), pine warbler, black-capped chickadee, and carolina wren @BirdBrklyn
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was feeling like total ass for most of today, but managed to muster up an ounce of energy for a little walk to the park. did not expect to pull out a thayer's iceland gull out of the 100s of ring-billed and herring gulls. second county record on ebird. based and gullpilled.
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@acidforants
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i hit the hummingbird jackpot at prospect park yesterday morning 😎 @BirdBrklyn #birdbk
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@acidforants
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6 years
it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that i'm moving through heavy water. the love is enormous. it's lifting me up. i'd rather be sleeping.
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@acidforants
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2 years
me to all the house sparrows, pigeons, and starlings on the way to jamaica bay to get some good first birds of the year
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3 years
very happy the prospect park feeders are back :~) male & female purple finches, red-bellied woodpecker, and some blue jays (not pictured) were hangin out there this afternoon... also, a very brief & distant kestrel sighting by the lake @BirdBrklyn
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1 year
POV: a ruby-crowned kinglet has just held you at gunpoint. are you making it out alive?
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2 years
as a person who loves rails, this was one of the best birding days of my life so far
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2 years
lighting was not good so my pics didn't come out great but i still wanna post my lil guys bc they were so cute... worm-eating warbler (lifer), yellow warbler, blue-headed vireo, and northern parula at @prospect_park yesterday morning
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greedy little golden-crowned kinglet unwilling to share this tree trunk with a brown creeper
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hooded warbler, black-throated blue warbler, american redstart, and ovenbird at prospect park yesterday; just four out of nineteen different warbler species i logged during my walk
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a forster's tern and a common tern putting aside their differences and just chilling out on the beach together 🥲
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1 year
the haters said they wouldn’t follow through. the haters said they wouldn’t go birding after the rave… unfortunately the haters were wrong once again!
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saw a mississippi kite at prospect this evening with @realchefkirby 🙂 been dying for one of these. i'd been taking my laptop out to work from a spot near my apt with a good view of the sky so i could look up and pray that one would fly over. got to hang w this one for a few mins
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managed to keep my hands steady enough to snap this pic of an eastern phoebe on my phone through my binoculars at green-wood cemetery @BirdBrklyn
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2 years
common merganser at the lake and cedar waxwings by the camperdown elm in prospect park this morning... i love the second pic bc it looks like the merganser is about to attack the shoveler while the others watch @BirdBrklyn
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@acidforants
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2 years
why does skrillex look like white drake now
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@acidforants
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5 years
i'm non-binary which means i have some shirts that have the button on the left and some shirts that have the button on the right
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6 years
i really don't know a band whose discography speaks to me more than the radio dept...explicitly leftist politics, ambiguous sexuality, deep melancholy, occasionally puts too much distortion on everything.
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2 years
been pretty busy the past couple of days but wanted to share a highlight from this past weekend—proud mallard mom with seven ducklings at the vale of cashmere in prospect park on saturday morning
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this morning in the vale of cashmere: chestnut-sided, magnolia, and prairie warblers and a common yellowthroat showing off its partial mask @BirdBrklyn #birdbk
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went on my first pelagic yesterday. it was cold and windy. the ocean is unforgiving and humbling. didn't see my #1 target (dovekie) but we did see my #2 target (black-legged kittiwake) and it was precious and tiny and a joy to observe. highly recommend spending some time at sea.
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6 months
fuck it prospect park rufous hummingbird
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@acidforants
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4 months
going back to my past spring ebird checklists to remind myself what date i’m allowed to actually get excited about migration
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2 months
still going through pelagic pics but here's the bird highlight, fea's petrel, which hilariously ended up being my first pterodroma petrel ever (my lifer black-capped petrel joined this one shortly after and i couldn't even fully focus my attention on it bc of the fea's lol)
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yesterday morning in prospect park: great blue heron, red-eyed vireo, veery, and one of many female american redstarts @BirdBrklyn #birdbk
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6 months
thick-billed murre 🙂
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5 months
yesterday's highlights: rough-legged hawk (best views i've ever gotten), short-eared owl, loggerhead shrike (a bird i have seen 1,000,000 times but never in new york... state bird #320 ), and a truly bonkers murmuration of grackles just before sunset
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1 year
they actually do, unfortunately
surely they do not
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2 years
this ruddy turnstone seemed to agree with me—it was way too hot at plumb beach today
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2 years
posting a photo of my middle finger in my local rare bird alert group chat and asking if anyone can provide an ID for the bird in the photo
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2 years
black skimmer at plumb beach yesterday
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7 years
is it wrong & bad to think that robert pattinson looks hot in this pic? i'm asking for a friend, obviously
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3 years
some results from my visit to green-wood cemetery on my day off yesterday morning... indigo bunting, pair of towhees, the always adorable ruby-crowned kinglet, and a kestrel munching on what appeared to be a dragonfly @BirdBrklyn #birdbk
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first birds of the year post: gadwall, red-shouldered hawk, snow geese, and a wigeon that seems more eurasian than american to me but is probably just another hybrid, idk
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5 years
@clouderzzz never went through a twilight phase, but after good time and now high life i can say with certainty that i am a HUGE robert pattinson fan
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2 years
little blue heron, also at plumb beach the other day
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4 years
if you spend some money on things that interest you, then you are literally jeff bezos
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5 years
@thomyorke poison me daddy
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5 years
setting an alarm for 5am so i can do a mid-sleep vibe check
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3 years
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5 years
gonna ask my younger sister who is an entire head shorter than me to hoist me up on her shoulders just like this at the 1975 show tonight
@jiatolentino
Jia Tolentino
5 years
*listens to 1975 once*
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10 months
this should legitimately be treated as a violation of the migratory bird treaty act
@eyeonthefly
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Tragedy unfolding in Chicago: an unprecedented number of window collisions. Photos show nearly 1000 birds salvaged from a SINGLE building along the lakefront this morning, including mostly Tennessee, Palm, Myrtle, and Magnolia Warblers. At what point does this become a crime?
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4 years
no more university of miami. society has progressed past the need for the university of miami.
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