byelsachen

Wildlife Biologist for CSU CEMML. MSc from the Bulluck Avian Ecology Lab. Opinions are my own. 🐦🎮📚📷 (she/her)

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

First week of banding in Cape May has passed, and it is officially Swallow week, with a close look at both a Tree Swallow and a Northern Rough-winged Swallow! In addition to the appreciation of swallows flocking near the beach last Monday. @NJAudubon

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Here’s an adorable Great Horned owlet (and mom) for your Sunday! #HappyMothersDay #BirdTwitter

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@ShannonSkalos An awesome winter visitor, I could watch them swoop around all day!

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

An adorable Chipping Sparrow from a #ChristmasBirdCount outing today! #ArtAdventCalendar

[samantha williams-chapelsky @artSWC]

Day 8 of the #artadventcalendar and another mountain painting I have in my studio is this beautiful piece of Pyramid Mountain for Maligne Canyon. This painting is 30” in diameter and is painted on a pebbles acrylic surface! #yeg #yegart #jasper #jasperart #yyc #artwork

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Some adorable Mallard ducklings today for #ArtAdventCalendar!

[Bryan Quick @AcmeHuntingGear]

A Green Heron on the Sacramento River for Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar

This is one of my favorite photos I took this year. This bird was chilling at the boat ramp, a lot of people standing around never noticed this bird and that makes me wonder.

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

A gorgeous Swallow-tailed Kite from this spring for #ArtAdventCalendar today!

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An adorable Red-cockaded Woodpecker to kick off #ArtAdventCalendar!

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

@FogleBird Should be the latter, awesome pics! You can report bands here: https://t.co/nNaKcS4K1k

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

@Jess_inthewild You have options! I don’t have experience with either, but Thronebreaker is a Gwent with story option and then there is also Gwent by itself. https://t.co/0MtCSd3hIO

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

With this picture popping up in my thread and seeing some raccoons adorably navigating a muscadine trellis to munch on some grapes the other day, I have to send this @jeffvandermeer’s way.

[N.C. Wildlife @NCWildlife]

"Felt cute, might rob a train later."

The raccoon is easily recognized by its grayish brown fur coat, its distinctive black-ringed tail, and black “mask” around its eyes.

Learn about these intelligent mammals at our species profile: https://t.co/nOGJwaxjAZ

📸: Agnieszka Bacal

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

For #FemaleBirdDay, here’s a photo of a gorgeous female Prothonotary with some nest material from my M.S. field season in 2019!

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Really enjoyed watching these graceful feathered friends (Swallow-Tailed Kites) foraging over a harvested field this morning!! #TwitterNatureCommunity #BirdPhotography

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

@ChuckWendig 30 whole seconds? He’s deemed you worthy. Also Yorick is one of my favorite feathered friends.

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Hope everyone’s enjoying some feathered friends for #GlobalBigDay / #WorldMigratoryBirdDay! I could spend all day watching these Mississippi Kites, for example.

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Twitter wasn’t cooperating with mountain photos/tweets this week, so I’m giving this mama Mallard and her adorable ducklings a go instead! Also from the mountains last weekend. #TwitterNatureCommunity #Birding

[Rosemary Mosco (Bird And Moon Comics) @RosemaryMosco]

Yellow-rumped Warbler.

Thanks J Bourget for the tip about this sighting. https://t.co/Bl9n0JRbVK

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Finally made it out to the NC Mountains this weekend and they are STUNNING. Will definitely be dumping more pictures throughout this week for the nature dopamine. #TwitterNatureCommunity

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@jeffvandermeer #RaccoonReligion

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

Including the usual fun shorebirds, I also saw a Common Nighthawk flying around and the vagrant scissor-tailed flycatcher that has been hanging around Fort Fisher for a few days! #BirdWatching #TwitterNatureCommunity

[byelsachen @byelsachen]

A much needed beach sunrise! #TwitterNatureCommunity